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If township voters approve the charter status, the township may levy up to 5 mills without voter approval. If the charter status is approved by the township board alone, the township board may not levy any millage beyond that allowed for general law townships without voter approval. As of April 2001, there were 127 charter townships in Michigan.
The Kalamazoo–Battle Creek–Portage Combined Statistical Area ties for 3rd largest CSA in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the CSA had a population of 524,030. As of the 2010 census, the CSA had a population of 524,030.
The city of Kalamazoo began operation of the bus system on January 1, 1967, retaining most of the staff of Kalamazoo City Lines. [9] The newly formed service was branded as "Metro Transit" in October 1967, coinciding with the arrival of a fleet of new GM New Look buses, funded in part by a federal grant.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 21.3 square miles (55 km 2), of which 19.3 square miles (50 km 2) is land and 2.0 square miles (5.2 km 2) (9.62%) is water. The southernmost part of the township is completely separated from the rest by Lake Macatawa.
Kalamazoo's suburban population is located primarily to the south, in the city of Portage, and to the west in Oshtemo and Texas townships. At least part of the municipal water supply for Kalamazoo is provided by the watershed contained within the Al Sabo Preserve [ 33 ] in Texas Charter Township, Michigan , immediately southwest of Kalamazoo.
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Portage is a city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States. The population was 48,891 at the 2020 census . It is the smaller of the two main cities included in the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area , which had a population of 261,670 in 2020.
PARK TWP. — A lawsuit filed by a neighborhood group against Park Township, seeking to keep the municipality from enforcing a short-term rental ban in residential zones, has been dismissed.