Land use district · Direct control
DC
What Calgary’s development record shows about filings carrying the DC district. This page does not state what DC permits — that is the Land Use Bylaw, which this platform has not ingested.
How land moved into and out of this district
Redesignated into DC
“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.
What gets proposed under DC
Show the underlying data table
| Category | Filings |
|---|---|
| Other | 55 |
| Retail | 54 |
| Multi-residential | 36 |
| Institutional | 33 |
| Land development | 25 |
| Mixed use | 17 |
| Industrial and logistics | 10 |
| Office | 6 |
| Infrastructure and utilities | 1 |
| Hotel and hospitality | 1 |
Recent filings carrying DC
| File | Address | District as published | Proposal | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DP2026-05017 | 4550 17 AV SW | DC | CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: PARKING AREA (PARKING) | Under review. The municipality records this as Hold. |
| DP2026-04980 | 8990 34 AV SE | DC | CHANGE OF USE: VEHICLE STORAGE | Under review |
| DP2026-04986 | 1211A 9 AV SE | DC | CHANGE OF USE: ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENT, PUBLIC & QUASI-PUBLIC BUILDING | Under review. The municipality records this as In Circulation. |
| DP2026-04931 | 58 MISSION RD SW | DC | NEW: MULTI-RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (1 BUILDING) | Under review. The municipality records this as Hold. |
| DP2026-04940 | #102 10408 MACLEOD TR SE | DC | CHANGE OF USE: RESTAURANT | Under review. The municipality records this as In Circulation. |
| 668139084-002 | 19917 - MASKÊKOSIHK TRAIL NW | DC | To change the use of an Indoor Sales and Service to a Cannabis Retail Store and construct… | Approved |
| DP2026-04902 | #10 95 EAST HILLS BV SE | DC | CHANGE OF USE: RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE | Submitted. The municipality records this as Application Received. |
| DP2026-04904 | 88 CANADA OLYMPIC RD SW | DC | CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: SCHOOL AUTHORITY - SCHOOL (PORTABLE CLASSROOM AND PARKING AREA) | Under review |
| DP2026-04888 | 1703 35 ST SW | DC | NEW: MULTI-RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE (1 BUILDING) | Submitted. The municipality records this as Application Received. |
| DP2026-04896 | #6 10 COUNTRY HILLS LD NW | DC | CHANGE OF USE: PERSONAL SERVICE BUSINESS/ESTABLISHMENT | Under review. The municipality records this as Hold. |
| DP2026-04869 | #401 722 85 ST SW | DC | CHANGE OF USE: INDOOR RECREATION FACILITY | Under review. The municipality records this as Hold. |
| DP2026-04853 | #3107 5150 47 ST NE | DC | CHANGE OF USE: RESTAURANT | Under review |
| DP2026-04796 | 333 EDGEPARK BV NW | DC | CHANGE OF USE: CHILD CARE FACILITY (70 CHILDREN) | Under review. The municipality records this as In Circulation. |
| LOC2026-0159 | 1215 14 AV SW | DC | Land Use Amendment to accommodate CC-X | Submitted |
| DP2026-04740 | 10 COUNTRY HILLS LD NW | DC | CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALTIES (PARKING), NEW: AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALTIES (CARW… | Under review. The municipality records this as Hold. |
Of 281 filings carrying DC in the slice: 90 permit issued, 72 under review, 57 approved, 28 cancelled.
Common questions about DC
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 DC land use district in Calgary?
- DC is a Calgary land use district code — direct control — 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 DC district?
- 281 development filings recorded on DevelopmentApplications.ca between 2009 and 2026 carry the DC 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 DC in Calgary?
- The acquired record shows 29 land use redesignations proposing a change into DC and 398 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.
The DC record measured across records acquired from 2009 to 2026. 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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