Wembley Parkette
Urban Plaza, one of the city's strongest overall (score 54, rank ~97th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Wembley Parkette scores 54 / 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.
Area · 0.14 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 66%
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 54 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
Wembley Parkette works because its edge activation score (77) is one of the city's strongest and its enclosure (79) is also top quartile (its perimeter is lined with active uses).
What limits this park
Wembley Parkette is held back by natural comfort (37, below-average): only 0% canopy means little summer shade.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high edge activation (77, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Wembley Parkette 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 54 versus an expected 38 for similar parks (pocket Urban Plaza) (gap +16).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 1421 m², paved (0% canopy), 31.7 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 20 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant, cafe) and 0 dead/hostile uses (none). 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 7 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 3 street intersections within 100 m; 15 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~224 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 (bench). 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: ~4.2% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~1068 m; 6 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (6.0/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
71 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (4 mid-rise, 67 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 7.0 m (~2 floors); 31.7 buildings per 100 m of 224 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 4 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 · 2 records)
- bench
Nearby active-edge features (67)
- retail: Uptown Variety86 m
- retail: Kates & Company87 m
- retail: Lee’s Beauty Head Spa87 m
- restaurant: Foodiez87 m
- cafe: 3SK Cafe87 m
- retail: Angelo Rosso88 m
- retail: Mood Toronto88 m
- retail: Lootie Patootie88 m
- restaurant: Chicken N’ Dough89 m
- retail: Camp Canine89 m
- retail: Top Coat Nails & Beauty89 m
- retail: Lady Nails & Spa90 m
- retail: Dion Cleaners92 m
- retail: Thobors94 m
- transit stop: Old Park Road94 m
- retail: The Day Bridal95 m
- retail: Glo-C Hair Art97 m
- retail: Mawd Cutz97 m
- restaurant: Thirsty Fox Pub98 m
- retail: Hickok Fine Jewellery Cash For Gold98 m
- retail: Body Brute103 m
- retail: Petroff Gallery104 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West104 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West104 m
- retail: Anna Pretty Nails108 m
- restaurant: Subway111 m
- retail: Smartie Pants112 m
- transit stop: Glen Cedar Road115 m
- restaurant: Bistro Grande116 m
- retail: The Pink Room117 m
- retail122 m
- retail: Qi123 m
- restaurant: Aish Tanoor Restaurant124 m
- restaurant: Pazza125 m
- retail: Upper Village Spa125 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West127 m
- retail: Triworld129 m
- transit stop: Glenarden Road131 m
- retail: B C Cannabis132 m
- parking lot134 m
- retail: Barbara’s136 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West142 m
- retail: Kilani Jewellery143 m
- restaurant: What a Bagel!145 m
- restaurant: Tokyo Sushi148 m
- retail: Benjamin Moore150 m
- retail: MCC Laser & Skin Care151 m
- restaurant: Bagel Brigade154 m
- retail: Leopardo Boutique154 m
- retail: Elle Made Well155 m
- restaurant: The Great Maratha158 m
- retail: Praire Dog-Naot158 m
- retail: GoLaser159 m
- retail: Double Star162 m
- restaurant: Spring China House164 m
- parking lot166 m
- restaurant: Jerusalem Restaurant172 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West172 m
- restaurant: Pizzaiolo178 m
- restaurant: Marron182 m
- retail: 1182 Beauty184 m
- restaurant: Mamma's Pizza187 m
- retail: Amorphous Salon188 m
- restaurant: 3 Eggs196 m
- restaurant: Swiss Chalet197 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West198 m
- retail: Forest Hill Institute of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery199 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality97th
- Edge activation100th
- Connectivity49th
- Amenity diversity60th
- Natural comfort30th
- Enclosure83th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Kerr Hall QuadNeighbourhood Park56
- Shaw St Traffic Median SouthCorridor / Linear Park52
- Courthouse Square ParkCivic Square56
- Toronto Sculpture GardenUrban Plaza54
- Breadalbane ParkUrban Plaza52
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
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
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 Wembley Parkettematters. 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.
- 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.
Data sources
- City of Toronto Open Data: Parks (Green Space)Polygon boundaries, official names, types. Boundaries are reconciled against OpenStreetMap (ODbL) for new and updated parks.
- 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.