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Potential Annexation Areas (PAA) and Other Urban Unincorporated Areas of King County

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Summary


King County's plans and stated purpose of various unincorporated (outside city) areas with an urban designation under the King County comprehensive plan (KCCP).

Description


Shows unincorporated (outside city) areas with an urban designation under the King County comprehensive plan (KCCP).

Including: Designated City PAAs (areas planned to be annexed to a city in the future); City in Rural Area UGAs (similar but associated with the six cities in the rural area designated in the KCCP); Urban Planned Development (UPD, Redmond Ridge); and other misc.

categories.


Layer information

Layer Name paa_area
Subject Category Planning
Title Potential Annexation Areas (PAA) and Other Urban Unincorporated Areas of King County
Feature Count 96
Feature Type Polygon
Next Update As needed
Spatial reference EPSG:2926
Control ID 2583
Place Keywords Pacific NW, King County, WA, Washington State
Theme Keywords Planning, Annexation, Potential Annexation, Unincorporated, Comprehensive Plan, Rural, Planningcadastre
Supplemental Information

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Attribute information

OBJECTID

From Esri

Description

Internal feature number.

Domain

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

JURIS

From King County

Description

Jurisdiction planning to annex this area

Domain

AU - City of Auburn Potential Annexation Area

BD - City of Black Diamond Potential Annexation Area

BE - City of Bellevue Potential Annexation Area

BO - City of Bothell Potential Annexation Area

CA - City of Carnation Potential Annexation Area

CO - City of Covington Potential Annexation Area

DU - City of Duvall Potential Annexation Area

EN - City of Enumclaw Potential Annexation Area

FW - City of Federal Way Potential Annexation Area

GP - GAPS - Urban Areas which are not within the designated PAA of any city

IS - City of Issaquah Potential Annexation Area

KE - City of Kent Potential Annexation Area

MT - City of Milton Potential Annexation Area

MV - City of Maple Valley Potential Annexation Area

NB - City of North Bend Potential Annexation Area

NC

PA - City of Pacific Potential Annexation Area

RM - City of Redmond Potential Annexation Area

RN - City of Renton Potential Annexation Area

SE - City of Seattle Potential Annexation Area

SM

SN - City of Snoqualmie Potential Annexation Area

TU - City of Tukwila Potential Annexaton Area

SYMBOL

From King County

Description

Drawing symbolization for mapping

Domain

Single digit value

EDITDATE

From King County

Description

Date time stamp when feature last edited.

Domain

Date and time as 10/29/2015 1:57:38 PM

USERID

From King County

Description

Login name for last edit editor.

Domain

Login name in lowercase.

ShortID

From King County

Description

Short identifier

Domain

Two to three letter alpha abbreviation followed by one to two digit integer

UniqueName

From King County

Description

Unique name for each potential annexation.

Domain

Short phrase name

Description

From King County

Description

Additional narrative description.

Domain

String

CityInRuralAreaUGA

From King County

Description

Whether a city in a rural area UGA

Domain

0 - Not a city in a rural area UGA

1 - Yes, a city in a rural area UGA

CSA_NAME

From King County

Description

Community Service Area name if applicable

Domain

String

Shape

From Esri

Description

Feature geometry.

Domain

Coordinates defining the features.

Comments

From King County

Description

Additional comments, if applicable

Domain

Free text

West_King_County_CSA

From King County

Description

Whether in the West King County Community Service Area

Domain

0 - Not in the West King County Service Area

1 - Yes, in the West King County Service Area

Uninc_Urban_Category

From King County

Description

Unincorporated Urban Category

Domain

City in Rural Area UGAs - City in Rural Area UGA

Designated City PAAs - Desingated City PAA

Major Parks - Major Parks

ROW and Partial Lots - ROW and Partial Lots

Undesignated PAAs - Undesignated PAA

UPD - UPD

Shape.STArea()

From SQL Server

Description

Returns the area of a geometry instance in square units, based on the spatial reference identifier (SRID) of the geometry.

Domain

Double

Shape.STLength()

From SQL Server

Description

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

Domain

Double


Contact information

Maintained by Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget
Primary Nanette Lowe

nanette.lowe@kingcounty.gov


Terms of Use

Summary


King County's plans and stated purpose of various unincorporated (outside city) areas with an urban designation under the King County comprehensive plan (KCCP).

Description


Shows unincorporated (outside city) areas with an urban designation under the King County comprehensive plan (KCCP).

Including: Designated City PAAs (areas planned to be annexed to a city in the future); City in Rural Area UGAs (similar but associated with the six cities in the rural area designated in the KCCP); Urban Planned Development (UPD, Redmond Ridge); and other misc.

categories.


Contact information

Maintained by Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget
Primary Nanette Lowe

nanette.lowe@kingcounty.gov


Terms of use and copyright


Change history

6/11/2025

Changed shape field type to MS SQL Server Native geometry.

3/10/2025

Implemented 2024 Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map Amendment that amended the Urban Growth Area to remove R & H Mining Property Gap PAA (Urb-36).

3/4/2025

Annexations from 2022 (SE 44th St, annexed by EN), 2023 (Grace Point, annexed by EN), and 2024 (NE 97th St, annexed by RM) were removed from the layer.

6/17/2021

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.

12/1/2020

Rolled-back KCCP2020 LUMA changes that affected Urban Growth Boundary due to requirement for UGA Ratification: LUMA 5.a - East Cougar Mountain; LUMA 6 - Maple Valley UGA Changes.

9/30/2020

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 The PAA on the north side of Carnation rename in the previous process step was rolled back and will likely be reinstated at a later time.

9/11/2019

Annexations from 2019 were removed from the layer.

Some PAA names were changed.

North Highline Area Q was set to "OL" for jurisdiction, which indicates overlapping jurisdiction between Seattle and Tukwila. These changes were made for an executive proposed comp plan map, but not yet published. Changes will be published after the adoption of the 2020 Comp Plan amendment.

2/15/2019

Annexations from 2017 and 2018 were removed from the layer.

A Corporate Boundary for Northbend was corrected and a small number of parcel alignments were performed.

2/1/2017

All features were reviewed, adjusted to match the latest parcel boundaries, updated for annexations through Fall 2016, Attributes have been dropped and added to accomodate a revidsed comp plan map 2016 KCCP, to assit in making updates to the Community Service Areas layer, and give user friendly names to all features.

Also includes 2016 KCCP and GMPC CPP amendments to the Urban Growth Boundary and the PAAs.

9/15/2015

Aligned many PAA polygons with improved cadastral base.

11/14/2013

Corrected an error with the Marrymore polygon that was left unfixed for a long time due to it being masked by the park layer on the official PAA map.

2/1/2013

Cleaned up some stray sliver polygons generated in previous edit session and added one small polygon to the RX-55 feature that had been mistakenly separated in October 2012.

1/29/2013

Implemented changes adopted by 2012 King County Comprehensive Plan.

Adjusted some features to align with parcels that have been redrawn in the vicinity of other features updated.

1/13/2013

Removed 3 Renton annexations effective since last update,

10/17/2005

Convert data from shapefile to SDE feature class.

Cleaned-up and separated Multipart region features into Singlepart features.

Added GAP and OVERLAP areas.

Update 16

Annexations from late 2019 and/or early 2020.

Some previously unknown ROW annexations were removed.

Noth Highline Area Y was edited to follow the corrected Seattle boundary.

Update 17

Removed Annexations between Mid 2013 and 2/28/2014.

Added two remaining islands in the vicinity of Bothell.

Cleaned up some remaining PAAs to match recent cadastral redraws.

Update 18

Added AU portion of parcel 9510937777 to FW.

Update 19

Elimintated slivers

Update 20

Data updated (changed Juris code NE to NC)