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Planning commission backs a package of Boise zoning tweaks including ADU expansion and incentive changes
Summary
The Boise City Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend City Council approve ZOA25‑13, a zoning ordinance amendment that makes technical edits and six policy changes covering EV charging, bike parking, ADUs, housing incentives and an airport influence overlay tied to noise contours.
Deanna Dupuis, a city planner, told the Planning and Zoning Commission she and staff are proposing ZOA25‑13 to bundle technical corrections and six policy edits to Boise’s zoning code. The package would move an EV‑parking requirement into a voluntary sustainability incentive, introduce alternative compliance for bicycle parking and revert to roughly one bike parking space per multifamily unit, allow junior ADUs and permit two accessory units or tiny homes on wheels on single‑family lots, revise a menu of zoning incentives, and revise the airport influence overlay to be driven by noise contours.
The changes on incentives drew the most detailed scrutiny. Dupuis said staff and independent pro‑forma modeling…
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