Committee of Adjustment application · Minor variance (MV)

Committee of Adjustment application A0849/25TEY

Ward 11 · Dianne SaxeDataset pageReport an error on this page

Status: Closed; Approved
Submitted: 17 November 2025; No appeal recorded
Linked lobbying registrations: 0; None published
Communications on linked registrations: 0

Application record

Type: Minor variance (MV)
Addresses: 130 Elizabeth St
Ward: Ward 11 · Dianne Saxe
Submitted: 17 November 2025
Status: Closed
Outcome recorded: Approved
Hearing date: 14 January 2026
Decision: Approved
Objection at the hearing: Not recorded
Appealed: No appeal recorded

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

Description

To alter the development standards (as approved under Site Specific Zoning By-law 588-2025) for a new 15-storey mixed-use building (East Block fronting Bay Street), by increasing the podium portions of the building heights, equipment height projections, and reducing the minimum height of the first storey. Also, the new 43-storey mixed-use building (West Block fronting Elizabeth Street) will be reducing the size of one parking space length. This is currently being reviewed under Site Plan Control (File Number 20 25 197844 STE 11 SA). There will be a total of 827 purpose-built rental units on this lot (617 residential dwelling units, and 210 affordable dwelling units).

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.

None.

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.

Minor variance (MV), Ward 11

16 lobbied · 354 matched

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

Minor variance (MV), City-wide

173 lobbied · 3,646 matched

Median days

Lobbied126
Matched, unlobbied114

Approval rate

Lobbied75% n=154
Matched, unlobbied91% n=3,058

Refusal rate

Lobbied25%
Matched, unlobbied9%

Appeal rate

Lobbied19%
Matched, unlobbied4%

Objection rate

Lobbied43%
Matched, unlobbied27%

Data table· 4 rows

Minor variance (MV), Ward 11: 16 lobbied and 354 matched unlobbied applications in 9 matched strata
Group	n	Median days	Approval rate	Refusal rate	Appeal rate	Objection rate
Lobbied	16	Hidden: fewer than 20 applications in the lobbied or the matched unlobbied group.
Matched, unlobbied	354	Hidden: fewer than 20 applications in the lobbied or the matched unlobbied group.

Minor variance (MV), City-wide: 173 lobbied and 3,646 matched unlobbied applications in 103 matched strata
Group	n	Median days	Approval rate	Refusal rate	Appeal rate	Objection rate
Lobbied	173	126	75% (n=154)	25%	19%	43%
Matched, unlobbied	3,646	114	91% (n=3,058)	9%	4%	27%

Submission to hearing. Approval and refusal rates are among applications with a recorded decision.

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.