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.
567 Rogers Rd, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 5, last 3 years | 267 | 88% | 88% | 0% | 7% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 48 | 85% | 85% | 0% | 10% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 5, last 5 years | 492 | 88% | 88% | 0% | 7% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 95 | 88% | 88% | 0% | 9% | 2% | 11 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 5 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 5 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 5 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Lot coverage | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 6 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 5 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 13 | 92% |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 6 | too few decisions to estimate | 11 | 100% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 14 | 79% | 48 | 77% |
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”). 71 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 84 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
- 571 Rogers Rd · 10 m · Approved on 2025-08-28To construct a second storey addition above the existing dwelling. The altered dwelling will be a fourplex.File A0272/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 70 Regent St · 40 m · Refused on 2024-08-29To convert the existing duplex into a fourplex and to construct a two-storey rear addition.File A0231/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 1621 Keele St · 110 m · Approved on 2023-03-23 · Side yard setbackTo construct a new detached garage in the rear yard. A previous Committee of Adjustment application (A410/09EYK) approved variances relating to side yard setbacks, porch and…File A0473/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 116 Regent St · 110 m · Approved on 2022-06-30To construct a two-storey front addition, a two-storey rear addition with a roof top deck and a second and third addition above the existing dwelling.File A0297/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 116 Regent St · 110 m · Refused on 2022-03-24To construct a two-storey front addition, a two-storey rear addition with a roof top deck and a second and third addition above the existing dwelling.File A0532/21EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre