Mayor Dave Bing picks 3 neighborhoods to test reshaping of Detroit

Bing's citywide plan calls for dividing Detroit into three categories based on a neighborhood's health — steady, transitional and distressed — and then concentrating certain services in those areas.

Bing's citywide plan calls for dividing Detroit into three categories based on a neighborhood's health — steady, transitional and distressed — and then concentrating certain services in those areas. For example, building demolitions would be more common in "distressed" and "transitional" areas, while the healthier "steady" neighborhoods would get more code enforcement and illegal dumping clean-ups.