Countywide Planning Policies

Countywide Planning Policies (PDF*, 213KB)
    - Urban Growth Boundary (PDF*, 1MB)
    - Urban Separators: North Overview (PDF*, 2MB)
    - Urban Separators: South Overview (PDF*, 319KB)
    - Urban Separators: Kirkland/Willows (PDF*, 61KB)
    - Interim Potential Annexation Areas (PDF*, 3MB)

About the Countywide Planning Policies

The Countywide Planning Policies or CPPs (PDF*, 213KB) are a series of policies that address growth management issues in King County. The Growth Management Planning Council (GMPC) brings together elected officials from King County and the cities and jurisdictions within it to develop the CPPs.

Adopted and ratified by the cities in 1994, the CPPs provide a countywide vision and serve as a framework for each jurisdiction to develop its own comprehensive plan, which must be consistent with the overall vision for the future of King County.

Updating the Countywide Planning Policies

GMPC has begun a year-long process to update the CPPs which is planned to culminate in their adoption by year-end 2010. The intent of the update is threefold: to ensure consistency with current state law, state agency guidance and recent hearings board decisions; to align the CPPs with the newly adopted regional growth strategy found in VISION 2040; and to modernize the CPP narrative to reflect the county’s ongoing and evolving implementation of the Growth Management Act and countywide policies.

As GMPC moves forward, updates about this process will be provided here.

For more information about the Countywide Planning Policies, please contact Paul Reitenbach at 206-296-6705 or e-mail paul.reitenbach@kingcounty.gov.

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