Coleman Park
Urban Plaza, one of the city's strongest overall (score 53, rank ~96th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: natural comfort.
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Coleman Park scores 53.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: edge activation (32.2). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.50 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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Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Explain this score
Where did the 53 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
Coleman Park works because its amenity diversity score (49) is one of the city's strongest and its edge activation (32) is also top quartile (8 distinct amenity types support different kinds of use).
What limits this park
Coleman Park doesn't have a clear weakness. Every measured dimension is at or above the middle of the pack.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high amenity diversity (49, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Coleman Park sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its urban plaza typology (+12 vs the median in small Urban Plaza).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 4994 m², paved (0% canopy), 20.8 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 45 active uses (transit_stop, cafe, restaurant, retail) and 7 dead/hostile uses (rail, 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 5 mapped paths/walkways and 12 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 32 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 3 estimated access points across ~355 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
8 distinct amenity types in the park (playground, tennis, bench, drinking_water, garden, 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
Natural-comfort components for this park: ~7.7% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~888 m; 11 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (11.0/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
74 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (8 mid-rise, 65 low-rise, 1 tower); avg edge height 7.4 m (~2 floors); 20.8 buildings per 100 m of 355 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); 1 tower ≥ 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
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Line 2 Bloor-Danforth. 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 (8 types · 21 records)
- playground
- tennis
- bench
- drinking water
- garden
- picnic
- pool
- table tennis
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- rail: Line 2 Bloor-Danforth8 m
- transit stop: Main Street Station33 m
- transit stop: Main Street Station34 m
- retail: Koodo42 m
- retail: La Monica Fashion Boutique42 m
- retail: HearingLife43 m
- restaurant: Len Duckworth Fish&Chips43 m
- retail: Univercell43 m
- retail: Health Service Centre43 m
- restaurant: Al-Mani Grill & Biryani43 m
- retail: Saffron Halal Meat43 m
- retail: Shoe Avenue43 m
- retail: Shega Salon & Aesthetics43 m
- restaurant: Grillies44 m
- restaurant: Jem Bar44 m
- retail44 m
- retail: Telus45 m
- restaurant: Eva's Bar & Restaurant46 m
- retail: Belal Furniture & Mattress46 m
- retail: Benjamin Moore47 m
- retail48 m
- restaurant: Su-Good Chinese Restaurant48 m
- transit stop: Main Street Station49 m
- retail: Arya Bakery54 m
- transit stop54 m
- retail55 m
- retail: Growers Retail57 m
- retail58 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue59 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue60 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue64 m
- transit stop: Main Street Station64 m
- transit stop: Main Street65 m
- transit stop: Main Street65 m
- retail67 m
- transit stop: Main Street Station69 m
- transit stop71 m
- restaurant: KC Authentic Caribbean Cuisine71 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue73 m
- cafe: Great Fruit Bubble Tea81 m
- retail84 m
- retail: Shewa Grocery & Variety86 m
- retail88 m
- restaurant: Baital Muqadas Halal Pizza & Wings90 m
- restaurant: Subway90 m
- transit stop: Main Street Station91 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue92 m
- transit stop: Main Street Station92 m
- retail: Wine Rack93 m
- parking lot97 m
- cafe: Tim Hortons97 m
- transit stop: Main Street99 m
- retail: Danforth Furniture101 m
- retail: Value Buds102 m
- retail: Dignity Memorial Giffen-Mack Funeral Home105 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue108 m
- retail114 m
- retail: Pavillion Pastries Cafe117 m
- retail: Danforth Market128 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue128 m
- restaurant: Sultan Shawarma & Falafel128 m
- retail: SN Gold Jewelry Buyers-Cash For Gold130 m
- parking lot136 m
- restaurant: Bistro Camino139 m
- transit stop: Danforth Avenue139 m
- restaurant: Popeyes143 m
- transit stop: Danforth Avenue143 m
- retail145 m
- cafe: Rehoboth Cafe148 m
- retail: Main Square Smoke & Gift149 m
- retail: Kara Fresh Meat149 m
- retail150 m
- restaurant: Kera Restaurant153 m
- restaurant: Mr. Tasty's Restaurant156 m
- retail: Osmow's157 m
- transit stop: Dawes Road158 m
- transit stop: Danforth Avenue158 m
- retail: Fashion Bargin161 m
- retail163 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue165 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality96th
- Edge activation88th
- Connectivity85th
- Amenity diversity97th
- Natural comfort39th
- Enclosure84th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Jonathan Ashbridge ParkNeighbourhood Park57
- Stanley Park North - TorontoNeighbourhood Park56
- Ethennonnhawahstihnen' ParkNeighbourhood Park55
- Wanless ParkNeighbourhood Park55
- Regent Park Athletic GroundsNeighbourhood Park57
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
- Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
Visitor signals
Public attention measured by Google Places aggregates. This proxies attention, not occupancy. Aggregate-only: no usernames, no review text, no extra photos beyond the cached hero.
p73 citywide · p81 within Urban Plaza
Source: Google Places API · match high (1.00 composite confidence) · last refreshed 5/9/2026. Privacy contract. Measures public attention, not occupancy.
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 Coleman 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.
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.