No Colorado town has grown faster than Superior. Imagine living in a place that's 34 times larger, in terms of population, than it was 10 years ago. Watch Hendrik Sybrandy's Report Superior has gone from a tiny town to a small town, and it's still growing, Superior Mayor Susan Spence said. Three-month-old Sam Blanke is one of the reasons superior has grown so much in the past decade. "Even the growth that we've since we've been here has been tremendous," Sam's father and Superior resident Bob Blanke said. Sam's parents have only lived in Superior about a year. "We see new faces on our street almost every day," Blanke said. It's a far cry from the last census year when Superior was a sleepy town of just 250. "Our house was the first street on the block, so it was basically the first block in the neighborhood. Everything was fields around here," resident Robbie DuBois said. Now, it's a much bigger town of 9,000, and home to high-tech workers at Interlocken and other businesses. The town has become a slightly more affordable alternative to Boulder, with lots of open space and walking trails. "I hear it from people over and over that stumble onto our community and go, geez, I'd really like to live there," Spence said. Spence (pictured, right) said that the Superior pace of growth has gotten the town headlines, but because it's landlocked, there's not much growing left to do. "We're not going after anything else, because we don't have anything else to go after, so I think that takes the pressure off of us," Spence said. Not entirely, though. "I think the struggle that we're really dealing with is, 'With so few parcels left to develop, how do we do it right?'" Spence said. The trick is balancing the need for a rec center or a senior citizens' facility with the desire for open space, for example. Spence said that her town will reach about 13,000 residents, and then stop growing because it has no choice. Previous Stories:

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