Etobicoke Hydro Green Space
Parkette, below average overall (score 28, rank ~21th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Etobicoke Hydro Green Space scores 27.7 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. 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 · 0.12 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 56%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 28 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
What limits this park
Most distinctive characteristic
Jacobs reading
Typology classification
Classified as Parkette: small (1228 m²) with strong building frontage (10.0 per 100 m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 15 active uses (cafe, restaurant, transit_stop, retail) and 12 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
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 8 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 2 street intersections within 100 m; 52 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~170 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
No amenities recorded — score is 0 until inventory is loaded.
Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~781 m. Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies. 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
17 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (0 mid-rise, 17 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 4.3 m (~1 floors); 10.0 buildings per 100 m of 170 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "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. Jacobs warned that highways, rail, parking lots and blank institutional edges act as "vacuums" — they 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 (0)
No amenities recorded for this park.
Nearby active-edge features (67)
- transit stop — Aukland Road South of Bloor Street16 m
- transit stop — Aukland Road North Of Dundas Street37 m
- transit stop — Aukland Road45 m
- parking lot47 m
- parking lot51 m
- transit stop53 m
- parking lot56 m
- highway — Dundas Street West57 m
- highway — Dundas Street West59 m
- highway — Dundas Street West63 m
- transit stop — Auckland Road at Dundas Street64 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons72 m
- highway — Dundas Street West72 m
- highway — Dundas Street West78 m
- restaurant — Wendy's81 m
- cafe — Starbucks81 m
- restaurant — Donatelli’s Pizzeria84 m
- restaurant — Pho House86 m
- highway — Dundas Street West86 m
- retail — Wine Rack87 m
- retail — Farm Boy89 m
- parking lot90 m
- retail — Wellwise90 m
- highway — Dundas Street West92 m
- retail — Nu’s Hair Studio92 m
- retail — Elegant Nails & Spa93 m
- parking lot95 m
- transit stop — Aukland Road102 m
- highway — Dundas Street West107 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street West Of Aukland Road111 m
- highway — Dundas Street West112 m
- parking lot125 m
- parking lot126 m
- highway — Dundas Street West129 m
- transit stop132 m
- parking lot135 m
- highway — Dundas Street West136 m
- cafe — imPerfect Fresh Café136 m
- parking lot138 m
- parking lot138 m
- highway — Dundas Street West138 m
- parking lot141 m
- highway — Dundas Street West147 m
- parking lot148 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street at Acorn Avenue148 m
- parking lot149 m
- transit stop — Auckland Road at Bloor Street155 m
- retail — Chatr158 m
- retail — First Choice Hair158 m
- retail — Pet Valu159 m
- highway — Dundas Street West161 m
- parking lot163 m
- highway — Dundas Street West167 m
- parking lot168 m
- parking lot171 m
- retail — Reid's Custom Upholstery175 m
- highway — Dundas Street West176 m
- parking lot176 m
- parking lot178 m
- parking lot178 m
- parking lot180 m
- parking lot180 m
- highway — Dundas Street West187 m
- highway — Dundas Street West188 m
- parking lot197 m
- parking lot198 m
- parking lot199 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality21th
- Edge activation25th
- Connectivity49th
- Amenity diversity35th
- Natural comfort4th
- Enclosure26th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceCorridor / Linear Park23
- Masseygrove ParkCorridor / Linear Park29
- Scarborough Hydro Green SpaceNeighbourhood Park29
- Etobicoke Hydro Green SpaceNeighbourhood Park29
- North York Hydro Green SpaceOther27
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park71
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
- Market Lane ParkUrban Plaza63
- Sir Winston Churchill ParkRavine / Naturalized Park69
- Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square66
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 Etobicoke Hydro Green Spacematters. 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.
- Increase canopy and reduce paved area. Shade and water features extend usable hours and seasons.
Data sources
- City of Toronto Open Data — Parks (Green Space)Polygon boundaries, official names, types.
- 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.