Short answer: Mount Pleasant has part of Confederation Park within its boundaries, along with an outdoor pool, an arena, an arts centre and three schools. SAIT is 1.3 km away and downtown 3.4 km, and the community's streets mix older homes with new infills.
Why live in Mount Pleasant?
Weekends start close to home. Confederation Park, which the City created in 1967 for Canada's centennial, covers 162 hectares, and two of its sections are in the community. Across the park there are pathways, tennis courts and ball diamonds, picnic areas, a wetland and a City toboggan hill.
Mount Pleasant's history shows in its buildings. The City lists 12 historic resources here, including King George School and the North Mount Pleasant School, both from 1913, and Craftsman and Queen Anne Revival houses from 1911 to 1913.
What else is in Mount Pleasant?
Summer brings the Mount Pleasant Outdoor Pool, and the Mount Pleasant Sportsplex has the community's arena. The North Mount Pleasant Arts Centre is here as well, with an off-leash area at St. Joseph Park.
What schools are in or near Mount Pleasant?
King George School, St. Joseph Elementary Junior High School and the Francophone École de la Rose sauvage are in Mount Pleasant, and Balmoral School is about 70 metres outside it.
- King George School: public, elementary, inside Mount Pleasant
- St. Joseph Elementary Junior High School: Catholic, elementary and junior high, inside Mount Pleasant
- École de la Rose sauvage: Francophone public, junior high and senior high, inside Mount Pleasant
- Balmoral School: public, elementary and junior high, about 70 metres past the edge
- Rosedale School: public, elementary and junior high, about 370 metres past the edge
- Crescent Heights High School: public, senior high, about 610 metres past the edge
How far is Mount Pleasant from downtown?
Mount Pleasant is about 3.4 km from downtown (City Hall) in a straight line. The SAIT/ACAD/Jubilee CTrain station is about 610 metres from the community's edge.
| Straight-line distance to | km |
|---|---|
| Downtown (City Hall) | 3.4 km |
| University of Calgary | 3.7 km |
| Foothills Medical Centre | 4.0 km |
| SAIT | 1.3 km |
| Mount Royal University | 8.1 km |
| Alberta Children's Hospital | 5.0 km |
What are the homes like in Mount Pleasant?
Mount Pleasant has 794 detached houses built before 1970 and 338 built since 2000. The older ones sit on a median lot of 5,952 sq ft with a median 2026 assessment of $731,000; taken parcel by parcel, that's a median of about $138 per square foot of lot.
An assessment isn't a sale price. To see what a builder might pay for an older home's lot, read What Is My Calgary Lot Worth to a Builder?
What is Mount Pleasant zoned?
Mount Pleasant is mostly R-C2: 95% of the 2,177 low-density residential lots in Mount Pleasant are R-C2 on the City's land use map, after the repeal of citywide R-CG zoning took effect on 4 August 2026.
| Zoning | Lots | Share |
|---|---|---|
| R-C2 | 2,060 | 95% |
| R-CG | 37 | 2% |
| Other | 80 | 4% |
- R-C2 (Residential, Contextual One/Two Dwelling): Single-detached, semi-detached and duplex homes, with suites allowed.
- R-CG (Residential, Grade-Oriented Infill): A range of homes: single-detached, semi-detached, rowhouses and townhouses, with suites allowed.
To check a single address, use the zoning lookup, and for what reverted and why, see what the repeal changed.
How much infill is being built in Mount Pleasant?
From 1 March 2025 to 25 October 2026, Mount Pleasant had 30 infill development permit applications, and building permit applications for 140 new infill homes naming 38 different builders. 57 demolition permits were filed over the same period, at 49 addresses.
Among infill homes, rowhouses and townhouses lead with 83 units. Separately, apartment buildings have permit applications for 236 more units.
| New infill homes on permits | Units |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 29 |
| Semi-detached | 28 |
| Rowhouse and townhouse | 83 |
| Total | 140 |
Questions about living in Mount Pleasant
Is Mount Pleasant a good place to live?
Mount Pleasant suits people who want a new home on an established street: 140 infill homes have gone onto permit applications since March 2025.
Is Confederation Park in Mount Pleasant?
Part of it is. Two sections of Confederation Park lie inside Mount Pleasant's boundary, and the rest of the 162-hectare park is just beyond.
Sources: City of Calgary open data, pulled 25 October 2026: building permits, development permits, 2026 assessments, land use districts, community boundaries, parcel addresses, schools, parks, pathways, off-leash areas, CTrain stations, libraries, recreation facilities, community services, business licences, business improvement areas, historic resources, public trees, 2021 federal census by community and annexation history. Park details from calgary.ca: Confederation Park. District descriptions from Land Use Bylaw 1P2007, Part 5. The repeal date is from the City of Calgary. Business counts include licences that are current or up for renewal. Low-density residential lots are detached, semi-detached, rowhouse and vacant parcels in the residential class of the 2026 assessment roll, each counted in the district covering most of it; some sit in multi-residential districts. Distances are straight-line from the middle of the community. Infill development permit applications are those for semi-detached, rowhouse, townhouse and multi-residential homes and for contextual single-detached homes; other new single-detached houses are not counted. They are counted as filed, whatever their later status; building and demolition permits leave out cancelled, refused and expired ones.
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