York Stadium
Neighbourhood Park, middle of the pack overall (score 33, rank ~47th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: edge activation.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
York Stadium scores 33.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (36). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 4.81 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 63%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 33 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
Tradeoffs
- The park is enclosed by buildings (66) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
Typology classification
Classified as Neighbourhood Park: 4.8 ha, framed by 4 mid-rise vs 0 towers
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 3 active uses (transit_stop) and 6 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
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 7 mapped paths/walkways and 13 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 15 street intersections within 100 m; 26 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 6 estimated access points across ~1,049 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: 0.9% estimated tree canopy; 17.8% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~161 m; 10 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (2.1/ha). Reading: water-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, 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
141 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (4 mid-rise, 137 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.6 m (~2 floors); 13.4 buildings per 100 m of 1,049 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 4 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, parking_lot, parking_lot. Jacobs warned that highways, rail, parking lots and blank institutional edges act as "vacuums" — they suppress foot traffic and isolate the park from its neighbourhood.
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 (40)
- parking lot31 m
- parking lot32 m
- parking lot42 m
- parking lot54 m
- transit stop — Humber Boulevard at Weston Road57 m
- parking lot69 m
- parking lot84 m
- transit stop — Louvain Street91 m
- transit stop — Weston Road93 m
- parking lot100 m
- retail — Weston Tile102 m
- transit stop — Weston Road at Humber Boulevard North103 m
- transit stop — Avon Loop at Weston Rd106 m
- parking lot109 m
- parking lot116 m
- transit stop — Humber Boulevard116 m
- transit stop — Rogers Road116 m
- parking lot117 m
- restaurant — O Moliceiro Bar & Grill117 m
- transit stop — Avon Crescent130 m
- parking lot131 m
- transit stop — Rogers Road144 m
- transit stop — Weston Rd at Black Creek Dr146 m
- transit stop — Rogers Road147 m
- transit stop — Weston Road149 m
- retail — Kim Grocery152 m
- parking lot153 m
- restaurant — Pizza Tazza159 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision159 m
- rail160 m
- transit stop161 m
- restaurant — Id Love Restaurant & Bar164 m
- parking lot164 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision175 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision180 m
- retail — Weston Auto Collision184 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision185 m
- rail — MacTier Subdivision190 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision190 m
- transit stop — Seneca Avenue193 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality47th
- Edge activation46th
- Connectivity89th
- Amenity diversity51th
- Natural comfort47th
- Enclosure61th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Ambrose ParketteParkette38
- The GoreNeighbourhood Park27
- Regent Park - EtobicokeParkette34
- True Davidson ParkParkette33
- East York Civic CentreCivic Square32
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park71
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell ParkUrban Plaza50
- Market Lane ParkUrban Plaza63
- Simcoe ParkTower-Community Green Space51
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 York Stadiummatters. 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.
- Increase canopy and reduce paved area. Shade and water features extend usable hours and seasons.
- Mitigate border vacuums (highways, rail, parking) with active programming on the still-permeable edges and treat the hostile edge as a design challenge.
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.