Dearborn Heights, MI Filming & Production: Street Closures (2026)

City Code Section 8-47(b) sets mandatory conditions that attach automatically to every production license issued under Chapter 8, Article III, whether the license covers stationary photographic activity or full production activity with a moving crew. Subsection (b)(1)(A) and the parallel subsection (b)(2)(A) both require the licensee to notify, or cause to be notified, affected residents, occupants, and businesses of the duration and location of the licensed activity, including any planned road and lane closures, no parking requests, sidewalk usage, and the timing of any barricades placed on a street or sidewalk.

The notice must be given in advance and in the manner the city instructs. Subsection (b)(1)(B) and (b)(2)(B) require a minimum of twenty feet of clearance between vehicles parked on either side of any road so emergency vehicles can pass, unless a road is closed by virtue of a duly made decision of the city for purposes of the licensed activity, meaning a full closure needs the city's own sign-off, not just the licensee's traffic plan. Applicants must also submit, under Section 8-43(15)(C), a traffic control plan for the site showing the exact location of any filming and listing any roads or lanes to be closed as part of the initial application, which the city clerk routes to the police, fire, building and engineering, and public works departments for review under Section 8-45.

Base camps and non-essential production vehicles may not sit on a public street unless the city approves in writing under Section 8-47(b)(2)(F), and the licensee bears the cost of every condition, mandatory or discretionary, under Section 8-47(a).