688 Richmond St W
City of Toronto
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- Has this property been altered?
- 1 building permit on record since 2015, most recently Dec 14, 2015. View building permit timeline
- Any unresolved orders on file?
- 1 open order/violation record 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.
- R (d1.0) (x869) · as of Feb 20, 2026
- What could change around it?
- 60 active construction records within 250 m of this address. View nearby construction
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- Zoning by-law designation
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- 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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2015
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Dec 14, 2015
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Nearby Construction
Within 250 mActive and recent construction within 250 m of this address.
57 locations shown
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690 Richmond St W
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694 Richmond St W
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695 Richmond St W
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735 Queen St W
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660 Queen St W
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714 Richmond St W
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677 Richmond St W
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662 Queen St W
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671 Richmond St W
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779 Queen St W
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670 Richmond St W
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110 m
23 Mitchell Ave
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129 m
632 Queen St W
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15 Euclid Ave
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736 Richmond St W
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133 m
701 Queen St W
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14 Euclid Ave
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161 m
691 Queen St W
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167 m
700 Adelaide St W
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752 Richmond St W
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67 Mitchell Ave
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169 m
MARKHAM ST / From: QUEEN ST W / To: WILLIS ST
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171 m
11 Manning Ave
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172 m
9 Palmerston Ave
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172 m
69 Mitchell Ave
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180 m
758 Richmond St W
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181 m
815 Queen St W
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182 m
11 1/2 Palmerston Ave
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183 m
726 Adelaide St W
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185 m
760 Richmond St W
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186 m
35 Euclid Ave
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679 Queen St W
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189 m
762 Richmond St W
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191 m
37 Euclid Ave
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38 Euclid Ave
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MARKHAM ST / From: WILLIS ST / To: [W] WOLSELEY ST [BRANCH]
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196 m
14 Markham St
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197 m
110 Tecumseth St
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198 m
627 Richmond St W
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732 Adelaide St W
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108 Tecumseth St
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625 Richmond St W
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22 Manning Ave
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734 Adelaide St W
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610 Queen St W
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207 m
106 Tecumseth St
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207 m
623 Richmond St W
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MARKHAM ST / From: [W] WOLSELEY ST [BRANCH] / To: [E] WOLSELEY ST [BRANCH]
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217 m
629 Adelaide St W
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223 m
93 Mitchell Ave
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223 m
MARKHAM ST / From: [E] WOLSELEY ST [BRANCH] / To: ROBINSON ST
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226 m
168 Bathurst St
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228 m
98 Tecumseth St
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237 m
230 Niagara St
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239 m
59 Robinson St
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239 m
RICHMOND ST W / From: NIAGARA ST / To: [S] WALNUT AVE [BRANCH]
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240 m
130 Wolseley St
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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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688 Richmond St W in Toronto has 1 building permit on record dating back to 2015, most recently on December 14, 2015.