Six Points Park
Tower-Community Green Space, middle of the pack overall (score 30, rank ~32th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: enclosure.
Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Six Points Park scores 30.4 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and natural comfort. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.42 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 66%
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 30 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
Six Points Park works because its amenity diversity score (33) is in the top tier and its connectivity (65) is also top quartile.
What limits this park
Six Points Park is held back by enclosure (29, bottom quartile): no mid-rise frontage to provide eyes on the park; border-vacuum risk is also elevated (100).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low enclosure (29, bottom quartile).
Jacobs reading
Six Points Park is currently underperforming on both axes: neither integrated into the city nor offering deep natural respite. A candidate for design intervention.
Tradeoffs
- High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (100): much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.
Typology classification
Classified as Tower-Community Green Space: 3 towers vs 0 mid-rise within 25 m on a 0.4 ha park
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 10 active uses (cafe, transit_stop, restaurant, retail) and 17 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: OSM POIs (amenity/shop) + Toronto Building Footprints + land use
Connectivity
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 7 mapped paths/walkways and 6 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 6 street intersections within 100 m; 39 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 4 estimated access points across ~270 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
Amenity Diversity
4 distinct amenity types in the park (playground, bench, drinking_water, splash_pad). 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 components for this park: ~19.6% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~560 m; 28 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (28.0/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
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
5 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (0 mid-rise, 2 low-rise, 3 tower); avg edge height 39.9 m (~13 floors); 1.9 buildings per 100 m of 270 m perimeter (moderate frontage density); edges lean tall but still framed; 3 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 0 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, parking_lot, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West. 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: 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 (4 types · 6 records)
- playground
- bench
- drinking water
- splash pad
Nearby active-edge features (73)
- highway: Dundas Street West14 m
- highway: Dundas Street West15 m
- highway: Dundas Street West22 m
- highway: Dundas Street West35 m
- highway: Dundas Street West35 m
- highway: Dundas Street West36 m
- parking lot41 m
- parking lot41 m
- transit stop: Dundas St W at Kipling Ave44 m
- parking lot50 m
- parking lot54 m
- transit stop: St Albans Road62 m
- transit stop: St Albans Road64 m
- parking lot67 m
- cafe: Starbucks68 m
- parking lot69 m
- restaurant: Donatelli’s Pizzeria70 m
- restaurant: Pho House73 m
- retail: Wine Rack75 m
- highway: Dundas Street West78 m
- retail: Wellwise80 m
- parking lot80 m
- parking lot82 m
- highway: Dundas Street West84 m
- highway: Dundas Street West89 m
- retail: Nu’s Hair Studio89 m
- retail: Elegant Nails & Spa92 m
- transit stop: West Service Road106 m
- parking lot111 m
- parking lot113 m
- transit stop113 m
- highway: Dundas Street West117 m
- transit stop: Dundas St W at Kipling Ave117 m
- transit stop: West Service Road119 m
- highway: Dundas Street West121 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station131 m
- transit stop133 m
- transit stop: St Albans / Kipling134 m
- parking lot136 m
- highway: Dundas Street West138 m
- parking lot: Kipling East Pick-Up & Drop-Off139 m
- transit stop: Aukland Road139 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station139 m
- highway: Dundas Street West140 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station145 m
- highway: Dundas Street West146 m
- retail: Farm Boy147 m
- rail: Line 2 Bloor-Danforth150 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station151 m
- cafe: imPerfect Fresh Café151 m
- rail: Line 2 Bloor-Danforth151 m
- transit stop155 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station159 m
- highway: Dundas Street West164 m
- retail: Half Price Store166 m
- parking lot167 m
- rail: Galt Subdivision169 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station173 m
- rail: Galt Subdivision175 m
- transit stop: Aukland Road North Of Dundas Street180 m
- parking lot181 m
- rail181 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station183 m
- transit stop: Auckland Road at Dundas Street183 m
- parking lot183 m
- retail: Gateway Market Shops184 m
- rail188 m
- highway: Dundas Street West189 m
- highway: Dundas Street West191 m
- highway: Dundas Street West192 m
- transit stop: Aukland Road194 m
- transit stop: Kipling Station195 m
- parking lot: TTC Parking - Kipling South Lot198 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality32th
- Edge activation35th
- Connectivity84th
- Amenity diversity86th
- Natural comfort68th
- Enclosure3th
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Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
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- TORONTO TRACK AND FIELD CENTRE - Building GroundsDestination Park33
- Marilyn Bell ParkCorridor / Linear Park35
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Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
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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 Six Points Parkmatters. 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.
- Encourage mid-rise, windowed frontages around the park so residents have direct sightlines onto it.
- 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: 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.