City Wide Open Space
Corridor / Linear Park, one of the city's strongest overall (score 51, rank ~96th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: enclosure.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
City Wide Open Space scores 51.4 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort 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 · 0.80 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 61%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 51 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
Performance in context
- This park is a strong overperformer for its cohort — raw 51 versus an expected 32 for similar parks (small Corridor / Linear Park) (gap +19).
Typology classification
Classified as Corridor / Linear Park: shape elongation 5.0× a circle of equal area
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 20 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant, cafe) and 3 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 1 mapped paths/walkways and 30 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 12 street intersections within 100 m; 32 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 2 estimated access points across ~1,595 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
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: 38.1% estimated tree canopy; 19.0% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~710 m; 18 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (18.0/ha). Reading: partially shaded. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, 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
57 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (3 mid-rise, 54 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.8 m (~2 floors); 3.6 buildings per 100 m of 1,595 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 3 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 (51)
- transit stop — Foregate Avenue5 m
- transit stop — Morningside Avenue5 m
- transit stop6 m
- transit stop — Sheppard Avenue East7 m
- transit stop25 m
- transit stop — Beckon Gate at Sheppard Avenue E27 m
- transit stop — 7731 Sheppard Avenue East29 m
- transit stop — Morningside Avenue33 m
- transit stop — Foregate Avenue34 m
- transit stop36 m
- transit stop — Beckon Gate at Sheppard Avenue E47 m
- parking lot48 m
- transit stop — Shepppard Ave E at Brenyon Way54 m
- restaurant — Chubby's Sub59 m
- transit stop — Sheppard Avenue East63 m
- retail — Ken's Jewellery65 m
- retail — BK Variety71 m
- transit stop — Brenyon Way72 m
- retail — Lee Valley79 m
- retail — Circle K85 m
- parking lot88 m
- parking lot89 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons90 m
- restaurant — Fuego's Halal Kitchen100 m
- restaurant — Subway102 m
- transit stop104 m
- transit stop — Milner Ave at Cinemart Dr112 m
- restaurant — Chick-N-Joy113 m
- parking lot116 m
- parking lot117 m
- transit stop — Murison Blvd at Usherwood Court118 m
- parking lot119 m
- parking lot126 m
- parking lot133 m
- parking lot134 m
- parking lot153 m
- retail — Malana Spa154 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons159 m
- retail — Fusion Supermarket164 m
- parking lot169 m
- restaurant — Wendy's170 m
- parking lot170 m
- restaurant — World Famous Pizza171 m
- parking lot175 m
- retail — Urban Silks183 m
- parking lot186 m
- transit stop — Morningside SB/Sheppard186 m
- retail — Rouge Bakery188 m
- transit stop — Murison Blvd at Split Maple Court191 m
- transit stop — Morningside Ave at Milner Ave191 m
- retail — Gunams Supermarket194 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality96th
- Edge activation97th
- Connectivity79th
- Amenity diversity52th
- Natural comfort87th
- Enclosure23th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Cedarbrae Golf And Country ClubRavine / Naturalized Park52
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park53
- Trca Lands ( 81)Waterfront Park52
- West Highland Creek WatercourseWaterfront Park49
- Curran Hall Ravine ParkWaterfront Park52
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park18
- Trca Lands ( 58)Waterfront Park18
- Etobicoke Hydro Green SpaceOther20
- Scarborough Hydro Green SpaceOther20
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park21
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 City Wide Open 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.
- 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.
- 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.