1516 Bathurst St
Toronto, Ontario M5P
A 6-storey, 42-unit private rental building built in 1959.
- Property manager
- Amelin Property Management
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Issues & maintenance
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City bylaw and health cases
2 bylaw investigations at this address since Aug 2025; 1 notice or order to comply; 2 still open.
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 2
- Aug 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylawOrder to comply · Aug 2025· Order to Comply Appealed
- Stairway: Height of the guard for the exit stairs are less than 1,070 millimetres around landings. (open)
- Stairway: Height of the guard for the exit stairs are less than 920 millimetres measured vertically to the top of the guard from a line drawn through the outside edges of the stair nosings. (open)
- Stairway: Required guard does not prevent the passage of a sphere having a diameter more than 100 millimetres. Namely, The location and size of openings present a hazard as they are designed with members or attachments between 140 mm and 900 mm abov… (open)
- Stairway: The guard is designed that a member, attachment or opening located between 140 millimetres and 900 millimetres above the level being protected facilitates climbing. (open)
Case 25 216948 PRS 00 IV
- Aug 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Order to Comply Appealed
Case 25 207329 PRS 00 IR
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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 1
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Balcony repair 1
- Jan 2026
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Permit Issued
Proposal for interior guard replacement.
Permit 26 104797 BLD · est. $1,000
- May 2018
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Inspection
Install onenew Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only)
Permit 18 166639 PSA · est. $2,500
- Jul 2006
Balcony repair · Balcony/Guard Repairs · Closed - Dormant
Proposal to repair/restore balconies and replace handrails on all balconies.
Permit 06 162186 BLD
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
64/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit88
61 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 6 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: St Clair West (1 Yonge-University Line), 290 m.
- Parks & trees68
20 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 140 m. 382 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling71
Within 1 km: 0 km of protected lanes, 6.35 km of bike lanes and trails, 2.55 km of shared routes. 5 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby20
3 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Holy Rosary Catholic Elementary School, 430 m), plus 2 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities53
Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 11 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety64
2 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Humewood-Cedarvale
- AssaultLower than most
Lower than 88 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (57% of the city median).
- Break and enterAbout typical
Higher than 59 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.1× the city median).
- RobberyAmong the lowest
Lower than 98 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (25% of the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Lower than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (86% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesLower than most
Lower than 86 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (71% of the city median).
- Theft over $5,000About typical
Lower than 68 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (75% of the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Higher than 72 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.9× the city median).
- ShootingsAbout typical
Higher than 54 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
No expressway within 2 km
None reported
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
- Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Service, 3.4 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 Multiple Dwelling
- Category
- Low-rise residential
- Zone label
RM (d2.5) (x167)- Height limit
- 16 m
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
- 38
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
146 Vaughan Rd · 220 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2026-06-24
Site Plan Control application to allow a 57.25-metre (17 storeys) mixed-use apartment building containing 110 residential units (including 6 affordable rental units) and a 59.6-square metre ground floor commercial-retail space.
City record544-546 St Clair Ave W · 240 m away
Site plan · NOAC Issued · submitted 2025-06-30
Site Plan Control application to permit a 3 storey addition with a roof top outdoor playground associated with the proposed childcare space at 542 St. Clair Avenue West (eastern portion) to the existing 3 storey place of worship building (C
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.
| Bedrooms | Humewood-Cedarvale | York zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,394 | $1,381 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,817 | $1,706 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $2,419 | $2,067 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $2,547 | $2,294 |
| All units | $2,015 | $1,864 | $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.
- 2017
- 0.72% lower rent · tenants notified
- 2018
- 0.70% lower rent · tenants notified
- 2019
- 0.58% lower rent · tenants notified
- 2020
- 0.64% lower rent · tenants notified
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 2017). Not resident reviews.
85 / 100City inspection score, July 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 6
- Units
- 42
- Built
- 1959
- Elevators
- 1
- Managed by
- Amelin Property Management
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- Main floor, 8:00 AM TO 10:00 PM
- Pets
- Allowed - vicious dogs not allowed
- Parking
- Underground garage, surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Balconies
- Yes
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 12
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