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.
559 College 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 11, last 3 years | 480 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 8% | 5% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 173 | 88% | 88% | 0% | 8% | 3% | 9 weeks |
| Ward 11, last 5 years | 892 | 89% | 89% | <1% | 7% | 4% | 13 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 332 | 90% | 90% | 0% | 7% | 2% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 11 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 26 | 92% |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 37 | 95% |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 30 | 77% | 111 | 86% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 63 | 89% | 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”). 249 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 300 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
- 559 College St · 0 m · Approved on 2023-04-26To maintain the existing five-storey office-use building.File A1181/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 356 Euclid Ave · 70 m · Approved on 2025-10-15To alter the existing two-and-one-half-storey semi-detached dwelling by constructing a rear two-storey addition (including the basement level), a front second floor canopy, a…File A0670/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 583 College St · 80 m · Approved on 2021-11-17To alter the existing two-storey mixed-use building containing one restaurant on the ground floor and one residential unit on the second floor by: expending and converting the…File A0946/21TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 373 Manning Ave · 90 m · Approved on 2025-10-22To construct a new three-storey semi-detached dwelling (fourplex) with a covered front porch with stairs, a front basement walkout, and a rear deck with stairs. This dwelling is…File A0678/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 373 Manning Ave · 90 m · Approved on 2022-02-09 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a semi-detached three-storey triplex with a front porch, a front basement walkout. Also, to construct a rear two-storey laneway suite.File A0661/20TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre