This polygon shapefile depicts land use types in the County of San Mateo, California. Includes information on land use density, land use type, area, and narrative description. This data includes areas in the County's planning jurisdiction. Areas within city jurisdictions are excluded. Land is classified as either rural or urban. Land use descriptions include Agriculture, Commercial, Residential, Industrial, Open Space, Parks, Recreation, Timber Production and Transportation Facilities. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data for San Mateo County, California.This coverage can be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analyses of geospatial data.