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ParketteType:Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Park (enclosure-leaning)Bayview Village

ETHENNONNHAWAHSTIHNEN' CRC & LIBRARY - Building Grounds

Parkette, in the top tier overall (score 50, rank ~93th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: natural comfort.

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ETHENNONNHAWAHSTIHNEN' CRC & LIBRARY - Building Grounds scores 49.5 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and edge activation. 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 fora quiet siteveryday neighbourhood use

Area · 0.65 ha

What's here

Facilities
Community centre

Getting around

Paths

82 m of mapped path. Too little surface tagging to say how much is paved.

3 flights of steps on the mapped network.

Seating

No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Arrival

Nearest parking 54 m away. 1 of 4 nearby lots reporting 4 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
50/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence
49.5 / 100

Data confidence: moderate

Citywide
93rd
of all 3,752 parks
Among Parkette
95th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
37
median in small Parkette (n=223)
Performance gap
+12
raw − expected · context confidence high
strong overperformer

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 50 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 · p65
-7.6
Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)
+5.0
Enclosure / Eyes on Park71 · p74
+2.1
Natural Comfort45 · p47
-0.7
Edge Activation52 · p96
+0.6
Connectivity51 · p60
+0.1

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

ETHENNONNHAWAHSTIHNEN' CRC & LIBRARY - Building Grounds works because its edge activation score (52) is one of the city's strongest and its enclosure (71) is also above-average (its perimeter is lined with active uses).

What limits this park

ETHENNONNHAWAHSTIHNEN' CRC & LIBRARY - 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 edge activation (52, top decile).

Jacobs reading

ETHENNONNHAWAHSTIHNEN' CRC & LIBRARY - Building Grounds sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Performance in context

  • This park is a strong overperformer for its cohort: raw 50 versus an expected 37 for similar parks (small Parkette) (gap +12).

Typology classification

confidence 70%
Parkette

Classified as Parkette: small (6487 m²) with strong building frontage (8.0 per 100 m)

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
52.4 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 13 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, retail) 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: OSM POIs (amenity/shop) + Toronto Building Footprints + land use

Connectivity

20% weightmeasured 85%
50.5 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 3 mapped paths/walkways and 16 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 5 street intersections within 100 m; 11 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~452 m of perimeter. low edge density, significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m2
Intersections within 100 m5
Paths/walkways (50 m)3
Sidewalk segments (50 m)16
Transit stops (400 m)11
Estimated entrances0
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.44
Park perimeter452 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 (community_centre). 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% weightmeasured 75%
45.3 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 6.7% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~494 m. Reading: exposed. Source coverage: treed_area, waterbodies. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage6.7%
Canopy area0.04 ha
Inside ravine system0.0%
Water surface inside park0.0%
Nearest water (if outside park)494 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon0
Tree density0.0 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)35.3
Sample points used45

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
71.2 / 100

36 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (6 mid-rise, 30 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.6 m (~2 floors); 8.0 buildings per 100 m of 452 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 6 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m36
Buildings within 50 m36
Avg edge height6.6 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building18.6 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)6
Low-rise (< 3 floors)30
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density7.97 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge17%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter452 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
0.0 risk

Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.

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)

  • community centre

Nearby active-edge features (25)

  • transit stop: Bessarion Avenue8 m
  • transit stop: Sheppard Av - South9 m
  • transit stop: Bessarion27 m
  • transit stop: Bessarion30 m
  • transit stop: Burbank Drive - Bessarion Station35 m
  • transit stop: Sheppard Av - North48 m
  • parking lot54 m
  • parking lot63 m
  • retail: Fairstone Financial68 m
  • retail: Concord Park Place Presentation Centre68 m
  • retail: Kourosh Supermarket69 m
  • retail: Shell Select70 m
  • retail: Pet Valu73 m
  • retail: Sahara Travel76 m
  • restaurant: Pizza Pizza77 m
  • retail: MEC North York Bike Shop101 m
  • transit stop: Blue Ridge Road103 m
  • transit stop: Blue Ridge Road West Side118 m
  • parking lot120 m
  • parking lot121 m
  • restaurant: SunShine Spot128 m
  • retail: The Underground129 m
  • retail: Taro's Fish136 m
  • restaurant: Kourosh Fresh Bread & Sandwiches141 m
  • restaurant: Shatter Abbas149 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureETHENNONNHAWAHSTIHNEN' CRC & LIBRARY - 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
    93th
  • Edge activation
    96th
  • Connectivity
    60th
  • Amenity diversity
    65th
  • Natural comfort
    47th
  • Enclosure
    74th

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?

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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.

  • 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

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.
  • Neighbourhood Profiles
    (Pending) Equity context proxy.
  • OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
    Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.