City of Burien Zoning Map

City of Burien

Burien is a 100-year-old community with a rich heritage and small-town feel. The city is considered relatively young when compared with its surrounding neighbors, such as Seattle to the north. Since its incorporation in 1993, Burien has been busy defining and redesigning itself as a vibrant city in King County.

How land use is managed and implemented is critical due to constant growth and the maturation process. The zoning map is one of the mechanisms used to implement the goals and objectives of the community as articulated in the city’s Comprehensive Plan. This map provides a quick and easy reference for planners, administrators, entrepreneurs, and citizens to zoning throughout the city. The assigned zones influence what and how businesses expand, establish how neighborhoods are created or modified, and execute specific development patterns.

The zoning layer and underlying cadastral layers, such as parcel polylines and polygons, are maintained in a versioned enterprise environment that is updated daily by internal staff. Information about zone changes is also maintained so that a historical reference can be mapped as a time series. Labeling the parcels with the site address is done by the Esri standard labeling engine using joins to the master address layer, which is also kept in the GIS.

Courtesy of the City of Burien.

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