Viva Blue, Viva Purple, Viva Orange, and Viva Pink have stops in Richmond Hill. Headford once had saw (F. Eckhardt farm) and grist (John Burr farm) mills along Beaver Creek. The plan was rejected, however, by the Ontario Municipal Board, and Richmond Hill was the first municipality in Ontario to have its official plan rejected outright by the board. Its southern limit is about 4 kilometres (3 miles) north of the Toronto city limit, Steeles Avenue, and approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the downtown core of Toronto. We have reviews of the best places to see in Richmond Hill. Elections for municipal offices are held every four years in conjunction with other municipal elections in Ontario. [36], The 1990s and 2000s were periods of strong economic growth for Richmond Hill; In 1999 industrial, commercial and institutional growth was valued at $88.9 million, up from $67.9 million in 1998. Former Governor General Michaëlle Jean was a guest at the opening ceremony of a school named after her, in 2008, the Michaëlle Jean Public School. The fast-growing town set aside significant areas for parks, with five new parks dedicated in 1973, and two more in 1974. Also in 1973 was the centennial of the town's incorporation as a village, and the town set up a number of celebratory activities, including a beard growing contest, commissioning a centennial song, a parade, a street dance and the unveiling of a historic plaque honoring the town's founding in front of the municipal offices. They're available to address concerns of residents and administrative matters, attend official functions and communicate with public directly and through info prepared by City staff. Mills died in 1980, leaving the company to his son, but the poor economic conditions, combined with increasing property taxes in the growing city made the business unprofitable. Public transit within the city of Richmond Hill is on buses co-ordinated by York Region Transit (YRT). [41] The board's students in academic math streams have performed above the provincial average on the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics every year since its inception in 2002, while those in applied math streams were below the provincial average in 2002–2005, and above the provincial average from 2005–2007. Richmond Hill (2016 population: 195,022) is a city in south-central York Region, Ontario, Canada. In June 2013, the city's council passed a bylaw to ban the number 4 from new street numbers because it is considered to be bad luck by some Asian cultures.[15]. The city itself is at a much greater elevation than other communities within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and with the exclusion of areas closely alongside its borders, the constituent of York region with the greatest height above sea level. Owing to its proximity to Toronto, there are plans to extend the TTC subway system to the intersection of Yonge and Highway 7. The City of Richmond Hill Municipal Office Building, at 225 East Beaver Creek Road. Median age as of 2016 was 42.4, slightly higher than the Ontario median age of 41.3. The economic growth of 1999 won the city's economic development department three provincial awards from the Economic Developers Council of Ontario.

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