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.
59 Cameron 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 10, last 3 years | 169 | 93% | 93% | 0% | 3% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 98 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 6% | 2% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 10, last 5 years | 279 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 4% | 4% | 12 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 169 | 91% | 91% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 10 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 13 | 85% | 20 | 90% |
| Building height | 12 | 83% | 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 | 33 | 88% | 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 | 17 | 82% | 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”). 115 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 154 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
- 184 Spadina Ave · 90 m · Refused on 2025-12-03 · Floor space index / gross floor area, Building heightTo alter the development standards (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 762-2023) for a new 14 and 15-storey hotel building (east tower fronting Spadina Avenue, and west…File A0646/25TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 52 Phoebe St · 150 m · Approved on 2026-03-11To alter the existing two-and-one-half-storey townhouse dwelling by constructing a rear third storey addition with a balcony (above the existing rear two-storey portion of the…File A0016/26TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 50 Phoebe St · 160 m · Approved on 2025-02-19To construct a front basement walkout with stairs.File A1070/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 25 Augusta Ave · 170 m · Approved on 2023-05-31To construct a new four-storey residential building with a canopy on the north side wall. This building will be located at the rear of the existing three-storey heritage…File A0357/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 485 Queen St W · 220 m · Approved on 2025-01-29 · ParkingTo alter the existing three-storey semi-detached building by constructing three residential dwelling units (on the third floor). The existing retail space on the ground floor and…File A1012/24TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre