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.
50 Yorkville Ave, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 11, last 3 years | 480 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 8% | 5% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 117 | 86% | 86% | 0% | 9% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 11, last 5 years | 892 | 89% | 89% | <1% | 7% | 4% | 13 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 204 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 9% | 4% | 12 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 11 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 24 | 96% | 26 | 92% |
| Building height | 30 | 97% | 37 | 95% |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 38 | 87% | 111 | 86% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 11 | 64% | 113 | 80% |
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”). 135 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 177 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
- 50 Yorkville Ave · 1 m · Approved on 2025-03-26To alter the existing 52-storey mixed-use building (approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 331-2006) by converting the southeast and southwest terraces on the penthouse level…File A0063/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 27-29 Yorkville Ave · 60 m · Approved on 2026-07-15 · Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 1050-2015) for the 68-storey mixed-use building (north-east Tower) by increasing the building…File A0350/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 11 Yorkville Ave · 80 m · Approved on 2023-06-14 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building height, ParkingTo alter Site Specific Zoning By-law 1685-2019 for the mixed-use building under construction by increasing the building height and number of storeys shown on Diagram 3 to range…File A0271/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 11 Yorkville Ave · 80 m · Approved on 2022-08-31 · Building heightTo increase the permitted residential height and number of storeys, as cited in Site Specific Zoning By-Law 1685-2019, for a new 62-storey mixed use building to 63-storeys only in…File A0588/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
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