Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R6 zoning in Lafayette Park, home of the Mies van der Rohe Residential District.
Search this neighborhoodLafayette Park has about 4,500 residents. It lies south of McDougall-Hunt and east of Eastern Market and Downtown, with Rivertown to the south and Elmwood Park to the east. Saint Aubin Street, East Lafayette Street and East Larned Street run through it. Lafayette Plaisance Park is a 13-acre community park and Lafayette Central Park a 6.7-acre neighborhood park. The Lafayette Park Mies van der Rohe Residential District and Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and six locally designated historic districts are inside.
Zoning is a mix led by High Density Residential (R6) and Low Density Residential (R3), with General Business (B4) also present. DDOT Route 52 Chene, DDOT Route 67 Cadillac-Harper, DDOT Route 5 Van Dyke-Lafayette, and DDOT Route 6 Gratiot stop inside the neighborhood.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Lafayette 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 Lafayette Park 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 Lafayette Park is a mix of High Density Residential (R6) and Low Density Residential (R3), 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 Lafayette 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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