“The only hope to resurrect Detroit will have to come from private investors with carte blanc powers. “
It does not matter what the courts or the city does. Detroit is doomed. The reason to have cities is that there were lots of employers. What employer will move there? Why would they move there? What would they produce? What is their incentive to move there?
Cities are no longer needed. They are a relic of the past. Liberals try to force us to move into them by making fuel costs high and limiting how much we can drive. But no matter what they do there is no reason for us to move back to the cities with their attendant problems like drugs, bad schools and high crime.
There must be something good there. What about museums, the zoo and other attractions? Oh, they used to be free but now have expensive entry fees with little value. Lots of restaurants? Oh, expensive menus, restrictions on take-out packaging with high fees. Then there's the lack of parking, which has extremely expensive parking meters and overzealous enforcement with expensive traffic tickets, neighborhood parking permits gone wild with street-cleaning forcing one to constantly move your car. Restrictions on building permits, rent-controls unfavorable to owners. And high property taxes and utility fees to cover things you do not support (like transgender operations etc.). There must be some good reason to move back to the city...