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159 Pickering St

City of Toronto

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Has this property been altered?
1 building permit on record since 2015, most recently Dec 2, 2015.
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What’s the zoning here?
R (d0.6) · as of Feb 20, 2026
What could change around it?
15 active construction records within 250 m of this address.
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  • Nearest TTC transit stop
  • Nearest park & green space
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  • Building violations & orders
  • Property standards orders (ML&S)
  • Fire safety inspections
  • Rental building condition rating
  • Rent-reduction notices
  • Business licences
  • Short-term rental registrations
  • Multi-tenant (rooming) house licences
  • Sign permits
  • Development applications
  • Committee of Adjustment (zoning variances)
  • Local Appeal Body appeals
  • Food inspections (DineSafe)
  • Liquor licences

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Contains information made available under the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA)'s Open Data Licence v 1.0

Source: Statistics Canada, Forward sortation areas, digital boundary file, 2021 Census. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.

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Building permit timeline

Year-grouped permit history. Permits collapse under each year.

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2015
  1. 2015

    1 filing
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Nearby Construction

Within 250 m

Active and recent construction within 250 m of this address.

25 locations shown

  • 1

    146 Pickering St

    Renovation
    43 m
  • 2

    185 Swanwick Ave

    Renovation
    59 m
  • 3

    187 Swanwick Ave

    Renovation
    68 m
  • 4

    121 Pickering St

    Renovation
    89 m
  • 5

    73 Hannaford St

    Renovation ×3
    112 m
  • 6

    HANNAFORD ST / From: LYALL AVE / To: SWANWICK AVE (TO)

    Scheduled Construction
    121 m
  • 7

    SWANWICK AVE (TO) / From: MALVERN AVE / To: HANNAFORD ST

    Scheduled Construction
    126 m
  • 8

    HANNAFORD ST / From: SWANWICK AVE (TO) / To: GERRARD ST E

    Scheduled Construction
    126 m
  • 9

    203 Pickering St

    Renovation
    130 m
  • 10

    55 Hannaford St

    Committee of Adjustment
    130 m
  • 11

    55 Hannaford St

    Renovation
    134 m
  • 12

    95 Pickering St

    Renovation
    146 m
  • 13

    107 A Hannaford St

    Renovation
    150 m
  • 14

    217 Pickering St

    Renovation
    162 m
  • 15

    217 Pickering St

    Committee of Adjustment
    164 m
  • 16

    55 Malvern Ave

    Renovation ×4
    178 m
  • 17

    225 Pickering St

    Renovation
    180 m
  • 18

    111 Lyall Ave

    Renovation
    198 m
  • 19

    73 Lawlor Ave

    Committee of Adjustment
    203 m
  • 20

    200 Lawlor Ave

    Renovation
    205 m
  • 21

    109 Lyall Ave

    Committee of Adjustment
    208 m
  • 22

    73 Lawlor Ave

    Renovation
    209 m
  • 23

    SWANWICK AVE (TO) / From: SCARBOROUGH RD / To: KINGSWOOD RD

    Scheduled Construction
    214 m
  • 24

    48 Pickering St

    Renovation
    217 m
  • 25

    2345 Gerrard St E

    Committee of Adjustment
    229 m
21

Renovation

5

Committee of Adjustment

4

Scheduled Construction

Construction activity detected within 250 m, from the City of Toronto's open data. Each pin is a City-geocoded point (which may hold more than one record/address); click for details. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.

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159 Pickering St in Toronto has 1 building permit on record dating back to 2015, most recently on December 2, 2015.