Keele - Mulock Parkette
Parkette, in the top tier overall (score 49, rank ~92th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: natural comfort.
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Keele - Mulock Parkette scores 48.6 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: edge activation (26.7). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (30). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.14 ha
What's here
Getting around
141 m of mapped path. Too little surface tagging to say how much is paved.
No steps mapped on the path network.
Typically 9 m to the nearest bench, and 21 m at the far end.
Nearest parking 79 m away. None of the 6 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 66%
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 49 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
Keele - Mulock Parkette works because its connectivity score (72) is in the top tier and its amenity diversity (35) is also top quartile (12 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 13 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).
What limits this park
Keele - Mulock Parkette's edges are fronted by border-vacuum land uses (highways, rail, parking, blank institutional), risk score 30.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high connectivity (72, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Keele - Mulock Parkette 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 49 versus an expected 32 for similar parks (pocket Parkette) (gap +17).
Typology classification
Classified as Parkette: small (1431 m²) with strong building frontage (14.2 per 100 m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 12 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, retail) and 5 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, highway). 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 6 mapped paths/walkways and 11 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 13 street intersections within 100 m; 5 streetcar or LRT stops, 7 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 6 estimated access points across ~212 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
4 distinct amenity types in the park (basketball, playground, bench, garden). 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: ~14.7% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~681 m; 21 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (21.0/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. All data sources.
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
30 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (0 mid-rise, 30 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.1 m (~2 floors); 14.2 buildings per 100 m of 212 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 0 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: Keele 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 (4 types · 11 records)
- basketball
- playground
- bench
- garden
Nearby active-edge features (50)
- retail: New Era Flooring3 m
- restaurant: Swiss Chalet33 m
- restaurant: Harvey's35 m
- highway: Keele Street36 m
- retail: City South Fine Cars Inc.41 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Avenue West54 m
- highway: Keele Street61 m
- highway: Keele Street75 m
- parking lot79 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Avenue West81 m
- retail: BathDepot81 m
- retail: Assured Collision Centre82 m
- retail: PC Shop Computers84 m
- parking lot86 m
- retail: Sherwin-Williams88 m
- retail: Road Auto & Tire Center Inc.91 m
- retail: Mark's97 m
- restaurant: Junction Food Co.109 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision113 m
- transit stop: Keele Street114 m
- transit stop: Keele Street122 m
- highway: Weston Road124 m
- retail: Healthy Planet132 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision132 m
- transit stop: Weston Rd at St. Clair Ave W135 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision139 m
- retail: Freedom Mobile141 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision142 m
- retail: Subtext Coffee Roasters143 m
- parking lot143 m
- parking lot149 m
- parking lot149 m
- transit stop: Keele St at West Toronto St151 m
- retail: Fairstone Financial156 m
- retail: Esso160 m
- retail: Sleep Country164 m
- transit stop: West Toronto St at Keele St164 m
- retail: Michaels167 m
- highway: Weston Road167 m
- transit stop: West Toronto St at Keele St175 m
- rail: MacTier Subdivision180 m
- retail: Fire & Flower Cannabis180 m
- transit stop: Keele St at West Toronto St180 m
- retail: Old Navy181 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision184 m
- restaurant: Chipotle186 m
- parking lot188 m
- retail: Banana Republic189 m
- retail: Rogers/Fido191 m
- cafe: Tim Hortons198 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality92th
- Edge activation85th
- Connectivity94th
- Amenity diversity87th
- Natural comfort53th
- Enclosure56th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Four Oaks Gate ParkParkette50
- Sweeney ParkAthletic / Recreation Park48
- Eringate ParkNeighbourhood Park52
- Islington ParkNeighbourhood Park48
- Indian Line ParkRavine / Naturalized Park50
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 Park26
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park21
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.
p48 citywide · p50 within Parkette
Source: Google Places API · match unverified (0.00 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 Keele - Mulock Parkette 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.
- 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.