Article: Developers Take Gamble on Possibility of Rexburg, Idaho, Population Growth.

By Brian Davidson, Post Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 7--REXBURG, Idaho -- Kurt Hibbert jokes he's ordered his on eBay.

Shawn Larsen uses his with caution.

Sharon Tuckett says she doesn't have one, and hesitates to use anyone else's.

But a crystal ball is just what Rexburg's planning and zoning administrator, mayor and the BYU-Idaho's housing office director could use as they plot their city's future.

There's evidence the hillside town will grow at a rate of about 5 percent a year for the years to come.

At that rate, Rexburg's population would double in the next 20 years, ...

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