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Council overturns Planning & Zoning denial, allows variance for Alquist/Quality Electric industrial site
Summary
Boise City Council reversed a Planning & Zoning denial and granted a variance for a proposed 40,000-square-foot Alquist/Quality Electric building on a 10-acre Pleasant Valley parcel after hearing that the modern zoning code creates layout problems for some industrial corner lots.
Boise City Council voted 5–1 to uphold an appeal and grant a variance for CVA 24-25, allowing Alquist Development and tenant Quality Electric to proceed with a site layout that places employee parking on a street-facing frontage while keeping truck circulation and loading in a separate yard.
City planning staff told the council the Planning & Zoning Commission denied the variance because the parcel is a regularly shaped, undeveloped 10-acre lot and staff had presented alternative site designs that would meet the new form-based code’s street-facing building and parking standards. Planning staff said the code’s purpose is to support a pedestrian realm and that granting a variance here would set a special privilege for the site.
The applicant argued the code leaves an operational “blind spot”…
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