The reaction to Mayor Ed Murray’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee — and the equally charged regional discussion on relaxing the Growth Management Act — could leave the impression that people are turned off by growth and either want to stop it or shunt it elsewhere. Yet based on a recent survey and focus groups with residents in King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties, that’s too simple an assumption.

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