Beaty Avenue Parkette
Urban Plaza, middle of the pack overall (score 32, rank ~41th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: connectivity.
Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Beaty Avenue Parkette scores 32.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and natural comfort. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.07 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 62%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Where did the 32 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
Beaty Avenue Parkette works because its enclosure score (90) is one of the city's strongest (20 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).
What limits this park
Beaty Avenue Parkette is held back by connectivity (24, bottom quartile).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (90, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Beaty Avenue Parkette sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- The park is enclosed by buildings (90) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.
Performance in context
- Reads as a modest underperformer relative to comparable parks (gap -5; cohort: pocket Urban Plaza).
- Citywide rank is high (41st) but typology rank is more modest (20th): the strength likely comes from the dataset average pulling lower than this typology’s baseline.
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 691 m², paved (0% canopy), 61.2 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 0 active uses (none) and 6 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 0 mapped paths/walkways and 0 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 4 street intersections within 100 m; 21 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~121 m of perimeter. low edge density, significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, 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: ~4.9% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~388 m; 7 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (7.0/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
74 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (20 mid-rise, 54 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 8.3 m (~3 floors); 61.2 buildings per 100 m of 121 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 20 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.
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 · 2 records)
- playground
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- parking lot63 m
- parking lot78 m
- parking lot80 m
- parking lot87 m
- parking lot87 m
- parking lot93 m
- parking lot101 m
- parking lot103 m
- parking lot105 m
- parking lot114 m
- parking lot114 m
- parking lot115 m
- parking lot117 m
- parking lot123 m
- parking lot123 m
- transit stop: Beaty Avenue126 m
- parking lot128 m
- parking lot128 m
- transit stop: Beaty Avenue130 m
- parking lot131 m
- parking lot133 m
- parking lot137 m
- transit stop: Sorauren Avenue140 m
- restaurant: Gus Tacos140 m
- restaurant: Food & Liquor144 m
- retail: Kolors145 m
- retail145 m
- restaurant: Skadarlija Restaurant145 m
- restaurant: Cici's Pizza145 m
- retail: Tibet & Himalayan Gift Shop145 m
- retail: Pauly's Tattoo Studio145 m
- restaurant: Three Dollar Bill145 m
- retail145 m
- retail145 m
- retail: Frou-Frou Vintage145 m
- retail: Letterbox Doughnuts146 m
- restaurant: Shangrila Tibetan & Asian Cuisine146 m
- cafe: Fab's Donuts146 m
- transit stop: Sorauren Avenue146 m
- retail: Pretty Good Barbershop146 m
- retail149 m
- restaurant: Dave's Hot Chicken150 m
- parking lot150 m
- retail153 m
- parking lot156 m
- retail: Lee's Variety156 m
- restaurant: Batibot Filipino Foods and Grocery157 m
- restaurant: Gold Standard158 m
- transit stop: Wilson Park Road159 m
- transit stop: Wilson Park Road159 m
- retail: Certified Tire & Auto Service160 m
- retail: Book People on Queen166 m
- parking lot168 m
- parking lot169 m
- parking lot169 m
- retail: Tibet Hair & Beauty Salon170 m
- parking lot170 m
- retail: Lil'Demon170 m
- restaurant: Forest Hill Farmhouse172 m
- retail: Steve Pella Hair174 m
- retail: Ana Maria's Hair Salon178 m
- retail: Parkdale Fruit Market178 m
- parking lot179 m
- retail: The Sweet Crumble180 m
- restaurant: Sun Fa Restaurant182 m
- restaurant: Mantra182 m
- restaurant: The Bell and Beacon183 m
- parking lot183 m
- retail: Blade Beauty Auréa Haus185 m
- transit stop: Triller Avenue186 m
- retail: Nerdgasm188 m
- cafe: Grocery Coffee189 m
- retail189 m
- transit stop: Triller Avenue191 m
- parking lot192 m
- retail: Speedy Queen Coin Laundry192 m
- restaurant: Mezz196 m
- retail: Subtle Enhancements196 m
- parking lot197 m
- restaurant: Lali Gurans200 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality41th
- Edge activation39th
- Connectivity19th
- Amenity diversity60th
- Natural comfort36th
- Enclosure96th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Bedford ParketteUrban Plaza32
- Lucy Maud Montgomery ParkUrban Plaza33
- Long Branch Park & CenotaphCivic Square31
- J.A. Leslie Tot LotUrban Plaza30
- Empress Tot LotUrban Plaza33
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park75
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette73
- Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square73
- Toronto ZooWaterfront Park67
- David Crombie ParkCorridor / Linear Park70
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 Beaty Avenue Parkettematters. 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. 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.