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Can I adjust urban area boundaries to include less area than the Census designed boundaries?

April 26, 2017area boundaries census designed urban

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Can I adjust urban area boundaries to include less area than the Census designed boundaries?

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No. Federal Transportation legislation specifically requires that any adjustments to urban or urbanized area boundaries must include, at a minimum the entire urban area designated by the Census Bureau. For urbanized areas (above 50,000 population) this means that the entire Census designated urbanized area boundary must be included in the FAUA.