Development application · Site Plan Approval (SA)

Development application 25 190414 ESC 20 SA

Ward 20 · Parthi KandavelDataset pageCity application pageReport an error on this page

Status: Closed; Closed (outcome not recorded)
Submitted: 8 July 2025; No appeal recorded
Linked lobbying registrations: 0; None published
Communications on linked registrations: 0

Application record

Type: Site Plan Approval (SA)
Addresses: 2535 Gerrard St E
Ward: Ward 20 · Parthi Kandavel
Submitted: 8 July 2025
Status: Closed
Outcome recorded: Closed (outcome not recorded)
Decision date: Not recorded in the open data
Appealed: No appeal recorded
Related file: 25 150915 ESC 20 OZ

Source: City of Toronto open data (Development Applications; Committee of Adjustment Applications). Dataset page · City application page

Description

The proposal for a 1,749 square metre homeless shelter will comprise of: a renovation of the1,080 square metre portion of former warehouse building to remain (currently vacant), and a 669square metre addition (641sm of addition + 28 sm new building cladding) to provide 19 bedsittingrooms, which will accommodate approximately 80 adults of all genders, including couplesexperiencing homelessness.

Linked lobbying registrations

No published lobbying registrations are linked to this application.

Other registrations that mention this application's addresses

Text matches on the address only. They are not linked to this application unless listed above.

Symmetry Developments Inc.
SM21012 · 10 November 2014 · “2535 Gerrard Street East.”
Symmetry Developments Inc.
SM21028 · 10 November 2014 · “2535 Gerrard Street East”

Comparison with similar applications

Lobbied applications are compared only with unlobbied applications of the same type, in the same ward, submitted in the same year and of the same size band (units or floor area from the description; sub-type for Committee of Adjustment files). Unlobbied applications are weighted to match the lobbied group. Raw lobbied versus unlobbied averages are not reported.

Site Plan Approval (SA), Ward 20

11 lobbied · 34 matched

Hidden: fewer than 20 applications in the lobbied or the matched unlobbied group.

Site Plan Approval (SA), City-wide

449 lobbied · 1,237 matched

Median days

Lobbied—
Matched, unlobbied727

Approval rate

Lobbied100% n=61
Matched, unlobbied97% n=96

Refusal rate

Lobbied0%
Matched, unlobbied3%

Appeal rate

Lobbied4%
Matched, unlobbied3%

Data table· 4 rows

Site Plan Approval (SA), Ward 20: 11 lobbied and 34 matched unlobbied applications in 9 matched strata
Group	n	Median days	Approval rate	Refusal rate	Appeal rate	Council items
Lobbied	11	Hidden: fewer than 20 applications in the lobbied or the matched unlobbied group.
Matched, unlobbied	34	Hidden: fewer than 20 applications in the lobbied or the matched unlobbied group.

Site Plan Approval (SA), City-wide: 449 lobbied and 1,237 matched unlobbied applications in 307 matched strata
Group	n	Median days	Approval rate	Refusal rate	Appeal rate	Council items
Lobbied	449	—	100% (n=61)	0%	4%	0.07
Matched, unlobbied	1,237	727	97% (n=96)	3%	3%	0.04

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Large and complex applications attract both lobbying and longer reviews, and matching cannot remove every difference between applications, so a difference does not show that lobbying changed how an application was reviewed.

Lobbyists choose whom to contact, so a difference does not show a change of mind.