Boise council delays vote on comprehensive-plan amendment to align area-of-impact with Ada County

The Boise City Council on Tuesday voted to delay action on CPA 25-3, a city-initiated amendment to Blueprint Boise and the city’s future land-use map that would remove 128 parcels from the city’s area of impact and add a compact land-use designation to 20 parcels, a change proposed to align Boise with Ada County’s request and new state guidance under the Local Land Use Planning Act.

Planning staff presented the amendment as an administrative cleanup prompted by 2024 changes to the state’s Local Land Use Planning Act, which direct cities and counties to reconcile area-of-impact boundaries and adopt a two-mile distance standard from city limits to area-of-impact boundaries by the end of 2025. Deanna Dupree, planning staff, said Ada County provided a list of parcels located more than two miles from Boise’s city limits and asked Boise to remove those parcels from the city’s area of impact. “We are proposing to align perfectly with that request from the county,” Dupree said.

The amendment is concentrated…