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.
3 Finch Ave 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 18, last 3 years | 325 | 86% | 84% | 3% | 12% | 1% | 8 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 25 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 8 weeks |
| Ward 18, last 5 years | 597 | 89% | 86% | 3% | 11% | 1% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 50 | 100% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 10 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 18 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 13 | 100% |
| Building height | 6 | too few decisions to estimate | 16 | 100% |
| 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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 10 | 100% | 25 | 100% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 38 | 74% |
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”). 37 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
1 of 50 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.
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