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Waterfront ParkType:Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Park (enclosure-leaning)Stonegate-Queensway

Jeff Healey Park

Waterfront Park, in the top tier overall (score 46, rank ~87th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: edge activation.

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Jeff Healey Park scores 45.8 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and connectivity. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.

Best forwaterfront recreationlong walks

Area · 5.60 ha

What's here

Recreation
PlaygroundSports fieldTennis
Facilities
Benches

Getting around

Paths

782 m of mapped path, 35% paved.

No steps mapped on the path network.

Seating

Not enough mapped seating to assess (3 benches mapped).

Arrival

Parking inside the park. 2 of 16 nearby lots reporting 2 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
46/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence
45.8 / 100

Data confidence: moderate

Citywide
87th
of all 3,753 parks
Among Waterfront Park
89th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
39
median in large Waterfront Park waterfront (n=62)
Performance gap
+7
raw − expected · context confidence high
modest 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 46 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 · p28
-12.5
Border Vacuum Risk12 (risk)
+3.8
Connectivity66 · p86
+3.2
Natural Comfort71 · p86
+3.2
Amenity Diversity35 · p88
-3.1
Enclosure / Eyes on Park63 · p53
+1.3

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

Jeff Healey Park works because its amenity diversity score (35) is in the top tier and its natural comfort (71) is also top quartile.

What limits this park

Jeff Healey Park is held back by edge activation (0, below-average): the surrounding streets carry too few active uses to spill into the park.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high amenity diversity (35, top quartile).

Jacobs reading

Jeff Healey 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 (63) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.

Performance in context

  • A modest overperformer for its waterfront park typology (+7 vs the median in large Waterfront Park waterfront).

Typology classification

confidence 85%
Waterfront Parkalso reads as Ravine / Naturalized Park

Classified as Waterfront Park: 11% water surface inside park. Secondary read: Ravine / Naturalized Park (100% ravine overlap, 26% canopy).

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 0 active uses (none) 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: OpenStreetMap: cafes, restaurants, shops, schools, community centres, transit, parking, highways, rail. All data sources.

Connectivity

20% weightmeasured 85%
66.2 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 6 mapped paths/walkways and 19 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 20 street intersections within 100 m; 9 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 7 estimated access points across ~1,805 m of perimeter. moderate edge density, small superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m13
Intersections within 100 m20
Paths/walkways (50 m)6
Sidewalk segments (50 m)19
Transit stops (400 m)9 (0 subway/GO, 0 streetcar/LRT, 9 bus)
Estimated entrances7
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.72
Park perimeter1,805 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops. All data sources.

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%
34.5 / 100

4 distinct amenity types in the park (playground, sports_field, tennis, bench). 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

15% weightmeasured 75%
71.0 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 25.8% estimated tree canopy; 100.0% inside the ravine system; 11.3% water surface; 44 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (7.8/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).

Canopy coverage25.8%
Canopy area1.45 ha
Inside ravine system100.0%
Water surface inside park11.3%
Nearest water (if outside park)0 m (inside)
Estimated green88.7%
City-mapped trees inside polygon44
Tree density7.8 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)68.3
Sample points used124

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory. All data sources.

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
62.6 / 100

172 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (6 mid-rise, 166 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 4.9 m (~2 floors); 9.5 buildings per 100 m of 1,805 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 6 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m172
Buildings within 50 m172
Avg edge height4.9 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building11.2 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)6
Low-rise (< 3 floors)166
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density9.53 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge4%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter1,805 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights). All data sources.

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
12.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: 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: OpenStreetMap: highways, rail, parking. All data sources.

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: Not loaded yet: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles. All data sources.

Amenities (4 types · 13 records)

  • playground
  • sports field
  • tennis
  • bench

Nearby active-edge features (31)

  • parking lot0 m
  • parking lot100 m
  • retail: CK & Friends102 m
  • retail: Jaymini Care107 m
  • parking lot112 m
  • retail: Elite Salon Agencies Ltd113 m
  • transit stop: Grand Avenue114 m
  • parking lot115 m
  • retail: BG Music Academy / Guitar Shop119 m
  • transit stop: Burma Drive122 m
  • retail: Soft Dove Cleaners124 m
  • parking lot124 m
  • parking lot125 m
  • parking lot127 m
  • transit stop: Lorne Avenue141 m
  • parking lot146 m
  • parking lot149 m
  • parking lot154 m
  • parking lot156 m
  • transit stop: Lorne Avenue161 m
  • transit stop: Park Lawn Rd at The Queensway164 m
  • parking lot173 m
  • parking lot173 m
  • restaurant: Mamma Martino's Pasta Pizzeria175 m
  • retail: Top Dogs177 m
  • transit stop: Park Lawn Rd at The Queensway179 m
  • parking lot181 m
  • transit stop: The Queensway at Park Lawn Road181 m
  • parking lot184 m
  • parking lot185 m
  • retail: Down 2 Earth Garden Centre199 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureJeff Healey 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
    87th
  • Edge activation
    28th
  • Connectivity
    86th
  • Amenity diversity
    88th
  • Natural comfort
    86th
  • Enclosure
    53th

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 Jeff Healey Park 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.

  • 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.

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.
  • OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
    Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.