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.
2936 Dundas St W, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 4, last 3 years | 399 | 90% | 90% | 0% | 5% | 5% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 84 | 88% | 88% | 0% | 10% | 2% | 9 weeks |
| Ward 4, last 5 years | 798 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 13 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 160 | 91% | 91% | 0% | 6% | 3% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 4 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 8 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 7 | too few decisions to estimate | 15 | 93% |
| 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 | 27 | 81% | 114 | 86% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 5 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 19 | 79% | 66 | 88% |
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”). 115 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 145 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
- 2946 Dundas St W · 20 m · Approved on 2026-07-08 · ParkingTo alter the development standards for the eight-storey mixed-use building currently under construction (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-Law 898-2021), by increasing the…File A0344/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 2925 Dundas St W · 60 m · Approved on 2025-05-07To alter the existing mixed-use building by converting Unit 103 from non-residential to residential use.File A1027/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 51 Vine Ave · 80 m · Approved on 2023-01-11To permit office use within this existing two-storey detached building.File A1062/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 85 Vine Ave · 90 m · Approved on 2022-05-25To alter the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a rear first storey addition.File A0238/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 436 Pacific Ave · 130 m · Approved on 2025-11-26 · ParkingTo construct a new three-storey semi-detached building with front and rear basement walkouts, front and rear balconies on the first, second and third storeys, a side (south)…File A0044/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre