Committees of Adjustment in Ontario routinely impose conditions on minor variance approvals. More often than not, successful applicants for minor variances to applicable zoning by-laws agree with the conditions or are otherwise willing to accept a disagreeable condition in order to obtain an approval.
While Committees have broad statutory authority to impose such conditions, their powers are not unlimited. In Newstrom Investments Inc. v Richmond Hill (City), 2024 CarswellOnt 16624, the Ontario Land Tribunal confirmed the long-standing principle that minor variance conditions must be “reasonably related” to the variance(s) applied for.