2696 Bloor St W
Toronto, Ontario M8X
A 3-storey, 15-unit private rental building built in 1957.
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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
3 bylaw investigations at this address since Jan 2026; 1 notice or order to comply.
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
- Graffiti 1
- Apr 2026
GraffitiBylaw· Closed
Case 26 151151 GRA 00 IR
- Jan 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylawOrder to comply · Jan 2026· Closed
- Throughout Building: The required guard has members, attachments or openings that will facilitate climbing. (closed)
- Throughout Building: Guard is less than 1,070 millimetres high. (closed)
- Throughout Building: The stair guard when measured vertically from the stair nosing is less than 900 millimetres high. (closed)
- Throughout Building: Guard does not prevent the passage of a spherical object having a diameter of 100 millimetres (closed)
Case 26 100159 PRS 00 IV
- Jan 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 100123 PRS 00 IR
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City building permits
1 permit the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Oct 2018
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Permit Issued
Proposal to install a backflow prevention device
Permit 18 238249 PSA · est. $5,000
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
60/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit78
38.4 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 3 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Old Mill (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 280 m.
- Parks & trees97
58.8 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 130 m. 419 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling75
Within 1 km: 2.35 km of protected lanes, 3.95 km of bike lanes and trails, 1.45 km of shared routes. 3 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby0
0 public or Catholic schools within 1 km. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities1
Within 1 km: 0 libraries, 0 community centres, 2 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety95
0 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
Kingsway South
- AssaultAbout typical
Lower than 65 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (84% of the city median).
- Break and enterHigher than most
Higher than 89 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.0× the city median).
- RobberyAbout typical
Lower than 65 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (74% of the city median).
- Auto theftHigher than most
Higher than 87 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.7× the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesLower than most
Lower than 90 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (65% of the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Higher than most
Higher than 77 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.5× the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Higher than 68 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.8× 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, 7.7 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
Residential Multiple Dwelling
- Category
- Low-rise residential
- Zone label
RM (f24.0; au116.0)- 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
- 2
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
69 Old Mill Ter · 70 m away
Rezoning · Under Review · submitted 2025-11-20
Proposed 39-storey residential building (135.4 metres), inclusive of a 5-storey base building. The proposed building would have a total gross floor area of 27,713.46 square metres and a floor space index of 14.63. 345 new 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 | Etobicoke (Central) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,693 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,874 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $2,200 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | $2,529 | $2,294 |
| All units | $2,162 | $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
- 0.71% 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.
83 / 100City inspection score, November 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 3
- Units
- 15
- Built
- 1957
- Elevators
- 0
- Managed by
- N/a
- Heating
- Forced air gas
- Air conditioning
- Individual units
- Laundry
- Basement, ANYTIME
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Free
- Bike parking
- 16 indoor, 16 outdoor
- Balconies
- Yes
- Smoke-free building
- Yes
- Sprinklers
- No
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 3
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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