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Urban PlazaType:Underperforming / Leftover Space (enclosure-leaning)Eglinton East

6 Horton Boulevard Park

Urban Plaza, middle of the pack overall (score 37, rank ~59th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: natural comfort.

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6 Horton Boulevard Park scores 36.9 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and amenity diversity. 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 fordaily passing-throughpocket meetings

Area · 0.13 ha

What's here

Recreation
PlaygroundGarden
Facilities
Drinking waterPicnic areaBenches

Getting around

Paths

71 m of mapped path. Too little surface tagging to say how much is paved.

Too little path mapped to check for steps.

Seating

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

Arrival

Nearest parking 57 m away. None of the 8 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.

Vitality Score
37/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 65%

Data Confidence
36.9 / 100

Data confidence: moderate

Citywide
59th
of all 3,752 parks
Among Urban Plaza
40th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
38
median in pocket Urban Plaza (n=352)
Performance gap
-1
raw − expected · context confidence high
typical

Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.

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Street context. Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map.

Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Explain this score

Where did the 37 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 · p30
-12.5
Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)
+5.0
Natural Comfort25 · p9
-3.7
Enclosure / Eyes on Park78 · p82
+2.8
Connectivity38 · p38
-2.4
Amenity Diversity39 · p91
-2.3

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

6 Horton Boulevard Park works because its amenity diversity score (39) is in the top tier and its enclosure (78) is also top quartile.

What limits this park

6 Horton Boulevard Park is held back by natural comfort (25, bottom quartile): only 0% canopy means little summer shade.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high amenity diversity (39, top decile).

Jacobs reading

6 Horton Boulevard Park is currently underperforming on both axes: neither integrated into the city nor offering deep natural respite. A candidate for design intervention.

Tradeoffs

  • The park is enclosed by buildings (78) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.

Typology classification

confidence 70%
Urban Plaza

Classified as Urban Plaza: 1254 m², paved (0% canopy), 18.3 buildings/100 m

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 6 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant) and 8 dead/hostile uses (highway, 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

20% weightmeasured 85%
37.8 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 4 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 2 street intersections within 100 m; 23 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~164 m of perimeter. moderate edge density, small superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m1
Intersections within 100 m2
Paths/walkways (50 m)0
Sidewalk segments (50 m)4
Transit stops (400 m)23
Estimated entrances0
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.61
Park perimeter164 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%
38.6 / 100

5 distinct amenity types in the park (bench, drinking_water, garden, picnic, playground). 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

15% weightinferred 24%
25.2 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~422 m. Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage0.0%
Canopy area0.00 ha
Inside ravine system0.0%
Water surface inside park0.0%
Nearest water (if outside park)422 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon0
Tree density0.0 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)0.0
Sample points used12

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
78.3 / 100

30 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (5 mid-rise, 25 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.4 m (~2 floors); 18.3 buildings per 100 m of 164 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 5 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m30
Buildings within 50 m30
Avg edge height6.4 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building14.5 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)5
Low-rise (< 3 floors)25
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density18.33 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge17%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter164 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
0.0 risk

Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.

Source: Toronto Street Centreline (highways) + rail layer + OSM landuse + building footprints

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: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles

Amenities (5 types · 7 records)

  • bench
  • drinking water
  • garden
  • picnic
  • playground

Nearby active-edge features (47)

  • transit stop: Horton Boulevard47 m
  • parking lot57 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue East58 m
  • parking lot64 m
  • retail: Mendoza's Bakery69 m
  • transit stop: Danforth Road72 m
  • restaurant: Ghareeb Nawaz Restaurant73 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East74 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East87 m
  • transit stop89 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East94 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East95 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East96 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East97 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Rd at Danforth Rd101 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue East103 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Rd at Danforth Rd106 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East115 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East125 m
  • transit stop125 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue East126 m
  • parking lot127 m
  • transit stop: Danforth Road128 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East130 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East130 m
  • parking lot132 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Road133 m
  • restaurant: Nakamori Japanese Restaurant135 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Road138 m
  • restaurant: Wing Machine140 m
  • retail145 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East149 m
  • parking lot150 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Road150 m
  • parking lot151 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East160 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Road160 m
  • retail160 m
  • retail165 m
  • restaurant: TOR Carribean Restaurant170 m
  • parking lot181 m
  • parking lot187 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East187 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Rd at Eglinton Avenue E190 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Rd at Eglinton Avenue E192 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue East193 m
  • transit stop: Brimley Road West Side Stop196 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosure6 Horton Boulevard 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
    59th
  • Edge activation
    30th
  • Connectivity
    38th
  • Amenity diversity
    91th
  • Natural comfort
    9th
  • Enclosure
    82th

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 6 Horton Boulevard 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.
  • 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.
  • Increase canopy and reduce paved area. Shade and water features extend usable hours and seasons.

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.
  • Neighbourhood Profiles
    (Pending) Equity context proxy.
  • OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
    Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.