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Neighbourhood Parkcluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (large-scale)Islington-City Centre West (14)confidence moderate

Cloverdale Park

Neighbourhood Park, above average overall (score 40, rank ~71th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: edge activation.

Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026

Cloverdale Park scores 39.7 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (84). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.

Best fordaily urban lifefamilies

Area · 1.76 ha

What's here

Recreation
PlaygroundSports fieldTennisFitness
Facilities
Drinking waterPicnic areaBenches
Vitality Score
40/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence
39.7 / 100
Citywide
71st
of all 3,788 parks
Among Neighbourhood Park
52nd
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
39
median in medium Neighbourhood Park (n=393)
Performance gap
+0
raw − expected · context confidence high
typical

Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.

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Street context. Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map.

Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Explain this score

Where did the 40 come from? Each weighted contribution against a neutral 50 baseline. Green = pushed up; red = pulled down.

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What pushed this score up or down vs a neutral 50weight × score
Edge Activation0 · p20
-12.5
Border Vacuum Risk84 (risk)
-3.4
Natural Comfort68 · p84
+2.7
Connectivity60 · p76
+2.0
Enclosure / Eyes on Park67 · p66
+1.7
Amenity Diversity46 · p95
-0.8

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

Cloverdale Park works because its amenity diversity score (46) is one of the city's strongest and its natural comfort (68) is also top quartile (7 distinct amenity types support different kinds of use).

What limits this park

Cloverdale Park is held back by edge activation (0, bottom quartile): the surrounding streets carry too few active uses to spill into the park; border-vacuum risk is also elevated (84).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high amenity diversity (46, top decile).

Jacobs reading

Cloverdale 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 (67) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.

Typology classification

confidence 70%
Neighbourhood Park

Classified as Neighbourhood Park: 1.8 ha, framed by 4 mid-rise vs 0 towers

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 7 active uses (transit_stop, cafe, retail, restaurant) and 12 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

20% weightmeasured 85%
59.9 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 8 mapped paths/walkways and 10 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 4 street intersections within 100 m; 29 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 2 estimated access points across ~588 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy, no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m6
Intersections within 100 m4
Paths/walkways (50 m)8
Sidewalk segments (50 m)10
Transit stops (400 m)29
Estimated entrances2
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter1.02
Park perimeter588 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%
46.1 / 100

7 distinct amenity types in the park (fitness, playground, tennis, bench, drinking_water, picnic, …). 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

15% weightmeasured 75%
68.3 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: ~49.4% effective canopy (10.6% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~1403 m; 124 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (70.5/ha). Reading: partially shaded. Source coverage: treed_area, waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage10.6%
Canopy area0.19 ha
Inside ravine system0.0%
Water surface inside park0.0%
Nearest water (if outside park)1,403 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon124
Tree density70.5 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)48.7
Sample points used123

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
67.0 / 100

69 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (4 mid-rise, 65 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.3 m (~2 floors); 11.7 buildings per 100 m of 588 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 4 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m69
Buildings within 50 m69
Avg edge height5.3 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building13.9 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)4
Low-rise (< 3 floors)65
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density11.73 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge6%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter588 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
84.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, parking_lot, parking_lot, Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation parking, parking_lot, 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

contextinferred 15%
50.0 / 100

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 (7 types · 27 records)

  • fitness
  • playground
  • tennis
  • bench
  • drinking water
  • picnic
  • sports field

Nearby active-edge features (63)

  • parking lot: Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation parking0 m
  • parking lot10 m
  • parking lot13 m
  • parking lot35 m
  • parking lot41 m
  • parking lot44 m
  • parking lot45 m
  • retail: Wild Birds Unlimited54 m
  • restaurant: Mekong River58 m
  • parking lot60 m
  • parking lot63 m
  • retail: Circle K67 m
  • cafe: Tim Hortons72 m
  • parking lot76 m
  • highway: Dundas Street West79 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street At Shaver Avenue86 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street at Shaver Avenue87 m
  • retail: Emmetts Toy Stop & Hobby Shop95 m
  • highway: Dundas Street West100 m
  • retail: Comfort Zone101 m
  • retail: Central Stamp & Coin107 m
  • highway: Dundas Street West108 m
  • highway: Dundas Street West108 m
  • transit stop108 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street At Wilmar Road110 m
  • retail: Advacare113 m
  • cafe: Gong Cha114 m
  • highway: Dundas Street West115 m
  • parking lot116 m
  • parking lot117 m
  • retail: Discounted Cannabis117 m
  • restaurant: Shawarma Royale120 m
  • parking lot122 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street at Shorncliffe Road122 m
  • retail: WJT Massage123 m
  • retail: Vape 100123 m
  • restaurant: Pizzaville123 m
  • restaurant: Lonzo’s126 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street At Shorncliffe Road127 m
  • retail127 m
  • restaurant: Swiss Chalet131 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street West132 m
  • retail: Money Mart133 m
  • retail: Diamonds Beauty Club135 m
  • restaurant: Blooming Batter136 m
  • retail137 m
  • highway: Dundas Street West138 m
  • restaurant: Armenian Bistro139 m
  • parking lot144 m
  • transit stop: Shorncliffe Rd at Dundas St W153 m
  • parking lot153 m
  • parking lot154 m
  • highway: Dundas Street West157 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street at Wilmar Road164 m
  • parking lot165 m
  • parking lot165 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street At Wilmar Road168 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street at Wilmar Road173 m
  • parking lot174 m
  • transit stop: Dundas Street at Wilmar Road175 m
  • parking lot194 m
  • parking lot194 m
  • parking lot200 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureCloverdale Park
Edge activation, connectivity, amenity diversity, natural comfort, and enclosure, each 0 to 100.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

  • Overall vitality
    71th
  • Edge activation
    20th
  • Connectivity
    76th
  • Amenity diversity
    95th
  • Natural comfort
    84th
  • Enclosure
    66th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Most opposite parks

Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.

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 Cloverdale Parkmatters. 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.

Rate this park on as many dimensions as you have an opinion about. 1 = not at all, 5 = strongly. Skip the ones you don't feel sure about. Aggregated only, no comments stored at the row level.

feels socially active
feels comfortable
feels safe
feels connected
feels welcoming
feels ecological / natural
feels good for lingering
feels family-friendly
feels culturally important
70%

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

real Toronto data
  • 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 Facilities
    Inventory of in-park amenities (washrooms, fields, rinks…).
  • Toronto Pedestrian Network
    Sidewalk segments around and through parks; estimated park entrances.
  • Toronto Centreline V2
    Street segments + intersection nodes near park edges; trails and walkways.
  • Toronto 3D Massing
    Building footprints + heights for edge-building counts, frontage density, and tower-in-the-park risk.
  • Toronto Treed Area
    Tree canopy share inside park polygons via stratified-grid sampling.
  • Toronto Waterbodies & Rivers
    Water surface inside parks + nearest-water distance for cooling.
  • Ravine & Natural Feature Protection
    Ravine overlap as a cooling / natural-comfort signal.
  • Toronto Street Tree Inventory
    Tree count + density inside park polygons.
  • Neighbourhood Profiles
    (Pending) Equity context proxy.
  • OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
    Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.