Polygon feature representing the area within which urban services are provided for the Town of Chapel Hill. Services are provided by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) and the Town of Chapel Hill. Updated regularly as needed.

The urban service area boundary data layer is an integral part of the planning data in the Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Government Geographic Information System. This information is used by the Division of Planning in case review, enforcement, and long range planning. GIS data layers are accessed by personnel in most LFUCG divisions for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production.This dataset is designed to represent and identify the urban service area in Lexington-Fayette County. The urban service area is the part of the county where urban services (city garbage collection, street lights, street sweeping) are provided and a higher density for development is allowed. The boundary is defined by Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council Ordinance. The boundary was originally approved in 1958 and has been occasionally modified. Any expansion to the boundary is considered during Division of Planning's comprehensive plan review process, but the recommendation from Planning must receive Urban County Council approval for alteration. After UCG Council approval is received the ordinance is forwarded to the GIS Office for inclusion in the dataset.The data is in ESRI feature class format, but can be exported to any number of supported formats, including shapefile and dxf. The native projection for the data is Kentucky State Plane North (NAD83), but may have been reprojected for use in other applications. Please check metadata to determine current projection.

The MUSA Composite dataset depicts current and future boundaries of the Urban Service Areas (sewer service areas) based on communities' comprehensive plans for the seven-county metropolitan area of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The dataset does not depict the precise location of current urban services (Sewer service). In other words, the Urban Service Areas designate areas that might be serviced, it does not represent the urban areas that are serviced. The depiction of Urban Service Areas provides a framework in which known urban development and anticipated future development can exist with adequate sewer capacity at efficient service levels. Seven other datasets are derived from these data: MUSA_2020, MUSA_2020_Outline, MUSA_2030, MUSA_2030_Outline, MUSA_2040, MUSA_2040_Outline, MUSA_2050, MUSA_2050_Outline, MUSA Undesignated_Reserve (see below). NOTE: As of August 2020, the derived dataset MUSA_Undesignated is no longer being used as a desingation but remain in the Attributes for an unknown period of time for historical comparison purposes but there will no longer be a designated layer as part of any download.

Each community (city or township) in the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area is required to complete a comprehensive plan for approval by the Metropolitan Council per the Metropolitan Land Planning Act of 1995 (Minn. Stat 473.864, Subd 2 and 473.175, Subd 1). The comprehensive plan must include a depiction of current and future boundaries of the Urban Service Areas (i.e., 2040, 2050, Post-2050).

As of March 2011, a new designation area was created specifically to address the agreed upon development plan for southeastern Scott County between the county, the city of Elko New Market and the town of New Market : 'Undesignated MUSA Reserve.' This is an area where an agreed upon acreage of urban sewer service can be added to the current MUSA by 2040 through their 2040 Comprehensive Plan. The distinction between 'Undesignated MUSA' and 'Undesignated MUSA Reserve' is that 'Undesignated MUSA' is an area within a municipal boundary defined by that municipality's comprehensive plan, whereas, 'Undesignated MUSA Reserve' is an area beyond the current municipal boundary (i.e., surrounding township) that is designated in a joint agreement by the city, town, and county to accommodate future municipal growth. Urban sewer services will not be provided to these areas until they have been annexed by the municipality (i.e., Elko New Market).

Although the Metropolitan Council provides the majority of the urban sewer service in the seven-county metropolitan area, several smaller, free-standing rural communities in the region (primarily in Carver and Scott Counties), private systems, and independent nations (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community) provide their own urban services. Where information on their urban service areas are available, it is included in this dataset.

Although the information included in this dataset is derived from the communities' 2008 and 2018 comprehensive plans, subsequent plan amendments are intended to be current within 4 months, for exact MUSA information, please contact the community.

When referring to CURRENT MUSA extent, this includes areas up to 2025 MUSA. For communities who have had their 2040 Comprehensive Plan adopted (Benchmark 2040), this includes areas up to 2030 MUSA.

These data were previously incorporated in the Comprehensive Plan Composite dataset.

The Urban Service Area layer delineates urban from rural Sarasota County for the purpose of urban services delivery. For more information there are various chapters of the Comprehensive Plan detailing urban services..

The Urban Service District is the old City of Louisville boundary before the City of Louisville and Jefferson County merged in 2003. This area is still used as a taxing district which provides special services like fire protection and solid waste pickup services. View detailed metadata.

This hosted feature layer has been published in RI State Plane Feet NAD 83.The Urban Services Boundary was developed for the Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program as part of a GIS overlay analysis of land suitability and availability for Figure 121-02-(01), Rhode Island Future Land Use Map - 2025 of the Land use 2025: State Land Use Policies and Plan. This is the State of Rhode Island"s plan for conservation and development in the 21st century. The boundary represents the general extent of the areas within which public services supporting urban development presently exist, or are likely to be provided, through 2025. Within the boundary most land should be served by public water service and many areas will have public sewer service available as well. Public transit service should be generally available. Several watersheds and other sensitive resource areas were excluded from the boundary, indicating that protection of the resources involved must be a principle concern limiting future development intensity potential. Also included within the boundary, are other undeveloped areas which will have lower development intensities due to the presence of resources constraints and or limited infrastructure.The Land use 2025: State Land Use Policies and Plan, was published by the Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program on April 13, 2006. The intent of the Urban Services Boundary is to provide an indication for planning purposes of areas where a higher level of public services is anticipated to be available to accommodate more intensive development and redevelopment. Public services in areas outside the Urban Services Boundary are anticipated to be more limited, and planned development intensities should be lower. The Plan directs the state and communities to concentrate growth inside the boundary and within locally designated centers in rural areas, and to pursue different development approaches for urban and rural areas. The Future Land Use Map with the Urban Services Boundary describes the recommended 2025 future land use pattern for the State of Rhode Island. This map has several purposes and applications: It is intended as a policy guide for directing growth to areas most capable of supporting current and future developed uses (and conversely, away from areas less suited for development). In this regard, it is intended to inform state and local capital investment decisions so that investments may target and support growth in appropriate areas and discourage growth in inappropriate locations. Secondly, the Future Land Use Map is a guide to assist the state and communities in making land use policies. It is important to note the Map is a generalized portrayal of state land use policy. IT IS NOT A "STATEWIDE ZONING MAP" - zoning matters and individual land use decisions are the prerogative of local governments.

This dataset is designed to represent and identify the urban service area in Lexington-Fayette County approved in 1998. The urban service area is the part of the county where urban services (city garbage collection, street lights, street sweeping) area provided and a higher density for development is allowed. The boundary is defined by Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council Ordinance. The boundary was originally approved in 1958 and slowly expanded. Expansion to the boundary is considered during Division of Planning's comprehensive plan review process, but the recommendation must receive Urban County Council approval for alteration. After UCG Council approval is received the ordinance is forwarded to the GIS Office for inclusion in the dataset.The data is in ESRI feature class format, but can be exported to any number of supported formats, including shapefile and dxf. The native projection for the data is Kentucky State Plane North (NAD83), but may have been reprojected for use in other applications. Please check metadata to determine current projection.

This layer contains boundaries of the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA) in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota for each year from 1995 through 1998. Plans are to also add Local Urban Service Area (LUSA) boundaries to this dataset.

A MUSA boundary line is the outer edge of the urban area. It is a line agreed to jointly by the Council and local governments through local comprehensive plan reviews. It delimits the outer reaches of regional services for the specified time period.

A LUSA boundary line is the outer edge of the urban service are in rural growth centers. Rural growth centers are incorporated areas that currently provide central sewer service and that have planned long-term expansions of their urban service area. These small cities are expected to plan for a balance of housing and jobs to promote self-sufficiency. This service area boundary, like the MUSA, is agreed to jointly by the Council and local governments through local comprehensive plan reviews. It delimits the outer reaches of regional services for the specified time period.

Many of the lines that define the MUSA boundary are municipal boundaries. In this layer, these lines have been derived from the County and Minor Civil Divisions layer compiled by the Metropolitan Council. Other lines in this layer have been derived from municipal comprehensive plan maps at a variety of scales and accuracy levels.

NOTES:
- The lines in this layer are not expected to be as positionally accurate as parcel datasets available from most counties in the Twin Cities area.
- Significant errors have been noticed in the original 1995 dataset. These include missing polygons and lines that differ significantly from the parcel boundaries that actually define the MUSA. These errors will be fixed as they are encountered. See Horizontal Positional Accuracy for more information.
- Additionally, areas included in the MUSA in any particular year can, at times, be difficult to determine from maps submitted to the Council prior to 1998, and do not necessarily match maps from previous years.
- Some communities have 'undesignated' or 'floating' MUSAs. That is, they may have a large or undefined area within which a specific amount of land may be added to the MUSA within a given period of time. Thus, the acreage of additional MUSA has been approved by the council, but the location of that acreage will be determined in the future. These 'undesignated' or 'floating' MUSAs are not represented in this layer until specific locations are identified.

The Urban Service Area dataset is comprised of all the polygons that represent Urban Service Areas in Alberta. Urban Service Area is a municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act. The formation of an Urban Service Area can occur if there is a large unincorporated community within a Specialized Municipality that is recognized as an equivalent to a City by the Government of Alberta. It has a population, public utility services, and other characteristics.

Urban Service Area for Glynn County

Boundary depicting the urban service area in 1962. (Polygon)

Downloads and additional Metadata. A tiled map service depicting wildland urban interface data for 2010. The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline. Using geographic information systems (GIS), we integrated U.S. Census and USGS National Land Cover Data, to map the Federal Register definition of WUI (Federal Register 66:751, 2001) for the conterminous United States for 2010. These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels. Data are available as a feature class and include information such as housing and population densities for 2010; wildland vegetation percentages for 2011; as well as WUI class in 2010. This WUI feature class is separate from the WUI datasets maintained by individual forest units, and it is not the authoritative source data of WUI for forest units. This map service shows the WUI data for 2010 only.

Urban service boundary for St. Lucie County Florida.

Seattle Parks and Recreation 2023 Walkability Gap Analysis. SPR’s intent is to gain a more accurate picture of access, by measuring how people walk to a park or recreation facility. We are calling this "walkability".This map shows what a 5-minute and a 10-minute walking distance (or walkability area) looks like around park lands that are greater than 10,000 square feet in size.

This hosted feature layer has been published in RI State Plane Feet NAD 83.THIS IS A FUTURE LAND USE MAP CREATED IN 2006. THIS DOES NOT SHOW CURRENT 2025 LAND USE LAND COVER.The Land Use 2025 dataset was developed for the Division of Planning, RI Statewide Planning Program as part of an update to a state land use plan. It evolved from a GIS overlay analysis of land suitability and availability and scenario planning for future growth. The analysis focused on the 37% of the State identified as undeveloped and unprotected in a land cover analysis from RIGIS 1995 land use land cover data. The project studied areas for suitability for conservation and development, based on the location of key natural resources and public infrastructure. The results identified areas with future use potential, under three categories of development intensity and two categories of conservation.These data are presented in the Plan as Figure 121-02-(01), Future Land Use Map. Land Use 2025: State Land Use Policies and Plan was published by the RI Statewide Planning Program on April 13, 2006. The intent of the Plan is to bring together the elements of the State Guide Plan such as natural resources, economic development, housing and transportation to guide conservation and land development in the State. The Plan directs the state and communities to concentrate growth inside the Urban Services Boundary (USB) and within potential growth centers in rural areas. It establishes different development approaches for urban and rural areas.These data have several purposes and applications: They are intended to be used as a policy guide for directing growth to areas most capable of supporting current and future developed uses and to direct growth away from areas less suited for development. Secondly, these data are a guide to assist the state and communities in making land use policies. It is important to note these data are a generalized portrayal of state land use policy. These are not a statewide zoning data. Zoning matters and individual land use decisions are the prerogative of local governments. The land use element is the over arching element in Rhode Island's State Guide Plan. The Plan articulates goals, objectives and strategies to guide the current and future land use planning of municipalities and state agencies. The purpose of the plan is to guide future land use and to present policies under which state and municipal plans and land use activities will be reviewed for consistency with the State Guide Plan. The Map is a graphical representation of recommendations for future growth patterns in the State. It depicts where different intensities of development (e.g. parks, urban development, non-urban development) should occur by color. The Map contains a USB that shows where areas with public services supporting urban development presently exist, or are likely to be provided, through 2025. Within the USB, most land is served by public water service; many areas also have public sewer service, as well as, public transit. Also included on the map are growth centers which are potential areas for development and redevelopment outside of the USB. Growth Centers are envisioned to be areas that will encourage development that is both contiguous to existing development with low fiscal and environmental impacts.NOTE: These data will be updated when the associated plan is updated or upon an amendment approved by the State Planning Council. NOTE: Wetlands were not categorized within the Land Use 2025 dataset.When using this dataset, the RIGIS wetlands dataset should be overlaid as a mask. Full descriptions of the categories and intended uses can be found within Section 2-4, Future Land Use Patterns, Categories, and Intended Uses, of the Plan. https://www.planning.ri.gov/documents/guide_plan/landuse2025.pdf

Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan Planning Areas. The planning area I, II, III map defines the city's service area which sets the city's urban growth boundary and ensures a logical extension of urban services. 2010 BVCP updates applied including combining II A and II B into single planning area labeled "II".

An urban area or “large urban area” is a set of municipalities, of a single tenant and without enclave, consisting of an urban cluster (urban unit) of more than 10 000 jobs, and by rural municipalities or urban units (peri-urban crown) of which at least 40 % of the resident population with a job works in the pole or in municipalities attracted to it.

Urban zoning 2010 also distinguishes:

— the ‘average areas’, a set of municipalities, of a single tenant and without enclave, consisting of a pole (urban unit) of 5 000 to 10 000 jobs, and by rural municipalities or urban units of which at least 40 % of the resident population with employment works in the pole or in municipalities attracted to it.

— the ‘small areas’, a set of municipalities, of a single holding and without enclave, consisting of a pole (urban unit) of 1 500 to 5 000 jobs, and by rural municipalities or urban units of which at least 40 % of the resident population with employment works in the pole or in municipalities attracted to it.

N_PROCEDURE_URBA_ZSUP_019 These data describe the planning procedures in their latest known state, specifying their situation in terms of progress and effectiveness. On average, a planning procedure lasts three years. This description is voluntarily limited to achieve a specific objective: show, through summary maps, the geographical distribution and progress of PLU procedures relevant to the management of urban and rural planning policies. These include planning procedures in preparation, revision or repeal. In order to allow an exhaustive summary of the progress of the procedures, the procedures of the past years which have led to urban planning documents which are now enforceable are kept in these data (a planning document is associated with them in the file N_DOCUMENT_URBA_ddd). On the other hand, old urban planning procedures (i.e. those that have resulted in planning documents that are no longer enforceable) and procedures cancelled before their completion are not kept in these data.

Graph and download economic data for Expenditures: Telephone Services by Type of Area: Urban: Other Urban (CXUPHONELB1804M) from 2003 to 2020 about phone, telecom, expenditures, urban, services, and USA.

Note: The Sonoma Valley Urban Service Area was revised by the Board of Supervisors as part of the Sonoma Developmental Center Specific Plan (File PLP22-0024) adopted by Ordinance 6400 and General Plan Resolution 22-0556 on December 16, 2022. The Sonoma Valley Urban Service Areas expanded into the SDC core campus portion of APN 054-090-001, and was removed from the SDC open space portion of APN 054-150-005.The Urban Service Areas (USA) dataset represents the designated limit to the urban development of unincorporated communities per Sonoma County's General Plan 2020 as adopted on September 23, 2008 by Resolution No. 08-0808. Currently, there are 21 unincorporated urban service communities within Sonoma County. The communities are limited to urban development through urban services which is the full range of public services and infrastructures including sewer, water, police and fire protection, roads, transit, etc. Per General Plan Land Use 2020 adopted on 09/23/2008 by the Board of Supervisors, USA's were updated to reflect changes in service areas, spheres of influence and city urban growth boundaries (Reso. No. 08-0808). To note, according to 2012 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Chapter 2.5 Definitions addresses "Urbanized Area" and defines "urban growth boundary" as a provision of a locally adopted general plan that allows urban uses one side of the boundary and prohibits urban uses on the other side.The 21 Urban Service Areas are as follows: AirportBodega BayCloverdaleCotatiForestvilleGeyservilleGratonGuernevilleHealdsburgLarkfieldMonte RioOccidentalPenngrovePetalumaRohnert ParkSanta RosaSea RanchSebastopolSonomaSonoma ValleyWindsor