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Corridor / Linear ParkType:Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Park (enclosure-leaning)West Hill

Kingston-Payzac Boulevard

Corridor / Linear Park, middle of the pack overall (score 31, rank ~36th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: amenity diversity.

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Kingston-Payzac Boulevard scores 31.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (72). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.

Best forwalking + cycling routeslinear social use

Area · 0.00 ha

Getting around

Paths

No walking paths mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Seating

No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Arrival

Nearest parking 11 m away. None of the 4 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
31/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 57%

Data Confidence
31.3 / 100

Data confidence: moderate

Citywide
36th
of all 3,753 parks
Among Corridor / Linear Park
44th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
31
median in pocket Corridor / Linear Park (n=123)
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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Explain this score

Where did the 31 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 Diversity0 · p17
-10.0
Edge Activation34 · p89
-4.0
Natural Comfort34 · p20
-2.3
Border Vacuum Risk72 (risk)
-2.2
Connectivity44 · p47
-1.3
Enclosure / Eyes on Park62 · p48
+1.2

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

Kingston-Payzac Boulevard works because its edge activation score (34) is in the top tier.

What limits this park

Kingston-Payzac Boulevard is held back by amenity diversity (0, bottom quartile); border-vacuum risk is also elevated (72).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high edge activation (34, top quartile).

Jacobs reading

Kingston-Payzac Boulevard sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Typology classification

confidence 75%
Corridor / Linear Park

Classified as Corridor / Linear Park: shape elongation 3.1× a circle of equal area

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
33.9 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 17 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, retail) and 5 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, highway). 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%
43.5 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 12 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 2 street intersections within 100 m; 4 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~72 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy, no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m4
Intersections within 100 m2
Paths/walkways (50 m)0
Sidewalk segments (50 m)12
Transit stops (400 m)4 (0 subway/GO, 0 streetcar/LRT, 4 bus)
Estimated entrances0
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter4.00
Park perimeter72 m

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

Amenity Diversity

20% weightinferred 30%
0.0 / 100

No amenities recorded.

Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags. All data sources.

Natural Comfort

15% weightinferred 36%
34.4 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~410 m; 1 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (1.0/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)410 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon1
Tree density1.0 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)0.0
Sample points used2

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
61.5 / 100

15 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (0 mid-rise, 15 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.2 m (~2 floors); 15.0 buildings per 100 m of 72 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 0 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m15
Buildings within 50 m15
Avg edge height5.2 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building8.8 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)0
Low-rise (< 3 floors)15
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density15.00 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge0%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter72 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
72.0 risk

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

No amenities recorded for this park.

Nearby active-edge features (28)

  • retail: Tires 2 Go5 m
  • parking lot11 m
  • retail: Mobile Transmission And Auto Service14 m
  • highway: Kingston Road26 m
  • transit stop: Overture Road35 m
  • highway: Kingston Road47 m
  • retail: Dream Touch SPA56 m
  • retail: Youngs Food Mart57 m
  • restaurant: Sunnys Sports Bar57 m
  • retail: Chester's Chicken To Go63 m
  • parking lot66 m
  • restaurant: Twice As Nice70 m
  • retail: P's Good Luck Convenience74 m
  • retail: Yan's Harmony Health Spa78 m
  • parking lot82 m
  • restaurant: All Start Bar & Eatery82 m
  • restaurant: Subway83 m
  • restaurant: Sri Swami Sawartha Vadapav86 m
  • retail: Hair Gurus93 m
  • retail: Sun Print Sho093 m
  • retail: Exotic Pets96 m
  • retail: Soda Centre & Home Brewer's Retail99 m
  • retail: Scarborough Auto Care102 m
  • restaurant: Tai chi Restaurant chinese food102 m
  • restaurant: Twice As Nice111 m
  • highway: Kingston Road121 m
  • highway: Kingston Road174 m
  • parking lot195 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureKingston-Payzac Boulevard
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
    36th
  • Edge activation
    89th
  • Connectivity
    47th
  • Amenity diversity
    17th
  • Natural comfort
    20th
  • Enclosure
    48th

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.

  • 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

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.