Summary Tables

The LBCS code space side by side — all five dimensions at the one-digit level and the two-digit level, for quick comparison and for building lookup tables.

These tables put the five dimensions side by side. They are the fastest way to see how the same code number means different things in different dimensions — 4000 is social, institutional, or infrastructure-related activities in the activity dimension but transportation, communication, information, and utilities in the function dimension — and they are a convenient basis for a lookup table or a validation list.

One-digit level

The nine top-level categories of each dimension.

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`1000`	Residential activities	Residence or accommodation functions	Residential buildings	Site in natural state	No constraints — private ownership
`2000`	Shopping, business, or trade activities	General sales or services	Commercial buildings and other specialized structures	Developing site	Some constraints — easements or other use restrictions
`3000`	Industrial, manufacturing, and waste-related activities	Manufacturing and wholesale trade	Public assembly structures	Developed site — crops, grazing, forestry, etc.	Limited restrictions — leased and other tenancy restrictions
`4000`	Social, institutional, or infrastructure-related activities	Transportation, communication, information, and utilities	Institutional or community facilities	Developed site — no buildings and no structures	Public restrictions — local, state, and federal ownership
`5000`	Travel or movement activities	Arts, entertainment, and recreation	Transportation-related facilities	Developed site — nonbuilding structures	Other public use restrictions — regional, special districts, etc
`6000`	Mass assembly of people	Education, public admin., health care, and other inst.	Utility and other nonbuilding structures	Developed site — with buildings	Nonprofit ownership restrictions
`7000`	Leisure activities	Construction-related businesses	Specialized military structures	Developed site — with parks	Joint ownership character — public entities
`8000`	Natural resources-related activities	Mining and extraction establishments	Sheds, farm buildings, or agricultural facilities	Not applicable to this dimension	Joint ownership character — public, private, nonprofit, etc.
`9000`	No human activity or unclassifiable activity	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	No structure	Unclassifiable site development character	Not applicable to this dimension

Two-digit level

The second level of each dimension, grouped by top-level category. A dash means the dimension has no code at that number — the dimensions are not parallel below the first digit, and no meaning should be inferred from a shared code across dimensions.

1000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`1000`	Residential activities	Residence or accommodation functions	Residential buildings	Site in natural state	No constraints — private ownership
`1100`	Household activities	Private household	Single-family buildings	—	Private — fee simple
`1200`	Transient living	Housing services for the elderly	Multifamily structures	—	Private — less than fee simple
`1300`	Institutional living	Hotels, motels, or other accommodation services	Other specialized residential structures	—	—

2000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`2000`	Shopping, business, or trade activities	General sales or services	Commercial buildings and other specialized structures	Developing site	Some constraints — easements or other use restrictions
`2100`	Shopping	Retail sales or service	Office or bank building	Site that is graded with no structures or active use	Standard easements
`2200`	Restaurant-type activity	Finance and Insurance	Store or shop building	Site with temporary structures	Other easements
`2300`	Office activities	Real estate, and rental and leasing	Office or store building with residence on top	—	—
`2400`	—	Business, professional, scientific, and technical services	Office building over storefronts	—	—
`2500`	—	Food services	Malls, shopping centers, or collection of shops	—	—
`2600`	—	Personal services	Industrial buildings and structures	—	—
`2700`	—	Pet and animal sales or service (except veterinary)	Warehouse or storage facility	—	—

3000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`3000`	Industrial, manufacturing, and waste-related activities	Manufacturing and wholesale trade	Public assembly structures	Developed site — crops, grazing, forestry, etc.	Limited restrictions — leased and other tenancy restrictions
`3100`	Plant, factory, or heavy goods storage or handling activities	Food, textiles, and related products	Theater	—	—
`3200`	Solid waste management activities	Wood, paper, and printing products	Indoor games facility	—	—
`3300`	Construction activities (grading, digging, etc.)	Chemicals, and metals, machinery, and electronics manufacturing	Sports stadium or arena	—	—
`3400`	—	Miscellaneous manufacturing	Exhibition, convention, or conference structure	—	—
`3500`	—	Wholesale trade establishment	Churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, etc.	—	—
`3600`	—	Warehouse and storage services	Capitol buildings	—	—
`3700`	—	—	Covered or partially covered atriums and public enclosures	—	—
`3800`	—	—	Other community structures	—	—
`3900`	—	—	Passenger assembly	—	—

4000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`4000`	Social, institutional, or infrastructure-related activities	Transportation, communication, information, and utilities	Institutional or community facilities	Developed site — no buildings and no structures	Public restrictions — local, state, and federal ownership
`4100`	School or library activities	Transportation services	Medical facility	Outdoor storage areas, graded or ungraded	Local government
`4200`	Emergency response or public-safety-related activities	Communications and information	School or university buildings	—	State government
`4300`	Activities associated with utilities (water, sewer, power, etc.)	Utilities and utility services	Library building	—	Federal government
`4400`	Mass storage, inactive	—	Museum, exhibition, or similar facility	—	—
`4500`	Health care, medical, or treatment activities	—	Public safety-related facility	—	—
`4600`	Interment, cremation, or grave digging activities	—	Jails, penitentiaries, detention centers, and other correctional facilities	—	—
`4700`	Military base activities	—	Cemetery, monument, tombstone, or mausoleum	—	—
`4800`	—	—	Funeral homes and cremation facilities	—	—

5000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`5000`	Travel or movement activities	Arts, entertainment, and recreation	Transportation-related facilities	Developed site — nonbuilding structures	Other public use restrictions — regional, special districts, etc
`5100`	Pedestrian movement	Performing arts or supporting establishment	Linear or network feature	Developed site with landscaped or ornamental features	Regional government
`5200`	Vehicular movement	Museums and other special purpose recreational institutions	Automobile parking facilities	Developed site with billboards, signs, etc.	Port authorities
`5300`	—	Amusement, sports, or recreation establishment	Bus stop shelter	Developed site with roads, train tracks, and other linear structures	Tribal Lands
`5400`	Trains or other rail movement	Camps, camping, and related establishments	Bus or truck maintenance facility	Developed site with tanks, reservoirs, etc.	—
`5500`	Sailing, boating, and other port, marine and water-based activities	Natural and other recreational parks	Water transportation or marine related	—	—
`5600`	Aircraft takeoff, landing, taxiing, and parking	—	Air and space transportation facility	—	—
`5700`	Spacecraft launching and related activities	—	Railroad facility	—	—

6000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`6000`	Mass assembly of people	Education, public admin., health care, and other inst.	Utility and other nonbuilding structures	Developed site — with buildings	Nonprofit ownership restrictions
`6100`	Passenger assembly	Educational services	Utility structures on right-of-way	—	Nonprofit educational
`6200`	Spectator sports assembly	Public administration	Water-supply-related facility	—	Nonprofit philanthropic
`6300`	Movies, concerts, or entertainment shows	Other government functions	Sewer and waste-related facility	—	Nonprofit religious
`6400`	Gatherings at fairs and exhibitions	Public Safety	Gas or electric power generation facility	—	Nonprofit other
`6500`	Mass training, drills, etc.	Health and human services	Communication towers	—	—
`6600`	Social, cultural, or religious assembly	Religious institutions	Environmental monitoring station (air, soil, etc.)	—	—
`6700`	Gatherings at galleries, museums, aquariums, zoological parks, etc.	Death care services	Sign or billboard	—	—
`6800`	Historical or cultural celebrations, parades, reenactments, etc.	Associations, nonprofit organizations, etc.	—	—	—
`6900`	—	—	Other miscellaneous structures	—	—

7000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`7000`	Leisure activities	Construction-related businesses	Specialized military structures	Developed site — with parks	Joint ownership character — public entities
`7100`	Active leisure sports and related activities	Building, developing, and general contracting	Joint services facility	Local parks and recreational sites	—
`7200`	Passive leisure activity	Machinery related	Air Force facility	State, national, or other parks and recreational sites	—
`7300`	Flying or air-related sports	Special trade contractor	Army and marine corps facility	—	—
`7400`	Water sports and related leisure activities	Heavy construction	Naval facility	—	—
`7500`	—	—	Armory building	—	—

8000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`8000`	Natural resources-related activities	Mining and extraction establishments	Sheds, farm buildings, or agricultural facilities	Not applicable to this dimension	Joint ownership character — public, private, nonprofit, etc.
`8100`	Farming, tilling, plowing, harvesting, or related activities	Oil and natural gas	Grain silos and other storage structure for grains and agricultural products	—	—
`8200`	Livestock related activities	Metals (iron, copper, etc.)	Livestock facility	—	—
`8300`	Pasturing, grazing, etc.	Coal	Animal feed operations facility	—	—
`8400`	Logging	Nonmetallic mining	Animal waste-handling facility	—	—
`8500`	Quarrying or stone cutting	Quarrying and stone cutting establishment	Greenhouses	—	—
`8600`	Mining including surface and subsurface strip mining	—	Hatcheries	—	—
`8700`	Drilling, dredging, etc.	—	Kennels and other canine-related facilities	—	—
`8800`	—	—	Apiary and other related structures	—	—
`8900`	—	—	Other farm and farming-related structures	—	—

9000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
`9000`	No human activity or unclassifiable activity	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	No structure	Unclassifiable site development character	Not applicable to this dimension
`9100`	Not applicable to this dimension	Crop production	Not applicable to this dimension	—	Unclassifiable ownership or restriction on the use
`9200`	Unclassifiable activity	Support functions for agriculture	Unclassifiable structure	—	—
`9300`	Subsurface activity	Animal production including slaughter	Subsurface structures	—	—
`9400`	—	Forestry and Logging	—	—	—
`9500`	—	Fishing, hunting and trapping, game preserves	—	—	—
`9900`	To be determined	Unclassifiable function	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined

Source

Code numbers, category names, and category descriptions on this page are reproduced from the American Planning Association's LBCS standard tables (1 April 2001).

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