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.
1745 Bathurst 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 12, last 3 years | 488 | 91% | 91% | 0% | 6% | 2% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 120 | 93% | 93% | 1% | 4% | 3% | 9 weeks |
| Ward 12, last 5 years | 904 | 91% | 91% | 0% | 6% | 3% | 13 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 230 | 92% | 91% | 1% | 4% | 4% | 11 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 12 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 15 | 87% |
| Building height | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 28 | 79% |
| 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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 21 | 95% | 143 | 88% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 11 | 73% |
| Building length / depth | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 6 | too few decisions to estimate | 61 | 77% |
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”). 201 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
2 of 211 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
- 2010 Bathurst St · 100 m · Approved on 2025-10-22To alter the development standards for an 8-storey mixed-use building (approved under Site Specific Zoning By-Law 1543-2019) by constructing a vestibule, for the elevator on the…File A0602/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 14 Rosemary Lane · 110 m · Approved on 2024-03-27 · Lot frontage / lot areaTo alter the existing two-storey detached dwelling by constructing a rear two-storey addition with a rear second storey balcony, a third floor dormer addition, a rear attached…File A0120/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 35 Peveril Hill N · 130 m · Approved on 2024-10-02 · ParkingTo construct a new front yard parking pad, abutting Peveril Hill North, and to reconstruct the front porch and stairs of the existing two-storey detached dwelling.File A0675/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 35 Peveril Hill N · 130 m · Refused on 2024-07-03 · ParkingTo construct a parking pad in the front yard of the property containing a two-storey detached dwelling.File A0438/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 108 Dewbourne Ave · 150 m · Approved on 2023-05-31To alter the existing two-storey detached dwelling by constructing a new second storey rear deck with a side (west) exterior staircase.File A0246/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre