Toronto Committee of Adjustment · Open data report
What Toronto’s Committee of Adjustment actually approves
For multiplex builders, architects, and planners: see approval patterns by project type before you pay for drawings.
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Applications matched to a lot
157
Areas with enough cases to compare
At least 10 decided cases
2022–2026
Approval trends shown
Covers applications since 2017. Area rankings use city lot-matched zones, not Toronto’s official neighbourhood boundaries.
Compare by project type
Six project types, one chart each. Pick the lane that matches your build. No filters, no spreadsheets.
Fourplex & multiplex
Toronto’s multiplex policy shows up on COA dockets as four-unit and houseplex variances. Approval rates rose after 2023, but where you build still shapes the outcome.
In 2026, 79% of decided cases were approved (34 cases). Past results do not predict your outcome.
Approval rate by year
2022
92%
2023
100%
2024
82%
2025
83%
2026
79%
Areas with the highest approval rates
- Rockcliffe-Smythe90%10 cases
Decisions are same-day. The wait is not.
For minor variances, nearly all decided cases get an outcome the same day as the hearing. The slow part is getting on the docket: median wait from application to hearing is 85 days. Plan your timeline around queue time, not the hearing itself.
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Methodology
- Built from Toronto Open Data Committee of Adjustment active and closed feeds.
- Charts use the last five years of decisions; the historical feed reaches back to 2017.
- Charts cover minor variance applications classified by project typology.
- Approval rate counts approved and denied outcomes only.
- We hide years with fewer than three decided cases.
- Area rankings require at least 10 decided cases for the selected project type (157 areas qualify today; 158 areas have at least one case in the full dataset).
- Toronto does not publish decision dates; we estimate them from the appeal window under the Planning Act.
Not legal advice. Historical Committee of Adjustment outcomes from public open data; past approval rates do not guarantee future results.
Data as of August 16, 2026.
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