My favorite rhetorical question regarding Broward's history of unlimited growth comes from that gentle philosopher Lewis Black, who once mused:
   “At one point do you just say, 'Hey! No more fuckers can live here!'?"
    However...
    It's very possible the economy's providing the answer,

     Broward - Building Permits
                                      1980         2000          2008
         Single Family      5,251        9,149         908
         Multi Familiy        9,814        2,689        1,256
         SOURCE: Florida Statistical Abstracts