Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Sherwood Forest, a locally designated historic district.
Search this neighborhoodAbout 1,100 people live in Sherwood Forest. Within its boundaries are the 0.3-acre Sherwood Park mini park, West 7 Mile Road and Livernois Avenue. Sherwood Forest is a locally designated historic district.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), with smaller areas of Local Business and Residential (B2) and Two-Family Residential (R2). By area, Single-Family Residential (R1) covers about 93 percent of the zoned land and Local Business and Residential (B2) about 3 percent. DDOT buses that stop inside the neighborhood include DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile and DDOT Route 30 Livernois.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Sherwood Forest, 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 Sherwood Forest over the past year are alteration permits and addition permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Sherwood Forest 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 Sherwood Forest 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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