Urban Plazacluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (enclosure-leaning)Woodbine-Lumsden (60)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

Everett Park

Urban Plaza, above average overall (score 39, rank ~72th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: edge activation.

Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026

Everett Park scores 39.2 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. 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.

Best for:daily passing-throughpocket meetings

Area · 0.41 ha

Vitality Score

39/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 63%

Data Confidence

39.2 / 100

Citywide

72nd

of all 3,273 parks

Among Urban Plaza

62nd

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in small Urban Plaza (n=100)

Performance gap

raw − expected · context confidence high

typical

Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.

Explain this score

Where did the 39 come from? Each weighted contribution against a neutral 50 baseline. Green = pushed up; red = pulled down.

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What pushed this score up or down vs a neutral 50weight × score

Edge Activation0 · p57

-12.5

Amenity Diversity0 · p65

-10.0

Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)

+5.0

Connectivity67 · p87

+3.4

Enclosure / Eyes on Park77 · p79

+2.7

Natural Comfort54 · p67

+0.6

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

Everett Park works because its connectivity score (67) is in the top tier and its enclosure (77) is also top quartile (19 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 9 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).

What limits this park

Everett Park doesn't have a clear weakness — every measured dimension is at or above the middle of the pack.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high connectivity (67, top quartile).

Jacobs reading

Everett Park sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

The park is enclosed by buildings (77) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.

Typology classification

confidence 70%

Urban Plaza

Classified as Urban Plaza: 4074 m², paved (13% canopy), 30.4 buildings/100 m

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 1 active uses (transit_stop) and 2 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot). 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

20% weightmeasured 85%

67.2 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 5 mapped paths/walkways and 11 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 9 street intersections within 100 m; 19 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 6 estimated access points across ~359 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy — no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m6

Intersections within 100 m9

Paths/walkways (50 m)5

Sidewalk segments (50 m)11

Transit stops (400 m)19

Estimated entrances6

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter1.67

Park perimeter359 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops

Amenity Diversity

20% weightinferred 30%

0.0 / 100

No amenities recorded — score is 0 until inventory is loaded.

Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags

Natural Comfort

15% weightmeasured 75%

53.8 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 13.3% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~411 m; 13 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (13.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: treed_area, waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage13.3%

Canopy area0.05 ha

Inside ravine system0.0%

Water surface inside park0.0%

Nearest water (if outside park)411 m

Estimated green100.0%

City-mapped trees inside polygon13

Tree density13.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)56.7

Sample points used30

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

76.5 / 100

109 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (7 mid-rise, 102 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.0 m (~2 floors); 30.4 buildings per 100 m of 359 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 7 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m109

Buildings within 50 m109

Avg edge height6.0 m (~2 floors)

Tallest edge building15.8 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)7

Low-rise (< 3 floors)102

Towers (≥ 13 floors)0

Frontage density30.39 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge6%

Tower share of edge0%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter359 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%

0.0 risk

Park edges face the city — no significant border vacuum detected.

Source: Toronto Street Centreline (highways) + rail layer + OSM landuse + building footprints

Equity Context

contextinferred 15%

50.0 / 100

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 (16)

parking lot50 m
parking lot90 m
transit stop — Hamstead Avenue99 m
transit stop — Hamstead Avenue104 m
transit stop — Wallington Avenue111 m
retail — Old's Cool General Store139 m
transit stop — Westlake Ave at Lumsden Ave145 m
restaurant — Oak Park Deli146 m
transit stop — Westlake Avenue146 m
transit stop — Oak Park Avenue148 m
transit stop — Gledhill Avenue154 m
transit stop — Westlake Crescent155 m
transit stop — Westlake Crescent155 m
parking lot160 m
transit stop — Westlake Avenue174 m
retail — Gledhill Convenience193 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
72th
Edge activation
57th
Connectivity
87th
Amenity diversity
65th
Natural comfort
67th
Enclosure
79th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Taylor Creek ParkRavine / Naturalized Park30
Glebe Manor SquareCivic Square39
Garrison Creek ParkRavine / Naturalized Park31
Mallaby ParkRavine / Naturalized Park37
St. John'S Norway CemeteryRavine / Naturalized Park30

Most opposite parks

Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.

Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park71
Simcoe ParkTower-Community Green Space51
Toronto Islands - Island ParkWaterfront Park52
Queen'S Quay Traffic IslandWaterfront Park49

Human activity signals — not available

No activity signals have landed for this park yet. The model has scored its physical form but it can’t yet say how often it’s programmed, photographed, or walked through. See /data-ethics for what we will and will not collect.

Does this score feel accurate?

Your read of Everett 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.

Activate the edges: encourage cafés, retail or community uses on the streets that face the park; replace blank or parking-lot edges where possible.
Diversify what people can do in the park — playground, washroom, water, shade, performance, sport, garden — even small additions raise this score.

Data sources

City of Toronto Open Data — Parks (Green Space)
Polygon boundaries, official names, types.
Parks & Recreation Facilities
Inventory of in-park amenities (washrooms, fields, rinks…).
Toronto Pedestrian Network
Sidewalk segments around and through parks; estimated park entrances.
Toronto Centreline V2
Street segments + intersection nodes near park edges; trails and walkways.
Toronto 3D Massing
Building footprints + heights for edge-building counts, frontage density, and tower-in-the-park risk.
Toronto Treed Area
Tree canopy share inside park polygons via stratified-grid sampling.
Toronto Waterbodies & Rivers
Water surface inside parks + nearest-water distance for cooling.
Ravine & Natural Feature Protection
Ravine overlap as a cooling / natural-comfort signal.
Toronto Street Tree Inventory
Tree count + density inside park polygons.
Neighbourhood Profiles
(Pending) Equity context proxy.
OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.