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It is more interesting than that. If the State Constitutional provision holds up it sounds like Michigan may be on the hook. Detroit simply dissolves. Then what?
One of the many problems here was the formation of the suburban ring cities. Allowed the well off to move out of the city and its problems. That led both to the unavailability of tawqxc revenue and the lack of skilled pressure for good government.
But perhaps dissolving the city is the thing to do.
The sh*t is about to hit the fan for the ring of suburbs though.
Who runs the water plants? The power plants? Who pays the police and fire departments?
I'm glad I don't live there right now.
I do not know in Detroit but off hand here the Trash Co., The Water Co. The electric Co. The Sheriff and maybe they will have to start a volunteer fire dept.
As far as I know the only significant service not provided in a non urban county is fire protection...and that can be worked out. And you spread the load to the County or State.
They are in pretty unique situation if they can get their act together. No other city in this country has the newly acquired green space they have, ever look at it from Google maps? 50 years from now Detroit could be one of the nicest cities in the country.
Yeah, it's incredible how much vacant land there is in the city when seen from the air. If the city can get it's act together you could be right about it becoming a pretty desirable place to live in the future. The potential for having HUGE tracks of public parks etc is enormous.
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