The city of Carrollton had its annual appreciation banquet for its boards and commissions members tonight. There is a total of 117 of us on various boards and commissions. I learned a couple of new acronyms: DINK (dual income no kid) and TOD (transit oriented development). Mayor Mark Stokes told us the vision of Carrollton 15 to 20 years from now. Carrollton will be the new center of this metroplex, which will grow to about 12 million people compare to 6 million right now and eventually 17 million people, the size of Los Angeles currently. If there were no mass transit infrastructure, I-75 would need 25 lanes each way between LBJ and downtown, I-35 would need 15 lanes each way between SH-121 and LBJ. That's impossible to develop. So, the only way to solve the problem is mass transit by way of DART light rail system. Carrollton will be one of the four major train stations. The other three will be downtown Dallas, downtown Fort Worth and DFW airport eventually. The mayor and city council envision Carrollton with high end high-rise apartments where people get off the train to live and work instead of getting on to go somewhere else, where it would be like New York, you live on the fifth floor, your gym is on the third floor and your favorite restaurant, dry cleaner and everything else is on the first floor ....