Growth management, in the United States, is a set of techniques used by the government to ensure that as the population grows that there are services available to meet their demands.
Growth management goes beyond traditional land use planning, zoning and subdivision controls in both the characteristics of development influenced and the scope of government powers used.
Glickfeld and Levine conducted two major studies of growth management measures in virtually all California cities and counties in 1988 and 1992.
[2] The vast majority of the jurisdictions had adopted one or more growth management measures to affect residential, commercial or new development.
[3] However, a follow-up study showed that the measures helped displace new construction from the metropolitan areas to the interiors of the state with low income and minority populations being particularly impacted.