 In 1955, the community was incorporated through a ballot measure that passed by a vote of 41 to 1.Spurred by the opening of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in 1974, the city was radically transformed from a tiny farming village to a large, upper-middle class suburban community in the 1980s and 1990s.By 2000, almost all of the residentially zoned land in the city was developed, and the population grew to over 35,000.