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789 Shaw St

City of Toronto

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Has this property been altered?
1 building permit on record since 2000, most recently May 9, 2000.
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What’s the zoning here?
R (d0.6) · as of Feb 20, 2026
What could change around it?
17 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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2000
  1. 2000

    1 filing
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Nearby Construction

Within 250 m

Active and recent construction within 250 m of this address.

27 locations shown

  • 1

    791 Shaw St

    Renovation
    8 m
  • 2

    442 Shaw St

    Renovation
    38 m
  • 3

    800 Shaw St

    Renovation
    51 m
  • 4

    752 Crawford St

    Committee of Adjustment
    57 m
  • 5

    806 Shaw St

    Renovation
    63 m
  • 6

    752 Crawford St

    Renovation
    71 m
  • 7

    15 Roblocke Ave

    Renovation
    78 m
  • 8

    IRENE AVE / From: SHAW ST / To: ROBLOCKE AVE

    Scheduled Construction
    79 m
  • 9

    ROBLOCKE AVE / From: IRENE AVE / To: LEEDS ST

    Scheduled Construction
    87 m
  • 10

    728 Crawford St

    Committee of Adjustment
    88 m
  • 11

    36 Roblocke Ave

    Renovation
    98 m
  • 12

    778 Crawford St

    Committee of Adjustment
    103 m
  • 13

    778 Crawford St

    Renovation
    114 m
  • 14

    IRENE AVE / From: ROBLOCKE AVE / To: CARLING AVE

    Scheduled Construction
    114 m
  • 15

    828 Shaw St

    New Build ×2
    117 m
  • 16

    828 Shaw St

    Committee of Adjustment ×4
    118 m
  • 17

    828 Shaw St

    Committee of Adjustment ×4
    120 m
  • 18

    CARLING AVE / From: IRENE AVE / To: LEEDS ST

    Scheduled Construction
    134 m
  • 19

    839 Shaw St

    Renovation
    144 m
  • 20

    CARLING AVE / From: BLOOR ST W / To: IRENE AVE

    Scheduled Construction
    155 m
  • 21

    BARTON AVE / From: PENDRITH LANE / To: CRAWFORD ST

    Scheduled Construction
    199 m
  • 22

    868 Bloor St W

    Renovation
    203 m
  • 23

    711 Crawford St

    Committee of Adjustment
    240 m
  • 24

    739 Ossington Ave

    Renovation
    241 m
  • 25

    709 Crawford St

    Committee of Adjustment
    246 m
  • 26

    890 Bloor St W

    Renovation
    248 m
  • 27

    709 Crawford St

    New Build Renovation Demolition
    249 m
3

New Build

13

Renovation

1

Demolition

13

Committee of Adjustment

6

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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789 Shaw St in Toronto has 1 building permit on record dating back to 2000, most recently on May 9, 2000.