List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan

This is a list of cities, villages and Civil township in Michigan, arranged in alphabetical order. In Michigan, townships are statutory units of government, meaning that they have only those powers expressly provided or fairly implied by state law. Cities and villages are vested with home rule powers, meaning that they can do almost anything that is not expressly prohibited by law. Cities have greater freedom to operate independently; however, cities are also required by law to fulfill certain governmental positions--meaning that cities generally require a higher level of taxation to support the increased obligations. Villages are not required to provide the same level of services as a city and share responsibility for some services with the township. Most cities and villages are incorporated under home rule charters, although there are a small number that were incorporated before home rule legislation was enacted and have chosen not to reincorporate with a home rule charter. But this distinction has little practical difference. There are two types of townships in Michigan: general law and charter. Charter township status was created by the state legislature in 1947 and grants additional powers and stream-lined administration in order to provide greater protection against annexation by a city. As of April 2001, there were 127 charter townships in Michigan. Charter townships are able to levy millage on the residents without a vote of the people. This is not permitted in general law townships, which are funded mainly through State Shared Revenues, although the people of a township can vote for a levy. Consequently, general law townships typically do not offer things such as street cleaning, refuse hauling, sidewalk maintenance or other services provided in a city unless tax payers specifically pass a millage to cover the cost. General law townships are also prohibited by law to construct and maintain their own roads. The County Road Commission is legally the agency that must care for the roads. That does not prevent the local residents from determining that they want more than the Road Commission can provide, and in so doing, fund portions of the road work out of the local budget. There are also many unincorporated, named communities in Michigan that may appear on maps or travel information. These unincorporated communities generally do not have any official governmental status. Further reference: [http://www.viennatwp.com/News/township_government_in_michigan.htm Township Government in Michigan]; [http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/michloc.html#indtown Townships and Cities arranged by County]; [http://www.michigan.gov/emi/0,1303,7-102-116-2746--,00.html Local Government links from Michigan.gov]; [http://www.michigantownships.org/ Michigan Townships Association]

List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan

It looks as though this list corresponds to the Michigan.gov list of Michigan Cities, Villages and Townships [http://www.michigan.gov/emi/0,1303,7-102-116-2746--,00.html#MichiganCities]. Regadless of whether that was the source, this list does indeed contain Cities, Villages and Townships. So I am moving it to a name reflecting that. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 03:11, 5 May 2004 (UTC) I'm currently using this list to create stubs for unincorporated communities (at least those which were not Census-designated places). One thing I have noticed is that there are frequently (though not always) UCs with the same name as the township they are in. What I would like to do is create a separate list of townships in Michigan and remove them from this list (except where they are Charter townships or where there is no corresponding city, village or UC with the same name). In most cases, townships are really not equivalent to municipalities or communities. They primarily govern land use in undeveloped areas. In urbanized areas, the townships have generally either been annexed or have incorporated themselves as Charter Townships. Anyhow, this is a work in progress, so any comments or suggestions are welcome. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 17:05, 15 May 2004 (UTC) -PS, perhaps after removing Townships, the name of the article should be something like "Populated places in Michigan"?

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