Maple Claire Park
Urban Plaza, in the top tier overall (score 48, rank ~92th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: amenity diversity.
Photo by Francisco Naranjo via Google Places · cached 5/9/2026
Maple Claire Park scores 47.5 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and edge activation. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.23 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 57%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Street context
Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map. Connectivity, transit, and edge conditions read at a glance.
Top-down view
City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px. Reads the park’s footprint, paths, treed area, and edge conditions from above.
City of Toronto Orthophoto · cot_ortho most-current MapServer
Explain this score
Where did the 48 come from? Each weighted contribution against a neutral 50 baseline. Green = pushed up; red = pulled down.
Sum of contributions = the headline score. A negative bar means that dimension dragged the park below the city-wide neutral baseline.
Why this park works
What limits this park
Most distinctive characteristic
Jacobs reading
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its urban plaza typology (+11 vs the median in pocket Urban Plaza).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 2334 m², paved (0% canopy), 8.0 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 7 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, retail) and 0 dead/hostile uses (none). Active edges keep "eyes on the park" through the day; parking lots, blank institutional walls, rail and highway frontages drain street life.
Source: OSM POIs (amenity/shop) + Toronto Building Footprints + land use
Connectivity
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 1 mapped paths/walkways and 9 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 17 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~239 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy — no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.
Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops
Amenity Diversity
No amenities recorded — score is 0 until inventory is loaded.
Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: ~8.4% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~320 m; 12 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (12.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).
Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
19 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (2 mid-rise, 17 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 7.2 m (~2 floors); 8.0 buildings per 100 m of 239 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are low-rise (mostly 2–3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 2 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Park edges face the city — no significant border vacuum detected.
Source: Toronto Street Centreline (highways) + rail layer + OSM landuse + building footprints
Equity Context
Equity Context requires inputs not yet loaded for this park (Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles). Score is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence — read with caution.
Source: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles
Amenities (0)
No amenities recorded for this park.
Nearby active-edge features (43)
- restaurant — Victory's Kitchen32 m
- transit stop — Gunn's Loop55 m
- transit stop — Gunn's Loop66 m
- restaurant — Shoeless Joe's80 m
- retail — Nations Fresh Foods82 m
- transit stop — Gunn's Road90 m
- retail — C Wave Optical97 m
- transit stop — Old Stock Yards102 m
- retail — Telus/Koodo106 m
- retail — Walking on a Cloud111 m
- retail — Zwilling113 m
- retail — Marry Me Mochi115 m
- retail — La Vie en Rose115 m
- retail — Popeye's Supplements120 m
- retail — The Children's Place122 m
- retail — Ardene123 m
- transit stop — Old Stock Yards124 m
- retail — The Shoe Company125 m
- retail — Canadian Tire129 m
- retail — Snuggle Bugz131 m
- retail — Roots146 m
- restaurant — Mr. Puff’s Dessert Bar153 m
- restaurant — A&W160 m
- retail — Sally Beauty166 m
- retail — Carter's OshKosh167 m
- retail — Bell173 m
- parking lot — Garage South173 m
- restaurant — Panda Express174 m
- retail — First Choice HairCutters175 m
- retail — Men Zone Barbershop179 m
- restaurant — Tahini’s180 m
- retail — Winners181 m
- retail — Nails for You184 m
- restaurant — Halibut House185 m
- retail — Marshalls185 m
- restaurant — Sunset Grill188 m
- restaurant — Firehouse Subs190 m
- restaurant — Mary Brown's192 m
- parking lot192 m
- cafe — Chatime193 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons197 m
- retail — Pet Valu199 m
- restaurant — Philthy Philly's200 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality92th
- Edge activation97th
- Connectivity59th
- Amenity diversity33th
- Natural comfort46th
- Enclosure70th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Trca Lands ( 62)Waterfront Park47
- Hickorynut ParketteParkette47
- NEW TORONTO SENIORS' CENTRE - Building GroundsUrban Plaza44
- Creekside ParkWaterfront Park48
- Etobicoke Hydro Green SpaceNeighbourhood Park44
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
Visitor signals
Public attention measured by Google Places aggregates. This proxies attention, not occupancy. Aggregate-only — no usernames, no review text, no extra photos beyond the cached hero.
p82 citywide · p93 within Urban Plaza
Source: Google Places API · match high (0.81 composite confidence) · last refreshed 5/9/2026. Privacy contract. Measures public attention, not occupancy.
Human activity signals
Programming, social attention, temporal rhythm, and nearby pedestrian / cycling flow. An experimental aggregate layer that complements the spatial scores — partial coverage, partial confidence.
Activity reading: no inputs available. The strongest signal is public attention / mentions. Source coverage: google-places.
Does this score feel accurate?
Your read of Maple Claire Parkmatters. We’re testing whether the model lines up with how people actually use the park. Submissions are stored locally; no account needed.
Tell us how this park feels
We measure structure (canopy, edges, connectivity). You measure feeling. Both matter — and disagreement is itself useful civic data.
What would improve this park?
Generated from the weakest measured dimensions — a starting point, not a prescription.
- Diversify what people can do in the park — playground, washroom, water, shade, performance, sport, garden — even small additions raise this score.
- Increase canopy and reduce paved area. Shade and water features extend usable hours and seasons.
Data sources
- City of Toronto Open Data — Parks (Green Space)Polygon boundaries, official names, types.
- Parks & Recreation FacilitiesInventory of in-park amenities (washrooms, fields, rinks…).
- Toronto Pedestrian NetworkSidewalk segments around and through parks; estimated park entrances.
- Toronto Centreline V2Street segments + intersection nodes near park edges; trails and walkways.
- Toronto 3D MassingBuilding footprints + heights for edge-building counts, frontage density, and tower-in-the-park risk.
- Toronto Treed AreaTree canopy share inside park polygons via stratified-grid sampling.
- Toronto Waterbodies & RiversWater surface inside parks + nearest-water distance for cooling.
- Ravine & Natural Feature ProtectionRavine overlap as a cooling / natural-comfort signal.
- Toronto Street Tree InventoryTree count + density inside park polygons.
- Neighbourhood Profiles(Pending) Equity context proxy.
- OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.