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.

3 Gloucester St, Toronto

Past decisions don't predict future ones; not a planning opinion. Counts of the City's recorded decisions on minor variance applications that name floor space index / gross floor area. With fewer than 10 decisions we say “too few decisions to estimate”.

Decisions and outcomes
Where and whenDecisionsApproved (all)ApprovedWith conditionsRefusedWithdrawnTypical time
Ward 13, last 3 years12100%100%0%0%0%10 weeks
Within 1 km, last 3 years14100%100%0%0%0%9 weeks
Ward 13, last 5 years16100%100%0%0%0%11 weeks
Within 1 km, last 5 years19100%100%0%0%0%10 weeks

Typical time: median from the application date to the hearing at which the Committee decided (approved or refused). Withdrawn applications have no hearing.

Conditions

0 of 77 approvals within 1 km in the last 5 years are recorded as conditional. The City's open data records whether a decision had conditions, not what they were; common ones are building to the submitted plans and arborist or engineering requirements. Read the decision for the file.

Nearest comparable decisions

  1. 593 Yonge St · 40 m · Approved on 2024-11-27 · Floor space index / gross floor areaTo alter the development standards for the site (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 778-2016(OMB)), for the existing 44-storey mixed-use building, by constructing…File A0653/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  2. 8 Wellesley St E · 150 m · Approved on 2022-04-27 · Floor space index / gross floor areaTo permit an increase to the maximum permitted gross floor area for restaurant uses within the existing 11-storey mixed-use building.File A0136/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  3. 10 St Mary St · 210 m · Approved on 2023-06-21 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building height, ParkingTo alter the development to increase the height of the approved 51-storey mixed-use building (located on the west side of the site, abutting St. Nicholas Street) as shown on…File A1168/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  4. 20 Maitland St · 290 m · Approved on 2026-04-01 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building heightTo alter the development standards (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 88-2023(OLT)) for the 40-storey mixed-use building (which is currently under construction), by…File A0085/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  5. 26 Maitland St · 290 m · Approved on 2025-04-23 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards for the 40-storey mixed-use building (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 88-2023) by increasing the total number of residential…File A0153/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre

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