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.
146 Cumberland St, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 11, last 3 years | 480 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 8% | 5% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 103 | 84% | 84% | 0% | 11% | 5% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 11, last 5 years | 892 | 89% | 89% | <1% | 7% | 4% | 13 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 178 | 85% | 85% | 0% | 11% | 4% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 11 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 20 | 95% | 26 | 92% |
| Building height | 26 | 92% | 37 | 95% |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | 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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 32 | 84% | 111 | 86% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 11 | 64% | 113 | 80% |
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”). 115 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 151 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
- 128 Cumberland St · 60 m · Withdrawn on 2024-11-25To alter the existing three storey commercial building by constructing a new exit stair on the roof.File A0939/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 110 Bloor St W · 90 m · Approved on 2023-03-08To alter the existing mixed-use building by replacing the two-storey glazed rotunda into a new two-storey rectangular entrance, on the north side of the ground floor.File A1355/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 130 Bloor St W · 100 m · Approved on 2024-06-19 · ParkingTo alter the existing 22-storey mixed-use building by reducing the amount of parking spaces provided in the underground parking garage.File A0397/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 130 Bloor St W · 100 m · Approved on 2023-07-26To alter the existing ramps for pedestrian access for two existing retail units (114 and 115) by increasing the slopes.File A0487/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 155 Yorkville Ave · 110 m · Withdrawn on 2023-09-07To alter the existing 32-storey mixed-use building by constructing a canopy over the front residential entrance of the building.File A0741/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre