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.
3384 Lake Shore Blvd 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 | 70 | 63% | 63% | 0% | 31% | 6% | 14 weeks |
| Ward 3, last 5 years | 1,168 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 9% | 3% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 125 | 68% | 68% | 0% | 26% | 6% | 14 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 25 | 96% |
| Building height | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 22 | 86% |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 11 | 100% |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 25 | 96% |
| Rear yard setback | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 6 | too few decisions to estimate | 53 | 85% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 9 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 9 | 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”). 108 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 85 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
- 53 Fairfield Ave · 100 m · Approved on 2025-07-10To construct a new semi-detached dwelling with an attached garage.File A0141/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 53 Fairfield Ave · 100 m · Approved on 2025-07-10To construct a new semi-detached dwelling with an attached garage.File A0142/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 78 Fairfield Ave · 100 m · Approved on 2023-06-22To construct a new detached dwelling with an attached garage.File A0205/23EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 10 Phlox Ave · 130 m · Approved on 2025-04-03To construct a new detached dwelling with an attached garage.File A0069/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 39 Fairfield Ave · 150 m · Withdrawn on 2022-12-06 · ParkingTo legalize and maintain the three additional dwelling units that were constructed within the existing building. To construct a two-storey rear addition and a new rear deck.The…File A0205/19EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre