Building permits in Old East York

Permits issued per year

Zoning

Most common zone

RD88.9% of permits · by-law 10.20

In detached-house zones

88.9%50.9% above the city’s 38.0%

Permits with a zone

4,816of 4,946 on record

• Residential4,605 · 96%
• Commercial Residential158 · 3%
• Residential Apartment48 · 1%
• Open Space5 · 0%

The zoning categories the permits in Old East York fall in, under Zoning By-law 569-2013. These are the City's own category names. This counts permits, not land: it says where the building work happened under which rules, not how the area is carved up. What each zone allows, and what gets built in it.

Minor variances at the Committee of Adjustment

Applications on record

418since 2016

Approved

89.9%0.9% below the city · 385 decided

Median time to a decision

147 days27 days slower than the city

Some projects in Old East York need the Committee of Adjustment to approve a minor variance from the zoning by-law before a building permit can be applied for at all. Where that applies, the committee’s clock runs first and the permit wait above starts only once it has stopped. Back to back, that is about 167 days, not the 20 days the permit figure alone suggests. How variances work, and the approval rates.

Most recent permits

The 40 most recent of 4,946 permits on record. Figures come from the City’s active and cleared permit datasets, refreshed daily — what that covers, and what it misses.