A large development may be constructed near Boise in the wake of arguments between city and county planning officials.
Arizona-based SunCor Development Company plans a master planned community in northeast Ada County; County commissioners are expected to hold a second public hearing to take public testimony.
"For opponents of sprawl, the prospect of 680 high-end homes -- with the promise of more -- getting plunked down in the foothills north of Eagle qualifies as a bummer. But what might be more depressing is the likelihood that their protests, made at a public meeting last week and to be continued at another one next month, are all but moot…Therein lies the difficulty for...sprawl opponents. So long as the relationship between the planners for the cities and the county is strained, they say, projects like Avimor are inevitable. They may not be to the liking of Boise's progressives, but they are completely legal under current planning regimes."
Thanks to Jon Cecil, AICP
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