34 Hanna Avenue Park
Urban Plaza, middle of the pack overall (score 37, rank ~58th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: natural comfort.
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34 Hanna Avenue Park scores 36.5 / 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.
Area · 0.08 ha
Getting around
44 m of mapped path. Too little surface tagging to say how much is paved.
Too little path mapped to check for steps.
No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Nearest parking 15 m away. 1 of 22 nearby lots reporting 2 accessible spaces.
Path, seating and parking data comes from OpenStreetMap and reflects what volunteers have mapped, not a survey. Absence here means nobody has recorded it. This section does not assess wheelchair access: the relevant OpenStreetMap tag is present on well under 1% of Toronto paths.
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 56%
Data confidence: moderate
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Where did the 37 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
34 Hanna Avenue Park works because its enclosure score (91) is one of the city's strongest and its edge activation (23) is also top quartile (9 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).
What limits this park
34 Hanna Avenue Park is held back by natural comfort (24, bottom quartile): only 0% canopy means little summer shade.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (91, top decile).
Jacobs reading
34 Hanna Avenue Park sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- Connectivity (53) significantly outpaces natural comfort (24): well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
- The park is enclosed by buildings (91) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 23): frame without animation.
Performance in context
- Citywide rank is high (58th) but typology rank is more modest (38th): the strength likely comes from the dataset average pulling lower than this typology’s baseline.
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 760 m², paved (0% canopy), 15.3 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 22 active uses (retail, transit_stop, restaurant, cafe) and 7 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 11 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 6 street intersections within 100 m; 21 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~118 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: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~903 m. Reading: exposed. Source coverage: 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
18 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (9 mid-rise, 7 low-rise, 2 tower); avg edge height 17.9 m (~6 floors); 15.3 buildings per 100 m of 118 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3 to 7 floors); 2 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 9 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. Jacobs warned that highways, rail, parking lots and blank institutional edges act as "vacuums" that 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 (80)
- transit stop12 m
- parking lot15 m
- retail: Ren’s Pets28 m
- transit stop: Atlantic Avenue30 m
- parking lot30 m
- cafe: Balzac's Coffee34 m
- cafe: Merci Mon Ami42 m
- retail: Bulk Barn42 m
- restaurant: Impact45 m
- restaurant: Local Public Eatery48 m
- cafe: Tim Hortons51 m
- parking lot: SP+54 m
- retail: 180 Smoke56 m
- retail: Board Games Arboretum56 m
- restaurant: Left Field Brewery57 m
- retail: Telus/Koodo59 m
- retail: Salon Tocci65 m
- parking lot70 m
- retail: Heartless Ink Tattoo Boutique71 m
- retail: Demo Soap Studio75 m
- restaurant: Sundays Pasta Lab83 m
- retail: Atlantic Key Co. Hardware Centre85 m
- cafe: Arvo86 m
- restaurant: Aloette Go90 m
- parking lot90 m
- retail94 m
- parking lot94 m
- restaurant: Pizzaville97 m
- parking lot100 m
- parking lot101 m
- retail: No Frills102 m
- retail: Dollarama104 m
- restaurant: The Islands Caribbean Cookshop105 m
- restaurant: Liberty Village Market & Café109 m
- retail: Wella Studio120 m
- retail: Carnabys Bespoke Jewellery122 m
- parking lot128 m
- parking lot129 m
- restaurant: The Lounge130 m
- retail: Beauty Room131 m
- retail: More Studio131 m
- retail: Telus132 m
- cafe: Savoir Coffee132 m
- restaurant: Fox & John’s Restaurant & Bar133 m
- retail: Pearle Vision134 m
- retail: Savoir Bridal134 m
- retail: Skin+ Beauty Clinic135 m
- retail: EQ3135 m
- restaurant: The Craft Brasserie & Bar135 m
- retail: Koodo135 m
- parking lot137 m
- retail: See & Be Seen Eyecare139 m
- retail: Sol’exotica139 m
- parking lot142 m
- restaurant: Pico142 m
- cafe: Chatime142 m
- retail: Fido144 m
- retail: Rogers146 m
- restaurant: Chiang Mai Thai Kitchen & Bar148 m
- retail: Pop’s Cannabis149 m
- restaurant: WingsUp!149 m
- parking lot152 m
- restaurant: Osmow’s Shawarma152 m
- parking lot152 m
- retail: Canvas Cannabis156 m
- parking lot158 m
- retail: Axe & Hatchet159 m
- restaurant: Chipotle161 m
- retail: LCBO163 m
- restaurant: Kibo Sushi164 m
- restaurant: Barcelona Tavern164 m
- cafe: Starbucks167 m
- parking lot168 m
- parking lot168 m
- retail: COBS Bread169 m
- restaurant: Nodo Liberty171 m
- parking lot: Impark176 m
- parking lot177 m
- parking lot177 m
- transit stop180 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality58th
- Edge activation79th
- Connectivity64th
- Amenity diversity17th
- Natural comfort4th
- Enclosure97th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Macklin Hancock ParkUrban Plaza38
- Regan ParkUrban Plaza39
- Blantyre ParkUrban Plaza35
- S.A.D.R.A. ParkCorridor / Linear Park39
- Montague ParketteUrban Plaza35
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- Toronto Islands - Mugg'S IslandRavine / Naturalized Park36
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
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.
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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.
Data sources
- City of Toronto Open Data: Green SpacesPolygon boundaries, official names, land classes. Boundaries are reconciled against OpenStreetMap (ODbL) for new and updated parks.
- 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.