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.
238 Simcoe St, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 10, last 3 years | 169 | 93% | 93% | 0% | 3% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 59 | 95% | 95% | 0% | 3% | 2% | 11 weeks |
| Ward 10, last 5 years | 279 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 12 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 97 | 97% | 97% | 0% | 2% | 1% | 14 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 10 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 12 | 92% | 20 | 90% |
| Building height | 11 | 91% | 19 | 89% |
| 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 | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 23 | 96% | 57 | 89% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 2 | 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 | 5 | too few decisions to estimate | 27 | 93% |
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 94 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
- 292 Dundas St W · 180 m · Approved on 2026-03-04 · ParkingTo alter the parking length standard for one residential parking space (Unit 11) on Parking Level 1 of the 32-storey mixed-use building, containing three levels of below grade…File A0010/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 292 Dundas St W · 180 m · Approved on 2023-12-13 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards for a 32-storey mixed-use building (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-laws 441-2021 and 442-2021 (LPAT), and By-Laws 438-86 and…File A0944/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 203 Dundas St W · 190 m · Approved on 2024-10-16To construct a new 12-storey mixed-use building with a total of 30 residential dwelling units and two non-residential (commercial) units on this lot. The property owner will be…File A0697/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 481 University Ave · 200 m · Approved on 2023-03-08 · ParkingTo permit the reduction of residential and non-residential parking spaces provided within the 54-storey mixed-use building, approved under Site Plan Control Application (File…File A1339/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 200 Elm St · 330 m · Approved on 2023-01-11To convert the existing ground floor commercial space into nine (9) residential dwelling units. This 13-storey building will have a total of 127 residential dwelling units.File A1068/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre