Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Jefferson Chalmers, home to the 52.5-acre Maheras-Gentry Park.
Search this neighborhoodJefferson Chalmers has about 6,000 residents and runs from Riverbend south to the Detroit River, with Grosse Pointe Park to the east and Conner Creek Industrial to the west. Inside it are Maheras-Gentry Park, a 52.5-acre regional park, Alfred Brush Ford Park, a 33.9-acre riverfront park, and Lakewood East Park, a 28.1-acre riverfront park. Maheras Park is a locally designated historic district.
Zoning is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Planned Development (PD), with smaller areas of Single-Family Residential (R1) and Parks and Recreation (PR). DDOT Route 68 Chalmers and DDOT Route 9 Jefferson stop inside the neighborhood, along the streets East Jefferson Avenue and Dickerson Street.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Jefferson Chalmers, 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 Jefferson Chalmers over the past year are alteration permits and change of use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Jefferson Chalmers is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and 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 Jefferson Chalmers 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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