From my experience playing factorio, the best way to approach it is to plan out the areas you are building to allow future "backtracking" possible - increase sp

From my experience playing factorio, the best way to approach it is to plan out the areas you are building to allow future "backtracking" possible - increase space between buildings, ensure new "roads" are "reasonably" arranged to allow future expansion, etc. An example of this is ensuring that driveways/building distances are a certain minimum from the road, allowing you to expand a 2 lane road to 3, etc. You build your infrastructure to, or just past the edges of what you know is being built, and make sure you reserve space past that to accompany further expansion. The lets you expand the ~factory~ city while still allowing some sanity to the underlying infrastructure. * This will likely apply to anything that needs both preplanning and unknown future expansion such as codebases