I realize you're just trolling. But I think underneath your hyperbolic nonsense is a point that is often made around here: "everything's so screwed up that any kind of progress is good."
Here's two examples of what I meant by "not all growth is good":
1. Storing petcoke on the riverfront was, objectively speaking, "growth." Vacant land was put to use. But, in my opinion, it wasn't good growth. Tangible negatives for the neighborhood, and no jobs or local economic activity to offset the negatives.
2. Lots of other growth ends up being lot less good than it sounded at first.
Remember the 175M tax break we gave Marathon for their refinery expansion? They sure grew with that one. But the bonanza of hiring definitely didn't happen. Maybe it's still a net gain for the city, maybe not.
These two examples are fairly superficial. There are many, many more if you start to delve into the kind of urban planning theory that is borderline blasphemous in SE Michigan -- heathen ideas like "
more freeways mean more traffic" or "
parking spaces out front are not as good for retail shops as bike lanes out front."