​The first European people to settle in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City, were the Latter-Day Saints. The Euro-Americans arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The area was first staked out by settler Joseph Harker and his family in the area they named as "over Jordan" (referring to the land west of the Jordan River, which runs through the valley).

​The city began to experience rapid growth in the 1970s, when the area that is now West Valley City consisted of the four separate communities of Hunter, Granger, Chesterfield, and Redwood. These four unincorporated areas merged in 1980 to form the present-day city. During the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, West Valley City was the official venue for men's and women's ice hockey.

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​Colorado Springs has many features of a modern urban area such as parks, bike trails, and open spaces. However, it is not exempt from problems that typically plague cities experiencing tremendous growth such as overcrowded roads and highways, crime, sprawl, and government budgetary issues. Many of the problems are indirectly or directly caused by the city's difficulty in coping with the large population growth experienced since 1997, and the annexation of the Banning Lewis Ranch area to accommodate further population growth of 175,000 future residents.

Due to a variety of regulatory restrictions on foreclosures, and voluntary decisions by lenders, far fewer foreclosure filings and foreclosure sales were carried out in Colorado during the second, third, and fourth quarters than is normally the case. For example, throughout much of 2020, the Federal Housing and Finance Agency (FHFA) established moratoria on foreclosures for mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The effects of these changes and policies have apparently continued through the first quarter of 2021. The Federal Housing and Finance Agency has announced another extension of its moratorium on foreclosures to continue into June of 2021. Federal foreclosure relief programs have also been continued, and an apparent unwillingness on the part of financial institutions to return to earlier foreclosure processing timelines will likely push down total foreclosure activity in the first half of 2021. At this time, it is prudent to not interpret 2020’s foreclosure activity as indicative of any general underlying trends in economic strength.

​The original Meridian town site was filed in 1893 on homestead grant land belonging to Eliza Ann Zenger. Her husband, Christian, filed the plat with county officials and called it Meridian. The early settlers, many of whom were relatives, left their homes in Missouri to go west, either by wagon, train or immigrant railroad car, bringing their lodge and church preferences with them. They established local institutions soon after arriving and filed for homestead lands.

Around the start of the 20th century, settlers established fruit orchards and built fruit packing businesses and prune dryers along the railroad tracks. Local orchards produced many varieties of apples and Italian prunes. Production continued through the mid-1940s, when it was no longer profitable and the businesses closed. In 1941, Meridian's status changed from a village to a city.

In recent years, the city of Seattle, Washington has experienced steady population growth and thus has been faced with the issue of fitting in more and more incoming residents. After growing by 4,000 citizens per year from 1990 to 2006, regional planners expected the population of Seattle to grow by 200,000 people by 2040.
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Former mayor Greg Nickels (2002-2009) supported plans that would increase the population by 60% (approximately 350,000 people) by 2040, and worked on ways to accommodate this growth while keeping Seattle's single-family housing zoning laws.