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.
214 Chambers 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 9, last 3 years | 388 | 93% | 93% | 0% | 6% | 2% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 60 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 7% | 2% | 11 weeks |
| Ward 9, last 5 years | 779 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 6% | 2% | 14 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 126 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 6% | 2% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 9 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 14 | 100% |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 24 | 100% |
| Lot coverage | 2 | 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 | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 15 | 93% | 99 | 92% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 7 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 21 | 86% | 154 | 86% |
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”). 90 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 116 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
- 214 Chambers Ave · 0 m · Approved on 2025-07-09 · ParkingTo construct a new three-storey semi-detached apartment building with front and rear balconies on the second and third storeys, a rear ground floor deck, a rear basement walkout…File A0508/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 212 Chambers Ave · 10 m · Approved on 2025-07-09 · ParkingTo construct a new three-storey semi-detached apartment building with front and rear balconies on the second and third storeys, a rear ground floor deck, a rear basement walkout…File A0509/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 451 Rogers Rd · 50 m · Approved on 2026-05-27 · ParkingTo construct a new four-storey semi-detached mixed-use building (with a mezzanine level above the ground floor and cantilevered portions of the second, third and fourth storeys at…File A0127/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 449 Rogers Rd · 50 m · Approved on 2026-05-27 · ParkingTo construct a new four-storey semi-detached mixed-use building (with a mezzanine level above the ground floor and cantilevered portions of the second, third and fourth storeys at…File A0139/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 176 Rosethorn Ave · 150 m · Approved on 2022-05-18To alter the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a new front porch and a front basement walkout and converting the basement into a secondary suite.File A1192/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre