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.
89 Seaton 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 13, last 3 years | 105 | 96% | 96% | 0% | 2% | 2% | 11 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 71 | 97% | 97% | 0% | 3% | 0% | 12 weeks |
| Ward 13, last 5 years | 196 | 95% | 95% | 0% | 4% | 2% | 14 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 129 | 95% | 95% | 0% | 5% | 0% | 15 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 13 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 8 | too few decisions to estimate | 16 | 100% |
| Building height | 8 | too few decisions to estimate | 13 | 100% |
| 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 | 30 | 93% | 39 | 92% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 4 | too few decisions to estimate |
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”). 92 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 122 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
- 230 Ontario St · 70 m · Approved on 2022-08-10To alter the existing one-storey townhouse by constructing a two-storey rear addition, including a basement addition.File A0469/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 139 Seaton St · 120 m · Approved on 2023-02-15To alter the existing two-and-one-half-storey townhouse dwelling by constructing a front basement walkout entrance.File A1186/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 270 Milan St · 170 m · Approved on 2022-11-23 · ParkingTo eliminate the obligation to maintain not less than four parking spaces on the lands municipally known as 393 Dundas Street East for the exclusive use of the occupants and…File A1180/22TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 238 Berkeley St · 170 m · Approved on 2024-01-24To construct a four-storey townhouse dwelling with a front integral garage, a front fourth floor balcony, a rear second floor deck, and rear Juliet balconies on the third and…File A0297/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 238 Berkeley St · 170 m · Approved on 2024-01-24To construct a four-storey townhouse dwelling with a front integral garage, a front fourth floor balcony, a rear second floor deck, and rear Juliet balconies on the third and…File A0298/23TEY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre