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Steering committee refines draft Greater Rigby area plan, sets public review when ITD numbers arrive
Summary
A nine-member committee reviewed guiding principles for a 30-square-mile Greater Rigby planning area, focusing growth inward, correcting parcel data and scheduling a public meeting once final transportation cost scenarios from ITD are available.
A county planning committee met online to review draft guiding principles for the Greater Rigby area, a roughly 30-square-mile planning zone identified for focused growth. Staff member leading the meeting said the goal is to concentrate new development inside that area while protecting farmland outside it and to prepare policy language that will guide future zoning decisions.
Committee members emphasized next steps: staff will correct GIS parcel layers and collect final cost estimates from the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) before a public meeting. As staff put it during the discussion, "We tried to encourage them to meet by the end of June or December," and the committee agreed to hold a public briefing once ITD returns final scenario numbers. The meeting also flagged a data-quality issue in parcel mapping that staff pledged to fix before publishing the public parcel layer.
