6: While you may not be able to park at your door in these townhomes, the aesthetics appear to out- weigh the hike with your groceries.
7: the “street side” of photo 3. This neighbour- hood provides pull-in driveways for each home and complies with the re- quirements of NWT codes and bylaws.
The easy-to-build places were gone, and yet, it seemed everyone still wanted piped services and easy car access, and building practices now required set-backs and drainage slopes and turn-around radii, and it all had to be done in a hurry! Some of the prettiest stone in town was blasted to make way for apartments (photo 4, 5 and 6) – only one person protested. A whole neighbourhood of manufactured homes was trucked in and was set on rubble (photo 7 and 8). High end houses, themselves sitting on sites, more dis- cretely blasted from the rock (photo 9), found themselves to their dismay, neighbours to yet another rubble neighbourhood (photo 10). Yet, the most coveted houses were those from years before, tucked into the rocks, blanketed from the street by trees (photo 11). So how do citizens beat a retreat from development of rubble fields to those coveted homes shrouded in greenery with would-be workers arriving daily needing a place to live for a few years (photos 12 and 13)?
8: This older pre-manu- factured home develop- ment in Yellowknife also complies with codes and bylaws. People park at their doorsteps. Houses ‘work’ around the ter- rain. Neighbours banded together to create this community park within the neighbourhood.
9: A lot of rock was moved for these houses which almost seem to have been dropped into the ‘slots’ created.
10: The other end of the develop- ment in Photo 9 where the site needed to be leveled to bring in homes.
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