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Building Review

159 Ossington Ave

Toronto, Ontario

A 54-unit condominium registered in 2005 (TSCC 1685).

Living score
59/100
Units
54

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Issues & maintenance

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

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City building permits

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

  • Fire and life safety 1
  • Plumbing and drains 1
  • Nov 2004

    Fire and life safety · Sprinklers · Closed

    New sprinklers in connection with BP# 03197782

    Permit 04 187847 FSU · est. $20,000

  • Dec 2003

    Plumbing and drains · Building Permit Related(PS) · Closed

    Plumbing - Building permit application to build condominium project -total 54 units - New Building

    Permit 03 197782 PLB

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

59/ 100

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

  • Transit40

    29.7 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 3 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Ossington (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 1.7 km.

  • Parks & trees70

    19 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 210 m. 559 street trees within 300 m.

  • Cycling65

    Within 1 km: 0.45 km of protected lanes, 3.95 km of bike lanes and trails, 4.3 km of shared routes. 9 Bike Share stations within 500 m.

  • Schools nearby79

    7 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Givins Shaw Jr Public School , 240 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, 17 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

Trinity-Bellwoods

  • AssaultHigher than most

    Higher than 75 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.4× the city median).

  • Break and enterAmong the highest

    Higher than 92 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.2× the city median).

  • RobberyAbout typical

    Higher than 54 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).

  • Auto theftLower than most

    Lower than 89 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (51% of the city median).

  • Theft from vehiclesHigher than most

    Higher than 75 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.3× the city median).

  • Theft over $5,000Higher than most

    Higher than 81 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× the city median).

  • Bicycle theftAmong the highest

    Higher than 94 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (6.5× the city median).

  • ShootingsAbout typical

    Lower than 72 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (70% of 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

Gardiner Expressway, 1.3 km away

Industrial releases within 1 kmHigh

6.6 tonnes a year from 2 facilities, mostly Mondelez Canada Inc Gladstone Plant

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, 1.7 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

Commercial Residential

Category
Mixed use
Zone label
CR 2.5 (c2.0; r1.5) SS2 (x1782)
Height limit
14 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
3
Registered short-term rentals at this address
0
  • 1113 Dundas St W · 180 m away

    Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2026-04-01

    Site Plan Approval for a 10 storey residential building with 74 dwelling units, 23 of which will be affordable housing and a one-storey ancillary building at the rear of the site.

    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
BedroomsToronto (West) zoneToronto region
Studio$1,410$1,491
1 bed$1,798$1,761
2 beds$2,252$2,045
3+ beds$3,238$2,294
All units$1,945$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 inventory of condominiums registered 2002–2018. Not resident reviews.

Type
Condominium
Units
54
Unit mix
6 one-bed · 44 two-bed · 4 three-bed+
Condo plan
TSCC 1685
Registered
June 2005

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

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