Land use district · Multi-residential and mixed use
MU-2
What Calgary’s development record shows about filings carrying the MU-2 district. This page does not state what MU-2 permits — that is the Land Use Bylaw, which this platform has not ingested.
How land moved into and out of this district
Redesignated into MU-2
| From | Applications | Approved | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC | 19 | 16 | 2018–2026 |
| M-C1 | 5 | 1 | 2018–2026 |
| C-COR2 f1.0h10 | 4 | 2 | 2021–2026 |
| C-COR1 f2.8h13 | 3 | 2 | 2023–2026 |
| MU-2 f3.0h16 | 3 | 1 | 2024–2025 |
Redesignated out of MU-2
| To | Applications | Approved | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| MU-2 | 3 | 1 | 2024–2025 |
“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
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 MU-2
Show the underlying data table
| Category | Filings |
|---|---|
| Mixed use | 9 |
| Institutional | 3 |
Recent filings carrying MU-2
| File | Address | District as published | Proposal | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DP2026-04003 | 1810 42 ST SE | MU-2 f4.5h20 | RELAXATION: FENCE - HEIGHT | Decision pending. The municipality records this as Pending Decision. |
| DP2026-03792 | 8355 BROADCAST AV SW | MU-2 f4.0h30 | CHANGE OF USE: INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITY, RESTAURANT: FOOD SERVICE ONLY | Public comment open. The municipality records this as In Advertising. |
| DP2026-03179 | 1810 42 ST SE | MU-2 f4.5h20 | RELAXATION: FENCE - HEIGHT | Cancelled |
| DP2026-03099 | 8378 BROADCAST AV SW | MU-2 f4.0h30 | CHANGE OF USE: VETERINARY CLINIC | Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released. |
| DP2026-02904 | 8371 BROADCAST AV SW | MU-2 f4.0h30 | CHANGE OF USE: HEALTH CARE SERVICE - LOCATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR, RETAIL AND CONSUMER SER… | Approved |
| DP2026-02594 | #101 3507 17 AV SW | MU-2 f5.0h26 | CHANGE OF USE: CHILD CARE SERVICE (34 CHILDREN); CHANGES TO SITE PLAN (OUTDOOR PLAY AREA) | Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released. |
| DP2026-02349 | 3411 17 AV SE | MU-2 f3.0h46 | CHANGE OF USE: INDOOR RECREATION FACILITY, RESTAURANT: LICENSED (INDOOR RECREATION FACILI… | Cancelled |
| DP2026-02055 | 2136 33 AV SW | MU-2 f3.0h16 | CHANGE OF USE: HEALTH CARE SERVICE | Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released. |
| DP2026-01196 | 4627 BOWNESS RD NW | MU-2 f3.0h16 | REVISION: CHILD CARE SERVICE (INCREASE TO 136 CHILDREN), CHANGE TO SITE PLAN: CHILD CARE… | Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released. |
| DP2026-00451 | #12 2811 CENTRE ST NW | MU-2 f4.0h23 | REVISION: DWELLING UNIT, RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE (1 BUILDING, CHANGE TO DP2022-06898) | Approved. The municipality records this as Pending Release. |
| DP2026-00314 | 8233 BROADCAST AV SW | MU-2 f4.0h30 | CHANGE OF USE: RESTAURANT: FOOD SERVICE ONLY; REVISION: RESTAURANT: FOOD SERVICE ONLY (ME… | Permit issued. The municipality records this as Released. |
| DP2026-00013 | #110 4623 BOWNESS RD NW | MU-2 f3.0h16 | CHANGE OF USE: CHILD CARE SERVICE (36 CHILDREN) | Cancelled |
Of 12 filings carrying MU-2 in the slice: 5 permit issued, 3 cancelled, 2 approved, 1 public comment open.
Common questions about MU-2
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 MU-2 land use district in Calgary?
- MU-2 is a Calgary land use district code — multi-residential and mixed use — 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 MU-2 district?
- 12 development filings recorded on DevelopmentApplications.ca between 2018 and 2026 carry the MU-2 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 MU-2 in Calgary?
- The acquired record shows 34 land use redesignations proposing a change into MU-2 and 3 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 MU-2 sites in Calgary?
- Across 12 filings carrying a site-specific height modifier on MU-2, the median value applied for is 24.5 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.
The MU-2 record measured across records acquired from 2018 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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