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Results of Detroit commercial land survey to be released to stakeholders Aug. 6
August 3, 2012
A group of Wayne State University urban planning students will present a final report to stakeholders and the campus community following their City of Detroit surveying project. The project, titled Detroit CLICS (Commercial Land Inventory City Study), conducted by a group of 19 WSU students, addressed the lack of data pertaining to the use and condition of commercial parcels in the city, as well as inconsistencies between the use of many of these parcels, Detroit Zoning Ordinance and the city’s current Master Plan.
The group will present its findings at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 6 at the Danto Engineering Development Center located at 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit, Mich. 48202.
Commercial land, consisting of 9,558 parcels (2950.5 acres or 4.61 square miles), was surveyed using a web-based smart phone application built by Code for America to collect data. This technology has the potential to be useful and accessible to city governments and community groups looking to conduct similar inventories in the future. The survey data and the student’s recommendations will be fed into the on-going Detroit Works Project.
Detroit CLICS, a partnership between the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Wayne State University, and the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department, is a study of commercial land in Detroit documenting the use, condition and design of approximately one-third of all commercially zoned parcels in the city.
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