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.
24 Victoria 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 garden or laneway suite. With fewer than 10 decisions we say “too few decisions to estimate”.
| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 3, last 3 years | 41 | 78% | 78% | 0% | 22% | 0% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | too few decisions to estimate | ||||
| Ward 3, last 5 years | 50 | 76% | 76% | 0% | 24% | 0% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | too few decisions to estimate | ||||
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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 42 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
- 150 Melrose St · 600 m · Approved on 2024-04-25 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a new garden suite in the rear yard.File A0017/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 140 Stanley Ave · 830 m · Approved on 2026-08-27 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a new garden suite in the rear yard.File A0215/26EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 2502 Lake Shore Blvd W · 830 m · Approved on 2026-10-22 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a new laneway suite.File A0291/26EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 16 Vanevery St · 1.1 km · Approved on 2025-07-24 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a new fourplex and a garden suite in the rear yard.File A0232/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre