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Parkettecluster ·Underperforming / Leftover Spaces (enclosure-leaning)Etobicoke West Mall (13)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

WESBURN MANOR - Building Grounds

Parkette, below average overall (score 30, rank ~30th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: edge activation.

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

WESBURN MANOR - Building Grounds scores 29.8 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (36). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.

Best for:a quiet siteveryday neighbourhood use

Area · 0.96 ha

Vitality Score
30/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 59%

Data Confidence
29.8 / 100
Citywide
29th
of all 3,273 parks
Among Parkette
32nd
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
36
median in small Parkette (n=218)
Performance gap
-6
raw − expected · context confidence high
modest underperformer

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

Explain this score

Where did the 30 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 · p39
-12.5
Amenity Diversity0 · p45
-10.0
Enclosure / Eyes on Park74 · p75
+2.4
Border Vacuum Risk36 (risk)
+1.4
Natural Comfort44 · p45
-1.0
Connectivity47 · p50
-0.5

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

WESBURN MANOR - Building Grounds works because its enclosure score (74) is above average (6 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).

What limits this park

WESBURN MANOR - Building Grounds's edges are fronted by border-vacuum land uses (highways, rail, parking, blank institutional) — risk score 36.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (74, above-average).

Jacobs reading

WESBURN MANOR - 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 (74) 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 -6; cohort: small Parkette).

Typology classification

confidence 70%
Parkette

Classified as Parkette: small (9635 m²) with strong building frontage (10.6 per 100 m)

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 20 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant, cafe) and 10 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%
47.4 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 14 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 5 street intersections within 100 m; 19 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~406 m of perimeter. low edge density — significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m1
Intersections within 100 m5
Paths/walkways (50 m)0
Sidewalk segments (50 m)14
Transit stops (400 m)19
Estimated entrances0
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.25
Park perimeter406 m

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

Amenity Diversity

20% weightinferred 30%
0.0 / 100

No amenities recorded — score is 0 until inventory is loaded.

Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags

Natural Comfort

15% weightpartial 45%
43.6 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: ~9.1% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~695 m; 13 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (13.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies, 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)695 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon13
Tree density13.0 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)0.0
Sample points used68

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
73.7 / 100

43 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (6 mid-rise, 37 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.8 m (~2 floors); 10.6 buildings per 100 m of 406 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are low-rise (mostly 2–3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 6 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m43
Buildings within 50 m43
Avg edge height6.8 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building33.8 m
Mid-rise (3–7 floors)6
Low-rise (< 3 floors)37
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density10.60 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge14%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter406 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
36.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, parking_lot, 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 (0)

No amenities recorded for this park.

Nearby active-edge features (47)

  • parking lot0 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Road At The West Mall2 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Rd at The West Mall2 m
  • transit stop3 m
  • transit stop — 399 The West Mall - Etobicoke Civic Centre25 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Road31 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Road At Mulgrove Drive44 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Road45 m
  • cafe — Tim Hortons46 m
  • parking lot48 m
  • parking lot49 m
  • retail — West Mall Variety49 m
  • parking lot51 m
  • retail — Cash for Gold54 m
  • parking lot54 m
  • parking lot55 m
  • retail — MGN Hair Studio56 m
  • transit stop59 m
  • retail — Your Dental Office59 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Road At The West Mall62 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Rd at Mulgrove Dr63 m
  • retail — Glamorous Nails65 m
  • transit stop — Burnhamthorpe Road At Mulgrove Drive66 m
  • restaurant — The Red Cardinal Tavern68 m
  • retail — Etobicort Barber & Hairstyling68 m
  • parking lot69 m
  • parking lot71 m
  • retail — Daial Cycle73 m
  • parking lot76 m
  • parking lot91 m
  • parking lot110 m
  • parking lot110 m
  • parking lot111 m
  • parking lot113 m
  • parking lot117 m
  • parking lot129 m
  • parking lot132 m
  • cafe — Java Joe’s132 m
  • restaurant — We Kitchen135 m
  • retail — Exton Dry Cleaners137 m
  • parking lot142 m
  • transit stop — The West Mall at Civic Centre Court159 m
  • restaurant — Old Mill Pastry & Deli172 m
  • retail — Image Makers Hair Design186 m
  • transit stop191 m
  • retail — Cash Shop193 m
  • parking lot197 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureWESBURN MANOR - Building Grounds

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

  • Overall vitality
    30th
  • Edge activation
    39th
  • Connectivity
    50th
  • Amenity diversity
    45th
  • Natural comfort
    45th
  • Enclosure
    75th

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.

Does this score feel accurate?

Your read of WESBURN MANOR - Building Groundsmatters. 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.

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

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.
  • 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 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.