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What Oakville is getting done
Real open tasks from members in Oakville, each with a budget attached. Post yours in a minute — local Taskers send fixed-price offers, and your money stays with Taskly until it's done.
Oakville is cut into thirds by two ravines. Sixteen Mile Creek and Bronte Creek run down to the lake with few crossings each, so an address on the wrong side of one is a detour, not a short hop. South of the QEW the lots are old and narrow; north of Dundas everything is newer than 2005.
No open tasks in Oakville at this moment — be the first: post yours and nearby Taskers across the GTA can send offers today.
What Oakville is made of
A permit to take down a tree on private land
Oakville runs one of the stricter private tree by-laws in the region: injuring or removing a tree over the by-law’s size threshold on private property needs a permit from the Town, and that applies to the owner of the tree as much as to anyone hired to touch it. Tree and yard work booked in Oakville starts with the permit question, which is not the first question across most of the region.
Old Oakville is a heritage district on pre-car lots
The blocks around Lakeshore and Navy are a heritage conservation district: nineteenth-century frame houses on lots laid out before cars, mature trees over the road, and driveways that hold one vehicle if they hold any. Everything about working there is the opposite of Joshua Creek or the Preserve, twenty minutes north, where the houses are new and the parking is not a problem.
The assembly plant sets the clock on the east side
Ford has assembled vehicles at Ford Drive and the QEW since the 1950s, and a plant that size moves its people all at once. It shapes the traffic across east Oakville at shift change and it shapes when the households around it are home. Neighbouring Burlington and Milton have nothing of the kind inside them.
Tasks come from Old Oakville, Glen Abbey, Bronte, River Oaks, Joshua Creek and Kerr Village.