170 Avenue Rd
Toronto, Ontario
A 175-unit condominium registered in 2015 (TSCC 2478).
- Living score
- 47/100
- Units
- 175
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Issues & maintenance
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City building permits
4 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 2
- Mar 2016
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed
Permit for interior alterations to apartment Unit #1406.
Permit 16 130257 BLD · est. $30,000
- Feb 2016
Plumbing and drains · Building Permit Related(PS) · Closed
REVISION - supplementary info as requested by the inspector Plumbing - Proposal for interior alterations to unit 1003 on the 10th floor of existing apartment building.
Permit 15 233853 PLB
- Jan 2016
Plumbing and drains · Building Permit Related(PS) · Closed
Plumbing - Proposal for interior alterations to unit 1003 on the 10th floor of existing apartment building.
Permit 15 233853 PLB
- Oct 2015
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed
Proposal for interior alterations to unit 1003 on the 10th floor of existing apartment building.
Permit 15 233853 BLD · est. $8,000
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
47/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit59
10.3 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 3 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Rosedale (1 Yonge-University Line), 710 m.
- Parks & trees36
10.5 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 130 m. 422 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling88
Within 1 km: 5.75 km of protected lanes, 5.35 km of bike lanes and trails, 1.1 km of shared routes. 3 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby29
3 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Jesse Ketchum Jr & Sr Public School, 490 m), plus 9 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities53
Within 1 km: 2 libraries, 0 community centres, 13 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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Safety
Annex
- AssaultHigher than most
Higher than 85 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.8× the city median).
- Break and enterAmong the highest
Higher than 90 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.0× the city median).
- RobberyHigher than most
Higher than 80 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× the city median).
- Auto theftLower than most
Lower than 76 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (68% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesHigher than most
Higher than 77 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.3× the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Among the highest
Higher than 96 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (3.8× the city median).
- Bicycle theftAmong the highest
Higher than 92 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (6.2× the city median).
- ShootingsAmong the lowest
Lower than 91 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (48% of the city median).
- HomicideAbout typical
Lower than 69 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (78% 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
No expressway within 2 km
232 kg a year from 2 facilities, mostly Avenue Collision Inc
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, 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 1.5 (c1.0; r1.0) SS2 (x2479)- Height limit
- 12 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
- 12
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
126 Avenue Rd · 150 m away
Rezoning · Council Approved · submitted 2023-03-02
Zoning By-law Amendment application to permit an 11-storey mixed-use building, containing 60 dwelling units (of which 11 are replacement rental units) and 169 square metres of non-residential gross floor area.
City record116 Avenue Rd · 200 m away
Site plan · NOAC Issued · submitted 2022-10-20
The proposal is for a 9-storey (38 metres plus mechanical) mixed-use building with a total of 55 residential dwelling units. The gross floor area is 5,056 square metres, including a retail floor area of 333 square metres proposed at-grade d
City record141 Bedford Rd · 220 m away
Site plan · NOAC Issued · submitted 2021-12-14
Site Plan Approval for a 13-storey mixed-use building with 63 residential units.
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 | University/Annex | Toronto (Central) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,553 | $1,606 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $2,050 | $2,042 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | - | $2,776 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $3,580* | $2,294 |
| All units | $2,199* | $2,163 | $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; * marks an estimate CMHC rates poor. 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.
- 2019
- 0.46% lower rent · 14 of 45 units notified
Where several units are listed, the cut shown is the median. 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
- 175
- Unit mix
- 55 one-bed · 112 two-bed · 8 three-bed+
- Condo plan
- TSCC 2478
- Registered
- August 2015
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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