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 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 13, last 3 years10100%100%0%0%0%9 weeks
Within 1 km, last 3 years15100%100%0%0%0%9 weeks
Ward 13, last 5 years13100%100%0%0%0%9 weeks
Within 1 km, last 5 years20100%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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 95 St Joseph St · 330 m · Approved on 2024-10-16 · Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 1030-2022) for a new 40-storey mixed-use building, by increasing the building height, and to…File A0580/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  5. 900 Bay St · 400 m · Approved on 2023-10-04 · Building heightTo amend the development standards to permit the existing height of the four buildings on site (Hepburn Tower (11-storeys), Mowat Tower (24-storeys), Hearst Tower (10-storeys)…File A0717/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre

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