Cloverdale Park
Neighbourhood Park, middle of the pack overall (score 36, rank ~58th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: edge activation.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Cloverdale Park scores 35.9 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (84). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 1.78 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 36 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
- The park is enclosed by buildings (67) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
Typology classification
Classified as Neighbourhood Park: 1.8 ha, framed by 4 mid-rise vs 0 towers
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 7 active uses (transit_stop, cafe, retail, restaurant) and 12 dead/hostile uses (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 8 mapped paths/walkways and 10 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 4 street intersections within 100 m; 29 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 2 estimated access points across ~594 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
3 distinct amenity types in the park (fitness, 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: ~48.9% effective canopy (9.8% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~1403 m; 124 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (69.8/ha). Reading: partially shaded. 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
69 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (4 mid-rise, 65 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.3 m (~2 floors); 11.6 buildings per 100 m of 594 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 4 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, Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation parking, 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
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 (3 types · 3 records)
- fitness
- playground
- tennis
Nearby active-edge features (64)
- parking lot — Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation parking0 m
- parking lot9 m
- parking lot12 m
- parking lot34 m
- parking lot41 m
- parking lot43 m
- parking lot45 m
- retail — Wild Birds Unlimited53 m
- restaurant — Mekong River58 m
- parking lot60 m
- parking lot62 m
- retail — Circle K67 m
- cafe — Tim Hortons71 m
- parking lot75 m
- highway — Dundas Street West77 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street At Shaver Avenue85 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street at Shaver Avenue86 m
- retail — Emmetts Toy Stop & Hobby Shop95 m
- highway — Dundas Street West99 m
- retail — Comfort Zone101 m
- highway — Dundas Street West107 m
- retail — Central Stamp & Coin107 m
- highway — Dundas Street West107 m
- transit stop108 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street At Wilmar Road110 m
- retail — Advacare112 m
- cafe — Gong Cha113 m
- parking lot115 m
- highway — Dundas Street West115 m
- parking lot116 m
- retail — Discounted Cannabis117 m
- restaurant — Shawarma Royale120 m
- parking lot121 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street at Shorncliffe Road122 m
- retail — WJT Massage122 m
- retail — Cash Money122 m
- retail — Vape 100122 m
- restaurant — Pizzaville123 m
- restaurant — Lonzo’s126 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street At Shorncliffe Road126 m
- retail127 m
- restaurant — Swiss Chalet130 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street West132 m
- retail — Money Mart133 m
- retail — Diamonds Beauty Club134 m
- retail135 m
- restaurant — Blooming Batter135 m
- highway — Dundas Street West137 m
- restaurant — Armenian Bistro139 m
- parking lot143 m
- transit stop — Shorncliffe Rd at Dundas St W152 m
- parking lot153 m
- parking lot154 m
- highway — Dundas Street West157 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street at Wilmar Road164 m
- parking lot165 m
- parking lot165 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street At Wilmar Road168 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street at Wilmar Road173 m
- parking lot174 m
- transit stop — Dundas Street at Wilmar Road175 m
- parking lot193 m
- parking lot193 m
- parking lot199 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality58th
- Edge activation23th
- Connectivity73th
- Amenity diversity92th
- Natural comfort82th
- Enclosure63th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Noble ParkRavine / Naturalized Park45
- Jeff Healey ParkWaterfront Park36
- Oakcrest ParketteParkette43
- Woodborough ParkRavine / Naturalized Park41
- Home Smith ParkRavine / Naturalized Park43
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green SpaceUrban Plaza59
- Queen'S Quay Traffic IslandWaterfront Park49
- Bernard Avenue Road AllowanceUrban Plaza54
- Market Lane ParkUrban Plaza63
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell ParkUrban Plaza50
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 Cloverdale 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.
- 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.