diff --git a/modules/osm/index.js b/modules/osm/index.js
index b225beaac..755b7d91c 100644
--- a/modules/osm/index.js
+++ b/modules/osm/index.js
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ export {
     osmOneWayTags,
     osmPavedTags,
     osmIsInterestingTag,
+    osmLifecyclePrefixes,
+    osmRemoveLifecyclePrefix,
     osmRoutableHighwayTagValues,
     osmFlowingWaterwayTagValues,
     osmRailwayTrackTagValues
diff --git a/modules/osm/tags.js b/modules/osm/tags.js
index 48e9dcffa..731873286 100644
--- a/modules/osm/tags.js
+++ b/modules/osm/tags.js
@@ -8,6 +8,33 @@ export function osmIsInterestingTag(key) {
         key.indexOf('tiger:') !== 0;
 }
 
+export const osmLifecyclePrefixes = {
+    // nonexistent, might be built
+    proposed: true, planned: true,
+    // under maintentance or between groundbreaking and opening
+    construction: true,
+    // existent but not functional
+    disused: true,
+    // dilapidated to nonexistent
+    abandoned: true, was: true,
+    // nonexistent, still may appear in imagery
+    dismantled: true, razed: true, demolished: true, destroyed: true, removed: true, obliterated: true,
+    // existent occasionally, e.g. stormwater drainage basin
+    intermittent: true
+};
+
+/** @param {string} key */
+export function osmRemoveLifecyclePrefix(key) {
+    const keySegments = key.split(':');
+    if (keySegments.length === 1) return key;
+
+    if (keySegments[0] in osmLifecyclePrefixes) {
+        return key.slice(keySegments[0].length + 1);
+    }
+
+    return key;
+}
+
 export var osmAreaKeys = {};
 export function osmSetAreaKeys(value) {
     osmAreaKeys = value;
@@ -44,13 +71,14 @@ export function osmTagSuggestingArea(tags) {
     if (tags.area === 'no') return null;
 
     var returnTags = {};
-    for (var key in tags) {
+    for (var realKey in tags) {
+        const key = osmRemoveLifecyclePrefix(realKey);
         if (key in osmAreaKeys && !(tags[key] in osmAreaKeys[key])) {
-            returnTags[key] = tags[key];
+            returnTags[realKey] = tags[realKey];
             return returnTags;
         }
         if (key in osmAreaKeysExceptions && tags[key] in osmAreaKeysExceptions[key]) {
-            returnTags[key] = tags[key];
+            returnTags[realKey] = tags[realKey];
             return returnTags;
         }
     }
diff --git a/modules/renderer/features.js b/modules/renderer/features.js
index a0b0f74e5..453faeb0a 100644
--- a/modules/renderer/features.js
+++ b/modules/renderer/features.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { dispatch as d3_dispatch } from 'd3-dispatch';
 
 import { prefs } from '../core/preferences';
-import { osmEntity } from '../osm';
+import { osmEntity, osmLifecyclePrefixes } from '../osm';
 import { utilRebind } from '../util/rebind';
 import { utilArrayGroupBy, utilArrayUnion, utilQsString, utilStringQs } from '../util';
 
@@ -42,17 +42,6 @@ export function rendererFeatures(context) {
         'pedestrian': true
     };
 
-    var past_futures = {
-        'proposed': true,
-        'construction': true,
-        'abandoned': true,
-        'dismantled': true,
-        'disused': true,
-        'razed': true,
-        'demolished': true,
-        'obliterated': true
-    };
-
     var _cullFactor = 1;
     var _cache = {};
     var _rules = {};
@@ -210,7 +199,7 @@ export function rendererFeatures(context) {
 
         for (var i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
             var s = strings[i];
-            if (past_futures[s] || past_futures[tags[s]]) { return true; }
+            if (osmLifecyclePrefixes[s] || osmLifecyclePrefixes[tags[s]]) return true;
         }
         return false;
     });
diff --git a/modules/svg/tag_classes.js b/modules/svg/tag_classes.js
index 61b4c7e0c..e358e9903 100644
--- a/modules/svg/tag_classes.js
+++ b/modules/svg/tag_classes.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { select as d3_select } from 'd3-selection';
-import { osmPathHighwayTagValues, osmPavedTags, osmSemipavedTags } from '../osm/tags';
+import { osmPathHighwayTagValues, osmPavedTags, osmSemipavedTags, osmLifecyclePrefixes } from '../osm/tags';
 
 
 export function svgTagClasses() {
@@ -9,20 +9,7 @@ export function svgTagClasses() {
         'leisure', 'military', 'place', 'man_made', 'route', 'attraction',
         'building:part', 'indoor'
     ];
-    var statuses = [
-        // nonexistent, might be built
-        'proposed', 'planned',
-        // under maintentance or between groundbreaking and opening
-        'construction',
-        // existent but not functional
-        'disused',
-        // dilapidated to nonexistent
-        'abandoned',
-        // nonexistent, still may appear in imagery
-        'dismantled', 'razed', 'demolished', 'obliterated',
-        // existent occasionally, e.g. stormwater drainage basin
-        'intermittent'
-    ];
+    var statuses = Object.keys(osmLifecyclePrefixes);
     var secondaries = [
         'oneway', 'bridge', 'tunnel', 'embankment', 'cutting', 'barrier',
         'surface', 'tracktype', 'footway', 'crossing', 'service', 'sport',
diff --git a/test/spec/osm/tags.js b/test/spec/osm/tags.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ae9d9c5f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/spec/osm/tags.js
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+describe('iD.osmRemoveLifecyclePrefix',  function () {
+    it('removes the lifecycle prefix from a tag key',  function () {
+        expect(iD.osmRemoveLifecyclePrefix('was:natural')).to.equal('natural');
+        expect(iD.osmRemoveLifecyclePrefix('destroyed:seamark:type')).to.equal('seamark:type');
+    });
+
+    it('ignores invalid lifecycle prefixes', function () {
+        expect(iD.osmRemoveLifecyclePrefix('ex:leisure')).to.equal('ex:leisure');
+    });
+});
+
+
+describe('osmTagSuggestingArea', function () {
+    beforeEach(function () {
+        iD.osmSetAreaKeys({ leisure: {} });
+    });
+
+    it('handles features with a lifecycle prefixes', function () {
+        expect(iD.osmTagSuggestingArea({ leisure: 'stadium' })).to.eql({ leisure: 'stadium' });
+        expect(iD.osmTagSuggestingArea({ 'disused:leisure': 'stadium' })).to.eql({ 'disused:leisure': 'stadium' });
+        expect(iD.osmTagSuggestingArea({ 'ex:leisure': 'stadium' })).to.be.null;
+    });
+});