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.
799 Sheppard Ave W, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 | 42 | 95% | 93% | 2% | 5% | 0% | 8 weeks |
| Ward 6, last 5 years | 345 | 92% | 88% | 4% | 8% | 1% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 75 | 95% | 92% | 3% | 5% | 0% | 10 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 2 | 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 | 5 | too few decisions to estimate | 21 | 90% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 5 | 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 | 3 | 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”). 62 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
2 of 71 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
- 146 Alexis Blvd · 70 m · Approved on 2022-09-22Proposal to construct a rear yard cabana and covered patio.File A0463/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 126 Gorman Park Rd · 70 m · Refused on 2026-09-17 · Lot frontage / lot areaTo construct a three-storey detached fourplex on the proposed undersized lot. File Numbers B0014/26NY, A0230/26NY & A0237/26NY will be considered jointly.File A0230/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 126 Gorman Park Rd · 70 m · Refused on 2026-09-17 · Lot frontage / lot areaTo construct a three-storey detached fourplex on the proposed undersized lot. File Numbers B0014/26NY, A0230/26NY & A0237/26NY will be considered jointly.File A0237/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 800 Sheppard Ave W · 80 m · Approved on 2026-10-15To permit the expansion of the a professional medical office use to be located in Units 7, 8 and 9 on the ground floor of the existing building.File A0318/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 824 Sheppard Ave W · 160 m · Approved on 2026-01-22 · Building height, ParkingTo alter the development standards (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 320-2022) for the 12-storey mixed use building including reducing the residential and visitor…File A0502/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre