School sports, lake walks, family-run repair shops, and a long-running local argument about a tree that predates the street.
Saint Morrow · District file · The lake-facing terraces
Orchard Heights
A mixed-income hillside of schools, modest houses, apartment towers, and small parks looking toward the water.
Street-level brief
The lake-facing terraces
A mixed-income hillside of schools, modest houses, apartment towers, and small parks looking toward the water.
Brick semis, mid-rise apartments, modern school campuses, stone retaining walls, and houses built over old orchard foundations.
Families, teachers, healthcare staff, retirees, renters, and commuters to the port and university.
The reservoir's capacity report includes an unlisted chamber used in no current maintenance plan.
The chamber contains stone boundary markers naming a shoreline that predates the city's oldest maps.
On the map
Landmarks and local knowledge.
Landmarks
- Orchard Reservoir
- Lookout Park
- Meridian North School
Famous locations
- The Old Pear Tree
- Lookout Bus Loop
- Reservoir Gatehouse
Story engine
The work waiting here.
Adventure opportunity
Inspect a reservoir before the annual pressure test; find out why one school class is missing from a decades-old photograph.
Story opportunity
An elderly crossing guard can predict which students will move away by reading chalk marks on the curb.
Expansion runway
Family and education stories, hillside traversal, reservoir interiors, community mysteries, and suburban-city transition maps.
Art direction · Placeholder photography in use
Build this district in colour residential hillside descending toward a Great Lakes city, school, water reservoir gatehouse, winter trees, varied housing