Planning commission recommends removing Warm Springs historic-design overlay for three East Lewis parcels

The Boise City Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to recommend that City Council remove a Historic Design Overlay (HDO) from three parcels at 1312, 1328 and 1334 East Lewis Street (file CAR25-13), a change the planning team said will not alter the sites’ underlying R‑1C zoning or density allowances.

Planning staff presented the application as a zoning map amendment to remove the HDO on roughly 1.05 acres that had been split off from a larger property and no longer front Warm Springs Avenue. Planner Matt Dennis told the commission the overlay historically applied to lots oriented to Warm Springs Avenue with contributing structures and access to geothermal lines; the three subject parcels now take access from East Lewis, Dennis said, and “no change in the density allowance, building height, and all other zoning standards” would result if the overlay is removed.

Applicant Dan Gibbons told the commission the overlay controls design review only…