Growing takes time. Things like a surge in tourism or commercial activities can happen nearly overnight. In the city I live in (no NYC, but still one of the de

Growing takes time. Things like a surge in tourism or commercial activities can happen nearly overnight. In the city I live in (no NYC, but still one of the densest in the US and high demand), there's currently some big construction projects, and people are complaining its not big enough. Except its on a former landfill that could not support the larger structures. Let say we fix that...but the size of the project was also scaled according to capacity of the sewer infrastructure. Sure, we can fix that TOO, but then the people building the project have to wait a year, or two, or more, and they want money now. You have to throttle things so that all the moving parts follow each other, to avoid making it hell for everyone.