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.
1275 Finch 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 6, last 3 years | 179 | 92% | 87% | 5% | 7% | 1% | 7 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 8 | too few decisions to estimate | too few decisions to estimate | ||||
| Ward 6, last 5 years | 345 | 92% | 88% | 4% | 8% | 1% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 10 | 80% | 80% | 0% | 10% | 10% | too 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.
| Category | Within 1 km | Approved | Ward 6 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | 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 | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 21 | 90% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 5 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 16 | 88% |
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”). 7 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 8 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
- 1275 Finch Ave W · 0 m · Approved on 2025-03-06 · ParkingTo add office use to the list of permitted use and remove the parking requirement for office, retail, medical office and labratory use.File A0622/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 25 Tangiers Rd · 90 m · Refused on 2026-05-21To convert unit 3, of the existing warehouse, into an indoor go-kart, recreational use.File A0125/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 3915 Keele St · 290 m · Approved on 2025-08-14To alter the existing commercial building by constructing a one-storey addition (storage space) on the north side of the building.File A0278/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 3905 Keele St · 310 m · Approved on 2024-11-07 · ParkingThe proposal to request a relief from minimum number of parking required for a day nursery with outdoor play areas.(The application was deferred from the hearing of 15 August 2024)File A0346/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 24 Romfield Dr · 560 m · Approved on 2024-01-18To enclose the existing carport.File A0487/23EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre