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.
9 Fairmeadow Ave, 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| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |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 15, last 3 years | 380 | 93% | 89% | 4% | 5% | 2% | 8 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 43 | 86% | 86% | 0% | 7% | 7% | 8 weeks |
| Ward 15, last 5 years | 819 | 93% | 90% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 80 | 89% | 88% | 1% | 6% | 5% | 9 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 Withdrawn applications have no hearing.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 15 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 7 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 14 | 100% |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | 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 | 33 | 91% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | 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 | 20 | 75% |
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”). 77 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
1 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
- 166 Lord Seaton Rd · 90 m · Approved on 2025-07-24To legalize two recently built sheds in the rear yard.File A0250/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 166 Lord Seaton Rd · 90 m · Approved on 2023-02-02Proposal to construct a new 2 storey detached dwelling with integral garageFile A0741/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 166 Lord Seaton Rd · 90 m · Refused on 2022-09-08Proposal to construct a new two storey single family dwelling with integral garage.File A0420/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 125 Lord Seaton Rd · 130 m · Approved on 2026-04-30To construct a new two-storey detached dwelling with a rear second storey balcony.File A0109/26NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 129 Lord Seaton Rd · 150 m · Approved with conditions on 2022-12-07Proposal to construct a new dwelling.File A0269/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre