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.

1935 Weston 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”.

Decisions and outcomes
Where and whenDecisionsApproved (all)ApprovedWith conditionsRefusedWithdrawnTypical time
Ward 5, last 3 years26788%88%0%7%4%10 weeks
Within 1 km, last 3 years2879%79%0%21%0%10 weeks
Ward 5, last 5 years49288%88%0%7%4%10 weeks
Within 1 km, last 5 years6986%86%0%12%3%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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.

By category named in the application (last 5 years)
CategoryWithin 1 kmApprovedWard 5Approved
Floor space index / gross floor area1too few decisions to estimate5too few decisions to estimate
Building height0too few decisions to estimate5too few decisions to estimate
Lot coverage0too few decisions to estimate6too few decisions to estimate
Front yard setback0too few decisions to estimate5too few decisions to estimate
Side yard setback1too few decisions to estimate1392%
Rear yard setback0too few decisions to estimate3too few decisions to estimate
Parking2too few decisions to estimate11100%
Lot frontage / lot area0too few decisions to estimate3too few decisions to estimate
Building length / depth0too few decisions to estimate2too few decisions to estimate
Garden or laneway suite8too few decisions to estimate4877%

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

Conditions

0 of 59 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

  1. 1935 Weston Rd · 0 m · Approved on 2023-04-27 · ParkingTo permit a parking deficiency.File A0160/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  2. 2105 Lawrence Ave W · 170 m · Approved on 2022-11-10To construct an attached garage and storage structure. To convert the dwelling into two units.File A0483/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  3. 87-89 Rosemount Ave · 250 m · Approved on 2022-07-28To permit a triplex within the existing dwelling.File A0078/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  4. 87-89 Rosemount Ave · 250 m · Approved on 2022-07-28To maintain the existing six unit apartment building and to construct an addition two dwelling units in the basement.File A0079/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
  5. 14 King Street Cres · 280 m · Approved on 2023-12-07To construct a new detached dwelling with a carport.File A0439/23EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre

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