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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
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Attribute information

Shape

From ESRI

Description

Feature Geometry

Domain

Coordinates defining the features

CPLU

From ESRI

Description

Comprehensive Plan Land Use Code

Domain

Coordinates defining the features.

SHAPE

From ESRI

Description

Feature geometry.

Domain

Coordinates defining the features.

EDITDATE

From DDES

Description

Most recent date the feature was edited.

Domain

Not Found

USERID

From DDES

Description

User who most recently edited feature.

Domain

Generally last name plus first initial.

Shape.STLength()

From SQL Server

Description

Returns the total length of the elements in a geometry instance.

Domain

Double

OBJECTID

From ESRI

Description

Internal feature number.

Domain

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Contact information

Maintained by DLS - Permitting
Primary Paul McCombs

paul.mccombs@kingcounty.gov


Terms of Use

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


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