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.
235 Yorkland Blvd, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 17, last 3 years | 98 | 89% | 87% | 2% | 8% | 3% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 4 | 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 | 5 | too few decisions to estimate | too few decisions to estimate | ||||
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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 17 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Lot coverage | 0 | 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 | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 9 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 0 | 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”). 5 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 4 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
- 280 Consumers Rd · 670 m · Withdrawn on 2025-09-05To permit a Place of Worship use.File A0306/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 280 Consumers Rd · 670 m · Approved on 2024-09-12Proposal to allow a Medical Clinic as a permitted use.File A0375/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 280 Consumers Rd · 670 m · Approved on 2024-01-18Legal non-conforming condition(s) to be brought into conformity with By-law to support an application for conversion of existing buildings to a standard condominium. No…File A0597/23NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 60 Skyview Cres · 810 m · Approved on 2022-11-03Proposal to construct a new 2-storey dwellingFile A0274/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 53 Brian Dr · 930 m · Approved on 2024-04-25To construct a second floor addition, interior alterations, and convert to a two unit dwelling.File A0099/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre