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.
181 Bedford Rd, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 | 139 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 9% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 11, last 5 years | 892 | 89% | 89% | <1% | 7% | 4% | 13 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 236 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 10% | 3% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 | 19 | 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 | 39 | 82% | 111 | 86% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 13 | 54% | 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”). 167 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 205 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
- 287 Davenport Rd · 50 m · Approved on 2025-10-15 · Floor space index / gross floor areaTo alter the development standards for a 13-storey mixed-use building (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 314-2023), by increasing the total non-residential gross floor…File A0658/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 60 Bernard Ave · 130 m · Approved on 2024-07-31To alter the existing two-and-one-half-storey detached dwelling by constructing a new rear ground floor addition with a terrace above.File A0413/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 241 Bedford Rd · 160 m · Approved on 2023-05-17To alter the existing three-storey apartment building by constructing a rear (north) three-storey addition, a fourth storey addition, a front terrace with exterior stairs, front…File A0439/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 350 Davenport Rd · 180 m · Approved on 2022-03-30 · Building heightTo alter the re-development plan for a new 8-storey mixed-use building, by increasing the height and floor space area of the building. Previous approvals have been granted by the…File A1493/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 115 Dupont St · 190 m · Approved on 2023-11-08 · Building heightTo alter the five-storey office building, abutting the laneway, approved in OMB Decision MM160069 (Case No. PL170944) by reducing the height of the first storey.File A0796/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre