Planning commission approves expansion of West Boise Water Renewal Facility, preserves pathway corridor

The Boise City Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve a modification of a conditional use permit to expand the West Boise Water Renewal Facility, finding the city’s conceptual master plan acceptable and placing conditions that require subsequent design review for each phase of work.

The permit modification, described by city planning staff as a “master plan for the next decade,” would cover roughly 117 acres at the West Boise Water Renewal Facility and establishes locations for future upgrades and additions while preserving a north–south pathway corridor along the site’s western boundary.

Planning staff said the site is zoned heavy industrial with a floodplain overlay and open land with a hillside overlay and noted an extensive permitting history dating to 1973, including about 13 prior conditional-use permit modifications and multiple sensitive-land overlays. The staff presentation recommended approval with…