Power St - Open Green Space
Corridor / Linear Park, above average overall (score 40, rank ~76th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: edge activation.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Power St - Open Green Space scores 40.1 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. 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.
Area · 0.52 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 68%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 40 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 (84) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
- 7 nearby towers cast wind and shadow without contributing canopy — passive surveillance is plentiful but human-scale comfort is not.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its corridor / linear park typology (+8 vs the median in small Corridor / Linear Park).
Typology classification
Classified as Corridor / Linear Park: shape elongation 2.2× a circle of equal area. Secondary read: Urban Plaza (5191 m², paved (0% canopy), 9.0 buildings/100 m).
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 17 active uses (retail, restaurant, transit_stop) 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
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 21 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 19 street intersections within 100 m; 38 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~555 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 (dog_area). 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: ~7.0% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~651 m; 10 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (10.0/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
50 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (15 mid-rise, 28 low-rise, 7 tower); avg edge height 16.6 m (~6 floors); 9.0 buildings per 100 m of 555 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3–7 floors); 7 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 15 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Park edges face the city — no significant border vacuum detected.
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)
- dog area
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- retail — Alsie 24 Market31 m
- parking lot53 m
- transit stop — Sackville Street58 m
- parking lot62 m
- retail — Must Societe73 m
- retail — Dulux Paints75 m
- retail — Blonde76 m
- parking lot78 m
- parking lot79 m
- transit stop — Sackville Street82 m
- retail — Shell Select85 m
- retail — Fix Auto Collision85 m
- parking lot85 m
- parking lot86 m
- transit stop — Richmond Street East86 m
- retail — King & Parliament Dry Cleaning87 m
- retail — Gallery 40287 m
- retail — Studio B90 m
- transit stop — Sumach Street90 m
- parking lot91 m
- retail — eco|stems93 m
- retail — Roselle93 m
- parking lot93 m
- retail — 360 Healing Centre98 m
- parking lot99 m
- parking lot100 m
- restaurant — Reyna100 m
- retail — Roche Bobois101 m
- parking lot105 m
- transit stop — Richmond Street East106 m
- parking lot109 m
- retail — Libby's Custom Framing111 m
- restaurant — 241 Pizza111 m
- transit stop — Adelaide Street East112 m
- restaurant — King Deli-Cafe113 m
- retail — Preservation House114 m
- cafe — Morning Glory114 m
- parking lot115 m
- retail — Khapco120 m
- retail — Sherwin-Williams124 m
- retail — Cambria Gallery127 m
- parking lot128 m
- transit stop — Sackville Street130 m
- transit stop — Sackville Street136 m
- transit stop — Sumach Street140 m
- retail — Joseph Head Hair Colour141 m
- retail — Million Rose Flowers141 m
- cafe — Roozamoon Cafe141 m
- retail — Alexandria printing Services142 m
- retail — Consumer Wireless Solutions142 m
- retail — 290 Ion142 m
- parking lot144 m
- transit stop — Queen Street East145 m
- restaurant — Wood 900 Grill + Bar147 m
- parking lot147 m
- restaurant — The Decoy Bar148 m
- restaurant — Gilead Café + Wine Bar149 m
- restaurant — The Heritage Cafe & Kitchen149 m
- restaurant — Dejavu149 m
- retail — Luxe Appliance Studio150 m
- restaurant — Princess Kitchen150 m
- restaurant — King Solomon and Queen of Sheba152 m
- restaurant — Dejavu Lounge157 m
- restaurant — Habibz Corner157 m
- transit stop — Parliament Street158 m
- transit stop — Parliament Street161 m
- parking lot162 m
- retail — Volkswagen165 m
- retail — Ray’s Discount165 m
- retail — Little T Annex Art Gallery168 m
- restaurant — The Bullger Burger Steak169 m
- parking lot171 m
- parking lot174 m
- transit stop — Parliament Street174 m
- transit stop — King Street East177 m
- restaurant — Poutine House180 m
- retail — Blinds to Go182 m
- transit stop — Queen Street East183 m
- restaurant — Kish's Roti & Doubles184 m
- transit stop — King Street East184 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality76th
- Edge activation20th
- Connectivity83th
- Amenity diversity70th
- Natural comfort41th
- Enclosure90th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- FRANKLAND COMMUNITY CENTRE - Building GroundsNeighbourhood Park30
- Kenneth ParkUrban Plaza39
- Marian Engel ParkUrban Plaza40
- LEASIDE MEMORIAL COMMUNITY GARDENS - Building GroundsCivic Square30
- Antibes ParkNeighbourhood Park39
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
- Mclevin Woods ParkRavine / Naturalized Park49
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 Power St - Open Green Spacematters. 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 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.