Since the last major review of the policy by a task force in 2002, the county's population experienced rapid growth. Growth in the 1980s and 1990s — nearly triple the statewide average — tapered off in the 2000s, but the county's population growth of 9.5 percent in the last 15 years is still more than double the statewide average of 4.2 percent. Residential building has stabilized since 2001, with about 1,800 residential units built in the county over the last five years.