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.
1628 Pharmacy 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 21, last 3 years | 155 | 82% | 82% | 0% | 4% | 14% | 12 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 11 | 91% | 91% | 0% | 0% | 9% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 21, last 5 years | 232 | 84% | 84% | 0% | 4% | 12% | 11 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 16 | 94% | 94% | 0% | 0% | 6% | 10 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 21 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | 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 | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 24 | 92% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | 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 | 12 | 92% |
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”). 14 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 15 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
- 1628 Pharmacy Ave · 0 m · Withdrawn on 2026-03-19To permit a proposed second storey addition and a two-storey rear addition to the existing house, and a partial third storey addition to provide access to a proposed rooftop…File A095/16SC: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 15 Shandon Dr · 280 m · Approved on 2026-08-12To alter the existing one-storey dwelling by constructing a north side yard carport.File A0086/26SC: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 12 Cavehill Cres · 280 m · Approved on 2025-07-09To alter the existing one-storey detached dwelling by constructing a second-storey addition with a deck and a side (north) yard addition with an expanded attached garage and…File A0033/25SC: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 1703 Pharmacy Ave · 370 m · Approved on 2024-04-03To construct a 1-storey rear addition.File A0011/24SC: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 1705 Pharmacy Ave · 390 m · Approved on 2022-03-10To construct a second storey addition to front of dwelling.File A0008/22SC: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre