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.
100 Sunrise Ave, Toronto
Past decisions don't predict future ones; not a planning opinion. Counts of the City's recorded decisions on minor variance applications. 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 16, last 3 years | 104 | 93% | 90% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 7 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 24 | 96% | 96% | 0% | 4% | 0% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 16, last 5 years | 217 | 96% | 94% | 2% | 3% | <1% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 43 | 98% | 98% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 13 weeks |
Typical time: median from the application date to the hearing at which the Committee decided (approved or refused). Withdrawn applications have no hearing.
| Category | Within 1 km | Approved | Ward 16 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 8 | too few decisions to estimate | 14 | 93% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 7 | too few decisions to estimate |
The City publishes each application's purpose, not its list of variances. We count a category only when the purpose names it (“parking”, “lot coverage”, “side yard setback”). 34 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
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
- 90 Northline Rd · 270 m · Approved on 2026-06-03To alter the existing one-storey non-residential building (industrial and commercial uses) by constructing a rear one-storey addition (for industrial use) with access stairs.File A0292/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 1654-1660 O'Connor Dr · 360 m · Refused on 2026-01-28 · ParkingTo construct a new seven-storey detached building (public self-storage warehouse and office space). There will be a total of 8 surface parking spaces on this lot.File A0885/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 25 Tisdale Ave · 390 m · Approved on 2023-11-23Proposal for a rear addition.File A0536/23NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 22 Warner Ave · 480 m · Approved on 2022-10-06Proposal to legalize and maintain existing rear one-storey enclosed sunroom.File A0493/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 32 Cranfield Rd · 480 m · Approved on 2026-10-07 · ParkingTo alter the existing one-storey commercial building (public self-storage warehouse) which is currently under construction (Building Permit 20 25 204049 BLD 00 BA), by…File A0586/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre