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What Richmond Hill is getting done
Real open tasks from members in Richmond Hill, 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.
Richmond Hill is long and narrow. It runs north up Yonge Street from Highway 7 to the Oak Ridges Moraine and it climbs the whole way. The south end is 1970s and 1980s subdivision, the middle is heritage around the Mill Pond, and the north end is large lots on a protected landform.
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What Richmond Hill is made of
Oak Ridges is on the height of land
The north end of Richmond Hill sits on the Oak Ridges Moraine, the ridge that divides water running south to Lake Ontario from water running north to Lake Simcoe. It is protected under its own provincial conservation plan, the lots up there are large and treed, and outdoor work — drainage, tree work, grading — runs into rules that do not apply in the south half of the same city.
The Mill Pond core is the old village
Around the Mill Pond and along Yonge north of Major Mackenzie is Richmond Hill’s nineteenth-century core: frame houses on small lots, mature trees closing over the road, and no rear access to speak of. It is a few streets wide and it behaves nothing like the Jefferson and Bayview Hill subdivisions around it, where the driveway takes three vehicles.
The town climbs about a hundred metres end to end
From Highway 7 at the south boundary to the moraine at the north, Richmond Hill gains roughly a hundred metres of elevation — a real climb, not a figure of speech. It is the reason the north end can still be frozen when the south end is wet, and the reason winter work here is usually scheduled north first. Flat towns like Ajax and Pickering have no equivalent.
Tasks come from Mill Pond, Bayview Hill, Oak Ridges, Crosby, Jefferson and Langstaff.