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.
6200 Bathurst 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 6, last 3 years | 179 | 92% | 87% | 5% | 7% | 1% | 7 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 6 | too few decisions to estimate | too few decisions to estimate | ||||
| Ward 6, last 5 years | 345 | 92% | 88% | 4% | 8% | 1% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 11 | 73% | 64% | 9% | 27% | 0% | 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 6 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | too few decisions to estimate |
| 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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 21 | 90% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | 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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 16 | 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”). 9 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
1 of 8 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
- 3 Renoak Dr · 620 m · Refused on 2025-05-29 · ParkingTo permit 4 parking spaces on the existing driveway, located in the front yard.File A0127/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 42 Lissom Cres · 640 m · Approved on 2024-05-23 · Garden or laneway suiteProposal to construct a new two-storey garden suite in the rear yard of an existing single family detached dwelling.File A0113/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 40 Crispin Cres · 670 m · Approved with conditions on 2026-08-06To legalize and maintain the (under construction) enclosed deck/sunroom addition to the rear of the semi-detached dwelling.File A0187/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 341 Moore Park Ave · 690 m · Approved on 2023-03-23Proposal to construct a new single family dwellingFile A0782/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 45 Lissom Cres · 690 m · Refused on 2025-07-24To construct and permit a Place of Worship.File A0225/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre