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.
1183 St Clair Ave W, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 9, last 3 years | 388 | 93% | 93% | 0% | 6% | 2% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 89 | 96% | 96% | 0% | 2% | 2% | 11 weeks |
| Ward 9, last 5 years | 779 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 6% | 2% | 14 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 194 | 91% | 91% | 0% | 8% | 2% | 14 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 9 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 14 | 100% |
| Building height | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 24 | 100% |
| 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 | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 20 | 80% | 99 | 92% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 7 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 37 | 86% | 154 | 86% |
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”). 142 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 176 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
- 26 Mackay Ave · 50 m · Approved on 2022-08-31To legalize and to maintain the existing rear detached garage which was constructed without the benefit of a permit.File A0570/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 1640 Dufferin St · 140 m · Approved on 2021-11-17To convert the existing single family, two-storey detached dwelling into a two-unit, three-storey detached dwelling by constructing a rear two-storey addition, a full third-storey…File A0947/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 43 Norton Ave · 140 m · Refused on 2022-05-04To construct a rear detached garage.File A1096/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 156 Rosemount Ave · 160 m · Approved on 2022-02-09To legalize and maintain a front basement walkout of the existing 2½-storey semi-detached dwelling.File A1295/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 1626 Dufferin St · 180 m · Approved on 2022-04-27 · ParkingTo convert the existing triplex into a fourplex. The proposal includes constructing a fourth storey addition with front and rear balconies. Also, the garage will be converted for…File A0812/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre