On a late summer morning, the streets of Coral Springs hum with the quiet rhythm of suburban life. Joggers trace tree-lined paths, school buses rumble through neighborhoods of attractive homes, and families push strollers past tree-shaded playgrounds.
From the outside, the city looks much as it has for decades: orderly, family-friendly, and comfortably suburban.
But just beneath that familiar image, Coral Springs is changing. Data from a new planning document created by city officials tells the story of a community at a crossroads — no longer a fast-growing suburb, but a built-out city grappling with rising diversity, rising incomes, and the steep climb of housing costs that threaten to reshape who can afford to call it home.
Coral Springs was born in the 1960s as a planned community on former farmland. Developers laid out canals and cul-de-sacs in careful grids, advertising a suburban lifestyle that promised space, safety, and affordability. Families came in droves. By the early 2000s, the city had grown into one of Broward County’s largest, its population more than doubling since 1980…