OK..I CONCEDE, THE MT. CLEMENS PROPOSAL IS DEFEATED! BUT ONE LAST PROPOSALTHEN: what about Detroit uniting with 200 square miles with other Wayne County cities...NOT ALL OF WAYNE COUNTY, but 200 square miles of it: basically Livonia, Dearborn, Redford, Westland, and Down River adding 699,000 people. This would make Detroit the 5th largest city and increase the tax base. Forget the issue of the mechanism to do it...[[referring to MI legislation to annexation of cities). I am curious as to would this be a good thing for Detroit in terms of stature, tax base, diversification of the population, and a new way people view the city...Also, would people in these communities as well as Detroiters be opposed to it??? The city would be 340 square miles and 1.6 million. Out of the ten largest cities in the US, it would be 6th in population. It would be 8th out of 10 in terms of size...Chicago and Philadelphia would be the two smaller cities; whjile LA, New York, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, San Diego, and Pheonix would all still be larger than this New Detroit of 340 square miles.
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