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 building height. With fewer than 10 decisions we say “too few decisions to estimate”.

Decisions and outcomes
Where and whenDecisionsApproved (all)ApprovedWith conditionsRefusedWithdrawnTypical time
Ward 3, last 3 years1283%83%0%17%0%10 weeks
Within 1 km, last 3 years1too few decisions to estimatetoo few decisions to estimate
Ward 3, last 5 years2286%86%0%9%5%8 weeks
Within 1 km, last 5 years2too few decisions to estimatetoo 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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

  1. 1 Blue Goose St · 680 m · Approved on 2022-06-30 · Building heightTo modify the height standards for a portion of the proposed townhouse units.File A0266/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  2. 367 Royal York Rd · 880 m · Approved on 2024-10-10 · Building heightTo legalize and to maintain the converted commercial building with 2 dwelling units on the second storey that is currently under construction. A previous Committee of Adjustment…File A0276/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  3. 464 Royal York Rd · 1.1 km · Approved on 2026-07-16 · Building heightTo modify the development standards outlined in By-law 1574-2025(OLT) in order to accomodate additional height, and an additional 86 rental dwelling units to the proposed…File A0171/26EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre

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