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.
185 Bridgeland 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 8, last 3 years | 517 | 92% | 87% | 5% | 8% | <1% | 7 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 29 | 90% | 79% | 10% | 7% | 3% | 11 weeks |
| Ward 8, last 5 years | 997 | 93% | 90% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 51 | 90% | 84% | 6% | 8% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 38 | 95% |
| Lot coverage | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 35 | 97% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 2 | 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 | 6 | too few decisions to estimate | 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”). 39 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
3 of 46 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
- 248-250 Bridgeland Ave · 260 m · Approved on 2023-02-16Proposal to construct a front canopy, and new facades to the existing building.File A0481/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 111 Bridgeland Ave · 300 m · Approved with conditions on 2026-04-16To remove a portion of the existing commercial building and construct a new showroom to facilitate in the conversion to a new (Nissan) Automotive Retail Sales and Service…File A0473/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 2 Northgate Dr · 360 m · Approved with conditions on 2026-04-16To construct a new detached dwelling with an integral garage. Please note, this application was previously deferred at the Committee of Adjustment hearing on September 25, 2025.File A0337/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 22 Deverell Cres · 440 m · Approved on 2026-10-15 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a two-storey ancillary building, containing a garden suite, in the rear yard of the property.File A0298/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 64 Westdale Dr · 500 m · Approved on 2026-03-05To construct a 2 storey rear addition with a covered deck and front porch. 22File A0026/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre