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.

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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”.

Decisions and outcomes
Where and when	Decisions	Approved (all)	Approved	With conditions	Refused	Withdrawn	Typical time
Ward 17, last 3 years	98	89%	87%	2%	8%	3%	9 weeks
Within 1 km, last 3 years	7	too few decisions to estimate					too few decisions to estimate
Ward 17, last 5 years	182	92%	88%	4%	6%	2%	9 weeks
Within 1 km, last 5 years	11	82%	73%	9%	18%	0%	23 weeks

Typical time: median from the application date to the hearing at which the Committee decided (approved or refused). Withdrawn applications have no hearing.

By category named in the application (last 5 years)
Category	Approved	Ward 17	Approved
Floor space index / gross floor area	too few decisions to estimate	1	too few decisions to estimate
Building height	too few decisions to estimate	3	too few decisions to estimate
Lot coverage	too few decisions to estimate	0	too few decisions to estimate
Front yard setback	too few decisions to estimate	0	too few decisions to estimate
Side yard setback	too few decisions to estimate	0	too few decisions to estimate
Rear yard setback	too few decisions to estimate	1	too few decisions to estimate
Parking	too few decisions to estimate	9	too few decisions to estimate
Lot frontage / lot area	too few decisions to estimate	0	too few decisions to estimate
Building length / depth	too few decisions to estimate	0	too few decisions to estimate
Garden or laneway suite	too few decisions to estimate	2	too few decisions to estimate

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”). 11 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.

Conditions

1 of 9 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

25 Lisburn Cres · 230 m · Approved with conditions on 2023-06-22Proposal for second storey addition, two-storey side addition, single storey rear addition and interior renovationsFile A0628/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
22 Pleasant View Dr · 350 m · Refused on 2026-10-15To construct a new three-storey fourplex dwelling with a rear deck. Files B0006/26NY, A0119/26NY and A0120/26NY will be jointly considered.File A0119/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
22 Pleasant View Dr · 350 m · Refused on 2026-10-15To construct a new three-storey fourplex dwelling with a rear deck. Files B0006/26NY, A0119/26NY and A0120/26NY will be jointly considered.File A0120/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
36 Edmonton Rd · 380 m · Approved on 2025-06-12To Build One New Single-Family Dwelling on Proposed Severed Lot- Part 1. File numbers B0041/24NY A0553/24NY A0554/24NY will be jointly considered.File A0553/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
36 Edmonton Rd · 380 m · Approved on 2025-06-12To Build One New Single Family Dwelling on Proposed Severed Lot- Part 2. File numbers B0041/24NY A0553/24NY A0554/24NY will be jointly considered.File A0554/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre

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