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Provides historic (1994) Urban Growth Area Designation data.

Suitable for change analysis and historic mapping.

Urban and Rural Designated areas of King County as established in the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan.

Boundaries have been conflated to parcel boundaries current in 2016.

This data layer was created to support a change analysis for Urban Growth Area change from 1994 to 2016.

Layer Name	urban_growth_1994_area
Subject Category	Planning
Title	Urban Growth Area Designation, Historic 1994
Feature Count	2
Feature Type	Polygon
Next Update	None planned
Spatial reference	EPSG:2926
Control ID	2677
Place Keywords	Pacific NW, King County, WA, Washington State
Theme Keywords	Planning, UGA, UGB, Urban Growth, Urban Designation, Rural Designation, Urban, Rural, Rural City, City In The Rural Area, KCCP, Comp Plan, Comprehensive Plan, 1994, Planningcadastre
Supplemental Information	None

OBJECTID From Esri	Description Internal feature number. Domain Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
UG_Designation From King County	Description Urban Growth Designation is the most fundimental of King County Comprehensive Planning Designations for property in King County. Urban vs. Rural designation determines if an area may be annexed by a city and controls the variation of comp plan landuse and zoning designations that could be available on those properties. Domain RCUrb - City in the Rural Area with their PAA. This is a sub category of Urban Designation. Rural - Rural Designation Urban - Urban Designation
SHAPE From Esri	Description Feature geometry. Domain Coordinates defining the features.
SHAPE.area No Source Noted	Description Not Found Domain Not Found
SHAPE.len No Source Noted	Description Not Found Domain Not Found

Maintained by	Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget
Primary	Nanette Lowe nanette.lowe@kingcounty.gov

License	Terms of use and copyright

Links How to use in ArcGIS Pro
Sharing Status	Public

Provides historic (1994) Urban Growth Area Designation data.

Suitable for change analysis and historic mapping.

Urban and Rural Designated areas of King County as established in the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan.

Boundaries have been conflated to parcel boundaries current in 2016.

This data layer was created to support a change analysis for Urban Growth Area change from 1994 to 2016.

Maintained by	Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget
Primary	Nanette Lowe nanette.lowe@kingcounty.gov

License	Terms of use and copyright

6/12/2025	Changed shape field type to MS SQL Server Native geometry.
11/20/2017	1994 Urban Growth Area layer was conflated to 2016 parcels in preparation for use in a Urban Designation Change analysis commissioned by Regional Planning as part of the preparation of the 2016 King County Comprehensive Plan.