>>stop building permits
A year or so I came across a document that described a huge shortfall that was to be incurred as the result of the evaporation of a large water connection fee ($10,000+ IIRC) that was tacked on to each new C.S. house's building permit.
IIRC, the document's source was the folks in charge of water - and it discussed probable resultant water rate increases... because the housing boom went poof.
Sound familiar?