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.
2184 Queen St E, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 19, last 3 years | 402 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 3% | 4% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 86 | 88% | 88% | 0% | 5% | 7% | 9 weeks |
| Ward 19, last 5 years | 858 | 93% | 93% | 0% | 3% | 3% | 14 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 190 | 88% | 88% | 0% | 5% | 6% | 15 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 19 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 6 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 12 | 92% |
| 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 | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 18 | 83% | 115 | 88% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 14 | 100% |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 5 | too few decisions to estimate | 54 | 85% |
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”). 164 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 168 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
- 2343 Queen St E · 90 m · Approved on 2023-08-09 · ParkingTo construct a new five-storey mixed-use building with non-residential uses on the ground floor and a total of 10 residential dwelling units (on levels two to five), with front…File A0248/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 22 Duart Park Rd · 150 m · Refused on 2022-10-26To alter the existing one-storey detached dwelling by constructing a complete second and third storey addition, front and rear balconies on the second and third floor, and a rear…File A0700/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 20 Duart Park Rd · 160 m · Approved on 2022-01-12To construct a new two-storey detached dwelling with a front porch and a second storey balcony as well as a rear deck. Also, to construct an ancillary building (detached garage)…File A1039/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 20 Crown Park Rd · 170 m · Approved on 2023-02-22To alter the existing three-storey detached dwelling by constructing second and third storey additions and a new covered porch (flanking the side and rear). Also, to construct an…File A1265/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 34 Balsam Ave · 180 m · Approved on 2025-10-15To alter the existing two-storey detached dwelling by constructing a rear second storey addition (above a portion of the existing rear ground floor) with a new roof (for the…File A0645/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre