Idaho

At a recent ULI Conference, local and national experts discussed housing trends in fast-growing Boise Metro area, and urged developers to build more low-cost homes.

Funds have been approved to identify site selection for a multi-modal transit center in downtown Boise. The city is also pushing its public transit system to create fixed bus stops so that riders won't have to flag down buses to get a ride.

A Boise historian promotes walking as a way to get in touch with the city's history, and officials are hoping a walking education will help residents understand why planning is essential to managing the city's huge population growth.

Commissioners in Ada County, Idaho declare planner's private contract with adjacent county violated county ethics statute.

Growth, education and jobs/wages/employment are the top concerns identified in public policy survey conducted recently by Boise State University's social science research center.

Idaho's Proposition 2 asks voters to decide whether the state should compensate property owners when land-use laws reduce their property values. The voters must also decide if they want their state to prohibit the use of eminent domain.

Property rights initiatives in four western states are hoping to draw in support from voters afraid of the spectre of eminent domain. But many see this as an inaccurate ploy.

More than 20 master planned communities have been proposed in Idaho since 2000. And the trend of the increasing popularity of MPCs is spreading nationwide.

Report by Seattle-based Sightline Institute documents a growing backlash against "property rights" initiatives in Oregon communities deeply affected by Oregon's Measure 37 and implications for western states.

The Kelo decision spurs ballot measures to restrict eminent domain and "regulatory takings".

A series of articles and reports addressing growth in the Western United States, including Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Idaho and other states.

An Idaho regional land use plan is on hold as members debate policy implementation.

Boise's proposal for commuter light-rail chugs along.

The Aspen Lofts, a new condominium project planned for downtown Boise, is making use of what others would call wasted space.

Activist and singer-songwriter Carole King urges Americans to oppose bills that give away public land for private development.

The public's reaction was mixed when the first parking meters in downtown Boise, Idaho, in 1940.

Boise meets Seattle Mayor's Challenge to take local action on global warming.

A half-cent sales tax for transit is proposed for the Idaho capital.

Idaho Rep. Gov. Risch reversed his predecessor's position on allowing new coal plants to be built in Idaho by opting out of a federal mercury emissions trading program. By doing so, the state has shown bi-partisan opposition to coal power plants.

Planners are spooked by a Measure 37 look-a-like bill that spills over into Idaho.