Kirkland
The Town of Kirkland is a young and dynamic municipality. Its population of approximately 19,000 inhabitants, largely made up of young families and comprises a fair-sized portion of senior citizens. Kirkland's ease of access and proximity to essential services, its innovative management style, the quality of its municipal services and environmental efforts, and its eye-catching beauty, coupled with demanding construction norms and severe restrictions to commercial and industrial privileges contribute to making Kirkland the envy of its municipal neighbours, and engendering a certain pride of residency amongst its citizens.
Kirkland has championed efforts in the environmental sphere, as one of the pioneer municipalities in the MUC's curbside domestic recycling project, and maintaining an ever-expanding list of programmes, including: plastic bag recycling, backyard composting, domestic toxic waste collections, leaf composting, Christmas tree recycling, tree planting programmes, and restrictions on felling, reduced salt-spreading in winter, and the enactment of an effective pesticide by-law.
In 1992, Kirkland was honoured to be selected by Chatelaine magazine as the only town in the province to make the "top ten best places to live in Canada" list. Kirklanders have always put heart and soul into participating in the towns' activities and lifestyle development. |
