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Building Review

111 Cosburn Ave

Toronto, Ontario M4J

A 3-storey, 36-unit private rental building built in 1955.

Living score
36/100
Built
1955
Units
36
Storeys
3
City inspection
96/100

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Issues & maintenance

Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.

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City bylaw and health cases

1 bylaw investigation at this address since Feb 2025.

A case starts with a complaint or an officer’s visit, so it is not a finding against the building. In a condo, a complaint about one unit is filed under the building’s address.

  • Repairs and upkeep 1
  • Feb 2025

    Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed

    Case 25 113710 PRS 00 IR

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Bylaw investigation activity (open cases, and those closed in the last two years) and residential health hazards.

City building permits

3 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.

  • Alterations 2
  • Plumbing and drains 1
  • Nov 2022

    Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed

    Rev01 - Removal of Washer/Dryer from all the units and conversion as a Closet.Proposed Interior Alterations to a three storey residential building

    Permit 21 186813 BLD

  • Jul 2021

    Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed

    Proposed Interior Alterations to a three storey residential building

    Permit 21 186813 BLD

  • Jun 2018

    Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed

    Proposal to install backflow prevention device.

    Permit 18 177923 PSA · est. $2,000

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Cleared permits and active permits. Contractors are named only on permits filed since 2017.

From City of Toronto open data

Neighbourhood

Living score

36/ 100

Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.

  • Transit54

    44.3 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 6 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Pape (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 1.0 km.

  • Parks & trees2

    2.5 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 200 m. 356 street trees within 300 m.

  • Cycling58

    Within 1 km: 1.25 km of protected lanes, 3.35 km of bike lanes and trails, 2 km of shared routes. 2 Bike Share stations within 500 m.

  • Schools nearby37

    4 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: William Burgess Elementary School, 300 m), plus 1 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.

  • Daily amenities44

    Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 9 licensed child care centres.

  • Road safety10

    9 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 1 fatal. Fewer scores higher.

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Also worth knowing

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Safety

Danforth East York

  • AssaultAbout typical

    Lower than 73 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (73% of the city median).

  • Break and enterAmong the lowest

    Lower than 94 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (45% of the city median).

  • RobberyAmong the lowest

    Lower than 99 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (25% of the city median).

  • Auto theftAbout typical

    Lower than 62 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (88% of the city median).

  • Theft from vehiclesAbout typical

    Higher than 60 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).

  • Theft over $5,000Lower than most

    Lower than 79 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (66% of the city median).

  • Bicycle theftAbout typical

    Lower than 68 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (67% of the city median).

  • ShootingsAbout typical

    Lower than 52 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).

How often police recorded each crime for every resident of the whole neighbourhood, averaged over 2023–2025. Places many people visit but few live in, like downtown, rank high for that reason alone, so this is not part of the living score.

Air

Traffic pollutionLow

Don Valley Parkway, 810 m away

Industrial releases within 1 kmModerate

467 kg a year from 1 facility, mostly Bestway Donlands Cleaners

Bands: traffic is high within 150 m of an expressway and moderate within 500 m; industrial is moderate under a tonne a year and high above. The industrial bands are ours, for orientation only: ChemTRAC totals mix substances of very different toxicity. Releases are self-reported to the City’s ChemTRAC program. For today’s readings see Air Quality Ontario.

Supervised consumption services

Nearest site
Casey House Inpatient Supervised Consumption Services, 3.3 km
Sites within 1 km
0

Sites currently offering services, from Health Canada, updated 2026-09-15. Sites open and close; check the list for current status.

Zoning

Residential Apartment

Category
Apartment
Zone label
RA (d2.0)
Height limit
Set by the zone

Zoning By-law 569-2013, from City of Toronto open data. Exceptions (“x” numbers) and site-specific amendments can change what is allowed; check the City’s zoning map before relying on it.

Nearby change

Open planning applications within 300 m
1
Registered short-term rentals at this address
0
  • 1030 Pape Ave · 90 m away

    Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2024-10-22

    Site Plan Approval for the Cosburn Station as part of the Ontario Line Subway

    City record

Rezonings, site plans and subdivisions submitted in the last five years and still open.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Data as of 2026-10-03. Transit from TTC weekday schedules; parks, trees, cycling, schools, libraries, community centres, child care, collisions, crime, expressways, ChemTRAC releases, planning applications and short-term rental registrations from open.toronto.ca; Bike Share stations from Bike Share Toronto; supervised consumption sites from Health Canada.

From CMHC and the City of Toronto

Rent

Average rents nearby

Monthly rent in purpose-built rental apartments, October 2025.

Average monthly rent by bedroom type
BedroomsEast York zoneToronto region
Studio$1,339$1,491
1 bed$1,578$1,761
2 beds$1,820$2,045
3+ beds$2,178$2,294
All units$1,715$1,917

Averages over every unit, including long tenancies under rent control, so they run below what a new lease costs today. Condominium units rented out by their owners are not included. “-” means too few units were surveyed to publish. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

Rent reductions after property-tax cuts

When a rental property’s tax falls by more than 2.49%, Ontario law cuts its rents by a matching share, and the City writes to the tenants.

The City’s lists for 2014–2025 have no rent-reduction notices for this address.

Source: City of Toronto, Tenant Notification for Rent Reduction, 2014–2025.

Building facts

From the City of Toronto’s RentSafeTO registry, as reported by the landlord (registered 2023). Not resident reviews.

96 / 100City inspection score, November 2025. How buildings are scored

Type
Private rental
Storeys
3
Units
36
Built
1955
Elevators
0
Heating
Hot water
Air conditioning
None
Laundry
Basement, 8AM-9PM - DAILY
Pets
Allowed
Parking
Ground level garage, surface parking
Visitor parking
Free
Balconies
No
Smoke-free building
Yes
Sprinklers
Yes
Cooling room
No
Ward
14

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.

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