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Hayden City Council approves revised area-of-impact boundary under new state rules
Summary
Council voted to adopt Map B defining Hayden's five-year area of impact after a public hearing and staff presentation on 2024 state law changes; county must still approve the boundary.
Hayden City Council on Tuesday approved an amended area-of-impact boundary (Map B) the city will submit to Kootenai County under changes to Idaho law.
The council's action formalizes a boundary that staff and neighboring cities negotiated to remove overlapping claims and to focus growth expectations to a five-year horizon required by the 2024 statutory amendments.
City staff said the state changes require cities to identify where growth is likely in roughly a five-year timeframe and to eliminate overlapping "shared tier" areas. Acting community development director Mister Merrill told the council the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended the map after meetings with adjacent cities and county staff. The council voted to send the agreed boundary to the county for adoption; the county has final approval.
The law change, described during the hearing as…
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