City Council - Regular Meeting

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Well, good evening, everybody. Welcome to our first meeting back after recess. It's great to have you all here. We start our meetings with an invocation, which we observe by a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Morales.

Here.

Halliburton.

Here. Morales. Here.

Nash.

Here.

Stead. Here. Willis.

Five present, one absent. Madam Mayor. Before we jump into things, I wanted to make a move. We're looking at item under new business item number two. I move deferral of SUB 25-33 to a date certain of September 15th, 2026 at the request of the applicant.

Second the motion. We have a motion and a second. Clerk? Clerk?

Corliss? Yes. Halliburton?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Nash?

Yes.

Sedd?

Yes. All in favor, motion carries. Great. And then next we have, I move approval of the minutes from the work session and regular evening meeting on July 14th, 2026.

Second the motion. We have a motion and a second. Clerk?

Corliss? Yes. Halliburton?

Yes.

Morales? Yes.

Nash?

Yes.

Sedd? Yes. All in favor, motion carries. And then, Madam Mayor, I move approval of the consent agenda.

Second the motion?

We have a motion and a second. I'd just like to point out two things on the agenda. Resolution 332.26 is the grant agreement for passenger rail. And it's an exciting step because this will help us continue to advance our desire to see a connection between Boise and other cities on the Pioneer Corridor. And this grant that we're getting from the Department of Transportation will actually allow us not only to look realistically at what that route looks like, but to look at how we revitalize and support the area around our own Boise Depot that would be part of passenger rail in the long run. And then ACHD is here. So I want to point out another resolution, which is 36426, the license agreement that allows us to move forward and paint curbs to make clear, especially with school starting tomorrow, make clear and especially, I mean, around the city, you shouldn't be parking close to stop signs. But now with this license agreement, we'll be able to do what we've piloted in the North End, which is paint curbs and or put up signs where ACHD is doing that to protect residents as they're walking throughout their neighborhoods. And especially as we start to school, kiddos as they walk to school.

Clerk. Clerk. Corliss? Yes. Halliburton? Yes. Morales? Yes. Nash?

Yes.

Stead? Yes. All in favor, motion carries. Okay, then I think moving into first reading, Madam Mayor, I ask unanimous consent that all ordinances on the first reading be read by number and title only and filed for the second reading calendar. Without objection.

ORD-35-26, an ordinance entitled the Annual Appropriation Ordinance for the Fiscal Year beginning October 1, 2026. appropriating $1,804,900,395 deemed necessary to depray all expenses and liabilities of the City of Boise City, Idaho for said fiscal year, specifying the objects and purposes for which said appropriation is made, repealing all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, authorizing a levy of a sufficient tax upon the taxable property, providing for a waiver of the reading rules, and providing effective date. ORD-36-26, An ordinance amending Title IX, Chapter 2 of Boise City Code. This amendment updates the development impact fees per service unit and related schedule of development impact fees and providing effective date of October 1, 2026.

Madam Mayor, I ask unanimous consent that ordinances on the second reading calendar be read by name, by number and title only and filed for the third reading calendar.

40-32-26. An ordinance, CAR 25-00023, for property located at 650 South Cotterell Street, amending zoning classifications of the City of Boise City to change the classification of real property, particularly described in Section 1 of this ordinance, and adjacent rights-of-way from R-1A, residential large lot, to R-1B, residential suburban, setting forth a recent statement in support of such zone change and providing effective date. ORD-33-26. An ordinance, CAR 25-00028, for property located at 9501 West Burnett Drive, annexing two acres of certain lands and territory, situated in 80 County, Idaho, adjacent and contiguous to the corporate limits of the City of Boise City, establishing and determining the land classification of said two acres as R-1B, residential, suburban, establishing and determining the sensitive lands overly district of said acres, setting forth a reasoned statement in support of such annexation and zone change. directing the city engineer to lodge and file a legal description and map for said annex lands and territory, providing that copies of this ordinance shall be filed with the Ada County Auditor, the Ada County Treasurer, the Ada County Assessor, the Ada County Recorder, and the Idaho State Tax Commission, providing that a copy of said legal description and map of said annex lands and territory be recorded with the Ada County Recorder and filed with the Ada County Assessor and the Idaho State Tax Commission, as required by law, and providing an effective date. ORD-34-26, an ordinance, CAR-25-00019, for property located at 2607 North Lancaster Drive, Boise, Idaho, 83702. Amending zoning classifications of the City of Boise City to change the classification of real property, particularly described in Section 1 of this ordinance, and adjacent rights of way. From R-2-HS-O-WUI-O, residential compact with hillside development and wildland urban interface overlays. to R-1B-HS-O-WI-O residential suburban with hillside development and wildland urban interface overlays, setting forth a reason statement in support of such zone change and providing an effective date.

Thank you. Okay, now we'll move into subdivisions. We've got, excuse me.

once the barnwood's been deferred as we took action at the beginning of the evening so the first step is sub 2596 matt good evening madam mayor thank you uh thank you and members of council the item before you is a preliminary platform mixed use subdivision comprised of 35 buildable lots on 135.9 acres in the mx2 aio wuida mixed use general with airport influence area and wildland urban inter in interface overlays and a development agreement as long as along with I-1 slash AIO WUI ODA industrial light with airport influence area and wildland urban interface overlays and a development agreement zone. This application was heard by the Planning and Zoning Commission on July 6 and was unanimously recommended for approval. For a brief history of the site, it was annexed in 2021. It had a previous design review application and subdivision that were withdrawn with the intent to subdivide and develop the property under the current zoning code. There was also a shuffling of zoning at that time to get to what we have today. The subject property is mostly vacant and the proposed subdivision is intended to accommodate a mix of commercial and industrial uses. Subdivision proposes the improvement, extension, and construction of new and existing arterial roadways, being Innovator Street along the northern portion of the site, Orchard Street along the western portion of the site, and Lake Hazel, which cuts through the southern, southwestern portion of the site. These arterial roadways will be improved with 10-foot wide detached sidewalks separated by landscape buffers with street trees, And then additionally, two new local roadways are proposed, kind of in that backwards L-shaped in the top left-hand corner, the northwest corner. These are Aspire Avenue and Origin Street. These will, as required by the development code, be improved with five-foot-wide detached sidewalks separated by eight-foot landscape buffers, all of which are in compliance with the streetscape standards. The proposed lots within the subdivision meet the dimensional standards of the MX2 and I1 zones, and as conditioned, the proposal is in compliance with the underlying development agreement. Vehicular driveways along each road frontage will provide connectivity to these lots, and a recommended condition of approval requires the addition of a plat note that delineates a blanket easement for cross-access and maintenance through the commercial portion of the development. Shown here is a conceptual phasing plan with construction generally starting in the Northeast corner of the site and proceeding south and west in accordance with the development agreement, a recommended condition of approval of the subdivision requires. The 2.5 acre site in the southwestern corner shown in red here to be dedicated to the city of Boise for a future fire station location prior to proceeding past phase one. At the planning and zoning Commission hearing the applicant had expressed opposition to three conditions of approval which were discussed on the record. These were regarding conditions 10, 14E, and 63. As I just said, they were discussed on the record and summarized within your project report tonight. ACHD had provided agency comments, which required the applicant to provide signal warrant analysis and enter into signal agreements with ACHD to ensure that offsite improvements are constructed at the intersection shown on your screen. ACHD had originally required these conditions as part of phase one. but the final revised agency comment received leading up to this hearing modified the timing of those improvements to be required as phase two. ACHC also provided agency comment leading up to the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing, which required the intersection of Origin Avenue to be shifted northward to meet separation policy between the intersection of Orchard Street and Lake Hazel Road. The applicant subsequently provided a revised plan set showing this northern shift in the proposed roadway to meet that separation, as you can see. This will likely affect the zoning on lots one through three, block two, shown in red, that they'll likely end up being split zoned. So planning staff included a recommended condition of approval to rezone any split lots appropriately. The applicant provided late correspondence prior to this hearing, which reiterated their request of the previous hearing to waive the subdivision requirement to install streetscape landscaping within the industrial zone portion of the subdivision. Rather, their request is for the landscaping to be required at the design review phase. As detailed within the project report and late correspondence memo, the planning team is not supportive of this request as the city's bonding process would allow the exact driveway locations in search of the development, which are yet to be determined as cited by the applicant. It also mitigates any potential lack of installation with the bond payment having been received if those improvements aren't completed. Further, the phasing plan proposed by the applicant will allow for the recordation of individual final plots to be completed one at a time. As such, improvements will be required to be installed or bonded for for each phase or final plot, thus allowing flexibility within their timeline. Further, these bonds and Subdivision plots can be extended by City Council in the future, so that provides a little bit more flexibility as well. In conclusion, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the preliminary plan. I will stand for any questions.

Madam Mayor, Matt, thank you very much for the overview of this development. Just two questions in regard to timing of the phasing. First is in regards to the fire station dedicated there. As I understand that from the development agreement to be dedicated, was that after phase one?

Madam Mayor, Council Member Corliss, thank you for the question. I believe that the wording in the development agreement is prior to proceeding past phase one. So that would mean as part of phase one.

Okay. And same with the ACHD recommendations for those intersections. Just wasn't quite clear. Was that before phase two or after phase two?

Councilmember Corliss, members of the council, are you asking about the most recent agency comment from ACHC?

Yeah, the most recent one.

The most recent agency comment allowed the signal agreement and signal warrant analysis as part of phase two.

Okay, that'd be part of phase two. Great, thank you.

Thanks, Matt. All right. The applicant, you're welcome up here. And there should be a clicker by you to get him through. Great.

Perfect. Thank you. My name is Patrick Connor. Address is 8665 West Emerald Street, Boise. Matt did a great job covering the specifics of this application. I want to provide you all an update on our work so far on this industrial park, as well as your consideration of a few conditions that we're asking for for this great project. As Matt said, we annexed this property into the city last year, but we've been working with the city and staff for quite a few years on this area. And for our annexation last year, there was two main requirements. One was the prepayment of $633,000 in fire impact fees. And we paid that earlier this year. There was also a requirement to donate two and a half acres to the fire station. And we are going to dedicate that in the first phase of development. The fire station parcel was agreed upon location and size by the fire station. And it's located in the southwest portion of this site. It'll be dedicated in the first phase on a meets and bounds basis to the city. And then with phase two, it will have roadways and infrastructure extended to the site. We've put a lot of time and investment into the site, a ton of time and investment, about $23 million worth so far, and it's continuing to go. We've installed sewer from two directions, water lines from two directions. I'd extended Idaho Power from Gallon Road and did a major environmental cleanup in the northwest corner of our site. We also installed Visionary Road and Innovator Road. Innovator Road will connect Orchard Street and Pleasant Valley Road as another way to get to Gowan from Lake Hazel. We've done and we're continuing to do a great deal of infrastructure investment to open up this area for future development. And all of this infrastructure work and investment doesn't just benefit the property that we own, but it's helping future development in the area. This is definitely, you can see this momentum by the amount of new development applications that are coming because of our investment. This includes the Innovator Industrial Park, which is close to having a building permit, and the Barmore Commercial Subdivision, which is coming before council soon. We work forward to working with our neighbors and the other applicants in this area for future traffic and roadway improvements in the area. So as Matt said, ACAC did update their staff report. ACAC's staff report requires our subdivision to update sorry, requires our subdivision to install temporary improvements to the Orchard and Gowen intersections in phase two. Those are circled in red above. These temporary improvements do not solve the route traffic problem. They only prove to provide limited traffic benefits. These temporary improvements require roadway closures during construction that will significantly impact traffic flow. These temporary improvements provide no long-term value and they will be removed in the future once, and will increase the cost of the permanent solution. and these temporary improvements waste money that could be spent towards the permanent solution. With the Orchard Street realignment being reprioritized, we request to pay a fee in lieu contribution towards this permanent solution of realigning Orchard Street, rather than wasting millions of dollars on temporary improvements. We hope this will help accelerate the permanent solution, which will solve the root cause of the problem. In the meantime, like I said before, phase one in our project installs all of Innervator Road, which will connect Orchard and Pleasant Valley, which will provide a bypass to avoid the Orchard-Gowan intersections. I'd like to touch on the street landscape timing, specifically the street trees and irrigation. In the visionary subdivision that was approved last year, council and staff approved the wording street landscaping was to be installed with future design route applications rather than with the plot. For the industrial phases of this subdivision, we were requesting the same treatment in the same condition. First of all, we don't have community irrigation in this particular area. There's no surface water, no canals. So each industrial building will be responsible for using municipal water to water their street trees. We won't have an industrial HOA to own a community-wide irrigation system. On commercial properties and commercial subdivisions and residential subdivisions, HOAs are typically responsible for watering the common area and common grounds. We don't do that in industrial. So we don't have an HOA to maintain a common irrigation system for the full scope of improvements. If we install the street trees up front on a per phase basis, it will lead to tearing out of trees and the tearing out of the irrigation system. This is because of onsite design, general construction, tearing up the trees and the irrigation, moving the driveway locations specific to each building parcel. Requiring street trees for each development during the design review and building permit is typical for industrial development in Boise. If you look at the many buildings that we're building with Boise Airport property and all around the valley, we have street trees and irrigation on each one of these buildings, but they are responsible and they're installed on building permit with the building and they're responsible to maintain those. Staff has mentioned putting up a bond in place of installing these street trees. And while it does sound like a good idea on the surface, it does not allow street landscaping to be divided by parcel. It's phase specific. So that means that the full scope and landscaping and installation will be required at the first certificate of occupancy in each phase. So it leads to the same problem that we have before. The first building will bear the... barrow the maintenance and the watering requirement for all the street trees in the entire phase. And this requirement to install street trees or post a bond, it's just not applicable to industrial development. Again, we went through this exercise with planning and zoning and city council last year with the visionary subdivision, and we are asking for equal treatment in this subdivision. The map you see to the right is What we would like to see, so if you look, that blue parcel there would be responsible for installing the street trees in front of their property along Lake Hazel. And in the northwest corner, that is the commercial portion of the property, and they will be responsible for the entire phase all at once because they will have the commercial HOA, and they can install and they have the mechanism to maintain and water the street trees in that particular area. Lastly, just reiterating these conditions of approval that we are requesting you all to approve. First, the time extensions. Right now, there's a 12-month time extension requirement for the preliminary plot as you move through phases, so one phase for every 12 months. We're requesting 24 months. Because of the size of these industrial phases, it's going to take us, at minimum, 24 months to build out each phase, maybe even longer than that. We're asking for just some expansion of time there from 12 to 24. So we don't have to come in front of council or submit an application to staff and just take up more time. So we're asking for additional 12 months there. Second is the condition I just reiterated. The required street landscape in the industrial phase of one and two will be reviewed and installed with future design review applications. And then lastly, we want to work with the city and ACHD on those phase two off-site improvements and allow us to pay a fee in lieu to the ultimate solution of the Orchard Street realignment. I stand for any questions you all have.

Madam Mayor? Yeah. Thanks for being here today. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. With the landscape improvement, there's kind of two parts there. There's both the vegetation, the tree that you're putting in, but there's also the sidewalk component that you're putting in. And when we're getting our staff report, we talked about sort of the need to have that access and pedestrian safety. I'm curious if you are opposed to both of those things, both the sidewalks and the greenscape, or if it's really just the greenscape that you're concerned about in this situation.

Thank you, Councilman Halliburton. It is strictly the trees and the irrigation that we are concerned about. We will install the detached sidewalk and that we're completely fine with that. That will definitely go in. It's just the trees and landscaping that we're gonna have trouble

So just to be completely clear, no concern with the phasing as proposed for the actual sidewalk streetscape. It's just the vegetation that would be installed that is the concern and I guess the irrigation that would have to be hooked up to that. That is correct. Great. Thank you. Thank you.

I'll just address the third one. I wouldn't put that in the minor category. And I would propose since it's phase two and we should continue discussions with ACHD that that be pulled off the list right now for discussion tonight with the commitment that we've made to discuss with ACHD because it doesn't make sense to be spending money if we don't need it long term. But there's more. I propose that determining the method by which that's done from the dais tonight is inappropriate. and instead would entertain directing staff to work with ACHD to come up with some solutions.

Thank you. Madame Mayor, Patrick, thank you. In terms of the bonding, obviously there's some overhead that comes with this, but have you explored the lot-by-lot final plats so that you could be able to bond those individually? Have you run that ground ball out?

Councillor Morales, we have discussed that internally because of our phasing plan and there's just three phases in this whole development. My understanding that would maybe have to happen on a final plot on a per lot basis, which may be a challenge because of the phasing. We only have three phases, but it's something we'll be open to exploring. If there's a way to work around it, we're open to that and we can work with staff on that. Okay, thank you. Thank you.

Madam Mayor. Patrick, thanks so much for bringing this to us tonight. I just have one question in regards to the time extension. So moving from the 12 to 24 months, I understand there's an inconvenience there. Is there a hard cost or costs that are endured by coming in every 12 months?

There are minimal councilman crops. There are some costs, I think, for the application to extend the preliminary plat. It's not extremely bad. And I believe that it's an administrative process. I can confirm with staff. But it just kind of adds more paperwork and more time. We just know that we're going to, every year, come in here and do the same process. So we're just asking for that little bereavement there.

Great. So more from the convenience side of things.

Correct.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, thank you. Is anybody here to testify on this item? Anybody online? Would you like to include anything in your closing comments? Are you good? Great. All right, with that, I'll close the hearing.

Madam Mayor, I move approval of STB 25-96 with two added conditions to allow the time extension not be time extensions are not required provided that at least one phase of the plot is approved every 24 months and also that the required street state landscaping and the industrial places went into will be reviewed and installed with future design review applications. I second the motion.

We have a motion and second discussion.

Madam Mayor, I'll kick off the discussion. I Let's see. To me, these conditions seem reasonable in that we will end up at the same conclusion that we all would like. And this seems to provide reasonable flexibility for the applicant to reach that end game. The industrial product is limited in this town and is an important part of our economy. And I want to do what we can to support that. development and doing it the right way and making it accessible to those developers to be able to do that. And like I said, I think that this gets us all to the same result, ultimately, with just a little bit more flexibility in the path.

Better merit. Generally supportive here, I think with item number 63, while we've got the developer saying that they're willing to make sure that they do the sidewalks, but the request is more related to the vegetation, would be more supportive if the motion was amended to specifically talk about the greenscape and to ensure that the sidewalks were going, or that could be put into notes for staff.

Yes, I am happy to revise my motion to specify just the greenscape of that landscaping requirement in 63. Yeah, I'll second the motion.

Okay, it's amended.

Thank you. Very appreciated. Madam Mayor, I just want to just offer my gratitude to the applicant for the advance payment of those fire impact fees. It's going to help us provide fire service out there and also just want to recognize the infrastructure improvements that you have made out there that those are going to benefit tons of businesses that aren't you out there. So just want to recognize that and thank you for your contributions here.

Yeah, Madam Mayor, I'll be supporting the motion. A great project and I appreciate the concerns brought, the continued discussion. I'm definitely, you know, I can appreciate the desire for a cleaner, quicker phasing approach, but believe this is probably the cleanest way to get to the final project from our perspective. And so I'm grateful for Patrick being here, being able to talk through that a little bit. Thanks.

Madam Mayor, I guess I round this out. Thank you so much for bringing this to council tonight. I think it's a really great project and a really good area that's up and coming and needs this development, needs the work and the infrastructure is lacking out there. Really appreciate the work and collaborating with the city for those fire impact fees and all the improvements you have made to date as a council member. Nash has mentioned this is going to benefit a lot of businesses and a lot of people out in the area beyond just what we're happening here in the development. Thank you, Council President Stead, for making the motion and to extend the time extension from 12 to 24 months. I understand that with these larger developments, it's not always convenient to have these done within the timeframe as a standard development. So I think that just helps us help you make it a little bit easier and to change the landscape plan to make a little bit more sense for the greenscape portion as well. So I'll be supporting this motion this evening. All righty, clerk.

Horlice. Yes. Halliburton. Yes.

Morales.

Yes.

Nash.

Yes.

Dead. Yes. All in favor, motion carries.

Thank you. Okay, we're going to move into public hearings now. We've got two tonight. For these, we'll hear from staff and then the applicant, and then I'll go through and see if anybody, good night, if anybody is here to testify. For one of the items, I've got one person right now, so I'll go to that person first. So CUP 2516, the Allscott Real Estate Group. David Mosier, welcome. And then I've got the land group here as the applicant, but are you, Deb, you're, okay. Deb, and then we don't expect neighborhood association. I'll just confirm that while David's getting ready. And is anybody here to testify on this?

Okay.

Thank you. Madam Mayor, members of the council. The application before the City Council tonight is a mediation resolution associated with the appeal of a Planning and Zoning Commission denial to reduce the project density by more than 25% in an existing planning and development on 4.98 acres located at 655 West Parkside View Lane in a residential suburban zone. It's also located within the hillside development overlay and the wireline interface overlay. It is surrounded by a variety of uses, which include an elementary school to the west, detached single-family homes to the north, a golf course to the east, and a small commercial property to the south. In addition, it is located at the intersection of Artura Roadway, Bogus Basin Road, and a collector roadway, which is Curling Drive. There's a short history of the project. The original planning and development It was approved back in 2018 for 12 townhouses and five detached single-family houses with reduced lot sizes, interior setbacks in exchange for public benefit for higher density and diverse housing types. And in 2021, a planning development modification was approved to reduce that density from 17 to 13 units by converting eight townhouse lots into four detached single-family home lots. This modification was approved administratively since the density deduction was not greater than 25%. and included keeping four townhouse lots on the west side of the subdivision. In 2023, the applicant requested to convert the four remaining townhome lots into two detached single-family lots on the west side of the site, which would further reduce the density from 13 to 11 units an acre, and the Planning and Zoning Commission denied this application. In 2025, the applicant submitted a similar request, which was again denied by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The denial was appealed to City Council, which upheld the Planning and Zoning Commission's decision. However, a possible solution was noted by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council, which included the addition of accessory dwelling units to the new single family homes. As such, the applicant ultimately requested mediation with the planning staff, which was granted. During the mediation meetings, a solution was agreed upon that included the addition of a separate functional living space from the primary residence for each of the single family homes. To constitute a separate living space, there must be a separate entrance, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, separated from the primary residential unit pursuant to Boise City Fire and Building Code. With the addition of the separate living space, the project would approximate the density of the original townhouses and provide the mix of different housing types of residential dwellings anticipated with the original planning and development. In conclusion, the planning team recommends the conditional use modification be approved with the following condition as seen here on the slide. In conclusion, the planning team recommends council approve the conditional use modification with the condition of approval as for the separate living space as noted in the mediation resolution.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the Council. Deborah Nelson, 601 West Bannock Street. Here on behalf of the applicant and along with me this evening is Brian Scott with All Scott Real Estate. As you all remember, the Council's heard this a number of times and David provided a great overview so I can keep my comments very brief. we're in full agreement with the staff report the recommended conditions of approval that came out of the mediated discussions there's no agency or public opposition several neighbors have written in support just as a very brief review in addition to david's comments yes we are seeking the cup modification to change four lots with townhomes into two lots with patio homes And the reason is that the originally platted townhome lots have just proven not to be feasible in this market. And so they remain undeveloped eight years later. The patio homes will provide that same comparable size as the townhomes and will remain diverse from the estate lots, but will provide that more suitable profile, which you can see here, because they're on that elevated building pad above Curling Street. We are in full agreement with the new condition that David showed. And this addresses the concerns that the council had about the reduction in density and does provide that additional housing diversity. And as David stated and is in more detail in the staff report, as condition, this meets all of the approval criteria for the modification. And on this basis, we would also ask for your support. Stand for any questions. Thank you.

Is anybody here for this online? All right. I'm going to go ahead and close the hearing. And before motion, I just want to say thanks for proposing mediation. It's good to see that resolution has come out of this and that you're ready to move forward with homes. I appreciate the time and effort it took to get here. So thank you. We'll take motion.

Madam Mayor, I recommend approval of CP 25-16 with the conditions as outlined in the mediation.

Second.

We have a motion and second discussion.

Mayor, I'm mostly reiterating the words that you just said. I know this has been a long process to get all the way through here, probably emotional process, frustrating process as well. I also understand that when you came for your request for reconsideration, it's not too far off from actually the mediation that's here. And so can understand how that's stressful as well. But I do think that we got to a good spot today. we do go to mediation a lot of different times and i would say like 90 of the times it doesn't have a good outcome or like it doesn't actually reach any sort of agreement so i appreciate the willingness of both staff and you all to find that agreement um and glad that you all can finally move forward with this project madam mayor i just echo those comments uh you know as someone that

understands and desires more housing, being drug through bureaucracy this long is not good for that goal. But I appreciate you working on this project to find something that the market will appreciate, can understand that townhomes before, large townhomes weren't of interest. And I think that this product is going to be of interest. So I wish you the best of luck and appreciate your work on this.

All right, clerk.

Corliss. Yes. Kelly Burton. Yes. Morales. Yes. Nash. Yes. Stead. Yes. All in favor, motion carries.

All righty. Now we'll move to CAR 26.6, Micron Technology. A whole bunch of parcels I'm not going to read out. It's listed in the record. We've got David Mosier here for staff, and then Givens. It's you again, Debra, right? Okay. There's another name on this for some reason.

The Neighborhood Association, we don't expect.

I just want to confirm that. Are you here with the Neighborhood Association?

Okay.

You can't speak on behalf of the Neighborhood Association, but you may speak for three minutes on behalf of yourself. And then I just want to confirm that Eric's not online. He tends to be online. Okay. And then I've got one person. Are you Megan? Great. Okay. I've got one person signed up. If I don't have your name on a sheet and you want to talk when it's time, I'm going to ask you to come up here, talk, and then write your name down while somebody else is talking. And with that, David, go ahead.

Thank you. Madam Mayor, members of the council. The applicant requests the annexation of approximately 239.7 acres with the zoning designation of I-3 Industrial Technology Zone with the following overlays, which includes airport influence area, wildland urban interface, and a development agreement. In addition, a modification of the development agreement to expand the DA into the area being annexed is also included. The subject property is generally addressed at 8,000 South Federal Way, which is the main address of the Micron Campus. This is the... So this is the vicinity map of the general area, which is 239.7 acres. being annexed, and is located immediately east of the existing Micron campus outlined in green. With the area, with the Boise City area, it's within the Boise City area of impact, which has a land use designation of planned community. To the south and east of the annexation areas, undeveloped land within Ada County and the City of Boise, and portions of the annexed area adjacent to the east and north of Butt Painted Ridge subdivision, and with the future Rush Valley residential development. The surrounding area is primarily comprised of industrial and undeveloped land, except for the residential, Subdivisions along Columbia road to the northeast the slide is this slide shows the microphone campus and its previous expansions, which includes the 386 and area acre annexation in 2020 to the east and the 517 acre annexation in 2023 to the cell. The slide is the land shows the land use and the zoning maps the surrounding area and and and annexation area the central property is designated as planned community on the conference of plan. and land use map, which permits the I-3 zone and is consistent with the comprehensive plan, which calls for a coordinated and sustainable growth pattern within the Boise City area impact that supports the annexation. The annexation is adjacent to city limits to the west and can meet the appropriate levels of service. As part of the application in the Greater Micron Campus expansion, the applicant proposes to change the ACHD Master Street Map. This slide shows the proposed changes to the Master Street Map as approved by the Ada County Commission at their June 24th hearing. Based on the ACHD Commission's recommendation, a condition of approval requires that Micron Technology dedicate right-of-way across their property, as seen on the Master Street Map, This includes dedicating 100 feet of right-of-way along the future arterial roadways where it is located entirely on the applicant's property and dedicating half of the future arterial and collector right-of-ways where Micron just controlled half of the future roadways. The slide shows the site plan, which includes the micron campus, the airport influence areas, the annexation area, and the new area included in the DA modification. In addition to the annexation, the applicant is proposing to construct an electrical substation and associated transmission power lines in the area being annexed. The site plan also shows the location of the proposed 40 foot high berm along the property boundary, It appears that construction of the berm has already started in Ada County, and the intent of the berm is to screen the Micron campus from the adjacent residential neighborhoods. In summary, the annexation and DA modification to include the annexed areas in the DA is consistent with the required findings of the development code, as detailed within the project report. This slide shows the detailed site plan showing the annexation area and the proposed electrical substation and transmission power poles. The conditional use for the electrical substation and transmission lines were approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and are not before the Council tonight. The planning team did receive letters of opposition to the project from the public expressing concerns of the future roadway connections in the larger area and the adverse impact associated with the annexation and proposed improvements on the adjacent residential neighborhoods. To address these concerns, I would note that the electrical substation itself and the power poles are located about 1,500 feet and 500 feet from the residential neighborhoods, respectively. In addition, the changes to the Master Street map have already been approved by the Itta County Commission at their June 24th hearing. And the recommendations were included as conditions of approval. Several members of the public also commented on the need for emergency access to the adjacent residential neighborhoods. This was mentioned at the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing, but the emergency access discussion at that time was limited to emergency vehicles only. In summary, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the annexation and the DA. Thank you.

Questions for David? Yeah. Madam Mayor, David, can you go back to the roadmap with ACHD? So looking at the partial right-of-way dedication, I'm going to say at the lower left-hand side of this screen here, we see the proposed arterial. And if we follow the green up, then there seems to be a chunk that's missing there for a dedicated right-of-way. Can you talk to us about that?

Yes. Madam Mayor, members of the council, that proposed right-of-way connection or future roadway is not abutting Micron property. So that's why it's not shown in green because they can't dedicate anything to it. They don't own the land adjacent to that future road. I think it abuts Simplot land and state of Idaho land.

And David, just to make sure we're clear, we're between those two green areas? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Come on up. Welcome.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Jeff Binford. I'm here representing Micron. My address is 8000 South Federal Way. I'm the Senior Director of U.S. Expansion Planning, and today I'll provide more details about the background of our project, and then I'll turn it over to Deb Nelson to go through more of the details of our specific application. We appreciate all of the city's work on this application, and we are in full agreement with the staff report and the recommended conditions of approval. As you know, Micron is in a major expansion right now with our announced $50 billion investment in the Boise campus over the next decade. The city has already annexed and zoned much of the land that's needed, as David called out, and the facilities that are currently under development all are within that current annex space. And you can see in our aerial image all of the growth that we've already been in construction on over the last several years. We started the project in 2023. And this footprint today just shows ID1. Our site plan, though, is to add ID2. So you can see ID2 there to the east of ID1. It will include a mirror image of our current fab. So we'll have all of the same support requirements for my gas yard. An admin building, water treatment, electrical yard, just copied and pasted from what we did in ID1 into ID2. The only building that doesn't fit within the current annex space is the electrical yard that's required for ID2 that will be in the new annexed area. For investments, we've made significant investments over the last several years for power, for gas, for sewer, water, and roads to make sure that that supports the infrastructure that we need for both factories. In addition to the improvements that we've done internal to our property, we've also made improvements on Federal Way and Technology Way, which are two fronted roads for our main campus. We're also undertaking a voluntary study of the Eisenman interchange and working with ITD to assist with funding any future improvements or some of those future improvements that are needed at that interchange as the traffic increases for our construction workforce. We also remain very supportive of efforts to extend Lake Hazel Road and are excited about the city's leadership that was taken in obtaining that study for the grant for the roadway and we were supportive of that with our letter of support that was a part of our support for it. And then we definitely will continue to look for opportunities to support the traffic needs around our site. We're also making significant investments in our workforce support with adding 3,500 new jobs. We're supporting that through apprenticeships, through internships, and investing at all levels of education, knowing that that's what's needed for our workforce. In a couple of weeks, we're opening a new technical training facility, which we are partnering with CWI to offer some classes at that location. We've provided onsite childcare for our employees and even for our contractors that's available for them. And recently we committed $250 million into funding 538 savings accounts. This would be both for micron employees, kids. as well as children within the communities where we do business within the U.S. Sorry, just one more thing. We did have two neighborhood meetings that we've held over the last several months and just have recently partnered with a group called, a communications firm called Red Sky. They will be helping us to be more proactive in some of our neighborhood outreach and communication to them. And now I'll pass it over to Deb to cover more details of our application.

Evening, Mayor and members of the Council, Deborah Nelson, 601 West Bannock Street. So as David summarized, we've got two applications that are pending before you tonight. The annexation with the accompanying I-3 zoning and a development agreement modification. The conditional use permit was approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission to address the electrical yard use and transmission poles. So the area proposed for annexations 240 acres, and this is all on the east side of the campus highlighted in green here and it's appropriate. Consistent with your code because micron is consented to the annexation the land is contiguous it's the land is within your comprehensive planning area and services are available. Annexation is going to also further your goals of your comprehensive plan for contiguous and efficient development, and also for supporting existing businesses and ensuring that sufficient land is available for clean, high-tech industry. In particular, the annexation supports the comprehensive plan southeast Boise area policy that identifies land surrounding microns facilities as being reserved for future high tech industrial expansion. We are requesting the development agreement modification to incorporate this new annexation property, as well as a smaller additional property along Federal Way that was previously annexed, but inadvertently left out of the development agreement. The city's I3 zoning designation, which was developed for large technology manufacturing companies calls for a designation of internal and peripheral areas. The peripheral areas require design review to ensure compatibility along the external site, while the internal areas are contemplated to be part of a more campus environment with suitability within that environment. Consistent with the city code, the existing development agreement, let me go back here, does designate those internal and peripheral areas and the da modification would simply extend it into these additional areas that are being added through the modification. As David mentioned, we did request a master street map amendment to relocate the proposed arterial and collector system that ran through the campus away from microns planned expansion area and footprint. And we appreciate the city's letter of support to ACHD for that application. The ACHD commission did approve the request with modifications to what we requested. And Micron is accepting of those modifications and agreeable to the recommended condition of approval from ACHD commission that has been incorporated into the city staff's staff report and recommendation to you. And also approved by the planning and zoning commission. Micron is working with the Boise Fire Department on the use of a private road that would run through the Micron campus to accommodate emergency vehicle access in the event there's a major emergency that would close down Columbia Road. This location could change based on internal development evolution within the campus. It will not be a permanent, dedicated emergency access that could facilitate future residential development to our northeast. And that's just because Micron does not control all of this land. But Micron is actively working with the Boise Fire Department and with the neighboring landowner to provide this additional access at this time. Micron is also actively implementing numerous traffic mitigations to reduce construction impacts, including routing most worker and construction traffic to the south side of the campus, improving key intersections and corridors, including Technology Way, Federal Way, the Eisenman Interchange, and Columbia Road, adding signals and roadway capacity, and continuing to evaluate and study what additional improvements may be needed as the construction progresses. Micron is also trying to address that traffic demand through operational strategies, and these include staggering construction and employee shift schedules, fan pool programs, and off-site parking with shuttle service for construction workers. And finally, Micron is working with VRT to try to increase service to the campus. So for all of these reasons, we are requesting your approval of the annexation and development agreement modification consistent with the commission and staff report and recommendations to you. We'd stand for any questions you may have.

Madam Mayor, Deb, thank you so much for being here and walking us through this application. Just one question on the, we were just talking about that emergency access. And I thought it was mentioned that it was only if Columbia Road was closed, or is that for, is that a condition?

Madam Mayor, Council Pro Tem Corliss, it's not an express condition. I guess I was stating the conditions or the environment that could give rise to Boise Fire needing to get through the Micron campus. Thank you.

Madam Mayor. Thank you, Deb. Appreciate you being here. I was going to have you pull up this slide. Just looking at this, that private emergency first response access road, you know, it doesn't necessarily line up with the public right-of-way designations, right? So this is cutting into the Micron site more. And so I'm looking at both maps here to kind of overlay. And so what I heard you say, just to kind of clarify, was that, you know, this private road being allowed for emergency response in a case of a major hazard or emergency, that you might have future uh projects that you might come back and need to you might be in the middle of this road um would you anticipate at that time uh altering what this this private road looks like to continue to connect it whether it's you know pushing it further out or whatnot i mean would that be a reasonable expectation uh that it wouldn't just necessarily go away poof because now there's building in the middle of it uh but that it would you know get altered at some in some manner

Madam Mayor, Council Member Morales, yes, that is correct, that we need to maintain the flexibility to move it as the campus construction evolves. But Micron's commitment is to continue to provide that road through their campus. The reason it just can't be that permanent dedication is for the land they don't control, where they can't make that commitment going into the future. But within their own campus, yes, they will continue to accommodate the pathway. Um, and at this time we're able to offer that route to provide that emergency service access. And so I think anytime there would be a relocation, Micron would need to work with Boise fire again, as they have begun to do so already to talk about how to get through where the location is to make sure that everybody understands the protocols on site.

Madam mayor said, follow up on that, on those conversations. Um, you know, is there a ways to go kind of to the finer details of, you know, how wide these roads are if we're, you know, if apparatus can go either direction or it's just one way or that kind of thing as, as have, have we gotten to the kind of that point in those discussions?

Yeah, Madam Mayor, Council Member Morales, yes, we do have that direction from the Boise Fire that they want this to be a 20-foot wide pathway and Micron can accommodate that. We also talked to ACHD about whether they would want to be involved in that because we will have an end point that feeds out onto the Stub Road, the public road to the north and within that neighborhood. And they just asked to be kept in the loop on those communications with Boise Fire.

All right, thank you. Thank you. Okay, we will open it up. I just want to confirm that Eric's still not online. All right, Megan, come on up. And welcome.

Excuse me.

Hi, my name is Megan Compton. I live at 7710 South Wagons View Avenue, Boise, Idaho, 83716. It's the Bonneville Point subdivision on right... At the tippy tip of Boise, as close as they get to the Southeast corner, I am still in Boise though. I am speaking in support of the Micron annexation, probably a unique stance to have as a neighborhood member over there, but there's a few reasons why. I'm hoping that by annexing in this Micron land to be industrial technology, that we can have some further discussions on the development of the rest of the area up there. And the reason I say that is Blueprint Boise explicitly states that there needs to be a developed plan before further expansion occurs in the Upper Columbia area. And I want further expansion in the Upper Columbia area. Don't get me wrong. I love the tanks. I love the power poles. I love the giant factory. It is up my jam. I just love it. And it's really exciting that we could potentially have single-family homes that are new in that area that could potentially house the workforce that Micron's bringing on site that's proximal, that isn't a high-rise, apartment complex, something that actual families that have the kids going to Trailwind Elementary School and have the parents working at Micron, it's those families that I want to have those single residents for. So it's stuff like that, right? There is a wildlife crossing underneath Highway 21 that is underneath all of what we're talking about right now. Micron, oh, I'm almost done. I'm hoping that part of this discussion is we maintain the open corridor for the wildlife to be able to continue from the Oregon Trail Foothill area down through the utility corridor where it hits the wildlife crossing, Columbia Village, Surprise Valley, it hits your river basin, and it continues through the city. Those are things that I'm hoping we do. And if we're going to bust arterial through there and collectors through there and development without planning it, I'm nervous that we're going to lose the character of the area and the animals for sure. If you have further questions on some of the concerns from the other neighbors, I would be happy to discuss this further. For instance, the fire risk, the egress, those sorts of things, just alternate perspective. Thank you.

If I had like a little trophy under my desk, I'd give you a trophy for the most surprising mix of things that you're excited about. Thanks for being here. That was fun. Does anybody have any questions for Megan? Great. But truly, Megan, thanks for coming out tonight. I'm now going to open it up to others. And I'm going to ask, will you raise your hand if you're here to talk on this so I can see who I need to manage? Great. Two of you. Perfect. Not a lot of management. Come on up here. And ma'am, I'll have you go first. And then Ethan, you can go second. And then I'll just make sure that folks are done then.

Hi there. My name is Judy Carls and I live at 8076 South Bogus Ridgeway. Judy, will you just pull this down so we can see your face? Sorry. Oh, that's okay. I live at 8076 South Bogus Ridgeway, which is in the Sunny Ridge subdivision. Don't quite agree with Megan. I am very concerned that we're making moves without actually having the Master Street map done. We already, we had fires behind my house. October 30th of 2024, right behind the house. There were damage and they locked us out. We couldn't get out or in to the subdivision on Columbia Way. And people in the subdivisions couldn't get out. because they had that road closed. People with kids, there was a lady behind me. I was stopped right there at the corner to get onto technology and they had us closed. There was a lady like three cars behind me frantic because her kids were home alone. And until we address, and I think this is on Micron. They got a $50 billion grant. I truly think that Micron should be very, instrumental in providing access and assisting with that, the master street map. I saw on the ACHD meeting, they said average daily trips along Columbia and technology in 2016 was 7,000. And they're estimating it to be over 11,500 or around 11,500. That's a huge, that's over 60% increase. of daily trips on Micron or on Columbia and technology. And that has me very concerned. I have every morning, it seems like you're getting cement mixers, cranes pulling out of the Micron complex in front of traffic. My husband's on a motorcycle. He's gotten almost taken out several times because there's all that construction traffic. I really would like to see them focus all that construction traffic to the south. And I don't think there's that access there yet because that is really impacting the traffic in the area. And I'm very concerned about that. The other thing is I really will miss our way of life out there. It's a very quiet, peaceful neighborhood. So, you know, that's a personal thing. I do feel that there's a good quality of life out there, and I'm afraid that we're going to lose that. You know, we're going to become the next big, you know, all the little housing, all the little subdivisions, and we're just going to be overwhelmed by everything, and I will miss our quiet subdivision. So anyway, my major thing, though, is that master street map and not moving before that's settled. So that's my opinion. Thank you. Will you tell me your name again?

Judy Carl. Judy, thank you. And Judy, will you sign in there just so we've got it for the record? Probably the one on the, it's number, the one that has the number six of the variant. It's 26-6.

Great.

And you've got a question for Judy? Great.

Let her finish writing.

And Council Member Halliburton's got a question for you, if that's okay.

Yep. So I just wanted to make sure that I was clear on your concern. Is the concern that the proposed Master Street Map isn't built yet? Correct. It's not that there isn't a Master Street Map plan. It's that it hasn't been built yet.

Yes. And I just... Don't see, you know, there was a master street map before, and then the buildings got built through the middle of it.

Sure.

So who's to say that's not going to happen again? And we're still going to be left with the one road in it.

Great. All right. I'm clear on your answer now.

Thank you.

Thank you, Judy. All right. Come on up.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, council members. I'm Ethan Mansfield representing Hawkins, 855 West Broad Street, Boise, Idaho, 83702. I'll try and keep mine brief, if you can imagine that. I will do my best.

You've got three minutes.

We've got three minutes. I don't have 15? So we're housing developers and have a piece of land in this area that we would love to construct housing on. Um, and currently we cannot due to the lack of secondary access. Um, I've, you know, we Hawkins has submitted several pieces of testimony, kind of walking through some of the mechanics of how this could work. Um, I won't go into that detail, but I will say that, um, I just like to kind of walk through some of the population change in the Valley and where that's occurred over the past five years since 2020. So since 2020, um, CUNA has grown at a rate of 30%. Caldwell, 27%. Meridian, 21%. Nampa, 19%. Eagle, 11%. Boise, 1%. Where is the largest private expansion in the history of Idaho happening? It's happening on the far side of Boise, Idaho. Away, as far away as you can get from Caldwell, Meridian, Nampa, Eagle, CUNA. So we have an opportunity here to create conditions to allow housing development on this side of town. It wouldn't be unprecedented, right? Because there's already a bunch of housing out there. It wouldn't be weird, like it's the first thing going out there. And we have an opportunity to create safe conditions for those neighborhoods and new future development. And it also wouldn't be unprecedented to require development like this to construct public roadways. We did it with Maple Grove and Overland. It's a situation where we don't really necessarily benefit from the construction of the public road, and it is not really needed to offset negative impacts of our project to the surrounding area. But the reason it was provided was to provide a public benefit of connectivity. This is at Maple Grove and Overland. And we have no problem providing public benefit because we understand that's what you do when you're a developer. And so all this to say that there's a pathway here. We're happy to work with the city to identify it. The city can work with ACHD on the five-year work plan to achieve it. And I just, we laid it all out. I won't go into it, but I just wanted to say there's an opportunity here and we hope that you will Take it. Thank you very much.

Mayor, I've got a question.

Ethan, thanks for being here. I appreciate your testimony. So I guess just maybe playing devil's advocate here, since you own the land out there and want to develop it, why wouldn't we require you to build the road that you're asking Micron to build?

Madam Mayor, Councilmember Halliburton, I think that would be the request that if we came forward and proposed this development. We're in the IDR stage right now, but that is one possibility would be for us to construct the entire road within the micron right-of-way if that is indeed required for dedication. So, I mean, the function, the kind of The outcome of that is that the project would not get built because the proportion of the amount of the public road to be constructed is just so outrageously high relative to the project cost and the project benefit to Hawkins.

For sure. And have you or Hawkins been in conversation with Mike Braun about working together to cover the cost of the construction on the road? Or have those conversations not happened yet just because development's too far out?

Ian, not a mayor, council member, sorry about that. Yeah, in December, we actually were getting really close to a meeting with Micron, and then that meeting was not accepted. Okay.

All right. Thank you. Madam Mayor. Yeah. Hey, Ethan.

Sorry, we're just going to make you sit up here for your full 15, like you usually do.

I just want to clarify, though, your comments here. the reality of Micron having all of the contiguous land to be able to make that secondary connection. Can you speak to that? Are there other players that would have to play along here, not just Micron?

Yeah, Madam Mayor, Council Member Halliburton, or Morales, I'm sorry.

That's a compliment on my book. Thank you.

Oh, boy. I can't decide who of you are handsomer, you know?

Yeah.

The answer to this question, so are you asking why there's a few guild gaps?

So when you talked about, you know, and I think Councilmember Halliburton is asking you why, yeah, you're asking Micron to solve this problem, but I mean, is it the reality that Micron has the contiguous land to be able to do this secondary access on their own either?

Yeah, Councilmember Morales, I mean, so typically what happens is you, you know, in a master street map situation, and Justin can speak probably better to this than I can, but, you know, when there's a developer who has portions of a master street map, usually it's the right-of-way dedication and construction of the right-of-way to fulfill the master street map obligation. So understandably, one of the reasons that that hasn't been done is because there's a couple gaps in there and so um we've worked with the department of lands to kind of um get you know there's a letter in your packet from them gets them kind of on board with uh you know you know not donating anything right i mean we'd have to work on mechanisms for funding um but there's a there's a mechanism there and um you know regarding the other 400 feet on on simple at the property um there's quite a bit of access there right now. So, you know, and it's in the five-year, it could be in the five-year work plan. It's in the CIP, so you could get there.

Yeah, thank you, Ethan. I just wanted to highlight that point that there, yeah, that there are other parcels too. And that's, I think, part of the complexion here. So thank you. Yeah, yeah.

Lean on that five-year work plan.

All right, thank you. Anybody else? All right, before I hear a rebuttal, does anybody have questions for staff? or it's not really rebuttal, excuse me, closing arguments. All right, come on up.

Madam Mayor, council members, Deborah Nelson again. Really appreciate... Megan Compton's comments here and at the PNZ regarding the Micron expansion and the planning in the area. And to address some of Ms. Carl's comments, one of the things she was talking about was concerned about the daily trips increasing, and she mentioned the numbers. of what happened at the ACHD hearing. So just to put that in a little bit of perspective, that was related to a mask driveway expansion request, not the master street map application. And that request was denied by ACHD commission. And so we're not able to add the trade access driveway that we wanted to on the north side of the campus. And so as a result, Micron will continue to do the strategies that we've talked about with traffic management, including that will just cause us to have to pursue more offsite parking to address that trade parking on the south. But the good news for Ms. Carl's concern there is those additional trips are not going to be added to that Columbia corridor. We will still be doing the mitigation that was proposed and Micron is moving forward with that, even though the ask wasn't approved, we're still gonna do the mitigation to improve technology way around the campus. She was also concerned with potentially having buildings be put within the master street map and wanting more assurance That that wouldn't happen because it's true, the original master street map was already located within some of the existing campus and so. that's a legitimate concern, and I think that is addressed by the requirement to have the right of way dedicated and so now that. won't be an opportunity going forward so for the land that's within microns control. that issue will be solved. To address some of Ethan's comments, I'm talking about population growth. You know, obviously the opportunities for growth in Boise are different in greenfield development throughout the valley, but a place that, you know, Micron has identified through prior comments to the city on various applications is, you know, south of the airport, which is close to the campus and provides great opportunity for future development as well. And that's why Micron has remained so supportive of the Lake Hazel extension, including being willing to participate in funding in partnership with the city and other parties that are bringing that to fruition, because that really provides great access to existing developments and new future developments. You talked about the growth in CUNA. South Boise has also got that potential and that opportunity, and so we want to make sure that we're providing good access to support that housing connectivity. It's also this secondary access that they're looking for through the Micron campus. You know, we're taking the steps that we need to to help provide that in the future through the right-of-way dedication, but that's not the only possibility for their development and others in that northeast corner. There was discussion with the prior applications when those came in about road connectivity, somebody punching through to Highway 21 to connect Columbia Road. There's also potential future connection that runs south to I-84 through Blacks Creek Interchange or a new interchange that's being proposed. That area northeast of the campus is also not the only development land around the campus. There's proposals that are coming forward for development that's south of the campus that's much larger in scope and scale that can accommodate even more housing. And they are looking at new interchange connectivity there as well. You've also got Cory Barton's large development that's planned to the south side of I-84 campus. and the planned community that's proposed before 80 counties. So there's a lot of great opportunities for housing to come around the campus, and we remain supportive of the improvements that are going to facilitate that as best we can. So that's it. We'd stand for any more questions you might have for us.

Madam Mayor?

Yeah.

Deb, thanks for your presentation. Assume I want to see houses here where Hawkins is advocated for them, and assume I don't have a problem with you guys paying for it. But every time I've kind of dived in to this issue with the secondary access, it always seems more complicated than at first glance. And it also seems like what Councilman Morales mentioned, the other player is not here. Simplot owns property out there and they don't have an application for us. So, I mean, could you speak to this and offer more color Because I don't have a problem with micron paying for a road. And I also don't have a problem conditioning it. And I also want to see houses out there. But it just doesn't feel like it's as simple as that. And so could you clarify me?

Yes, Madam Mayor, Council Member Nash. Yes, I mean, Micron's always been interested and supportive of a road that provides additional connectivity here, but we don't control the land. And so without controlling all of the right-of-way and having the opportunity to facilitate that, what we're doing is facilitating as far as we do control, which is that right-of-way. The timing for that is uncertain. As Council Member Morales and Council Member Halliburton's questions were we're getting to, there's hurdles there that are outside of our control. And so that's not something that we can see in the immediate future. It doesn't mean it won't happen in the distant future. But in any case, regardless, we're going to make sure that at this time, because it's required by ACHD, it's required by the staff condition that's come before you, and Micron's supportive of it as well, to go ahead and dedicate that right-of-way that we do control. You know, when those pieces can be put together into a contiguous road and not in the separate pieces remains to be seen. But it is in the, it is in the CIP. So, you know, there's an opportunity there for whether that's development to our Northeast or Micron's role or other players that come to bear, there is, it is at least impact fee eligible.

Metameric. If I could just maybe ask to expand on that a little bit more. So there's the dedication or partial dedications of the right-of-way in a variety of different places for a future road. Is Micron also responsible for paying for those sections of that future road or just offering the dedicated right-of-way?

Madam Mayor, Councilmember Halliburton, no, there isn't a requirement for Micron to come forward with that. That wasn't part of the requested ACHD commission request. condition that came out of their decision. And it hasn't been established as being needed to serve Micron. That's not a condition of approval coming out of a traffic impact analysis. It's really to provide that through the campus access to the Northeast. And so that isn't a current requirement. Now, I think Micron is going to remain at the table and be part of those conversations in the future for working with neighbors and others that are interested in that road to make sure it can be built when it needs to be built.

So if a road was being built in this area, sometimes we would also require streetscape improvements along the side as well. Is that something that Micron would be required to cover at this point?

Madam Mayor, Council Member Halliburton, the right-of-way WIP was specified by ACHD, and so that's the extent of that conversation at this point. I believe the expectation was to build it to the industrial arterial standards and then the collector portions to ACHD standards there. So whatever those, you know, in the future when that development goes forward, they would have to meet ACHD standards there.

Great. Thank you.

Thank you. Great. I will go ahead and close the hearing.

Madam Mayor, I move approval of CAR 26-6 annexation of approximately 239.7 acres and the modification of the development agreement with an added condition that says that the applicant shall provide a temporary emergency access road across their property for use by public safety agencies during an emergency. The access road shall meet Boise Fire Department requirements and the applicant shall work with the fire department to ensure that an agreement is executed that dictates that the access is maintained and available for use during an emergency. The access road shall not be open to use for the general public and is required until secondary public street access meeting fire code requirements connects to the residential neighborhoods along Columbia Road. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Discussion?

Madam Mayor, I'll kick it off. This is complex, I think, as was brought up tonight. The first decision on Rhodes comes from ACHD, who's an agency partner that are experts in this. They kicked this around, and what they landed on was this revision. I'm adding this additional condition because we have enough, I think, feedback from constituents voicing their concern on emergency access. I think that this is a fair compromise on something that the applicant has said that they're willing to do, and this just sort of solidifies it through a condition to allow emergency vehicles to access the site should there be an emergency. I have bigger feelings about kind of like unlocking, you know, Micron aside, quite frankly, and unlocking access to that side of town right now, because I think a bigger piece of the puzzle A big piece of the puzzle is that our staff is working on analysis and recommendations on what it might be like to fully develop and annex this part of town into the city. I'm cautious of the financial implications that that might have on the city, and I'm eager to see the staff's take on what that might look like. However, we don't have that information yet. And so to me, that's a really important part of the conversation on what the city's vision is for what that part of town should look like, if it should be part of town or if it should stay in the county. And all of that is to be decided in the next, you know, I would say in the next several months or certainly within the next year, I think we'll have more information there. And then really keeping an eye on what the application or what the request was before us tonight, which isn't, you know, we can't require conditions that involve other people's properties, for one. But there's a lot of pieces to this. And I think that this, to me, checks the box of being responsive to the emergency concerns of the public. And also... finding a common ground for the applicant who has agreed to this, but we just hadn't quite formalized it yet.

Madam mayor, you might need to get the clerk to put three minutes on the board. I don't know. I'll try to keep it under. But I, I mean, this, this is close to home, obviously I represent this district and really appreciate Micron. Micron has been in the family for a long time for my father, my father-in-law. And so this is, you know, this is close to home prior to even, thinking that I would represent this area, this has been a big, big thing of concern for hundreds of friends and neighbors up here, right? These are families that we know well. And so going into my service here on council, I knew that this was a very big thing that I wanted to try to solve. And I will say, you know, secondary access, I've probably said that dozens of times up here, even when I didn't have enough time and the mayor's like, get going, because it was so important. And so, you know, I think understanding a little bit more about the complications that we currently have, but also seeing the direction the city's going. We're currently under an annual review of this planning area, as well as a couple others mentioned tonight, South and the third bench. has me hoping that we're working in a direction to true secondary access. But what really clicked was we need emergency access. We needed it yesterday, right? I've said it up here before that it wasn't a matter of if, but when, and a lot of people bring up fire, but it could very well be a hazardous material situation, especially with micron expanding that that safety issue grows. Right. And so um i'm really appreciative for micron considering this and bringing and working on this i know it's not uh super easy uh this this uh private access doesn't just go through your property but i'm grateful for the other property owners that are participating in this because this is something these neighborhoods have needed for a long time having lived in southeast boise since before the 2008 fire, Amity Road fire, which was just awful. You know, the conditions are there for the wrong environment to be really bad. And so thank you for coming to the table on that, working through that. I'm excited to see that and appreciate Boise Fire working on that. And I think, like Council President Stead said, I also want to see more homes. And some of my friends and neighbors up there don't want to hear this conversation either. But it was a decade ago that we were hearing there could be 10,000 to 30,000 homes over there. Now, Micron is using up a lot of the land that people were estimating could be homes, right? So that number is going down. So for those that that's good for. But Micron is in a situation where You know, a year ago, I heard, I don't know that they were bragging about it, but they have the largest parking garage in the state of Idaho. And to me, I think that's a failure, right? I think that's, you know, we don't have investment in public transit. We have talked about the growth throughout all the rest of the county and even into the next county. We have people commuting 40 minutes one way to get to Micron, work hard all day, go back to their families, right? And so I think this all kind of comes together. Micron does have a role in the quality of life of their employees to also see this through. And so I think that's been evidenced by expressions of interest in that too. And so I think there is a lot of partnership there. in developing this area and doing it right with a plan, which I appreciate our planning staff working on as we speak. So I'll be supportive of this motion. Again, really, I think the private emergency access road is a big, big deal for this area and grateful for the work that you put into that.

Madam Mayor, I'll have some comments that are much more boring than my better looking council member over there. But really what it comes down to, this is an annexation request today. And the annexation complies with all the requirements in Boise City Code for annexation. It's adjacent to the existing Micron campus. It's continuous, contiguous with our current city limits. And it meets all of our different requirements goals for the land use area as far as being industrial and our comprehensive plan and protecting those areas. There's a lot of different conversations I think that could be had about wants and needs in this area. Really, I look at this very specifically as an annexation and development agreement for another part of that. I think there's some much larger conversations to be had and I appreciate Mike Brown for continuing to have those conversations for your investment in the community. And I know that you will, but I encourage you to continue to have those conversations when it comes to how can we get from people from their houses to the job site. We're doing a good job at changing those people right now. And I think increasing those services, but how, once we train them, can we get them there in a way that makes sense for everybody. And we're really excited to continue working with you all on exploring what those efforts might look like.

Madam Mayor. Yeah, thank you very much for bringing this application. Same as Councilmember Halliburton. This is, you know, the lens I look at this through is an annexation and doesn't meet the requirements of an annexation. being in our area of impact, being contiguous to the city, and it does check the boxes there. I understand the concerns with the roadways out there. And I think having that emergency access, that condition, which Council President has put on this, is a really good, it's valued and needed. So this will be because the emergency vehicles will be able to access that without being blocked by the public vehicles. It'll be quicker out to those areas that really need it when they need it. It was pretty scary two years ago to see how close that fire came to those houses. Really close. And we want great partners like Micron. They've been here a really long time. They provide nice, good jobs for our community. They're being impactful by helping support those employees through the child care. working with BRT, trying to look at different ways of how can we get our employees here in a better manner so we're not just having hundreds of cars that are sitting in the parking lot out there. And as we look at this, we need to look at this through smart growth. You know, are we meeting what needs to be happening on the area? We don't quite have that development plan that we need to have for future development that's in the works today. And lastly, we can't ask a company to give away what they don't have. You don't have access to the roadways. It's not yours. You can't provide access to something you don't have. So I'll be supporting this and greatly appreciate Micron being a partner. In closing, I'd say my recommendation would be As the project continues to fade and things are working, to continue to put the communication out to your closest neighbors within the community so that they're aware of what's happening. If we have a massive amount of cranes coming in or out or through those next phases, I think just keeping updated will go a long way to being a good neighbor.

Thank you. Madam Mayor, I'd just like to go on the record if there are any parties that do control right-of-way access out there that if there are opportunities for us to work towards building houses out there or to getting access and there is a need for some type of conservation efforts or protecting the aquifer or whatever there might be, I think there's an opportunity to use whatever leverage exists by the property owners to work together with the city on a plan for that. And I think there's an opportunities for win-win-wins all around. And I would also just, I think, Micron have been good stewards and relationship builders out there with the people that do control that access. And we want to maintain those strong community relationships so that we're able to build this. I mean, currently it looks to me like they're relying on that access for construction. So I appreciate Micron's good stewardship of those relationships out there. And I would just echo the city's commitment to being good partners with whatever priorities lie with the property owners out there.

All right. Clerk.

Morales. Yes. Holly Burton. Yes.

Morales. Yes. Nash. Yes.

Fed. Yes. All in favor, motion carries. Madam Mayor, I move to adjourn.

Second. Motion and second. All in favor? Aye. We are adjourned. Thanks, everybody.

Thank you.