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Ravine / Naturalized ParkType:Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Park (enclosure-leaning)Old East York

Coxwell-O'Connor Boulevard

Ravine / Naturalized Park, in the top tier overall (score 50, rank ~94th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: amenity diversity.

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Coxwell-O'Connor Boulevard scores 50.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and edge activation. 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.

Best forescape into nature

Area · 0.01 ha

Getting around

Paths

No walking paths mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Seating

No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Arrival

Nearest parking 62 m away. None of the 4 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.

Vitality Score
50/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 57%

Data Confidence
50.3 / 100

Data confidence: moderate

Citywide
94th
of all 3,752 parks
Among Ravine / Naturalized Park
96th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
33
median in pocket Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine (n=255)
Performance gap
+18
raw − expected · context confidence high
strong overperformer

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 50 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
Amenity Diversity0 · p18
-10.0
Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)
+5.0
Edge Activation69 · p99
+4.7
Natural Comfort34 · p20
-2.4
Enclosure / Eyes on Park72 · p75
+2.2
Connectivity54 · p66
+0.7

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

Coxwell-O'Connor Boulevard works because its edge activation score (69) is one of the city's strongest and its enclosure (72) is also above-average (its perimeter is lined with active uses).

What limits this park

Coxwell-O'Connor Boulevard is held back by amenity diversity (0, bottom quartile).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high edge activation (69, top decile).

Jacobs reading

Coxwell-O'Connor Boulevard sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Performance in context

  • This park is a strong overperformer for its cohort: raw 50 versus an expected 33 for similar parks (pocket Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine) (gap +18).

Typology classification

confidence 75%
Ravine / Naturalized Parkalso reads as Urban Plaza

Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 100% ravine overlap, 0% canopy. Secondary read: Urban Plaza (131 m², paved (0% canopy), 43.0 buildings/100 m).

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
68.9 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 20 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant, cafe) and 1 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

20% weightmeasured 85%
53.7 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 13 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 14 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~51 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy, no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m4
Intersections within 100 m7
Paths/walkways (50 m)0
Sidewalk segments (50 m)13
Transit stops (400 m)14
Estimated entrances0
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter4.00
Park perimeter51 m

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

Amenity Diversity

20% weightinferred 30%
0.0 / 100

No amenities recorded. Score is 0 until inventory is loaded.

Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags

Natural Comfort

15% weightinferred 36%
34.3 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; 100.0% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~411 m. Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: ravine, waterbodies. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage0.0%
Canopy area0.00 ha
Inside ravine system100.0%
Water surface inside park0.0%
Nearest water (if outside park)411 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon0
Tree density0.0 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)0.0
Sample points used3

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
72.0 / 100

43 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (1 mid-rise, 42 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.1 m (~2 floors); 43.0 buildings per 100 m of 51 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 1 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m43
Buildings within 50 m43
Avg edge height5.1 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building9.1 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)1
Low-rise (< 3 floors)42
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density43.00 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge2%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter51 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
0.0 risk

Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.

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 (0)

No amenities recorded for this park.

Nearby active-edge features (33)

  • transit stop: Coxwell Avenue19 m
  • transit stop: Coxwell Avenue23 m
  • transit stop: O'Connor Drive31 m
  • retail: Shell38 m
  • retail: Esso48 m
  • restaurant: Mr. Sub55 m
  • transit stop: O'Connor Drive56 m
  • retail: Circle K58 m
  • cafe: Tim Hortons59 m
  • retail: the neighbourhood joint61 m
  • parking lot62 m
  • restaurant: Butter Chicken Roti64 m
  • transit stop: O'Connor Drive67 m
  • retail: Royal Cuts Barbershop74 m
  • retail: Wayne's Supermarket75 m
  • cafe: Ballissimo Loukoumades Bar80 m
  • restaurant: Skara83 m
  • restaurant: Eden Chinese Food85 m
  • retail: Lucky Variety91 m
  • retail: pulp & paperie91 m
  • retail: mon K patisserie95 m
  • restaurant: Free Topping Pizza101 m
  • retail: Coxwell Milk Convenience106 m
  • restaurant: Sushi Bay117 m
  • parking lot121 m
  • parking lot126 m
  • parking lot127 m
  • retail: What's in Fashion142 m
  • retail: LCBO154 m
  • transit stop: Hutton Avenue167 m
  • transit stop: Ralston Avenue169 m
  • retail: Julie Nails180 m
  • restaurant: Little Coxwell Restaurant186 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureCoxwell-O'Connor Boulevard
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
    94th
  • Edge activation
    99th
  • Connectivity
    66th
  • Amenity diversity
    18th
  • Natural comfort
    20th
  • Enclosure
    75th

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 Coxwell-O'Connor Boulevard matters. 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.

  • 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

real Toronto data
  • City of Toronto Open Data: Green Spaces
    Polygon boundaries, official names, land classes. 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.