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Urban Separators under King County Countywide Planning Policies

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Summary

The Countywide Planning Policies call for the county and cities to implement urban separators.

Different from

the Rural Area and Natural Resource Lands, these are low-density areas within the Urban Growth Area that

create open space corridors, provide a visual contrast to continuous development and reinforce the unique

identities of communities.

Urban separators can play a significant role in preserving environmentally critical

areas and in providing habitat for fish and wildlife.

They also provide recreational benefits, such as parks and

trails, and meet the Growth Management Act's requirement for greenbelts and open space in the Urban Growth

Area.

Description

Urban separators are corridors of land that define community or municipal identities and boundaries, provide visual breaks in the urban landscape, and link parks and open space within and outside the Urban Growth Area.These urban corridors can include and link parks and other lands that contain significant environmentally sensitive features, provide wildlife habitat or critical resource protection, contain defining physical features, or contain historic resources.The residential density for land.

so designated should be maintained at one unit per acre.

Layer information

Layer Name	urban_separator_area
Subject Category	Planning
Title	Urban Separators under King County Countywide Planning Policies
Feature Count	42
Feature Type	Polygon
Next Update	As needed
Spatial reference	EPSG:2926
Control ID	2678
Place Keywords	Pacific NW, King County, WA, Washington State
Theme Keywords	Planning, CPP, Countywide Planning Policies, Urban, Urban Separators, KCCP, Comp Plan, Comprehensive Plan, GMPC, Growth Management, Growth Management Planning Council, Planningcadastre
Supplemental Information	None

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Attribute information

OBJECTID From Esri	Description Internal feature number. Domain Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
EDITDATE From King County	Description Last date the feature was edited. Domain Varies by the range of how recently features were edited. This changes on each edit of the layer.
USERID From King County	Description Network user ID for last person to edit the feature. Domain mccombsp - Paul McCombs
NAME From King County	Description Name of the specific urban separator depicted by a feature. Name is not unique, consider eliminating duplicate labels depending on the scale of your map. Domain Names as used by the GMPC while discussing and adopting the urban separators initially. eg: Benson Hill, Leah Hill, Issaquah
SOURCE_LAYER From King County	Description The particular feature class that the feature was sourced from to compile the urban separator layer. Domain COMPLU_AREA - Comprehensive Plan Landuse layer from the KC GIS Spatial Data Warehouse Kent_Urbsep - Old project layer from the original Urban Separator development project - sourced from the city of Kent. leahill - Old project layer from the original Urban Separator development project - source unclear. Was in Unincorporated KC at the time but was slated for annexation by City of Auburn. Renton_Urban_Separator_area - Old project layer from the original Urban Separator development project - sourced from the city of Renton.
JURISDICTION From King County	Description Determined from City_Area in Unincorporated King County Domain Name of the city that contains the feature, or King County where there is no City. eg: Renton, King County, Auburn
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

Contact information

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

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