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.
502 Jane 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 4, last 3 years | 399 | 90% | 90% | 0% | 5% | 5% | 9 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 102 | 89% | 89% | 0% | 4% | 7% | 9 weeks |
| Ward 4, last 5 years | 798 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 13 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 180 | 90% | 90% | 0% | 4% | 6% | 13 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 4 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 8 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 15 | 93% |
| 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 | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 23 | 78% | 114 | 86% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 1 | 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 | 21 | 71% | 66 | 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”). 134 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 162 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
- 27 Watson Ave · 70 m · Approved on 2022-03-02To alter the existing one-storey detached dwelling by constructing a complete second storey addition and rear first storey deck.File A1439/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 25 Watson Ave · 70 m · Withdrawn on 2023-05-10 · ParkingTo construct a new two-storey detached dwelling with a front porch, a rear ground floor deck, and a front yard parking pad.File A0180/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 482 St John's Rd · 70 m · Approved on 2025-04-23To alter the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a rear second storey addition (partially cantilevered).File A0164/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 30 Watson Ave · 100 m · Approved on 2025-10-22To alter the existing two-storey detached dwelling by constructing a side (north) two-storey addition with a basement, and a front staircase. The existing one-storey side (north)…File A0674/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 457 St John's Rd · 150 m · Approved on 2022-01-26To alter the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a three-storey rear addition, third storey addition, third storey rear balcony and a first storey rear deck.File A0796/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre