Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and SD4 zoning in Rivertown, on the Detroit River.
Search this neighborhoodRivertown has about 2,600 residents. Elmwood Park and Islandview lie to its north, Downtown to the west, the Detroit River and Gold Coast to the east, and the Detroit River to the south. East Jefferson Avenue runs through it. Riverfront parks inside include Orleans Atwater (Milliken) Park at 14.6 acres, Aretha Franklin Park at 9.1 acres and Mt. Elliott Park at 5.4 acres, and William G. Milliken State Park is also mapped here. Moross House, Croul-Palms House and Parke-Davis Research Laboratory are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and five locally designated historic districts are inside.
Zoning is a mix led by Special Development, Riverfront Mixed-Use (SD4) and Planned Development (PD), with Parks and Recreation (PR) also present. DDOT Route 9 Jefferson and DDOT Route 12 Conant stop inside the neighborhood.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Rivertown, 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 Rivertown over the past year are alteration permits and add additional occupancy/use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Rivertown is a mix of Special Development, Riverfront Mixed-Use (SD4) 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 Rivertown 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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