Brush Park

This Brush Park Form-Based Code (FBC) was adopted in 2020 and amended in 2023. It is intended to provide the public with a predictable vision of the built environment in the Brush Park neighborhood. This Form-Based Code regulates land development using form as the primary basis to define the developing character of the neighborhood. It also creates opportunities for medium-density mixed-use development while incorporating elements from the Brush Park Rehabilitation Project Fourth Modified Development Plan, the City of Detroit Master Plan of Policies for the Brush Park neighborhood, and the design guidelines for the Brush Park and Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center Historic Districts. Additionally, the code establishes civic space for community recreational use, encourages pedestrian-friendly streets and the advancement of a walkable urban neighborhood. The organizing principle for this code is a hierarchy of street types that determines the placement of specific building types and by-right uses based on intensity.

The ultimate purpose of the Form-Based Code is to achieve the following:

• To implement the goals and objectives of the Brush Park Rehabilitation Project Fourth Modified Development Plan, the City of Detroit Master Plan of Policies for the Brush Park neighborhood and the     design guidelines for the Brush Park and Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center Historic Districts.
• To provide the Brush Park community predictability in the outcome of development and redevelopment through an efficient administrative permitting process.
• To provide a diversity of urban housing choices appropriate to Brush Park.
• To place commercial uses within a safe, comfortable walking distance of residential units.
• To prevent the establishment of incompatible developments in Brush Park.
• To encourage mixed-use development in order to reinforce Brush Park as a walkable urban neighborhood.
• To permit the development of attached medium and high-density residential buildings and multi-story, multi-unit,mixed-use buildings that relate to the size and scale of the existing historic district context.

Questions regarding applicability, development standards, review processes, parking requirements, permissible uses and building types may all be answered by reviewing this code. Applications may be submitted to the City Planning Commission.

See full Form-Based Code document