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 Swift Dr, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 16, last 3 years | 104 | 93% | 90% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 7 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 8 | too few decisions to estimate | too few decisions to estimate | ||||
| Ward 16, last 5 years | 217 | 96% | 94% | 2% | 3% | <1% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 16 | 94% | 88% | 6% | 6% | 0% | 9 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 16 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 14 | 93% |
| 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 | 7 | 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”). 15 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
1 of 15 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
- 1695 Eglinton Ave E · 230 m · Approved on 2022-11-03Proposed demolition of showroom portion of existing auto dealership and construction of new 2-storey showroom addition.File A0566/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 132 Elvaston Dr · 290 m · Approved on 2022-06-09Proposal to construct a new dwelling.File A0216/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 116 Elvaston Dr · 430 m · Approved on 2026-02-05To construct a second storey addition to the existing dwelling, in conjunction with other interior and exterior alterations.File A0536/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 33 Pitcairn Cres · 460 m · Approved on 2025-05-01To construct a one storey addition, a basement and a new covered porch.File A0126/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 115 Wigmore Dr · 630 m · Approved on 2023-09-14Proposal to construct a second storey addition to the exsiting dwelling.File A0395/23NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre