40 Power St Park
Urban Plaza, middle of the pack overall (score 39, rank ~68th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: amenity diversity.
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40 Power St Park scores 39.2 / 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 · 0.05 ha
Getting around
No walking paths mapped in OpenStreetMap.
No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Nearest parking 55 m away. None of the 11 nearby lots records whether it has 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 57%
Data confidence: moderate
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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The parks map is loading.Explain this score
Where did the 39 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
40 Power St Park works because its enclosure score (79) is above average and its edge activation (23) is also top quartile (8 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).
What limits this park
40 Power St Park is held back by amenity diversity (0, bottom quartile).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low amenity diversity (0, bottom quartile).
Jacobs reading
40 Power St Park sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- The park is enclosed by buildings (79) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 23): frame without animation.
- 10 nearby towers cast wind and shadow without contributing canopy: passive surveillance is plentiful but human-scale comfort is not.
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 470 m², paved (0% canopy), 29.0 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 15 active uses (restaurant, retail, 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 0 mapped paths/walkways and 8 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 6 street intersections within 100 m; 28 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~100 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: ~2.1% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~794 m; 3 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (3.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: 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
29 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (8 mid-rise, 11 low-rise, 10 tower); avg edge height 29.5 m (~10 floors); 29.0 buildings per 100 m of 100 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges lean tall but still framed; 10 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 8 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.
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 (77)
- retail: Alsie 24 Market10 m
- retail: Must Societe40 m
- parking lot55 m
- transit stop: Richmond Street East57 m
- parking lot62 m
- retail: Roche Bobois68 m
- transit stop: Adelaide Street East75 m
- retail: Shell Select78 m
- transit stop: Richmond Street East82 m
- parking lot83 m
- restaurant: 241 Pizza88 m
- parking lot91 m
- retail: Blonde94 m
- restaurant: Reyna94 m
- retail: 360 Healing Centre94 m
- retail: Roselle95 m
- retail: Cambria Gallery96 m
- retail: eco|stems97 m
- parking lot98 m
- retail: Fix Auto Collision98 m
- parking lot98 m
- parking lot107 m
- retail: Studio B119 m
- retail: Luxe Appliance Studio121 m
- retail: Staples124 m
- retail: Volkswagen129 m
- transit stop: Parliament Street135 m
- parking lot138 m
- transit stop: Queen Street East146 m
- transit stop: King Street East146 m
- retail: Little T Annex Art Gallery148 m
- parking lot148 m
- cafe: Morning Glory149 m
- retail: Blinds to Go151 m
- retail: Gallery 402155 m
- retail: Preservation House157 m
- retail: King & Parliament Dry Cleaning157 m
- transit stop: King Street East157 m
- retail: Kao Salon Academy159 m
- retail: The Corner Convenience161 m
- transit stop: Parliament Street165 m
- restaurant: Dejavu168 m
- restaurant: Princess Kitchen169 m
- retail: 290 Ion169 m
- transit stop: Parliament Street169 m
- retail: Bauteam169 m
- restaurant: King Solomon and Queen of Sheba169 m
- restaurant: The Decoy Bar169 m
- restaurant: Wood 900 Grill + Bar169 m
- restaurant: The Heritage Cafe & Kitchen170 m
- retail: Consumer Wireless Solutions170 m
- restaurant: Habibz Corner170 m
- restaurant: King Deli-Cafe170 m
- restaurant: Gilead Café + Wine Bar171 m
- transit stop: Parliament Street173 m
- retail: Libby's Custom Framing174 m
- retail: Ray’s Discount175 m
- restaurant: Dejavu Lounge176 m
- restaurant: Royal Karahi177 m
- retail179 m
- cafe: Roozamoon Cafe180 m
- retail: Million Rose Flowers182 m
- retail184 m
- retail: Alexandria printing Services185 m
- restaurant: Kish's Roti & Doubles185 m
- transit stop: Queen Street East186 m
- retail: Joseph Head Hair Colour186 m
- retail188 m
- restaurant: Poutine House188 m
- retail: JBH Central Convenience192 m
- parking lot192 m
- retail193 m
- cafe: Buvette Pacey194 m
- transit stop: Sackville Street197 m
- retail198 m
- parking lot198 m
- retail: E-Wheels Ebike200 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality68th
- Edge activation79th
- Connectivity61th
- Amenity diversity16th
- Natural comfort23th
- Enclosure83th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza40
- Larratt ParketteRavine / Naturalized Park40
- Empress ParketteUrban Plaza39
- Carney ParkUrban Plaza37
- Morningside Church Park AreaUrban Plaza36
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park75
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- Toronto ZooWaterfront Park67
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.