Breakey Parkette
Other, middle of the pack overall (score 32, rank ~39th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: connectivity.
Breakey Parkette scores 31.9 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: amenity diversity (11.9). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.18 ha
What's here
Getting around
59 m of mapped path. Too little surface tagging to say how much is paved.
Too little path mapped to check for steps.
Not enough mapped seating to assess (2 benches mapped).
Nearest parking 79 m away. None of the 3 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 49%
Data confidence: low
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 32 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
Breakey Parkette works because its edge activation score (17) is above average and its amenity diversity (12) is also above-average.
What limits this park
Breakey Parkette is held back by connectivity (14, bottom quartile).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low connectivity (14, bottom quartile).
Jacobs reading
Breakey Parkette sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- Natural comfort (50) significantly outpaces connectivity (14): restorative but hard to reach for daily use.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its other typology (+7 vs the median in pocket Other).
- Although its citywide rank is low (39th), it ranks highly among similar others (73rd): strong for what it is, even if the absolute score is moderate.
Typology classification
Classified as Other: does not meet any specific typology threshold (0.2 ha, 1 amenity types, frontage 0.0/100m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 2 active uses (transit_stop) 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
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 0 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 0 street intersections within 100 m; 11 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~206 m of perimeter. low edge density, significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: transit_osm.
Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops
Amenity Diversity
1 distinct amenity types in the park (bench). 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 requires inputs not yet loaded for this park (Treed Area / Ravine / Waterbodies / Street Trees). Score is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence. Read with caution.
Source: Treed Area / Ravine / Waterbodies / Street Trees
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
No buildings within 50 m of this park edge, typical of ravines, watercourses, and hydro corridors. Enclosure is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence; for natural areas, this metric is essentially not applicable.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (no nearby buildings detected)
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 (1 types · 2 records)
- bench
Nearby active-edge features (8)
- transit stop: Clark Avenue / Hilda Avenue1 m
- transit stop: Clark Avenue / Hilda Avenue33 m
- parking lot79 m
- cafe: Sips Coffee House113 m
- retail: Sobeys127 m
- retail: Martinizing Dry Cleaning146 m
- parking lot170 m
- parking lot189 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality39th
- Edge activation76th
- Connectivity9th
- Amenity diversity64th
- Natural comfort61th
- Enclosure19th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Bloor Athletic FieldOther31
- Cooksville ParkOther32
- Nort Johnston District ParkOther32
- Shadybrook Tot LotOther32
- Oakbank ParkOther32
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette73
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park75
- Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square73
- High ParkWaterfront Park51
- ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green SpaceUrban Plaza59
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 Breakey 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.
- Add or open more entrances and improve sidewalk continuity around the park. More permeability means more spontaneous use.
- Diversify what people can do in the park (playground, washroom, water, shade, performance, sport, garden): even small additions raise this score.
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.