Gateway Lighting Feature
Thank you for taking our survey. Your feedback will help shape the gateway to Richmond Hill.
The City of Richmond Hill is designing a gateway to welcome people to our community!
As a gateway to the City, a vertical lighting feature will be installed on the median located south of the Yonge Street and Garden Avenue intersection. This gateway lighting feature, which will signify the entrance to Richmond Hill, was initiated in York Region’s 2012 Yonge Street South Streetscape Master Plan and was approved by Council 2013.
A 2022 online survey gathered input from over 390 residents on how the feature could best represent the community, and the feedback indicated a vision for a sophisticated design that strikes a balance between the history and future of the City through an abstract representation. The community also expressed a strong desire for the feature to embody Richmond Hill’s values of being fair and responsible, and trusting and wholesome.
Three unique design concepts are being developed based on this vision, each capturing a combination of Richmond Hill’s rich cultural and natural heritage through a contemporary lens.