Jaye Robinson Park
Ravine / Naturalized Park, middle of the pack overall (score 39, rank ~67th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: edge activation.
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Data updated
Jaye Robinson Park scores 38.8 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 2.49 ha
What's here
Getting around
116 m of mapped path. Too little surface tagging to say how much is paved.
1 flight of steps on the mapped network.
Typically 11 m to the nearest bench, and 24 m at the far end.
Nearest parking 9 m away. None of the 2 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.Explain this score
Where did the 39 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
Jaye Robinson Park works because its enclosure score (88) is in the top tier and its connectivity (70) is also top decile (35 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).
What limits this park
Jaye Robinson Park is held back by edge activation (0, below-average): the surrounding streets carry too few active uses to spill into the park; border-vacuum risk is also elevated (100).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (88, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Jaye Robinson 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 (88) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.
- High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (100): much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.
Typology classification
Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 97% ravine overlap, 8% canopy. Secondary read: Neighbourhood Park (2.5 ha, framed by 35 mid-rise vs 1 towers).
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 17 active uses (retail, transit_stop) and 12 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, highway, rail). 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 2 mapped paths/walkways and 39 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 17 street intersections within 100 m; 1 subway or GO station, 15 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 1 estimated access points across ~995 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. All data sources.
Amenity Diversity
5 distinct amenity types in the park (fitness, playground, bench, drinking_water, picnic). 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: 8.0% estimated tree canopy; 97.1% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~438 m; 20 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (8.0/ha). Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, 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
106 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (35 mid-rise, 70 low-rise, 1 tower); avg edge height 10.0 m (~3 floors); 10.6 buildings per 100 m of 995 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3 to 7 floors); 1 tower ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 35 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: Yonge Street, parking_lot, Yonge Street, Yonge Street, rail, rail, Yonge Street, Yonge Street. 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 (5 types · 22 records)
- fitness
- playground
- bench
- drinking water
- picnic
Nearby active-edge features (45)
- parking lot9 m
- rail11 m
- rail11 m
- highway: Yonge Street13 m
- highway: Yonge Street13 m
- highway: Yonge Street13 m
- transit stop: Chatsworth Drive23 m
- transit stop: East side stop Yonge Street26 m
- retail: Munk Hearing Centre30 m
- retail: Food Plus Market30 m
- highway: Yonge Street36 m
- highway: Yonge Street37 m
- transit stop: East side stop Yonge Street42 m
- transit stop: Yonge St at St Edmund's Dr44 m
- transit stop: Lawrence Station51 m
- retail53 m
- transit stop: Lawrence Station58 m
- highway: Yonge Street58 m
- transit stop: Yonge St at Lawrence Ave W59 m
- transit stop: West side stop Yonge Street60 m
- transit stop: Lawrence Station64 m
- highway: Yonge Street66 m
- transit stop: Lawrence Station69 m
- transit stop: Lawrence Station70 m
- transit stop: Yonge St at Lawrence Ave E72 m
- highway: Yonge Street76 m
- retail: Dollarama89 m
- retail: Loblaws CityMarket94 m
- parking lot96 m
- highway: Yonge Street100 m
- cafe: Tim Hortons101 m
- restaurant: Freshii103 m
- retail: Zoom Optical106 m
- retail: Buzzed Buds110 m
- retail: Parkers Cleaners112 m
- retail: Dollarama124 m
- transit stop: Lorindale Avenue130 m
- highway: Yonge Street132 m
- transit stop: Lorindale Avenue141 m
- transit stop: Weybourne Crescent151 m
- transit stop: Lawrence156 m
- transit stop: Lawrence160 m
- transit stop: Cardinal Place185 m
- retail: Pedimani Nail Spa188 m
- highway: Yonge Street190 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality67th
- Edge activation30th
- Connectivity91th
- Amenity diversity89th
- Natural comfort72th
- Enclosure94th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Davenport Village ParkParkette45
- Frankel - Lambert ParkCorridor / Linear Park37
- Sergeant Ryan Russell ParketteUrban Plaza45
- Michael Power ParkParkette43
- York Mills Valley ParkRavine / Naturalized Park37
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Arnell PlazaCivic Square50
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park21
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Trca Lands ( 58)Ravine / Naturalized Park18
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.
- 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
- 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.