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.
15 Violet 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 19, last 3 years | 402 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 3% | 4% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 83 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 5% | 9 weeks |
| Ward 19, last 5 years | 858 | 93% | 93% | 0% | 3% | 3% | 14 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 186 | 90% | 90% | 0% | 4% | 6% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 19 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 6 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 12 | 92% |
| 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 | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 18 | 78% | 115 | 88% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 14 | 100% |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 11 | 82% | 54 | 85% |
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”). 156 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 167 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
- 30 Leuty Ave · 40 m · Approved on 2024-12-11To construct a new three-storey detached dwelling with a covered front porch and stairs, a rear ground floor covered deck with stairs, a portion of the side (south) second and…File A0890/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 43 Leuty Ave · 40 m · Approved on 2022-01-26To alter the existing 2½-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a third storey rear addition and front porch stairs.File A1232/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 41 Leuty Ave · 40 m · Approved on 2025-03-05To alter the existing two-and-one-half-storey detached dwelling by constructing a rear second and third storey addition, a rear two-storey addition with rear stairs, and a rear…File A0048/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 24 Leuty Ave · 60 m · Approved on 2025-06-18To alter the existing two-and-one-half-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a rear two-storey addition with a rear third storey deck above, a rear ground floor deck with…File A0114/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 42-44 Wineva Ave · 80 m · Approved on 2025-11-26The existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling (containing two residential dwelling units) with an attached three-car garage, will be maintained and unaltered.File A0514/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre