City to explore new ways to regulate construction after rejecting historic district concept Shutterstock image Advertisement GROSSE POINTE CITY — While Grosse Pointe City does have its share of beautiful older homes, the City won’t be creating a historic district to preserve them. After about a year of extensive study and debate, City officials decided against pursuing the creation of historic districts for a number of reasons, chief among them being opposition by a number of residents who live in the neighborhoods that had been considered for historic district designation. During a meeting by Zoom March 15, the Grosse Pointe City Council voted unanimously to discontinue the historic district study and lift a moratorium on construction and demolition in areas zoned Estate-Residential.