Middleton council approves Quarry East changes, holds engineer review at six months

Middleton, Idaho ' On Dec. 17, the Middleton City Council voted to approve a modification to the development agreement for the Quarry East subdivision (M3 Idaho Woodland LLC), adopting a compromise that requires a more substantial private-street road base, removes an age-restriction in the original agreement, and leaves the city engineer's six-month completion-packet review period unchanged.

The action came after more than an hour of technical presentations, public testimony and council questions about long-term maintenance, road durability and how shortening the city's review timeline could affect construction schedules. Council members and staff agreed to the developer's request on several items but rejected the applicant's ask to shorten the engineer's review window from six months to two months and to include a "stop-clock" provision that would pause the timeline while the developer responded to city requests.

The modification affects the 640-unit, gated Quarry East community approved in 2022. Staff told the council the project includes single-family and duplex lots, 52 acres of lakes and private streets that would be maintained by the developer and,…