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ParketteType:Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Park (ravine-leaning)Lansing-Westgate

WILLOWDALE LAWN BOWLING CLUB - Building Grounds

Parkette, middle of the pack overall (score 37, rank ~62th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: connectivity.

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WILLOWDALE LAWN BOWLING CLUB - Building Grounds scores 37.4 / 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.

Best fora quiet siteveryday neighbourhood use

Area · 0.97 ha

What's here

Recreation
Sports field

Getting around

Paths

No walking paths mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Seating

No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Arrival

Nearest parking 36 m away. None of the 9 nearby lots records whether it has accessible spaces.

Path, seating and parking data comes from OpenStreetMap and reflects what volunteers have mapped, not a survey. Absence here means nobody has recorded it. This section does not assess wheelchair access: the relevant OpenStreetMap tag is present on well under 1% of Toronto paths.

Vitality Score
37/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence
37.4 / 100

Data confidence: moderate

Citywide
62nd
of all 3,753 parks
Among Parkette
65th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
37
median in small Parkette (n=222)
Performance gap
+0
raw − expected · context confidence high
typical

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

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Street context. Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map.

Grounds of a City building, not a designated park. It is left out of park rankings.

Explain this score

Where did the 37 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
Edge Activation0 · p62
-12.5
Amenity Diversity12 · p64
-7.6
Border Vacuum Risk12 (risk)
+3.8
Enclosure / Eyes on Park77 · p81
+2.7
Natural Comfort58 · p75
+1.2
Connectivity49 · p57
-0.2

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

WILLOWDALE LAWN BOWLING CLUB - Building Grounds works because its enclosure score (77) is above average and its natural comfort (58) is also above-average (6 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).

What limits this park

WILLOWDALE LAWN BOWLING CLUB - Building Grounds doesn't have a clear weakness. Every measured dimension is at or above the middle of the pack.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (77, top quartile).

Jacobs reading

WILLOWDALE LAWN BOWLING CLUB - Building Grounds 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 (77) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.

Typology classification

confidence 70%
Parkette

Classified as Parkette: small (9734 m²) with strong building frontage (7.3 per 100 m)

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 0 active uses (none) and 2 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: OpenStreetMap: cafes, restaurants, shops, schools, community centres, transit, parking, highways, rail. All data sources.

Connectivity

20% weightmeasured 85%
49.0 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 16 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 2 street intersections within 100 m; 2 subway or GO stations, 8 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~480 m of perimeter. moderate edge density, small superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m3
Intersections within 100 m2
Paths/walkways (50 m)0
Sidewalk segments (50 m)16
Transit stops (400 m)10 (2 subway/GO, 0 streetcar/LRT, 8 bus)
Estimated entrances0
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.63
Park perimeter480 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops. All data sources.

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%
11.9 / 100

1 distinct amenity types in the park (sports_field). Diversity 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. All data sources.

Natural Comfort

15% weightmeasured 75%
58.0 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 19.1% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~839 m; 19 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (19.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: treed_area, waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage19.1%
Canopy area0.19 ha
Inside ravine system0.0%
Water surface inside park0.0%
Nearest water (if outside park)839 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon19
Tree density19.0 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)70.4
Sample points used68

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory. All data sources.

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
76.9 / 100

35 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (6 mid-rise, 22 low-rise, 7 tower); avg edge height 19.5 m (~7 floors); 7.3 buildings per 100 m of 480 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3 to 7 floors); 7 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 6 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m35
Buildings within 50 m35
Avg edge height19.5 m (~7 floors)
Tallest edge building69.6 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)6
Low-rise (< 3 floors)22
Towers (≥ 13 floors)7
Frontage density7.30 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge17%
Tower share of edge20%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter480 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights). All data sources.

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" that suppress foot traffic and isolate the park from its neighbourhood.

Source: OpenStreetMap: highways, rail, parking. All data sources.

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: Not loaded yet: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles. All data sources.

Amenities (1 types · 3 records)

  • sports field

Nearby active-edge features (10)

  • parking lot36 m
  • parking lot95 m
  • parking lot101 m
  • retail: Stock Up Market104 m
  • parking lot108 m
  • parking lot: Beecroft Parking Garage125 m
  • parking lot140 m
  • parking lot146 m
  • parking lot166 m
  • parking lot179 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureWILLOWDALE LAWN BOWLING CLUB - Building Grounds
Edge activation, connectivity, amenity diversity, natural comfort, and enclosure, each 0 to 100.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

  • Overall vitality
    62th
  • Edge activation
    62th
  • Connectivity
    57th
  • Amenity diversity
    64th
  • Natural comfort
    75th
  • Enclosure
    81th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Most opposite parks

Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.

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.

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Tell us how this park feels

We measure structure (canopy, edges, connectivity). You measure feeling. Both matter, and disagreement is itself useful civic data.

Rate this park on as many dimensions as you have an opinion about. 1 = not at all, 5 = strongly. Skip the ones you don't feel sure about. Aggregated only, no comments stored at the row level.

feels socially active
feels comfortable
feels safe
feels connected
feels welcoming
feels ecological / natural
feels good for lingering
feels family-friendly
feels culturally important
70%

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.

Data sources

real Toronto data
  • City of Toronto Open Data: Green Spaces
    Polygon boundaries, official names, land classes. Boundaries are reconciled against OpenStreetMap (ODbL) for new and updated parks.
  • 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.
  • OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
    Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.