CHESTER LE JUNIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Building Grounds
Neighbourhood Park, middle of the pack overall (score 32, rank ~41th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: natural comfort.
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CHESTER LE JUNIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Building Grounds scores 32.4 / 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 · 2.02 ha
What's here
Getting around
100 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.
Parking inside the park. None of the 9 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 72%
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.Grounds of a City building, not a designated park. It is left out of park rankings.
Explain this score
Where did the 32 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
CHESTER LE JUNIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Building Grounds works because its amenity diversity score (12) is middle of the pack and its connectivity (52) is also above-average.
What limits this park
CHESTER LE JUNIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Building Grounds is held back by natural comfort (34, bottom quartile): only 1% canopy means little summer shade.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low natural comfort (34, bottom quartile).
Jacobs reading
CHESTER LE JUNIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Building Grounds sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Performance in context
- Reads as a modest underperformer relative to comparable parks (gap -8; cohort: medium Neighbourhood Park).
- Citywide rank is high (40th) but typology rank is more modest (16th): the strength likely comes from the dataset average pulling lower than this typology’s baseline.
Typology classification
Classified as Neighbourhood Park: 2.0 ha, framed by 0 mid-rise vs 0 towers
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 0 active uses (none) and 4 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: OpenStreetMap: cafes, restaurants, shops, schools, community centres, transit, parking, highways, rail. All data sources.
Connectivity
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 20 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 4 street intersections within 100 m; 6 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~578 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. All data sources.
Amenity Diversity
1 distinct amenity types in the park (sports_field). Diversity 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. All data sources.
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.7% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~962 m; 4 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (2.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: treed_area, 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. All data sources.
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
33 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (0 mid-rise, 33 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.4 m (~2 floors); 5.7 buildings per 100 m of 578 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 0 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights). All data sources.
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: OpenStreetMap: highways, rail, parking. All data sources.
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: Not loaded yet: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles. All data sources.
Amenities (1 types · 2 records)
- sports field
Nearby active-edge features (14)
- parking lot0 m
- parking lot57 m
- parking lot65 m
- parking lot67 m
- transit stop: 3200 Phamarcy Avenue104 m
- parking lot123 m
- transit stop: Opposite 3200 Pharmacy Avenue124 m
- parking lot151 m
- parking lot152 m
- transit stop: Victoria Park Avenue at Morecambe Gate161 m
- parking lot167 m
- transit stop: Victoria Park Avenue at Pawnee Avenue178 m
- transit stop: Victoria Park Avenue at Pawnee Avenue179 m
- parking lot181 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality41th
- Edge activation62th
- Connectivity63th
- Amenity diversity64th
- Natural comfort20th
- Enclosure31th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Tom Riley ParkParkette34
- Peter Secor ParkNeighbourhood Park32
- Ionview ParkNeighbourhood Park35
- Scarlett Bridge ParketteWaterfront Park33
- St. Andrews Park - ScarboroughNeighbourhood Park32
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park76
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette73
- Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square73
- Shaw ParkParkette70
- Toronto ZooWaterfront Park68
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: 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.
- OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.