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The Crossway Trails record; merger residue named
The region's trails did gather into one named system — Crossway Trails, under MACOG's regional planning — and the mechanism this section can evidence is planning, not a merger of owners. What stands: the Michiana Area Council of Governments treats the four-county trail network as one system in its planning and its measurement — its 2023–24 Trail Condition Report surveyed the network as a single whole of over 120 miles across St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall and Kosciusko counties, ridden and scored segment by segment with data-collection bikes — and its long-range plan counts the system's use as one figure. That is regional assembly by planning authority: one inventory, one condition standard, one count. What does not stand in any carrier reached is the floor's corporate form — separate trail organisations merging their governance into a new body on a date; the trails' owners remained their cities, counties and park boards, and no merger instrument, date, or successor organisation is named in the MACOG record as reached. The residue is therefore stated, not smoothed: if a formal consolidation exists in the system's history, it stands in MACOG's own organisational record, the settler named current. This item closes mixed — the system's unity at planning strength proved, its legal form unproduced — and Lakeville's place in the mechanism is the standing one: a participating planning town with no segment, per the culture file's active-transportation record.