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.

567 Rogers Rd, 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”.

Decisions and outcomes
Where and whenDecisionsApproved (all)ApprovedWith conditionsRefusedWithdrawnTypical time
Ward 5, last 3 years3683%83%0%14%3%11 weeks
Within 1 km, last 3 years1275%75%0%25%0%13 weeks
Ward 5, last 5 years4877%77%0%19%4%11 weeks
Within 1 km, last 5 years1479%79%0%21%0%12 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 84 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. 224 Aileen Ave · 190 m · Approved on 2023-07-06 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a new garden suite.File A0218/23EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  2. 6 Watt Ave · 210 m · Approved on 2025-01-16 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct second storey addition above the existing detached garage. The garage will be converted in to a garden suite.File A0422/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  3. 8 Watt Ave · 210 m · Approved on 2024-11-21 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a new garden suite in the rear yard.File A0407/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  4. 257 Dunraven Dr · 240 m · Approved on 2023-10-26 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a laneway suite above the existing detached garage in the rear yard.File A0370/23EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  5. 176 Donald Ave · 440 m · Approved on 2025-05-29 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a third storey addition above the existing dwelling and a new garden suite in the rear yard.File A0081/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre

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