City Wide Open Space
Corridor / Linear Park, near the bottom of the city overall (score 22, rank ~5th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: edge activation.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
City Wide Open Space scores 22.1 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 2.37 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 22 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
- Strong underperformer relative to its cohort — raw 22 vs an expected 37 (gap -15).
Typology classification
Classified as Corridor / Linear Park: shape elongation 2.1× a circle of equal area. Secondary read: Neighbourhood Park (2.4 ha, framed by 1 mid-rise vs 0 towers).
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 6 active uses (restaurant, retail, transit_stop) and 15 dead/hostile uses (highway, 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 14 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 5 street intersections within 100 m; 18 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~1,146 m of perimeter. low edge density — significant superblock penalty applied. 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: 2.7% estimated tree canopy; 8.2% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~314 m; 3 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (1.3/ha). Reading: exposed. 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
80 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (1 mid-rise, 79 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 4.7 m (~2 floors); 7.0 buildings per 100 m of 1,146 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 1 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: The Queensway, The Queensway, The Queensway, The Queensway, The Queensway, The Queensway, parking_lot, 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 (53)
- parking lot0 m
- parking lot0 m
- parking lot0 m
- parking lot0 m
- transit stop6 m
- highway — The Queensway13 m
- highway — The Queensway17 m
- highway — The Queensway18 m
- highway — The Queensway19 m
- highway — The Queensway27 m
- transit stop28 m
- highway — The Queensway42 m
- highway — The Queensway77 m
- retail — Caliber Automobiles78 m
- restaurant — Subway82 m
- highway — The Queensway84 m
- highway — The Queensway84 m
- transit stop — The Queensway at Stephen Dr89 m
- parking lot91 m
- retail — The Wine Shop96 m
- parking lot96 m
- transit stop101 m
- parking lot107 m
- parking lot108 m
- parking lot109 m
- transit stop115 m
- parking lot115 m
- transit stop — Stephen Dr at The Queensway117 m
- retail — First Choice Haircutters118 m
- retail — Dove Cleaners Depot118 m
- transit stop — Waniska Avenue120 m
- retail — LCBO120 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons125 m
- parking lot128 m
- highway — The Queensway130 m
- parking lot134 m
- parking lot136 m
- restaurant — Momo Dumpling Express136 m
- transit stop — The Queensway at Stephen Dr136 m
- retail — T.D. Variety144 m
- restaurant — KFC146 m
- highway — The Queensway150 m
- restaurant — Booster Juice155 m
- retail — Pedi Nails155 m
- retail — NetPrintShip155 m
- restaurant — Pizza Pizza155 m
- retail — Dollarama157 m
- parking lot159 m
- retail — Pet Valu161 m
- parking lot165 m
- retail — Rogers168 m
- restaurant — Rocco's Plum Tomato169 m
- highway — The Queensway179 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality5th
- Edge activation13th
- Connectivity54th
- Amenity diversity19th
- Natural comfort43th
- Enclosure26th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceNeighbourhood Park32
- Scarborough Hydro Green SpaceNeighbourhood Park32
- Scarborough Hydro Green SpaceNeighbourhood Park33
- Etobicoke Hydro Green SpaceParkette30
- Upwood GreenbeltRavine / Naturalized Park33
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park71
- Market Lane ParkUrban Plaza63
- Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square66
- ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green SpaceUrban Plaza59
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 City Wide Open Spacematters. 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.
- 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.