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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 |
None |
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Attribute information
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OBJECTID
From Esri |
Description
Internal feature number. DomainSequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. |
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JURIS
From King County |
Description
Jurisdiction planning to annex this area DomainAU - 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 |
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SYMBOL
From King County |
Description
Drawing symbolization for mapping DomainSingle digit value |
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EDITDATE
From King County |
Description
Date time stamp when feature last edited. DomainDate and time as 10/29/2015 1:57:38 PM |
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USERID
From King County |
Description
Login name for last edit editor. DomainLogin name in lowercase. |
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ShortID
From King County |
Description
Short identifier DomainTwo to three letter alpha abbreviation followed by one to two digit integer |
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UniqueName
From King County |
Description
Unique name for each potential annexation. DomainShort phrase name |
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Description
From King County |
Description
Additional narrative description. DomainString |
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CityInRuralAreaUGA
From King County |
Description
Whether a city in a rural area UGA Domain0 - Not a city in a rural area UGA 1 - Yes, a city in a rural area UGA |
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CSA_NAME
From King County |
Description
Community Service Area name if applicable DomainString |
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Shape
From Esri |
Description
Feature geometry. DomainCoordinates defining the features. |
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Comments
From King County |
Description
Additional comments, if applicable DomainFree text |
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West_King_County_CSA
From King County |
Description
Whether in the West King County Community Service Area Domain0 - Not in the West King County Service Area 1 - Yes, in the West King County Service Area |
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Uninc_Urban_Category
From King County |
Description
Unincorporated Urban Category DomainCity 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 |
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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. DomainDouble |
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Shape.STLength()
From SQL Server |
Description
Returns the total length of the elements in a geometry instance. DomainDouble |
Contact information
| Maintained by | Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget |
| Primary |
Nanette Lowe
nanette.lowe@kingcounty.gov |
Terms of Use
| License | Terms of use and copyright |
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| Sharing Status | Public |
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
| License | 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) |