Coleman Park
Urban Plaza, in the top tier overall (score 48, rank ~93th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: natural comfort.
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Coleman Park scores 48.2 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (21). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.48 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Street context
Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map. Connectivity, transit, and edge conditions read at a glance.
Top-down view
City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px. Reads the park’s footprint, paths, treed area, and edge conditions from above.
City of Toronto Orthophoto · cot_ortho most-current MapServer
Explain this score
Where did the 48 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
- Strong physical conditions (score 48) but weak observed activity signals (9) — the model says this should work, but events, mentions, and counters say it isn't being used at the level the urban form would predict.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its urban plaza typology (+9 vs the median in small Urban Plaza).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 4791 m², paved (6% canopy), 20.2 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 45 active uses (transit_stop, cafe, restaurant, retail) and 7 dead/hostile uses (rail, 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 5 mapped paths/walkways and 12 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 32 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 3 estimated access points across ~356 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
2 distinct amenity types in the park (playground, tennis). 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: ~7.7% effective canopy (5.9% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~890 m; 11 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (11.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: treed_area, 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
72 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (8 mid-rise, 63 low-rise, 1 tower); avg edge height 7.3 m (~2 floors); 20.2 buildings per 100 m of 356 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are low-rise (mostly 2–3 floors); 1 tower ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 8 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Bloor-Danforth Line. 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 (2 types · 3 records)
- playground
- tennis
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- rail — Bloor-Danforth Line8 m
- transit stop — Main Street Station37 m
- retail — Koodo38 m
- transit stop — Main Street Station39 m
- retail — Univercell41 m
- retail — HearingLife41 m
- restaurant — Al-Mani Grill & Biryani41 m
- retail — Health Service Centre41 m
- retail41 m
- restaurant — Len Duckworth Fish&Chips41 m
- retail — Benjamin Moore41 m
- retail42 m
- retail — Belal Furniture & Mattress42 m
- retail42 m
- restaurant — Jem Bar42 m
- retail — Saffron Halal Meat42 m
- retail — Shoe Avenue42 m
- retail — Shega Salon & Aesthetics42 m
- retail — Telus42 m
- restaurant — Grillies43 m
- restaurant — Eva's Bar & Restaurant45 m
- retail46 m
- restaurant — Su-Good Chinese Restaurant47 m
- retail49 m
- transit stop49 m
- retail — Arya Bakery52 m
- transit stop — Main Street Station54 m
- retail — Growers Retail56 m
- retail58 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue58 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue58 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue58 m
- restaurant — KC Authentic Caribbean Cuisine62 m
- transit stop — Main Street Station69 m
- transit stop69 m
- transit stop — Main Street70 m
- transit stop — Main Street70 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue72 m
- transit stop — Main Street Station74 m
- cafe — Great Fruit Bubble Tea80 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue82 m
- retail83 m
- retail — Shewa Grocery & Variety87 m
- retail89 m
- restaurant — Subway89 m
- restaurant — Baital Muqadas Halal Pizza & Wings92 m
- retail — Danforth Furniture92 m
- retail — Wine Rack92 m
- transit stop — Main Street Station95 m
- transit stop — Main Street Station96 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons96 m
- parking lot97 m
- retail — Value Buds101 m
- transit stop — Main Street104 m
- retail105 m
- retail — Dignity Memorial Giffen-Mack Funeral Home107 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue110 m
- retail — Danforth Market120 m
- retail — Pavillion Pastries Cafe121 m
- parking lot126 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue131 m
- restaurant — Bistro Camino131 m
- restaurant — Sultan Shawarma & Falafel132 m
- restaurant — Popeyes133 m
- retail137 m
- cafe — Rehoboth Cafe138 m
- retail — Kara Fresh Meat140 m
- retail141 m
- transit stop — Danforth Avenue143 m
- restaurant — Kera Restaurant144 m
- transit stop — Danforth Avenue146 m
- restaurant — Mr. Tasty's Restaurant146 m
- retail — Main Square Smoke & Gift148 m
- retail — Osmow's148 m
- transit stop — Dawes Road150 m
- retail154 m
- retail — Fashion Bargin154 m
- restaurant — Vegan I Thali159 m
- retail — Cash 4 You159 m
- highway — Danforth Avenue159 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality93th
- Edge activation88th
- Connectivity83th
- Amenity diversity91th
- Natural comfort48th
- Enclosure82th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Jonathan Ashbridge ParkNeighbourhood Park54
- Treverton ParkCorridor / Linear Park51
- Forest Hill Road ParkRavine / Naturalized Park48
- Upper Junction ParkUrban Plaza49
- Edgewood ParkNeighbourhood Park44
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
Visitor signals
Public attention measured by Google Places aggregates. This proxies attention, not occupancy. Aggregate-only — no usernames, no review text, no extra photos beyond the cached hero.
p73 citywide · p79 within Urban Plaza
Source: Google Places API · match high (1.00 composite confidence) · last refreshed 5/9/2026. Privacy contract. Measures public attention, not occupancy.
Human activity signals
Programming, social attention, temporal rhythm, and nearby pedestrian / cycling flow. An experimental aggregate layer that complements the spatial scores — partial coverage, partial confidence.
Activity reading: no inputs available. The strongest signal is public attention / mentions. Source coverage: google-places.
Does this score feel accurate?
Your read of Coleman 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.
- 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.