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.
3910 Bathurst 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 6, last 3 years | 179 | 92% | 87% | 5% | 7% | 1% | 7 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 67 | 99% | 94% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 7 weeks |
| Ward 6, last 5 years | 345 | 92% | 88% | 4% | 8% | 1% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 134 | 95% | 92% | 3% | 5% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 6 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 21 | 90% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 5 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 16 | 88% |
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”). 131 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
4 of 127 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
- 23 Laurelcrest Ave · 180 m · Approved on 2023-02-02Proposal for addition of the second floor , new deck and porch to existing dwellingFile A0729/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 282 Sandringham Dr · 180 m · Approved on 2023-03-23Proposal to construct new 3-storey dwelling with integral garage and rear deck.File A0082/23NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 278 Sandringham Dr · 200 m · Approved on 2023-03-23To construct a rear two storey addition, new one storey side addition behind existing garage, and a new roofed patio at the rear.File A0090/23NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 240 Armour Blvd · 200 m · Approved on 2026-07-09To construct a second storey balcony at the rear of the dwelling.File A0181/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 28 Laurelcrest Ave · 200 m · Approved on 2024-02-15To construct a second storey addition over the existing dwelling, in conjunction with two-storey additions to the rear, front and sides of the existing dwelling. The applicant is…File A0636/23NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre