489 Queen St W
City of Toronto
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- Has this property been altered?
- 10 building permits on record since 2016, most recently Sep 5, 2024. View building permit timeline
- Is work happening right now?
- 1 permit in active inspection on this property.
- Any unresolved orders on file?
- 2 open order/violation records on file.
- What’s the zoning here? Not an official zoning verification. CanPermits maps this from the city’s published open zoning data. Confirm the zoning with the municipality or a planner.
- CR 3.0 (c3.0; r3.0) SS2 (x2087) · as of Feb 20, 2026
- What could change around it?
- 41 active construction records within 250 m of this address. View nearby construction
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- Building permits
- Zoning by-law designation
- Property boundaries (parcel)
- Planning & environmental constraints
- Flood plain & conservation regulation (TRCA)
- Heritage Register status
- Building footprint & massing
- Nearest fire station
- Nearest TTC transit stop
- Nearest park & green space
- Street-tree density
- 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
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.
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.
Building permit timeline
Year-grouped permit history. Permits collapse under each year.
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Building permit timeline
Year-grouped permit history. Permits collapse under each year.
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2024
3 filingsView permits (3) Hide permits
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2021
1 filingView permits (1) Hide permits
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Feb 17, 2021
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2019
3 filingsView permits (3) Hide permits
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2018
1 filingView permits (1) Hide permits
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2016
2 filingsView permits (2) Hide permits
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Oct 3, 2016
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Nearby Construction
Within 250 mActive and recent construction within 250 m of this address.
42 locations shown
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17 m
485 Queen St W
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19 m
485 Queen St W
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28 m
430 Queen St W
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29 m
501 Queen St W
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52 m
460 Richmond St W
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66 m
467 Queen St W
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74 m
7 Vanauley St
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77 m
471 Richmond St W
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82 m
20 Vanauley St
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10
92 m
404 Queen St W
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102 m
451 Richmond St W
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116 m
38 Camden St
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13
120 m
60 Brant St
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128 m
443 Queen St W
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137 m
497 Richmond St W
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148 m
520 Richmond St W
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153 m
497 Richmond St W
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155 m
8 Camden St
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161 m
35 Camden St
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20
162 m
505 Richmond St W
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164 m
553 Queen St W
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165 m
WOLSELEY ST / From: AUGUSTA AVE / To: DENISON AVE
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169 m
530 Richmond St W
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169 m
497 Richmond St W
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171 m
130 Spadina Ave
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174 m
24 Augusta Ave
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183 m
184 Spadina Ave
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185 m
441 Queen St W
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192 m
MAUD ST / From: ADELAIDE ST W / To: RICHMOND ST W
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199 m
161 Spadina Ave
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201 m
410 Adelaide St W
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203 m
565 Queen St W
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211 m
433 Queen St W
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212 m
567 Queen St W
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219 m
141 Spadina Ave
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221 m
525 Richmond St W
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227 m
425 Adelaide St W
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232 m
360 Queen St W
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236 m
383 Adelaide St W
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239 m
129 Spadina Ave
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242 m
110 Spadina Ave
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246 m
379 Adelaide St W
Renovation
New Build
Renovation
Demolition
Committee of Adjustment
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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485 Queen St W
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495 Queen St W
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499 Queen St W
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Retail · Last filed Jun 2021
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412 Queen St W
52m1 recent · 6 total
Restaurant · 1 filing in the last 12 months, latest Sep 2025
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430 Queen St W
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Restaurant · 1 filing in the last 12 months, latest Mar 2026
489 Queen St W in Toronto has 10 building permits on record dating back to 2016, most recently on September 5, 2024.