City Guide
Neighborhoods - Lawton
Street after street of handsome colonials, well-manicured lawns, and cul-de-sacs, with sports-playing kids make the area around Lawton Elementary feel more like suburb than city. The Lawton area includes established neighborhoods inside the freeway ring, new ones to the southwest in Pittsfield Township, and a section of rural Lodi Township to the west. All students go to Slauson Middle School and Pioneer High.
Around the school itself, south of Scio Church, professionals and retirees live in brick ranch-style homes. A variety of ranches, colonials, tri-levels, and traditionals were built from the mid-1960s through the 1970s. Farther south, the simple 2-story homes on Northbrook date from the 1980s.
Across I-94 in Pittsfield Township, the 1990s-era Arbor Creek and Boulder Ridge subdivisions hug the west side of the freeway, tucked behind the Village Centre shops. Arbor Creek provides large, 2-story cul-de-sac homes with tidy lawns. The Colonial-style Boulder Ridge has a play park, and the 2 subdivisions share a common area with a walking path.
South of Waters is the Hawthorne Ridge subdivision, whose 2-story homes boast big garages and vaulted brick entranceways. Beyond the Lake Forest Golf Club lie small brick ranches, 2-story houses, and open fields; homes are set far back down long driveways.
Farther west, Lodi Township still has active farms, inlcuding a few horse farms. Along Wagner are older country homes with vegetable gardens and big yards with lots of trees, and sometimes a tractor or dilapidated barn. The 217-unit Meadowbrook Village apartments off Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. date from the late 1980s. Students also are bused to Lawton from the Pinelake Village Cooperative, a 1960s-vintage federal project on S. Maple with 129 townhouses.
