Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in University District.
Search this neighborhoodUniversity District is home to roughly 3,800 residents. Within its boundaries are the 0.3-acre Belden-Santa Maria Park mini park, Livernois Avenue and West McNichols Road, the Engine 51 fire station, and the schools Palmer Park Preparatory Academy and Gesu Elementary School.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), with smaller areas of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Local Business and Residential (B2). DDOT buses that stop inside the neighborhood include DDOT Route 30 Livernois, DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile, DDOT Route 16 Dexter and DDOT Route 32 McNichols.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for University District, 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 University District over the past year are alteration permits and accessory/utility structure permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in University District 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 University District 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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