Michael Power Park
Parkette, above average overall (score 40, rank ~77th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: edge activation.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Michael Power Park scores 40.4 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (36). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.69 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 68%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 40 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
Tradeoffs
- The park is enclosed by buildings (85) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
Typology classification
Classified as Parkette: small (6914 m²) with strong building frontage (9.8 per 100 m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 22 active uses (retail, transit_stop, restaurant) and 10 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 27 mapped paths/walkways and 23 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 6 street intersections within 100 m; 19 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 6 estimated access points across ~337 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
1 distinct amenity types in the park (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
Natural-comfort components for this park: ~23.8% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~185 m; 34 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (34.0/ha). Reading: water-cooled. 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
33 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (11 mid-rise, 17 low-rise, 5 tower); avg edge height 15.4 m (~5 floors); 9.8 buildings per 100 m of 337 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3–7 floors); 5 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 11 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, 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 (1 types · 1 records)
- playground
Nearby active-edge features (73)
- transit stop — Royalavon Crescent2 m
- parking lot12 m
- transit stop — Royalavon Crescent21 m
- parking lot30 m
- parking lot31 m
- retail — Q-Market39 m
- retail — Choe’s Hair Salon39 m
- retail — AMA aesthetic39 m
- retail — Q-Farm39 m
- restaurant — Mama Rosa Restaurant & Bar40 m
- retail — JH Computers40 m
- retail — Mr. Cell Phone40 m
- retail — European Patisserie40 m
- retail — Scarlet Tailor Alteration Dry Cleaners42 m
- retail — Gent’s Barber Shop43 m
- parking lot55 m
- retail — Cleanze Wash & Fold Laundromat55 m
- parking lot56 m
- restaurant — Ikkoi58 m
- parking lot60 m
- parking lot62 m
- retail — S&C Hair Studio62 m
- restaurant — Toji Sushi66 m
- restaurant — John's Fish 'n' Chips70 m
- parking lot70 m
- retail — Igli Salon & Spa73 m
- retail — Nice Diggz77 m
- restaurant — Resurrection Restaurant + Bar82 m
- parking lot84 m
- retail — Plumpitupp Medical Aesthetic Clinic88 m
- parking lot90 m
- retail — Royal Custom Cleaners98 m
- transit stop101 m
- parking lot103 m
- retail — Traditional Korean Bakery108 m
- restaurant — Thai Room Grand115 m
- parking lot116 m
- transit stop118 m
- retail — Etobicoke Service Centre Ltd.120 m
- retail — Delspa125 m
- retail — Perfect Touch Nail & Spa126 m
- retail — Edwards Builders Hardware129 m
- restaurant — Miss Natalie’s Tropical Cuisine130 m
- transit stop131 m
- parking lot131 m
- parking lot — Toronto Parking Authority Lot 520137 m
- retail — Earthroot Cannabis137 m
- cafe — Galata Turkish Café142 m
- transit stop144 m
- retail — Phoenix Blossom Spa148 m
- retail — Hasty Market153 m
- restaurant — Pizza Depot156 m
- parking lot156 m
- parking lot161 m
- retail — Tranquility Wellness Spa166 m
- parking lot171 m
- transit stop — Resurrection Road173 m
- transit stop — Resurrection Road174 m
- retail — Espresso Bakery & Deli174 m
- restaurant — Chodang Soontofu175 m
- parking lot176 m
- retail — Morning Flower179 m
- restaurant — Pizza Hut Delivery179 m
- highway — Bloor Street West181 m
- retail — Twin Scissors Hair & Spa183 m
- retail184 m
- retail — Seniors Store188 m
- parking lot191 m
- parking lot191 m
- retail192 m
- retail194 m
- highway — Bloor Street West196 m
- retail — Coconut Grove Nail And Esthetic Boutique199 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality77th
- Edge activation57th
- Connectivity94th
- Amenity diversity83th
- Natural comfort69th
- Enclosure91th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Bishop ParkUrban Plaza44
- Dan Iannuzzi ParkWaterfront Park39
- Flora Voisey ParkRavine / Naturalized Park42
- Dempsey ParkNeighbourhood Park43
- Ben Nobleman ParkUrban Plaza32
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park21
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25
- Simcoe ParkTower-Community Green Space51
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 Michael Power 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.
- 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.
- 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.