ROSEDALE YARD - Building Grounds
Ravine / Naturalized Park, middle of the pack overall (score 39, rank ~68th percentile). Strongest: natural comfort; weakest: connectivity.
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ROSEDALE YARD - Building Grounds scores 39.2 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.21 ha
Getting around
No walking paths mapped in OpenStreetMap.
No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Nearest parking 21 m away. None of the 5 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 61%
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.Grounds of a City building, not a designated park. It is left out of park rankings.
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
ROSEDALE YARD - Building Grounds works because its natural comfort score (88) is one of the city's strongest and its enclosure (88) is also top decile (87% tree canopy provides real shade; it sits inside the ravine system).
What limits this park
ROSEDALE YARD - Building Grounds doesn't have a clear weakness. Every measured dimension is at or above the middle of the pack.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high natural comfort (88, top decile).
Jacobs reading
ROSEDALE YARD - Building Grounds sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- Natural comfort (88) significantly outpaces connectivity (42): restorative but hard to reach for daily use.
- The park is enclosed by buildings (88) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its ravine / naturalized park typology (+7 vs the median in pocket Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine).
Typology classification
Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 100% ravine overlap, 87% canopy
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 0 active uses (none) and 4 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
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 2 mapped paths/walkways and 5 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 3 street intersections within 100 m; 1 subway or GO station, 9 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~229 m of perimeter. low edge density, significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.
Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops. All data sources.
Amenity Diversity
No amenities recorded.
Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags. All data sources.
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: 86.7% estimated tree canopy; 100.0% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~788 m. Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, waterbodies. 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
19 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (11 mid-rise, 8 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 13.0 m (~4 floors); 8.3 buildings per 100 m of 229 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3 to 7 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 11 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: 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
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 (0)
No amenities recorded for this park.
Nearby active-edge features (48)
- parking lot21 m
- parking lot79 m
- parking lot79 m
- parking lot79 m
- retail: Canadian Tire Auto Service106 m
- restaurant: Happy Burger113 m
- rail: Line 1 Yonge-University118 m
- rail: Line 1 Yonge-University120 m
- retail125 m
- restaurant: Robot Boil House126 m
- restaurant: uTea126 m
- restaurant: Monkey Sushi126 m
- retail: JDED Barber Shop127 m
- retail: Gentle Beau Cleaners127 m
- retail: Way Young Tech Aesthetics127 m
- retail: Civello129 m
- retail: Tire Biter130 m
- transit stop: Rosedale131 m
- restaurant: WeYonge132 m
- retail: Silver4U134 m
- cafe: Spark Shop & Coffee134 m
- retail: Rosedale Computers134 m
- restaurant: El Tenedor Restaurant Bar136 m
- retail: Pearl Alteration137 m
- cafe: Spring Cafe Bistro137 m
- retail: Christian Science Reading Room139 m
- highway: Yonge Street144 m
- transit stop144 m
- transit stop: Aylmer Avenue147 m
- transit stop: Frichot Avenue156 m
- parking lot160 m
- restaurant: Subway162 m
- highway: Yonge Street162 m
- retail: Expedia Cruises163 m
- restaurant: Tao Tea Leaf163 m
- retail: INS Market164 m
- retail: Farideh Spa165 m
- restaurant: Rollstar Sushi165 m
- retail: In Style Home & Rugs165 m
- retail: European Flooring166 m
- cafe: Coffee Lunar171 m
- highway: Yonge Street177 m
- school: The Dalton School177 m
- transit stop: Belmont Street180 m
- restaurant: Crown & Dragon Restaurant189 m
- retail: Canadian Tire192 m
- retail: Party City196 m
- retail: Petit Pied Kids196 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality68th
- Edge activation62th
- Connectivity44th
- Amenity diversity51th
- Natural comfort97th
- Enclosure94th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceRavine / Naturalized Park37
- City Wide Open SpaceRavine / Naturalized Park40
- Cairns Avenue ParketteRavine / Naturalized Park41
- Nordheimer RavineRavine / Naturalized Park39
- City Wide Open SpaceRavine / Naturalized Park40
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette73
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park76
- Arnell PlazaCivic Square50
- Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square73
- Marita Paine ParkOther47
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.
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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.
- 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: 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.