Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and PD zoning in Forest Park.
Search this neighborhoodForest Park has about 1,900 residents and sits south of Poletown East, north of Eastern Market, west of McDougall-Hunt and east of Medical Center. Dequindre, Mack Avenue and Chrysler Drive run through it. Forest Park, at 5.3 acres, and Dabrowski Park, at 1.6 acres, are neighborhood parks. Saint Albertus Roman Catholic Church and Sweetest Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and two locally designated historic districts are inside. Plymouth Educational Center serves kindergarten through grade 8.
Zoning is mostly Planned Development (PD), with General Industrial (M3) and Market and Distribution (MKT) in smaller areas. DDOT Route 40 Russell and DDOT Route 31 Mack stop inside the neighborhood.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Forest Park, 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 Forest Park over the past year are alteration permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Forest Park is mostly Planned Development (PD), 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 Forest Park 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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