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Comprehensive Plan Land Use
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Summary
The Comprehensive Plan Land Use Codes in this layer reflect the goals of the King County Comprehensive Plan.
These codes may be revised annually by Comprehensive Plan map amendments and occasionally other planning ordinances.
The Comprehensive Plan Land Use categories are officially designated by the King County Comprehensive Plan and required by King County ordinance to be mapped.
Description
A comprehensive plan is a generalized; coordinated land use policy statement of the governing body of a county or city that is adopted pursuant to the Washington State Growth Management Act.
The CPLU designations are defined in the King County Comprehensive Plan and so designated in order to implement the plan's land use policies.
All incorporated areas are purged from the published layer as King County does not have planning jurisdiction in those areas.
CPLU designation boundaries are tied to cadastral features.
When cadastral features are adjusted to improve positional accuracy the CPLU boundaries must also be adjusted.
Layer information
| Layer Name | complu_area |
| Subject Category | Planning |
| Title | Comprehensive Plan Land Use |
| Feature Count | 2763 |
| Feature Type | Polygon |
| Next Update | Annually |
| Spatial reference | EPSG:2926 |
| Control ID | 129 |
| Place Keywords | Washington State, King County, WA, Pacific NW |
| Theme Keywords | Urban Growth, Land Use, Planning, Planningcadastre |
| Supplemental Information |
None |
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Attribute information
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Shape
From ESRI |
Description
Feature Geometry DomainCoordinates defining the features |
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CPLU
From ESRI |
Description
Comprehensive Plan Land Use Code DomainCoordinates defining the features. |
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SHAPE
From ESRI |
Description
Feature geometry. DomainCoordinates defining the features. |
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EDITDATE
From DDES |
Description
Most recent date the feature was edited. DomainNot Found |
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USERID
From DDES |
Description
User who most recently edited feature. DomainGenerally last name plus first initial. |
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Shape.STLength()
From SQL Server |
Description
Returns the total length of the elements in a geometry instance. DomainDouble |
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OBJECTID
From ESRI |
Description
Internal feature number. DomainSequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. |
Contact information
| Maintained by | DLS - Permitting |
| Primary |
Paul McCombs
paul.mccombs@kingcounty.gov |
Terms of Use
| License | Terms of use and copyright |
Use this Data
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Links
How to use in ArcGIS Pro |
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| Sharing Status | Public |
Summary
The Comprehensive Plan Land Use Codes in this layer reflect the goals of the King County Comprehensive Plan.
These codes may be revised annually by Comprehensive Plan map amendments and occasionally other planning ordinances.
The Comprehensive Plan Land Use categories are officially designated by the King County Comprehensive Plan and required by King County ordinance to be mapped.
Description
A comprehensive plan is a generalized; coordinated land use policy statement of the governing body of a county or city that is adopted pursuant to the Washington State Growth Management Act.
The CPLU designations are defined in the King County Comprehensive Plan and so designated in order to implement the plan's land use policies.
All incorporated areas are purged from the published layer as King County does not have planning jurisdiction in those areas.
CPLU designation boundaries are tied to cadastral features.
When cadastral features are adjusted to improve positional accuracy the CPLU boundaries must also be adjusted.
Contact information
| Maintained by | DLS - Permitting |
| Primary |
Paul McCombs
paul.mccombs@kingcounty.gov |
Terms of use and copyright
| License | Terms of use and copyright |
Change history
| 6/12/2025 |
Aligned features with parcels in Greater Maple Valley/Cedar River Subarea Plan. Implemented Land Use and Zoning map amendments from the 2024 King County Comp Plan Amendment ordinance #19881, Effective January 2nd, 2025. Changed shape field type to MS SQL Server Native geometry. |
| 3/12/2024 |
Remove slivers where land use features misaligned with cities in northeast King County. |
| 5/30/2023 |
Replace features in the Snoqualmie Valley/NE King County community planning area with features aligned to modern parcel boundaries created as part of the community plan update to be included in the 2024 KCCP ordinance. Additionally cleaned up some 'os' polygons elsewhere in the county in preparation for some proposed changes of KC Parks owned properties to be designated King County Owned Open Space System (os). Incidental clean up and alignment to fit these changes with adjacent features. |
| 2/7/2023 |
Implement 2022 King County Comprehensive Plan Update, Land Use Map Amendments (attachment D). Adopting Ordinance is #19555 - Effective Date is 1/1/2023 |
| 9/15/2022 |
Adjusted many features in disparate parts of the county to align with parcels due to historic research conducted while developing a historic land use change data layer covering years 1995 to present, and to clean up remaining 'upd' designation. |
| 1/3/2022 |
Adjusted several complu designation features in the North Highline subarea to align with current parcels as of September 2021. Cleaned up some slivers left over at old annexation boundaries. |
| 6/17/2021 |
Source: maint.DDES.complu_area_Erase_20210805 <-- KCCP2020_complu_area erased with current Cities Posting Layer: Complu_area Implemented KCCP2020 LUMA changes that affected Urban Growth Boundary due to requirement for UGA: LUMA 5.a - East Cougar Mountain; LUMA 6 - Maple Valley UGA Changes. These changes had previously been implemented in the layer after the adoption of the 2020 KC Comprehensive Plan, then rolled-back due to changes to the corresponding King County Countywide Planing Policies needing to be ratified, which happened June 1, 2021. |
| 1/11/2021 |
Source: maint.DDES.complu_area_Erase_20210111 <-- KCCP2020_complu_area erased with current Cities Posting Layer: Complu_area Aligned to parcels in vicinity of Covington |
| 11/24/2020 |
+ Posting Layer: ~maint.DDES.complu_area_Erase_20201124~ + Rolled-back KCCP2020 LUMA changes that affected Urban Growth Boundary due to requirement for UGA: LUMA 5.a - East Cougar Mountain; |
| 10/19/2020 |
Remove small gaps and overlaps in the vicinity of Bear Creek UPD Correct corruption of many edit date values |
| 10/7/2020 |
Correct boundary changed by 2020 King County Comprehensive Plan Update LUMA 1 - Woodinville Roundabout. |
| 9/25/2020 |
Implement 2020 King County Comprehensive Plan Update, Land Use Map Amendments (attachment D) and Special District Overlay amending sections in the main body of the ordinance. Adopting Ordinance is #19146 - Final Action 7/24/2020 - Effective Date is 8/20/2020 . |
| 8/24/2018 |
Aligned to updated cadastral base in the vicinity of Kent and SR 18. |
| 5/10/2017 |
Aligned to updated cadastral base in the vicinity of Federal Way, Milton and Pierce County. Paul McCombs |
| 2/12/2016 |
Features were editied to conform to redrawn parcels in the vicinity of 2016 KC Comprehensive Plan potential changes and study areas. |
| 1/29/2013 |
Updated with adopted map changes from the 2013 King County Comprehensive Plan. Please note that Taylor Mountain has a pre-effective condition and has not been updated pending evidence of the condition being met. Features were edited to conform to redrawn parcels in the vicinity of the other edits. |
| 12/1/2005 |
update |
| Update 18 |
Edited zoning boundaries to match underlying cadastral changes. Focused in Vashon Town (Ober Park) and split zoning parcels near city of Black Diamond. |
| Update 19 |
2016 KC Comprehensive Plan adopted changes were made. Minor changes were made to conform to redrawn parcels. Currently published incorporated areas were removed from this layer prior to posting. |
| Update 20 |
Update (2006 Comp. Plan Amendment). |
| Update 21 |
Updated (technical correction). |
| Update 22 |
Data update |
| Update 23 |
update |