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438 Queen St W

City of Toronto

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Has this property been altered?
3 building permits on record since 2019, most recently Dec 5, 2019.
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What’s the zoning here?
CR 3.0 (c2.0; r2.0) SS2 (x1385) · as of Feb 20, 2026
What could change around it?
37 active construction records within 250 m of this address.
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  • Rent-reduction notices
  • Business licences
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  • 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 licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

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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2019
  1. 2019

    3 filings
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Nearby Construction

Within 250 m

Active and recent construction within 250 m of this address.

36 locations shown

  • 1

    501 Queen St W

    Renovation
    36 m
  • 2

    430 Queen St W

    Renovation
    37 m
  • 3

    20 Vanauley St

    Renovation
    48 m
  • 4

    7 Vanauley St

    Renovation
    71 m
  • 5

    485 Queen St W

    Renovation
    72 m
  • 6

    485 Queen St W

    Committee of Adjustment
    73 m
  • 7

    460 Richmond St W

    Renovation
    108 m
  • 8

    WOLSELEY ST / From: AUGUSTA AVE / To: DENISON AVE

    Scheduled Construction
    108 m
  • 9

    467 Queen St W

    Renovation ×2
    114 m
  • 10

    24 Augusta Ave

    Renovation
    117 m
  • 11

    471 Richmond St W

    Renovation
    121 m
  • 12

    553 Queen St W

    Renovation
    124 m
  • 13

    60 Brant St

    Renovation
    124 m
  • 14

    520 Richmond St W

    Renovation
    125 m
  • 15

    404 Queen St W

    Renovation
    131 m
  • 16

    497 Richmond St W

    Committee of Adjustment
    137 m
  • 17

    497 Richmond St W

    Renovation
    145 m
  • 18

    530 Richmond St W

    Renovation
    146 m
  • 19

    505 Richmond St W

    Renovation ×4
    152 m
  • 20

    451 Richmond St W

    Committee of Adjustment
    157 m
  • 21

    565 Queen St W

    Renovation
    162 m
  • 22

    38 Camden St

    Renovation
    163 m
  • 23

    497 Richmond St W

    Committee of Adjustment
    170 m
  • 24

    MAUD ST / From: ADELAIDE ST W / To: RICHMOND ST W

    Scheduled Construction
    170 m
  • 25

    567 Queen St W

    Renovation
    171 m
  • 26

    443 Queen St W

    New Build Renovation
    177 m
  • 27

    184 Spadina Ave

    Renovation
    199 m
  • 28

    525 Richmond St W

    Renovation
    202 m
  • 29

    35 Camden St

    Demolition
    206 m
  • 30

    8 Camden St

    Committee of Adjustment
    211 m
  • 31

    130 Spadina Ave

    Renovation
    228 m
  • 32

    441 Queen St W

    Renovation
    231 m
  • 33

    533 Richmond St W

    Renovation
    234 m
  • 34

    19 Carr Street Crt

    Renovation
    235 m
  • 35

    35 Wolseley St

    Renovation
    248 m
  • 36

    143 Portland St

    Demolition
    249 m
1

New Build

31

Renovation

2

Demolition

5

Committee of Adjustment

2

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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438 Queen St W in Toronto has 3 building permits on record dating back to 2019, most recently on December 5, 2019.