Ravine / Naturalized Parkcluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (ravine-leaning)O'Connor-Parkview (54)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

City Wide Open Space

Ravine / Naturalized Park, in the top tier overall (score 44, rank ~88th percentile). Strongest: natural comfort; weakest: amenity diversity.

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

City Wide Open Space scores 44.4 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.

Best for:escape into natureshaded summer use

Area · 0.58 ha

Vitality Score

44/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 63%

Data Confidence

44.4 / 100

Citywide

88th

of all 3,273 parks

Among Ravine / Naturalized Park

92nd

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in small Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine (n=200)

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.

Explain this score

Where did the 44 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 · p18

-10.0

Edge Activation25 · p85

-6.2

Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)

+5.0

Natural Comfort83 · p93

+4.9

Enclosure / Eyes on Park67 · p63

+1.7

Connectivity45 · p43

-1.1

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

City Wide Open Space works because its natural comfort score (83) is in the top tier and its edge activation (25) is also top quartile (82% tree canopy provides real shade; it sits inside the ravine system).

What limits this park

City Wide Open Space is held back by amenity diversity (0, bottom quartile).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high natural comfort (83, top decile).

Jacobs reading

City Wide Open Space sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

Natural comfort (83) significantly outpaces connectivity (45) — restorative but hard to reach for daily use.

Performance in context

This park is a strong overperformer for its cohort — raw 44 versus an expected 32 for similar parks (small Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine) (gap +12).

Typology classification

confidence 75%

Ravine / Naturalized Parkalso reads as Corridor / Linear Park

Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 100% ravine overlap, 82% canopy. Secondary read: Corridor / Linear Park (shape elongation 2.3× a circle of equal area).

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

25.3 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 3 active uses (transit_stop) and 1 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%

44.6 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 7 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 6 street intersections within 100 m; 15 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~626 m of perimeter. low edge density — significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m3

Intersections within 100 m6

Paths/walkways (50 m)0

Sidewalk segments (50 m)7

Transit stops (400 m)15

Estimated entrances0

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.48

Park perimeter626 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% weightmeasured 75%

82.9 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 82.1% estimated tree canopy; 100.0% inside the ravine system; 2.6% water surface. Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, waterbodies. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage82.1%

Canopy area0.47 ha

Inside ravine system100.0%

Water surface inside park2.6%

Nearest water (if outside park)0 m (inside)

Estimated green97.4%

City-mapped trees inside polygon0

Tree density0.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)68.4

Sample points used39

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

66.9 / 100

96 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (3 mid-rise, 93 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 5.4 m (~2 floors); 15.3 buildings per 100 m of 626 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are barely there or single-storey; no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 3 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m96

Buildings within 50 m96

Avg edge height5.4 m (~2 floors)

Tallest edge building10.5 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)3

Low-rise (< 3 floors)93

Towers (≥ 13 floors)0

Frontage density15.33 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge3%

Tower share of edge0%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter626 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 (0)

No amenities recorded for this park.

Nearby active-edge features (7)

transit stop45 m
parking lot92 m
transit stop96 m
transit stop — Rexleigh Dr at Ferris Rd97 m
transit stop — Ferris Rd at Ferris Cres102 m
parking lot128 m
parking lot176 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
88th
Edge activation
85th
Connectivity
43th
Amenity diversity
18th
Natural comfort
93th
Enclosure
63th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Highland Creek TributaryWaterfront Park45
Adam'S Creek RavineRavine / Naturalized Park42
Staines Road WoodlotRavine / Naturalized Park42
Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park44
Valecrest ParkRavine / Naturalized Park42

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
Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square66
Sonya'S ParkUrban Plaza60
Graham ParkUrban Plaza54

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 City Wide Open 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.
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.

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.