Garage Door Repair in Columbus, Oshawa

Columbus is an unincorporated village of roughly 325 people inside the City of Oshawa, settled in 1830, about fifteen minutes from the built-up city, with a few farms still dotting Ritson Road and Simcoe Street around it. No hamlet-level census construction table exists for it, so the surrounding rural area is the closest available guide: 27 per cent of homes there date from 1960 or before, 24 per cent from 1961 to 1980 and 16 per cent from 2011 to 2016, with single-detached houses at 94 per cent and no apartments recorded. That proxy is stated as a proxy rather than dressed up as a hamlet figure.

This ground is about to change substantially. The Columbus Part II Plan, adopted by Council on 26 June 2023, covers 396 hectares of developable land for between 7,057 and 10,996 units and up to 24,000 new residents, in a mix of low, medium and high density. For now the housing is rural: farmhouses, converted outbuildings, detached shops and long private laneways. A working farm property often has more than one door and more than one kind, from a domestic single up to an opening sized for equipment, and that range is the reason a visit out here starts with a conversation about what is actually on the property.