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Garden & Laneway Suite Rules Across the GTA: A 2026 Municipal Comparison

Via Modular X, who gave us permission to share and link, HERE.

Six GTA municipalities, six different rule sets, and no two use the same vocabulary. This table compares what each one publishes for a detached additional residential unit — the building most people call a garden suite. Every figure links to the municipal source. Where a municipality does not publish a value, we say so rather than guessing.

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