City Wide Open Space
Ravine / Naturalized Park, middle of the pack overall (score 34, rank ~47th percentile). Strongest: natural comfort; weakest: enclosure.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
City Wide Open Space scores 33.5 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (72). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 4.58 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 34 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
Typology classification
Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 100% ravine overlap, 24% canopy. Secondary read: Neighbourhood Park (4.6 ha, framed by 17 mid-rise vs 12 towers).
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 14 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, retail) and 7 dead/hostile uses (rail, 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 7 mapped paths/walkways and 11 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 12 street intersections within 100 m; 18 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 2 estimated access points across ~1,002 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: 23.8% estimated tree canopy; 100.0% inside the ravine system; 1.0% water surface; 6 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (1.3/ha). Reading: ravine-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
36 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (17 mid-rise, 7 low-rise, 12 tower); avg edge height 44.3 m (~15 floors); 3.6 buildings per 100 m of 1,002 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges dominated by towers; 12 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 17 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Oakville Subdivision, Oakville Subdivision, Oakville Subdivision, Oakville Subdivision. 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 (54)
- rail — Oakville Subdivision37 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision40 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision43 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision47 m
- retail — Top Modern Nail Spa56 m
- retail — Hasty Market62 m
- restaurant — Fresh Pizza Plus67 m
- retail — Park Lawn Cleaners71 m
- parking lot71 m
- retail — LCBO72 m
- retail — Platis Cleaners76 m
- retail — En Vogue Hair Salon & Spa76 m
- retail — The Bone & Biscuit Co.76 m
- restaurant — Panago76 m
- parking lot77 m
- restaurant — Sunset Grill80 m
- transit stop83 m
- restaurant — Freshii85 m
- retail — Massage Addict91 m
- highway — Lake Shore Boulevard West92 m
- transit stop — Legion Road97 m
- highway — Lake Shore Boulevard West101 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision110 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision111 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision115 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision117 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision118 m
- transit stop — Legion Road118 m
- parking lot119 m
- rail — Oakville Subdivision119 m
- highway — Lake Shore Boulevard West119 m
- cafe — Starbucks121 m
- retail — Metro121 m
- highway — Lake Shore Boulevard West125 m
- transit stop134 m
- transit stop — Legion Road135 m
- transit stop — Park Lawn Road148 m
- retail — Mimico Nails Bar151 m
- parking lot153 m
- highway — Lake Shore Boulevard West158 m
- transit stop — Park Lawn Rd at Lake Shore Blvd W161 m
- cafe — Avenue Cafe + Bistro172 m
- transit stop — Park Lawn Road172 m
- parking lot176 m
- transit stop — Park Lawn Rd at Lake Shore Blvd W176 m
- highway — Lake Shore Boulevard West177 m
- parking lot179 m
- parking lot181 m
- transit stop184 m
- transit stop — Marine Parade Dr Loop at Lake Shore Blvd W192 m
- parking lot193 m
- parking lot194 m
- parking lot196 m
- parking lot199 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality47th
- Edge activation71th
- Connectivity73th
- Amenity diversity63th
- Natural comfort80th
- Enclosure19th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- St. George'S Golf And Country ClubRavine / Naturalized Park42
- Don Lake ParketteTower-Community Green Space41
- Toronto Islands - Algonquin Island ParkWaterfront Park37
- Echo Valley ParkWaterfront Park44
- City Wide Open SpaceTower-Community Green Space42
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
- ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green SpaceUrban Plaza59
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell ParkUrban Plaza50
- Bernard Avenue Road AllowanceUrban Plaza54
- Sonya'S ParkUrban Plaza60
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.
- Diversify what people can do in the park — playground, washroom, water, shade, performance, sport, garden — even small additions raise this score.
- 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.