What is the R-2 land use district in Calgary?

R-2 is a Calgary land use district code — residential — 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.

Is land being rezoned into or out of R-2 in Calgary?

The acquired record shows 5 land use redesignations proposing a change into R-2, and no redesignation away from 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 A redesignation is an application to Council, not a completed change: some were approved, some refused, some withdrawn, and each filing's own page states which.

Land use district · Residential

R-2

What Calgary’s development record shows about filings carrying the R-2 district. This page does not state what R-2 permits — that is the Land Use Bylaw, which this platform has not ingested.

District code

R-2

Naming family

Residential

Filings in slice

Redesignated into

Redesignated out of

Record spans

2010–2018

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.

5 of 5 approved

Redesignated into R-2

Districts redesignated into R-2
From	Applications	Approved	Years
DC	3	3	2017–2018
S-FUD	2	2	2010–2014

Redesignated out of R-2

No application in the record proposes changing R-2 land to something else.

“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.

Common questions about R-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 R-2 land use district in Calgary?: R-2 is a Calgary land use district code — residential — 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.
Is land being rezoned into or out of R-2 in Calgary?: The acquired record shows 5 land use redesignations proposing a change into R-2, and no redesignation away from 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.

Historical comparisonBounded by what this platform has acquired.

The R-2 record measured across records acquired from 2010 to 2018. 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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