The most recent annexation was property owned by the City of Northville as part of the Rural Hill Cemetery.

The entire township is served by the Northville District Library and by its own police and fire departments.

[4] In response to the rapid growth of the township, a new 48168 ZIP code was introduced in June 2005 to those living south of Seven Mile Road.

In late September 2009, just more than a month after the hospital property purchase, the Northville Township Board of Trustees stated that they were operating with a budget deficit.

The Board began the process of asking department heads and directors to find ways to cut their budgets.

On October 1, 2009, Northville Township residents voiced their displeasure over proposed public safety cuts on the 2010 budget.

Several of the residents in attendance criticized the Township Board of Trustees for not doing more to maintain the public safety department.

Board members came under scrutiny for supporting the August ballot initiative to buy the 414 acres (1.68 km2) of the former Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital property, knowing that there was a budget shortfall.

On October 15, 2009, a little more than two months after the Psychiatric Hospital property vote, the Northville Township Board of Trustees approved the 2010 fiscal budget.

In an attempt to prevent police layoffs, a local lottery winner proposed to give Northville Township the money necessary to make up for the alleged public safety budget deficit, approximately $640,000.

The Board of Trustees stated that if the police officers’ union were to agree to concessions, then the layoffs would be avoided.

[12] The Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital (NRPH) was located on a large (400+ acres) property on 7 Mile Road on the eastern side of the township.

Due to ineffective controls and oversight of the NRPH's closing in 2003, and purchasing, receiving, and payment processes, there is still much unused and used equipment left in the buildings that lost all value during storage.

Second, a decline in the workforce, resulting from an early retirement rate, caused the hospital to be shut down.

Due to the fact that Northville Township would only allow a scaled-down version of Highwood, REIS moved employees to the property in mid-October 2007 for security and to vote to annex the property into neighboring Livonia on August 5, 2008, which approved the original plans for Highwood.

[15][16][17] On August 4, 2009, residents of Northville Township voted to purchase a majority of the 414-acre (1.68 km2) property for $23.5 million.