Shrinking cities and Hamtramck

[Locke09]

According to their website they are in the black is Detroit? and your stance that the borders are not shrinking ? I guess all this talk of a smaller footprint for Detroit is just wind.

I don't recall any serious talk of Detroit actually giving up any land mass. The discussion has generally been about vacating areas that were greatly underpopulated and doing something else with the land.

Either way, it doesn't make sense for Detroit to "shrink" by remaining a donut with Hamtramck and Highland Park becoming bigger donut holes in the middle. It actually makes more sense, as they talk about consolidation of services, for Hamtramck and Highland Park to be merged with Detroit. Anyone looking at a map objectively has to admit it looks silly and inefficient to have two cities sitting there surrounded by Detroit on all sides.

[rjk]

Either way, it doesn't make sense for Detroit to "shrink" by remaining a donut with Hamtramck and Highland Park becoming bigger donut holes in the middle. It actually makes more sense, as they talk about consolidation of services, for Hamtramck and Highland Park to be merged with Detroit. Anyone looking at a map objectively has to admit it looks silly and inefficient to have two cities sitting there surrounded by Detroit on all sides.

In the case of Hamtramck, that's like a bad cold merging with cancer.

As someone who loves Hamtramck [[I don't live there), I dread the thought of that merger.

If Hamtramck became part of Detroit would their taxes stay the same, go up or go down?

[Danny]

In the case of Hamtramck, that's like a bad cold merging with cancer.

As someone who loves Hamtramck [[I don't live there), I dread the thought of that merger.

If Hamtramck became part of Detroit would their taxes stay the same, go up or go down?

A city can not annex a city according the SBC laws of 1978. However due to the Financial Martial Law act of 2011 signed by Snyder, the NERD! Emergency Financial Managers can have the power to de-incorporate a city, de-charterized any TWP and make townships to be give to city, village or another township.