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.
40 Ft York Blvd, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 | 25 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 10, last 5 years | 279 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 12 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 50 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 10 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 9 | too few decisions to estimate | 20 | 90% |
| Building height | 8 | 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 | 18 | 89% | 57 | 89% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 2 | 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”). 28 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 46 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
- 480 Front St W · 250 m · Approved on 2022-09-21To permit a new eating establishment with an entertainment area (bowling alley) on Level P2 of Building D ("The Well").File A0837/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 530 Front St W · 310 m · Approved on 2024-06-12 · Parking, Lot frontage / lot areaTo permit the undersized loading spaces (Type C) in the parking level of a 15 storey mixed-use building (currently under construction).File A0335/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 485 Wellington St W · 380 m · Refused on 2026-10-07 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards for the mixed-use building (stepping up to 14-storeys (45 m), as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 1247-2022 (OLT), by increasing the…File A0506/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 462 Wellington St W · 450 m · Approved on 2025-03-26 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards for the 15-storey (50 m) mixed-use building (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-Law 1047-2022), by increasing the overall height, number…File A0997/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 422 Wellington St W · 450 m · Approved on 2022-08-24To alter the existing three-storey building by constructing a three-storey rear addition with a patio area.File A0528/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre