Six Points Park
Tower-Community Green Space, near the bottom of the city overall (score 25, rank ~12th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: enclosure.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Six Points Park scores 24.9 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and natural comfort. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.39 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 66%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 25 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
- High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (100) — much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.
Typology classification
Classified as Tower-Community Green Space: 3 towers vs 0 mid-rise within 25 m on a 0.4 ha park
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 10 active uses (cafe, transit_stop, restaurant, retail) and 17 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, highway). 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 7 mapped paths/walkways and 6 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 6 street intersections within 100 m; 38 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 4 estimated access points across ~253 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: ~8.4% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~558 m; 12 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (12.0/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
5 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (0 mid-rise, 2 low-rise, 3 tower); avg edge height 39.9 m (~13 floors); 2.0 buildings per 100 m of 253 m perimeter — moderate frontage density; edges lean tall but still framed; 3 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "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, parking_lot, parking_lot, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West, Dundas Street West. 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 (74)
- highway — Dundas Street West18 m
- highway — Dundas Street West22 m
- highway — Dundas Street West25 m
- highway — Dundas Street West40 m
- parking lot40 m
- parking lot40 m
- highway — Dundas Street West42 m
- highway — Dundas Street West44 m
- transit stop — Dundas St W at Kipling Ave47 m
- parking lot50 m
- parking lot53 m
- transit stop — St Albans Road61 m
- transit stop — St Albans Road63 m
- parking lot68 m
- parking lot70 m
- cafe — Starbucks72 m
- restaurant — Donatelli’s Pizzeria75 m
- restaurant — Pho House78 m
- highway — Dundas Street West78 m
- retail — Wine Rack80 m
- parking lot81 m
- parking lot84 m
- retail — Wellwise86 m
- highway — Dundas Street West86 m
- highway — Dundas Street West94 m
- retail — Nu’s Hair Studio95 m
- retail — Elegant Nails & Spa98 m
- transit stop — West Service Road105 m
- transit stop113 m
- highway — Dundas Street West116 m
- parking lot117 m
- parking lot118 m
- transit stop — West Service Road119 m
- parking lot119 m
- highway — Dundas Street West122 m
- transit stop — Dundas St W at Kipling Ave123 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station130 m
- transit stop132 m
- transit stop — St Albans / Kipling133 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station138 m
- parking lot — Kipling East Pick-Up & Drop-Off138 m
- transit stop — Aukland Road139 m
- highway — Dundas Street West139 m
- highway — Dundas Street West139 m
- parking lot144 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station144 m
- highway — Dundas Street West145 m
- retail — Farm Boy146 m
- rail — Bloor-Danforth Line149 m
- parking lot149 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station150 m
- rail — Bloor-Danforth Line150 m
- cafe — imPerfect Fresh Café151 m
- transit stop155 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station158 m
- highway — Dundas Street West164 m
- rail — Galt Subdivision168 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station172 m
- parking lot173 m
- rail — Galt Subdivision174 m
- parking lot180 m
- rail180 m
- transit stop — Aukland Road North Of Dundas Street181 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station182 m
- retail — Gateway Market Shops183 m
- transit stop — Auckland Road at Dundas Street183 m
- rail187 m
- highway — Dundas Street West190 m
- highway — Dundas Street West190 m
- parking lot190 m
- highway — Dundas Street West191 m
- transit stop — Aukland Road193 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station194 m
- parking lot — TTC Parking - Kipling South Lot197 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality12th
- Edge activation41th
- Connectivity83th
- Amenity diversity79th
- Natural comfort45th
- Enclosure4th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Humber Bay Park WestWaterfront Park27
- Cherry Beach Sports FieldsWaterfront Park35
- TORONTO TRACK AND FIELD CENTRE - Building GroundsOther27
- Palace Pier ParkWaterfront Park23
- Glendale Memorial GardensWaterfront Park23
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell ParkUrban Plaza50
- Market Lane ParkUrban Plaza63
- Bernard Avenue Road AllowanceUrban Plaza54
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
- Ryerson Community ParkUrban Plaza60
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 Six Points 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.
- Encourage mid-rise, windowed frontages around the park so residents have direct sightlines onto it.
- 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.