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.

1264 Weston Rd, 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”.

Decisions and outcomes
Where and whenDecisionsApproved (all)ApprovedWith conditionsRefusedWithdrawnTypical time
Ward 5, last 3 years26788%88%0%7%4%10 weeks
Within 1 km, last 3 years3382%82%0%12%6%12 weeks
Ward 5, last 5 years49288%88%0%7%4%10 weeks
Within 1 km, last 5 years6488%88%0%8%5%11 weeks

Typical time: median from the application date to the hearing at which the Committee decided (approved or refused). Withdrawn applications have no hearing.

By category named in the application (last 5 years)
CategoryWithin 1 kmApprovedWard 5Approved
Floor space index / gross floor area0too few decisions to estimate5too few decisions to estimate
Building height1too few decisions to estimate5too few decisions to estimate
Lot coverage1too few decisions to estimate6too few decisions to estimate
Front yard setback1too few decisions to estimate5too few decisions to estimate
Side yard setback1too few decisions to estimate1392%
Rear yard setback0too few decisions to estimate3too few decisions to estimate
Parking2too few decisions to estimate11100%
Lot frontage / lot area0too few decisions to estimate3too few decisions to estimate
Building length / depth1too few decisions to estimate2too few decisions to estimate
Garden or laneway suite6too few decisions to estimate4877%

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”). 55 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.

Conditions

0 of 56 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 Ray Ave · 80 m · Approved on 2022-04-21To construct a third storey addition above the existing dwelling and a three-storey rear addition.File A0157/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  2. 1284 Weston Rd · 100 m · Approved on 2023-06-08To convert the existing mixed-use building into a medical office.File A0138/23EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  3. 45 Victoria Blvd · 170 m · Approved on 2022-03-10To construct a new detached garage.File A0045/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  4. 15 Oxford Dr · 250 m · Approved on 2022-06-30To maintain the existing ten-storey apartment building.File A0009/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  5. 1320 Weston Rd · 280 m · Approved on 2024-10-10To legalize and to maintain a rear yard deck.File A0349/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre

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