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.
33 Mill 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 | 23 | 96% | 96% | 0% | 4% | 0% | 14 weeks |
| Ward 10, last 5 years | 279 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 12 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 45 | 91% | 91% | 0% | 9% | 0% | 16 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 20 | 90% |
| Building height | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 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 | 12 | 92% | 57 | 89% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 1 | 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 | 0 | 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”). 32 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 41 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
- 33 Parliament St · 140 m · Approved on 2023-09-06 · ParkingTo alter the development standards (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 389-2023 (OLT)), for a 33-storey mixed-use building, with a 9-storey podium, and three levels of…File A0598/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 31 Parliament St · 160 m · Approved on 2025-02-19 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards for a 41-storey mixed-use building (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-laws 512-2022(OLT) and 513-2022(OLT)) currently under…File A0925/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 14 Eastern Ave · 310 m · Approved on 2026-05-06To permit and construct a second storey rooftop outdoor patio to be used as a children's play area. The existing two-storey non-residential detached building is under renovation…File A0020/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 307 Lake Shore Blvd E · 350 m · Approved on 2025-11-26To permit a studio use (temporarily), as space for workshops, classes, and small group training, within the existing two-storey detached building.File A0723/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 4 Gilead Pl · 360 m · Approved on 2026-09-09The existing one-storey and two-storey commercial buildings (retail and daycare) will be maintained and unaltered.File A0249/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre