Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Boynton, Kemeny Park, a 21.9-acre community park.
Search this neighborhoodBoynton has Oakwood Heights to the north, Lincoln Park to the south, River Rouge and Ecorse to the east, and Lincoln Park and Melvindale to the west. Kemeny Park is a 21.9-acre community park and Piwok Park a 4.9-acre neighborhood park. The Kemeny Recreation Center, the Engine 48 fire station, Bridgeview Park and Mark Twain Elementary-Middle School are also inside. Fort Street South, Schaefer Highway South and Visger Street run through the area.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), about 81 percent of sampled parcels, with Intensive Industrial (M4) at 7 percent and General Business (B4) at 5 percent. Inside Boynton, riders can board DDOT Route 19 Fort and DDOT Route 41 Schaefer.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Boynton, counted by the neighborhood the department tags each report with. The feed leaves out hit-and-run traffic accidents, runaway and found-property records, recovered-vehicle records and unfounded cases, and reports taken by the Hamtramck, Highland Park, Dearborn and Grosse Pointe police departments are not in it. CivicScout does not have traffic crash data for Detroit.
View safety data →The most common permit types issued in Boynton over the past year are alteration permits and change of occupancy/use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Boynton is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Boynton address combines permits, police incidents, 311 requests, food inspections, parks and zoning within a half mile. Police incidents and permits on the neighborhood page follow the official neighborhood outline; the other layers use the area around the neighborhood center.
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