Felstead Avenue Playground
Neighbourhood Park, in the top tier overall (score 50, rank ~94th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: natural comfort.
Photo by Glen Farrelly via Google Places · cached 5/9/2026
Felstead Avenue Playground scores 50.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: edge activation (14.3). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 1.72 ha
What's here
Getting around
336 m of mapped path, 73% paved.
No steps mapped on the path network.
Not enough mapped seating to assess (3 benches mapped).
Nearest parking 103 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.
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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Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Explain this score
Where did the 50 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
Felstead Avenue Playground works because its amenity diversity score (39) is in the top tier and its connectivity (70) is also top decile.
What limits this park
Felstead Avenue Playground 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 (39, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Felstead Avenue Playground 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 (84) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 14): frame without animation.
- Strong physical conditions (score 50) but weak observed activity signals (9). The model says this should work, but events, mentions, and counters say it isn't being used at the level the urban form would predict.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its neighbourhood park typology (+11 vs the median in medium Neighbourhood Park).
Typology classification
Classified as Neighbourhood Park: 1.7 ha, framed by 26 mid-rise vs 0 towers
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 1 active uses (retail) and 0 dead/hostile uses (none). 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 11 mapped paths/walkways and 12 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 18 street intersections within 100 m; 18 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 4 estimated access points across ~615 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
5 distinct amenity types in the park (playground, washroom, bench, drinking_water, sports_field). 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: ~8.6% effective canopy (5.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~958 m; 21 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (12.2/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
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
141 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (26 mid-rise, 115 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 7.7 m (~3 floors); 22.9 buildings per 100 m of 615 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 26 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.
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 (5 types · 9 records)
- playground
- washroom
- bench
- drinking water
- sports field
Nearby active-edge features (54)
- retail: family mini mart47 m
- parking lot103 m
- transit stop: Mountnoel Avenue109 m
- transit stop: Felstead Avenue113 m
- parking lot120 m
- transit stop: Mountnoel Avenue125 m
- transit stop: Felstead Avenue129 m
- retail: Urban Floor Scapes144 m
- school: Milton Prep Academy147 m
- parking lot149 m
- parking lot159 m
- cafe: Tim Hortons163 m
- restaurant: Fasika Restaurant & Bar163 m
- restaurant: Cosmic Pizza & Donair165 m
- retail: Circle K165 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue165 m
- transit stop: Linnsmore Crescent167 m
- retail: Fone Tech Solutions167 m
- retail: Tiger Studio & Fobs Toronto Variety169 m
- retail: Danforth Barber & Salon Ltd.171 m
- retail: Royal H. Convenience Store173 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue174 m
- retail: Pinpoint Auto Centre Ltd.180 m
- restaurant: Sala Thai Kitchen181 m
- restaurant: Blue Nile Ethiopian Cuisine181 m
- retail: Greenwood Market181 m
- retail: Alexander Custom Tailor182 m
- retail: Adulis Hair Salon183 m
- retail: Hooked183 m
- retail: 69 Vape Shop183 m
- restaurant: Mango Sushi Chinese Food183 m
- cafe: Ariam Cafe185 m
- restaurant: The Dylan Bar185 m
- restaurant: Dahlak Lounge185 m
- retail: Omdurman House Convenience Store185 m
- restaurant: Borrel186 m
- restaurant: Morgans on the Danforth186 m
- restaurant: Asmera Bar & Restaurant187 m
- retail: One Last Thing Cheese + Provisions187 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue187 m
- restaurant: Eastenders187 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue188 m
- restaurant: Vision Lounge189 m
- restaurant: Mocha Bar & Cuisine189 m
- transit stop: Linnsmore Crescent191 m
- restaurant: Linsmore Tavern192 m
- restaurant: Bella Sports Bar192 m
- transit stop: Danforth Avenue194 m
- highway: Danforth Avenue194 m
- rail194 m
- retail: Treasure Box Liquidation195 m
- retail: Nicholas Pearce Wines196 m
- restaurant: Lalibela Cuisine199 m
- retail: Ace Variety200 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality94th
- Edge activation73th
- Connectivity91th
- Amenity diversity91th
- Natural comfort47th
- Enclosure90th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Blantyre ParkNeighbourhood Park44
- Leonard Linton ParkAthletic / Recreation Park49
- St. Andrew'S PlaygroundParkette51
- Barbara Hall ParkParkette50
- Osler PlaygroundParkette53
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- 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.
p62 citywide · p60 within Neighbourhood Park
Source: Google Places API · match high (0.95 composite confidence) · last refreshed 5/9/2026. Privacy contract. Measures public attention, not occupancy.
Human activity signals
Programming, social attention, temporal rhythm, and nearby pedestrian / cycling flow. An experimental aggregate layer that complements the spatial scores. Partial coverage, partial confidence.
Activity reading: no inputs available. The strongest signal is public attention / mentions. Source coverage: google-places.
Does this score feel accurate?
Your read of Felstead Avenue Playground 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.
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.