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.
1656 Eglinton 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 8, last 3 years | 517 | 92% | 87% | 5% | 8% | <1% | 7 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 128 | 89% | 85% | 4% | 9% | 2% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 8, last 5 years | 997 | 93% | 90% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 232 | 91% | 89% | 3% | 7% | 2% | 12 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 8 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 38 | 95% |
| 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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 29 | 97% | 35 | 97% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 9 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 52 | 87% | 47 | 94% |
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”). 154 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
6 of 212 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
- 101 Livingstone Ave · 120 m · Approved on 2026-10-15 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a three-storey detached fourplex in conjunction with a two-storey laneway suite at the rear of the property.File A0314/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 625 Glenholme Ave · 170 m · Approved on 2021-11-03To construct a new two-storey detached dwelling with an integral garage, front porch, rear deck and rear basement walkout.File A0161/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 71 Livingstone Ave · 220 m · Approved on 2023-05-11 · ParkingTo construct front, rear and 2nd floor additions, front yard walk-out, decks, rear parking and interior alterations to convert dwelling to 3 units.File A0176/23NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 617 Glenholme Ave · 220 m · Approved on 2023-05-31To alter the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a third storey addition with a rear third storey deck, and to install a secondary suite within the basement…File A0926/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 189 Livingstone Ave · 220 m · Approved on 2022-12-07 · Garden or laneway suiteProposal for a detached garage laneway suite.File A0681/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre