Survey Results by Location

"We get blamed for everything, but we also pass all the regulations and all the ordinances back and forth so you don't have to spend millions of dollars in Brady Township or in Prairie on trying to recreate an ordinance that Kalamazoo Township or Texas already has figured out." -Township Officials

"A lot of people have their heart in the right direction. And we're all people and we're all human and we're all never going to agree, but the more we can find ways to pull together for common themes, the bigger view we can have of the world we have around us, the bigger view we can have of the community beyond the city, beyond the townships, even beyond the county, the better off we'll be as a community. A big community." -Small Town Resident

"You've got to have governmental cooperation and we don't have it. We’ve got to have the regional cooperation. It's healthy to have Kalamazoo and Portage competing for things but its unhealthy to have Portage fighting against anything good that's supposed to happen in Kalamazoo and vice versa. That's ridiculous." -Developer

Citizens Speak

"Our choices are either to get together and to build a strong community here as one, or Kalamazoo is gonna just fade away." -Alternative Transportation Advocate

"If you look at the political powers that be now in the community, and I'm saying village and township both as well, they don't seem to get their act together very well." -Small Town Resident