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Building Review

95 Pembroke St

Toronto, Ontario M5A

A 3-storey, 19-unit private rental building built in 1885.

Living score
68/100
Built
1885
Units
19
Storeys
3
City inspection
74/100

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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 May 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
  • May 2025

    Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed

    Case 25 152942 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

2 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
  • Jul 2019

    Alterations · Interior Alterations · Revision Issued

    Rev 01: Proposed revision to install fire shutters inside the units as per bubbled drawings.The proposed work is in response to a notice of violation issued by Toronto Fire Services. Interior alterations to protect the openings adjacent to…

    Permit 19 132268 BLD

  • Mar 2019

    Alterations · Interior Alterations · Inspection

    The proposed work is in response to a notice of violation issued by Toronto Fire Services. Interior alterations to protect the openings adjacent to the fire escape and comply with the retrofit requirements of Section 9.5 of the 2015 Ontari…

    Permit 19 132268 BLD · est. $15,000

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

68/ 100

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

  • Transit74

    33.3 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 4 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: TMU (1 Yonge-University Line), 770 m.

  • Parks & trees41

    11.8 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 190 m. 376 street trees within 300 m.

  • Cycling93

    Within 1 km: 9.1 km of protected lanes, 1.75 km of bike lanes and trails, 0.5 km of shared routes. 9 Bike Share stations within 500 m.

  • Schools nearby93

    13 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Ecole Elementaire Gabrielle Roy, 330 m), plus 8 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.

  • Daily amenities98

    Within 1 km: 2 libraries, 5 community centres, 22 licensed child care centres.

  • Road safety1

    15 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 3 fatal. Fewer scores higher.

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Also worth knowing

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Safety

Moss Park

  • AssaultAmong the highest

    Higher than 97 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (3.4× the city median).

  • Break and enterAmong the highest

    Higher than 93 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.3× the city median).

  • RobberyAmong the highest

    Higher than 96 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.6× the city median).

  • Auto theftAmong the lowest

    Lower than 91 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (48% of the city median).

  • Theft from vehiclesHigher than most

    Higher than 88 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× the city median).

  • Theft over $5,000Higher than most

    Higher than 85 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.7× the city median).

  • Bicycle theftAmong the highest

    Higher than 95 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (7.2× the city median).

  • ShootingsAbout typical

    Lower than 75 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (64% of the city median).

  • HomicideHigher than most

    Higher than 81 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× 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, 1.4 km away

Industrial releases within 1 kmHigh

15.3 tonnes a year from 1 facility, mostly Toronto Metropolitan University

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
Street Health, 240 m
Sites within 1 km
1

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

Zoning

Residential

Category
General residential
Zone label
R (d1.0) (x865)
Height limit
13 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
24
Registered short-term rentals at this address
0
  • 339 George St · 140 m away

    Rezoning · Under Review · submitted 2025-10-15

    Lift the Hold application related to a new 10-storey building, containing 80 emergency shelter beds, 100 transitional shelter beds, 124 long-term care beds, 70 supportive housing units, and a 2,269 square metre community hub. The proposal w

    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
BedroomsMoss Park/Regent ParkToronto (Central) zoneToronto region
Studio$1,278*$1,606$1,491
1 bed$1,987$2,042$1,761
2 beds$2,484$2,776$2,045
3+ beds-$3,580*$2,294
All units$1,904$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.

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 2017). Not resident reviews.

74 / 100City inspection score, October 2025. How buildings are scored

Type
Private rental
Storeys
3
Units
19
Built
1885
Elevators
0
Heating
Electric
Air conditioning
None
Laundry
Basement, 24 HOURS
Pets
Allowed
Parking
Surface parking
Visitor parking
Unavailable
Balconies
Yes
Smoke-free building
No
Sprinklers
No
Cooling room
No
Ward
13

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

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