The map envisions commercial development along much of the stretch south of Highway 5. The Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization projects Norwalk to have a population of 19,855 by 2050.

Greater Des Moines will have nearly 1 million ... But the American City Business Journals used a larger area to define the metro, the census' Des Metropolitan Statistical Area, than the MPO ...

While many in the area followed the tradition, Bondurant and Windsor Heights, cities part of the Des Moines metropolitan area, recently broke from it by hosting trick-or-treating on the Saturday ...