Beaty Boulevard Parkette
Corridor / Linear Park, above average overall (score 42, rank ~80th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: edge activation.
Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Beaty Boulevard Parkette scores 42.4 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.51 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 68%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Explain this score
Where did the 42 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
Beaty Boulevard Parkette works because its connectivity score (73) is in the top tier and its enclosure (77) is also top quartile (22 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 10 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).
What limits this park
Beaty Boulevard Parkette is held back by edge activation (0, below-average): the surrounding streets carry too few active uses to spill into the park.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high connectivity (73, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Beaty Boulevard Parkette sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- Connectivity (73) significantly outpaces natural comfort (48): well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
- The park is enclosed by buildings (77) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its corridor / linear park typology (+9 vs the median in small Corridor / Linear Park).
Typology classification
Classified as Corridor / Linear Park: shape elongation 3.3× a circle of equal area. Secondary read: Urban Plaza (5052 m², paved (0% canopy), 7.5 buildings/100 m).
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 35 active uses (restaurant, transit_stop, retail, cafe) and 14 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 14 mapped paths/walkways and 25 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 10 street intersections within 100 m; 22 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 9 estimated access points across ~825 m of perimeter. moderate edge density, small superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.
Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops
Amenity Diversity
2 distinct amenity types in the park (bench, garden). Diversity, not raw count, drives the score so a park with many distinct activity types can outrank a larger park that repeats the same use.
Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: ~11.9% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~220 m; 17 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (17.0/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
62 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (18 mid-rise, 44 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 8.2 m (~3 floors); 7.5 buildings per 100 m of 825 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 18 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" 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 (2 types · 17 records)
- bench
- garden
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- transit stop: Wilson Park Road6 m
- transit stop: Wilson Park Road9 m
- transit stop: Queen Street West16 m
- parking lot27 m
- restaurant: La Barbacha/Roja’s Kitchen34 m
- restaurant: Easy Restaurant44 m
- restaurant: McDonald's46 m
- retail: The Picture Frame Factory48 m
- parking lot53 m
- transit stop: Roncesvalles Avenue55 m
- parking lot55 m
- retail: Sam The Chandelier Man56 m
- restaurant: Burrito Boyz57 m
- transit stop: Roncesvalles Avenue59 m
- retail: A Room in Paris61 m
- retail: Vape62 m
- retail: Era Antiques62 m
- transit stop: Roncesvalles Avenue64 m
- transit stop: Queen Street West64 m
- retail: Stella Luna65 m
- parking lot65 m
- transit stop: Roncesvalles Avenue65 m
- parking lot67 m
- retail68 m
- retail: Classic Vintage Audio & Props71 m
- retail: Quickcart Convenience71 m
- parking lot74 m
- restaurant: Mama Rosa74 m
- cafe: Raid Gallery Cafe79 m
- retail: RAID82 m
- restaurant: The Grand Trunk Spirits & Libations82 m
- parking lot83 m
- retail: Campagna Bronze84 m
- restaurant: South Indian Dosa Mahal84 m
- retail: West End Comics84 m
- cafe: Osprey87 m
- parking lot89 m
- retail: Wave Electric Scooters89 m
- parking lot90 m
- retail: In Good Co.91 m
- restaurant: Paddler Thai boat noodles92 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West92 m
- parking lot94 m
- retail: PetAgree94 m
- parking lot95 m
- retail: 4 Your Hair Extensions97 m
- parking lot97 m
- restaurant: Dystopia99 m
- parking lot100 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision102 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision106 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West107 m
- retail: Spiritleaf107 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision109 m
- retail: Cult 1696112 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision112 m
- transit stop: Queen Street West113 m
- parking lot114 m
- retail: Hair Roncy115 m
- retail: Peach Berserk116 m
- retail117 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West118 m
- parking lot119 m
- retail: Atlas Ink120 m
- parking lot: Palais Royale Guest Parking121 m
- restaurant: Krave Indian124 m
- restaurant: Sake Sushi125 m
- parking lot127 m
- cafe: Atlantis Coffee129 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West130 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West131 m
- parking lot131 m
- retail: Studio 1686133 m
- retail: Savage Nails Lounge134 m
- parking lot136 m
- retail: Juju Grooms137 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West137 m
- retail: Aroma Cannabis Emporium139 m
- restaurant: Tdot Jerk139 m
- parking lot142 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality80th
- Edge activation30th
- Connectivity94th
- Amenity diversity71th
- Natural comfort52th
- Enclosure81th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Chandos Park NorthUrban Plaza44
- Mckenzie ParketteUrban Plaza43
- Scarborough Hydro Green SpaceRavine / Naturalized Park34
- Graydon Hall ParkOther42
- Oates ParkWaterfront Park43
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Arnell PlazaCivic Square50
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Marita Paine ParkOther47
- Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25
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?
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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: Parks (Green Space)Polygon boundaries, official names, types. 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.