Adding a unit at the rear of your lot.
A garden suite is a self-contained home in the rear yard of a lot, separate from the main house — it adds a unit on top of your multiplex permissions.
As a rule of thumb, roughly the depth needed to keep required separation from the main house and rear lot line. The map flags garden-suite-eligible lots; confirm exact requirements with the City.
Yes — it's an additional self-contained unit, so a fourplex plus a garden suite is five units and a sixplex plus a garden suite is seven.
Both are rear-yard homes; a laneway house fronts a public laneway, while a garden suite sits on a lot without laneway access. Eligibility rules differ.
Yes — adding a garden suite to a fourplex reaches five units, the threshold for MLI Select financing.
As-of-right unit potential shown here is a planning guide generated from Toronto's multiplex and Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods (EHON) permissions, not legal advice. Always confirm what a specific lot allows with the City of Toronto or a qualified planner before purchasing or designing.
