Land use districts

What Calgary’s land use districts look like in the record

79 districts appear often enough in the municipal record to describe. Each page shows the filings that carry the district, the redesignations into and out of it, and how often Council approved them — not what the bylaw permits.

This is not the Land Use Bylaw

This platform has not ingested Bylaw 1P2007 and does not reproduce it. Nothing here states what a district permits — that is a legal question, and the answer is the City’s to give.

What these pages state is what the record shows: which filings carry a district, what was proposed under it, which districts were redesignated into and out of it, and how many of those were approved. For the bylaw itself, go to the City of Calgary ↗.

Residential

Our analysisCodes beginning R appear overwhelmingly on residential filings in this record.

16 districts

Residential land use districts in the record
District	Filings in slice	Redesignations on record
R-C2	34	771
R-C1	24	752
R-CG	192	575
R-C1S	0	551
RS	448	0
RM	113	0
R-1S	0	89
R-1	0	78
RSM	72	0
RSF	67	0
R-G	10	22
R-2M	1	7
R-1N	3	5
R-CGEX	0	7
R-C1N	0	7
R-2	0	5

Direct control

Our analysisDirect control districts are site-specific. Each carries its own rules, so filings under DC have less in common with each other than filings under a standard district.

3 districts

Direct control land use districts in the record
District	Filings in slice	Redesignations on record
DC	281	427
DC2	27	0
DC1	12	0

Industrial

Our analysisCodes beginning I appear on industrial, warehouse and logistics filings.

7 districts

Industrial land use districts in the record
District	Filings in slice	Redesignations on record
I-G	217	178
I-C	44	100
I-B	16	60
IM	57	0
I-R	15	3
I-O	1	11
I-H	4	4

Multi-residential and mixed use

Our analysisCodes beginning M or MU appear on multi-unit and mixed-use filings.

13 districts

Multi-residential and mixed use land use districts in the record
District	Filings in slice	Redesignations on record
M-CG	25	203
M-C1	44	107
MU-1	31	113
M-C2	9	82
MU	79	0
MU-2	12	37
M-H1	6	32
M-1	16	12
M-2	20	5
M-X2	13	7
M-G	12	3
M-H2	4	7
M-X1	3	2

Other

Our analysisGrouped by the naming pattern of the code, which is an observation about the codes and not a legal classification.

17 districts

Other land use districts in the record
District	Filings in slice	Redesignations on record
H-GO	37	137
BE	72	0
UNDESIGNATED	0	48
NO-LUD	4	21
CN	22	0
UW	17	0
CB	14	0
BRH	12	0
EIB	10	0
RVRH	10	0
UF	9	0
PU	8	0
CMU	7	0
RL	7	0
SRH	6	0
JAMSC	5	0
CM-2	0	2

Special purpose

Our analysisCodes beginning S or P appear on parks, schools, utilities and other special-purpose sites.

7 districts

Special purpose land use districts in the record
District	Filings in slice	Redesignations on record
S-FUD	21	86
S-SPR	51	9
PS	58	0
S-CI	21	24
S-CRI	11	21
S-R	12	11
S-CS	11	4

Commercial

Our analysisCodes beginning C appear on retail, office and service filings.

16 districts

Commercial land use districts in the record
District	Filings in slice	Redesignations on record
C-COR1	23	34
C-COR3	30	22
CC-X	12	29
C-COR2	17	22
C-C1	20	16
C-N2	18	15
C-N1	6	27
C-R3	17	11
CG	27	0
C-C2	15	11
CC-MH	1	14
CC-MHX	1	7
C-O	8	0
CCA	7	0
CC-EPR	4	2
CC-ET	0	2

Our analysisDistrict codes are published by the City on every filing. The grouping into families above is this platform's reading of the naming pattern, not a municipal classification.

Historical comparisonBounded by what this platform has acquired.

District activity measured across records acquired from 1979 to 2026. This is not a statement about all development in Calgary — only about what these sources publish and what this platform retained. Filing counts cover the browsable slice; redesignation counts cover the whole acquired corpus. The two columns therefore measure different populations and are labelled separately.

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