Committee of Adjustment · Toronto
Variance odds
Planning a bigger house, an addition or a garden suite that needs a minor variance? See how the Committee of Adjustment decided similar applications near your lot: approvals, refusals and withdrawals in your ward and within 1 km, over the last 3 and 5 years.
How it works
A minor variance is permission to depart a little from the zoning by-law: a bit more floor area, a slightly taller house, a smaller side yard, one parking space fewer. In Toronto, the Committee of Adjustment decides these at public hearings.
We read every decision the City publishes in its Committee of Adjustment Applications open data (since 2017), place each one by its address, and count the outcomes around yours: approved, approved with conditions, refused, withdrawn, and how long it took from application to decision.
The City publishes each application's purpose, not the list of variances, so a category (floor space index, height, coverage, setbacks, parking, frontage and area, building length and depth, garden and laneway suites) is counted only when the purpose names it. Where there are fewer than 10 decisions, we don't give a percentage.
Past decisions don't predict future ones; not a planning opinion. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.