Urban Plazacluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (enclosure-leaning)Little Portugal (84)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

Dundas - St.Clarens Parkette

Urban Plaza, in the top tier overall (score 47, rank ~92th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: natural comfort.

Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026

Dundas - St.Clarens Parkette scores 46.9 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (11.9). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.

Best for:daily passing-throughpocket meetings

Area · 0.10 ha

Vitality Score

47/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 65%

Data Confidence

46.9 / 100

Citywide

92nd

of all 3,273 parks

Among Urban Plaza

87th

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in pocket Urban Plaza (n=337)

Performance gap

+11

raw − expected · context confidence high

modest overperformer

Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.

Explain this score

Where did the 47 come from? Each weighted contribution against a neutral 50 baseline. Green = pushed up; red = pulled down.

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What pushed this score up or down vs a neutral 50weight × score

Amenity Diversity12 · p78

-7.6

Edge Activation25 · p84

-6.2

Connectivity74 · p95

+4.9

Enclosure / Eyes on Park90 · p96

+4.0

Border Vacuum Risk12 (risk)

+3.8

Natural Comfort38 · p31

-1.9

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

Dundas - St.Clarens Parkette works because its enclosure score (90) is one of the city's strongest and its connectivity (74) is also top decile (13 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).

What limits this park

Dundas - St.Clarens Parkette is held back by natural comfort (38, below-average)— only 0% canopy means little summer shade.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (90, top decile).

Jacobs reading

Dundas - St.Clarens Parkette sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

Connectivity (74) significantly outpaces natural comfort (38) — well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.

Performance in context

A modest overperformer for its urban plaza typology (+11 vs the median in pocket Urban Plaza).

Typology classification

confidence 70%

Urban Plaza

Classified as Urban Plaza: 1026 m², paved (0% canopy), 45.5 buildings/100 m

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

25.1 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 8 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant) and 4 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

20% weightmeasured 85%

74.3 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 6 mapped paths/walkways and 19 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 16 street intersections within 100 m; 20 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 3 estimated access points across ~145 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy — no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m9

Intersections within 100 m16

Paths/walkways (50 m)6

Sidewalk segments (50 m)19

Transit stops (400 m)20

Estimated entrances3

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter6.21

Park perimeter145 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%

11.9 / 100

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

15% weightinferred 24%

37.5 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: ~5.6% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); 8 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (8.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage0.0%

Canopy area0.00 ha

Inside ravine system0.0%

Water surface inside park0.0%

Nearest water (if outside park)1,500 m

Estimated green100.0%

City-mapped trees inside polygon8

Tree density8.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)0.0

Sample points used15

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

89.6 / 100

66 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (13 mid-rise, 52 low-rise, 1 tower); avg edge height 8.7 m (~3 floors); 45.5 buildings per 100 m of 145 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 13 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m66

Buildings within 50 m66

Avg edge height8.7 m (~3 floors)

Tallest edge building45.9 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)13

Low-rise (< 3 floors)52

Towers (≥ 13 floors)1

Frontage density45.50 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge20%

Tower share of edge2%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter145 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%

12.0 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

contextinferred 15%

50.0 / 100

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 (42)

parking lot10 m
transit stop — Lansdowne Avenue42 m
restaurant — Acute Pizzeria44 m
transit stop — Dundas Street West47 m
parking lot62 m
parking lot65 m
transit stop — Dundas Street West South Side67 m
transit stop — Dundas Street West80 m
parking lot87 m
restaurant — Bairradino Rotisserie & Grill89 m
transit stop — College Street99 m
transit stop — Lansdowne Avenue100 m
transit stop101 m
cafe — Tim Hortons108 m
restaurant — Papa John's110 m
parking lot114 m
retail — Ultramar114 m
parking lot118 m
retail — Oscar's Auto Repairs118 m
retail — S Market119 m
retail — Salon Soap120 m
retail — Savage Vape120 m
restaurant — Subway121 m
retail — College Vape123 m
restaurant — Wallflower125 m
transit stop — Lansdowne Avenue134 m
transit stop — Lansdowne Avenue139 m
parking lot148 m
transit stop154 m
transit stop — College Street155 m
parking lot160 m
retail — Real Coin Laundry164 m
restaurant — Euro Sports Bar & Cafe167 m
retail — De Floured Bakery172 m
parking lot173 m
restaurant — Town Wings175 m
retail — The Proudest Pony Hair & Co.178 m
rail — Newmarket Subdivision184 m
parking lot184 m
restaurant — Swan Dive194 m
retail — Souvenir198 m
rail — Weston Subdivision198 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
92th
Edge activation
84th
Connectivity
95th
Amenity diversity
78th
Natural comfort
31th
Enclosure
96th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Westmoreland Avenue ParketteUrban Plaza40
Rita Cox ParkUrban Plaza45
Victoria Memorial Square ParkCivic Square47
Bob Acton ParkNeighbourhood Park49
Stanley G. Grizzle ParkUrban Plaza46

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

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 Dundas - St.Clarens 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.
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 Facilities
Inventory of in-park amenities (washrooms, fields, rinks…).
Toronto Pedestrian Network
Sidewalk segments around and through parks; estimated park entrances.
Toronto Centreline V2
Street segments + intersection nodes near park edges; trails and walkways.
Toronto 3D Massing
Building footprints + heights for edge-building counts, frontage density, and tower-in-the-park risk.
Toronto Treed Area
Tree canopy share inside park polygons via stratified-grid sampling.
Toronto Waterbodies & Rivers
Water surface inside parks + nearest-water distance for cooling.
Ravine & Natural Feature Protection
Ravine overlap as a cooling / natural-comfort signal.
Toronto Street Tree Inventory
Tree count + density inside park polygons.
Neighbourhood Profiles
(Pending) Equity context proxy.
OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.