Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Brightmoor, home to Outer Drive-Fullerton Park, a 52-acre regional park.
Search this neighborhoodBrightmoor is bordered by Riverdale and Miller Grove to the north, Rouge Park and Eliza Howell to the south, Westwood Park and Minock Park to the east and Redford Township and Castle Rouge to the west. About 8,100 people live in Brightmoor. Inside it are Outer Drive-Fullerton Park (a 52-acre regional park), Optimist-Stout Park (a 4.4-acre neighborhood park), and B.E.Taylor's Subdivision House (a locally designated historic district). Major streets inside it include West Outer Drive, Burt Road, and Fenkell Street. Other places inside the outline include Engine 57 fire station, Brightmoor Artisans Collective, and Brightmoor Community Center.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1) by area, with Parks and Recreation (PR) and General Business (B4) also present. DDOT Route 18 Fenkell, DDOT Route 43 Schoolcraft, and DDOT Route 60 Evergreen serve Brightmoor, with stops inside its outline.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Brightmoor, 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 Brightmoor 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 Brightmoor 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 Brightmoor 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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