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Residents urge protections for Boise River cottonwoods and call for tighter zoning rules; council to research options
Summary
Speakers at the Garden City town hall asked the council to create river 'refuges' to protect cottonwood trees, urged better coordination with the Army Corps and Flood Control District, and requested that rezoning be completed before new applications are grandfathered; no moratorium or zoning decision was made.
Residents used Garden City’s town hall to press officials on protecting the Boise River’s cottonwood forest and to express concern about zoning work that could allow new developments to be grandfathered under old rules.
Several speakers said the riverfront’s natural tree canopy and the Greenbelt are central to Garden City’s character and urged the council to ensure that upcoming development respects setbacks and the river ecology. "Part of that ecology is to not have a 16…
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