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.
3073 Bloor 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 3, last 3 years | 647 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 9% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 97 | 94% | 94% | 0% | 2% | 4% | 8 weeks |
| Ward 3, last 5 years | 1,168 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 9% | 3% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 181 | 93% | 93% | 0% | 4% | 3% | 8 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 3 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 5 | too few decisions to estimate | 25 | 96% |
| Building height | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 22 | 86% |
| Lot coverage | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 11 | 100% |
| Front yard setback | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 25 | 96% |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 12 | 100% | 53 | 85% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 9 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 6 | too few decisions to estimate | 50 | 76% |
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”). 159 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 169 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
- 3100 Bloor St W · 120 m · Approved on 2024-08-15 · ParkingTo permit a parking deficiency that will accomodate a new 16-storey mixed-use building. A previous Committee of Adjustment Decision (A0311/23EYK) approved variances related to a…File A0262/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 3100 Bloor St W · 120 m · Approved on 2023-09-14 · ParkingTo permit parking deficiencies that will accommodate a new 16-storey mixed-use building.File A0311/23EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 9 Cosmo Rd · 150 m · Approved on 2022-12-08To construct a second storey addition above the existing dwellingFile A0516/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 39 Thompson Ave · 150 m · Approved on 2021-12-09To construct a new detached dwelling with an attached garage.File A0525/19EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 48 Thompson Ave · 160 m · Approved on 2025-08-28To construct a two-storey rear and south side addition, and a deck in the rear yard.File A0281/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre