Trca Lands ( 69)
Ravine / Naturalized Park, in the top tier overall (score 44, rank ~86th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: amenity diversity.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Trca Lands ( 69) scores 43.6 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and natural comfort. 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 · 0.25 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 61%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 44 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
- Natural comfort (69) significantly outpaces connectivity (42) — restorative but hard to reach for daily use.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its ravine / naturalized park typology (+11 vs the median in pocket Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine).
Typology classification
Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 100% ravine overlap, 19% canopy
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 12 active uses (restaurant, retail, transit_stop) and 4 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 0 mapped paths/walkways and 6 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 2 street intersections within 100 m; 15 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~232 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: 18.8% estimated tree canopy; 100.0% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~12 m. Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, waterbodies. 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
8 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (2 mid-rise, 6 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 10.0 m (~3 floors); 3.5 buildings per 100 m of 232 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3–7 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
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: 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 (67)
- parking lot40 m
- parking lot69 m
- restaurant — Pizza Nova74 m
- transit stop — Jane St at Wilson Ave75 m
- retail — Plaza Coin Laundry & Dry Cleaner76 m
- restaurant — Popeyes80 m
- retail — Neighbours81 m
- parking lot84 m
- retail — Nails for You84 m
- parking lot87 m
- retail — Money Mart88 m
- retail — Lien's Nails93 m
- transit stop — Jane Street93 m
- restaurant — Willy's Jerk98 m
- retail — Smartlinks Electronics99 m
- retail — easyhome100 m
- retail — Cash Pond104 m
- parking lot106 m
- retail — Fire & Flower Cannabis Co.110 m
- transit stop — Jane Street115 m
- parking lot124 m
- parking lot126 m
- parking lot132 m
- parking lot138 m
- community — Toronto Public Library - Black Creek144 m
- parking lot144 m
- retail — Toys and Games144 m
- retail — Mirror Mirror Fragrances146 m
- retail — Salon Guilliano149 m
- retail — Sew Good Alterations & Dry Cleaning152 m
- transit stop — Jane St at Wilson Ave152 m
- retail — Gadget City153 m
- retail — Ali Bros. Watches and Clocks155 m
- retail — BSW Beauty Supply156 m
- retail — La Fair Home Decor157 m
- retail — Blossom160 m
- retail — Caprice Jewellers163 m
- retail — Trendi 4 Men169 m
- retail — International Clothiers173 m
- retail — J&B Hair Studio174 m
- retail — Meyers Variety174 m
- retail — Monique's Boutique176 m
- retail — Gateway Newstands176 m
- retail — Riz Footwear179 m
- retail — Tan My180 m
- retail — Dollar Power184 m
- retail — Hype184 m
- retail — African King Meat Shop185 m
- retail — S&H Health Foods186 m
- retail — Wilson Muffler187 m
- retail — Katherine Handbags190 m
- retail — Asa Gamez & Electronics191 m
- parking lot191 m
- retail — Melrose192 m
- retail — Golden Gate Jewellers192 m
- retail — Kids City Fashions193 m
- retail — Esso194 m
- retail — Boardwalk Shoes196 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons196 m
- retail — American Fashions197 m
- restaurant198 m
- transit stop — 1700 Wilson Avenue (Sheridan Mall)198 m
- retail — Cash Money199 m
- retail — Gadget Plus199 m
- retail — Dollarama199 m
- retail — Phone Cards Plus199 m
- retail — Raymond's Smoke & Gift200 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality86th
- Edge activation90th
- Connectivity38th
- Amenity diversity38th
- Natural comfort82th
- Enclosure76th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceCorridor / Linear Park46
- Chestnut Hills IslandParkette47
- City Wide Open SpaceNeighbourhood Park41
- Staines Road WoodlotRavine / Naturalized Park42
- Barkdene ParkParkette40
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Sir Casimir Gzowski ParkWaterfront Park33
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park18
- Trca Lands ( 58)Waterfront Park18
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park21
- Withrow ParkNeighbourhood Park50
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 Trca Lands ( 69)matters. 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.
- Add or open more entrances and improve sidewalk continuity around the park. More permeability means more spontaneous use.
- 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 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.