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C-R3

What Calgary’s development record shows about filings carrying the C-R3 district. This page does not state what C-R3 permits — that is the Land Use Bylaw, which this platform has not ingested.

District code
C-R3
Naming family
Commercial
Filings in slice
17
Redesignated into
7
Redesignated out of
4
Record spans
20092023
Official recordDistrict codes and redesignation from/to values are published fields on the municipal record.

How land moved into and out of this district

Official recordBoth halves of every redesignation are published fields: the district before and the district proposed.
4 of 7 approved

Redesignated into C-R3

Districts redesignated into C-R3
FromApplicationsApprovedYears
DC3220182022
C-R3 f0.23 h182220092016
C-R3 f0.33h182020172023

Redesignated out of C-R3

Districts redesignated out of C-R3
ToApplicationsApprovedYears
C-R32220092016
C-R32020172023

“Approved” counts applications the City recorded as approved. An approved redesignation changes what may lawfully be built; it is not a permit and not construction.

Site-specific modifiers seen on these filings

Our analysisCalgary writes these per parcel, so these are medians of what has been applied for — not limits the district sets.
Median height modifier
18 m
across 15 filings publishing an h modifier
Median floor area ratio
0.40
across 15 filings publishing an f modifier

Calgary publishes these as concatenated tokens — f2.0h14 is a floor area ratio of 2.0 and a 14 m height limit — with no legend. Reading f, h and d as floor area ratio, height in metres and units per hectare follows Bylaw 1P2007 and is held at 0.85 confidence because no planner has confirmed it. A median needs at least three values; where fewer exist, nothing is shown.

What gets proposed under C-R3

Our analysisAsset class is this platform's inference from the City's category, proposed-use and description fields — evidence class D.
The same values are listed in the table below this chart.Retail6Other5Institutional2Land development2Mixed use2
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Filings carrying C-R3 by asset class
CategoryFilings
Retail6
Other5
Institutional2
Land development2
Mixed use2

Recent filings carrying C-R3

Official recordFrom the browsable slice. Descriptions are the City's own wording, unedited.
Recent filings carrying the C-R3 district
FileAddressDistrict as publishedProposalStatus
LOC2026-016312939 METIS TR NEC-R3 f0.3h18;I-C;M-1;R-G;M-GLand Use AmendmentSubmitted
DP2026-04761#780 500 COUNTRY HILLS BV NEC-R3 f0.27h18CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: CHILD CARE SERVICE (OUTDOOR PLAY AREA)Under review. The municipality records this as Hold.
DP2026-04079#700 388 COUNTRY HILLS BV NEC-R3 f0.31h18EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: RESTAURANT: LICENSED (REFURBISH BUILDING FACADE & PATIO ROOF)Public comment open. The municipality records this as In Advertising.
LOC2026-0118901 64 AV NEC-R3 f0.33h18Land Use Amendment to accommodate M-H1Submitted
DP2026-037134307 130 AV SEC-R3 f0.4h18CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: MULTI-USE COMMERCIAL (PARKING AND EV CHARGING STATION)Approved. The municipality records this as Pending Release.
DP2026-036754705 130 AV SEC-R3 f0.4h18CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: SUPERMARKET (REFURBISH BUILDING FACADE, RE-LINE EXISTING PARKING ST…Under review. The municipality records this as Hold.
DP2026-0354919657 SETON WY SEC-R3 f1.0h20REVISION: CHILD CARE SERVICE (CHANGE TO DP2025-03340)Cancelled
DP2026-02963#50 4307 130 AV SEC-R3 f0.4h18EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE (NEW DOUBLE DOOR)Cancelled
DP2026-022053393 26 AV NEC-R3 f2.8h18EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: MULTI-USE COMMERCIAL (CANOPIES)Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released.
DP2026-018854307 130 AV SEC-R3 f0.4h18CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE (PARKING AND EV CHARGING STATION)Cancelled
DP2026-006813333 SUNRIDGE WY NEC-R3 f1.0h12EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: SUPERMARKET, RESTAURANT: FOOD SERVICE ONLY (REFURBISH BUILDING FACA…Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released.
DP2026-00332#600 4915 130 AV SEC-R3 f0.4h18NEW: CAR WASH - SINGLE VEHICLECancelled
DP2026-00282#600 4915 130 AV SEC-R3 f0.4h18NEW: CAR WASH - SINGLE VEHICLEPermit issued. The municipality records this as Released.
DP2026-00297250 STEWART GR SWC-R3 f0.24h18EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE (REFURBISH BUILDING FACADE)Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released.
DP2026-00199#5134 901 64 AV NEC-R3 f0.33h18EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE (NEW DOORS)Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released.

Of 17 filings carrying C-R3 in the slice: 6 permit issued, 5 cancelled, 2 under review, 2 submitted.

Common questions about C-R3

Answered from the filings recorded here. This platform has not ingested the Land Use Bylaw and never states what a district permits.

What is the C-R3 land use district in Calgary?
C-R3 is a Calgary land use district code — commercial — that appears on the municipal development record. What may lawfully be built on land carrying this code is set by Calgary's Land Use Bylaw 1P2007, which this platform does not reproduce; the pages here describe only the filings that carry the code.
How many development applications carry the C-R3 district?
17 development filings recorded on DevelopmentApplications.ca between 2009 and 2023 carry the C-R3 district as published by the City of Calgary. This counts filings in this platform's in-scope corpus, which excludes single homes, secondary suites, signs and routine relaxations — so it is smaller than a raw count of the City's own dataset.
Is land being rezoned into or out of C-R3 in Calgary?
The acquired record shows 7 land use redesignations proposing a change into C-R3 and 4 redesignations proposing a change out of it. A redesignation is an application to Council, not a completed change: some were approved, some refused, some withdrawn, and each filing's own page states which.
What height is applied for on C-R3 sites in Calgary?
Across 15 filings carrying a site-specific height modifier on C-R3, the median value applied for is 18 metres. Calgary appends these modifiers to the district code parcel by parcel, so the figure describes what applicants asked for on those specific parcels. It is not a district-wide height limit, and this platform does not publish the rules that apply to the district.
Historical comparisonBounded by what this platform has acquired.

The C-R3 record measured across records acquired from 2009 to 2023. This is not a statement about all development in Calgary — only about what these sources publish and what this platform retained. Redesignation counts cover the whole acquired corpus; filing counts and modifier medians cover the browsable slice only. They measure different populations. Calgary land use redesignation applications from 1982 and development permits from 1979.

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