City Council - Regular Meeting

Madam Mayor, I... Move approval of the council minutes and work session from the regular evening meeting and work session for September 29th, 2026.

And then Madam Mayor, I move approval of the consent agenda.

Really quick. I just want to address the Bronco in the room. Oh, yeah, I guess you probably do. Yeah, I do work for Boise State, but not involved at all. I did come straight from my day job. So and it is a beat Fresno week. So.

Matt and Mary, if we can pause right there and make sure we don't take up too much of the clock time. Specifically here, you're talking about what you might be able to do on the parking lot. Is that correct?

And just really looking at what multi-use types of things you could do. So does that mean potential parking garages plus classrooms plus housing? When you say multi-use in the parking lot, what kind of projects might that include?

Great. Appreciate that. I think I usually get excited anytime I can see an opportunity to turn a blacktop surface level parking lot into something, you know, better than a single use for that. So appreciate you expanding on that a little bit more.

Yes. Drew, thanks so much for the presentation and the study. One question is on your enrollment, and I don't know if you can flip back to that slide. So it looked like the past two years on-campus enrollment increased a little over 1,000 students, and then we're projecting it looked like 1,000 over the next nine years, only an increase of 1,300. Is that constrained for a reason?

Yeah, if you go back a little bit more, I think where it shows the year-by-year growth for students. Maybe it's not in here. Maybe I was just looking at it in the packet. Yeah, so it just shows like the next nine years, we're looking at on-campus enrollment about 1,300 students. I would think that number would have been a lot higher.

I think so. So I'm just thinking if we were looking at the enrollment there, it will be constrained. There won't be as much growth as we've seen that prior years for acceptance for on-campus students. And I do ask about that because, like you said, it affects the housing, meal plans, and other things there. And then the last thing is on your CIP plan, just curiosity on the 10-year CIP plan, are the numbers indicative of priorities that you're looking at? Or just that's just how they're numbered?

Hey, thanks for coming tonight. I have a couple questions and a comment. So first, I really like the commitment to on-campus housing. My daughter attended BSU, she graduated, lived on on-campus housing for the first two years, it was imperative for her to create a community. And that was part of it. So I'm a big fan when students can do that. It can be expensive. And I know that it's not for everyone, but I think the opportunity for the university to offer it is really important. So thank you for putting that as a priority and what it creates with community. My daughter's second two years at B

Madam Mayor, I do have a couple of questions for you. Thanks so much for the presentation, all the information. So as soon as the Youth Campus Project hit the news, I definitely had some comments from some neighbors in the East End Neighborhood Association. So I think you probably just answered it maybe around the parking question, but I guess it sounds like you are working with Sina, which is great that also is East End, I guess, in the mix of conversation and neighborhoods that you guys are visiting.

Thank you. I appreciate that. And then, Madam Mayor, one other... question i think that i was glad to see it looks like the friendship bridge project and also um the riverfront plaza project will include river access i think is that right like staircase stairways or is it maybe not that far down the council member or council president stead the riverfront plaza let me just go to the image And I guess, Drew, I can just narrow my question a little bit. I am curious about it because, you know, the river is so well used in this area and by the students and certainly on my radar always is just bein

Okay, thank you. I encourage that to continue. Thank you. I appreciate that.

Madam Mayor. Hey, Drew, thank you for talking about your neighborhood association work. I was going to follow up on that too. And you mentioned other neighborhood associations. I think it was a year ago. I was at a South Boise Village meeting with you. So appreciate you doing that work and especially knowing that those other neighborhood associations, LUSC as well, will be up on this next round. I just wanted to dig into the parking again. So when you say you anticipate another 370 70 parking spots on campus. Are you taking into account. I imagine, I believe, but just want you to confirm you'r

Okay. Madam mayor. Thank you. I appreciate that. Cause I do think, um, You know, Council Member Willits mentioned getting emails, and I've gotten emails from frustrated parents too that live in Lusk and they're not on campus and that kind of thing. And so keeping in mind those pressures that you may not be aware of because it's off-campus housing maybe or whatnot. So I was happy to see that work being done in terms of the parking study. And then I would just echo Council President Stead's kind of, you know, in terms of riverfront activation and working through You know how how this can be a re

Madam Mayor, I move approval of CPA 26-2 for Boise State University at 1910 West University Drive, the Comprehensive Plan Amendment.

Madam Mayor, just a couple quick comments. One, I think it's always great to bring a plan forward and for us to be part of helping work on that shared vision going forward. I appreciate sort of the land use model. And I think that that sort of shows how when future development is going to happen, you know, particularly in this parking lot, the process and what that will go through and then coming back to council and those types of activities. So while we're approving a master plan, we're not necessarily approving a specific project and those types of things, you know, depending on what they we

Madam Mayor, just real quickly. Yeah, thank you so much for coming out today and reviewing the master plan. I think it's a great approach. The 30 years, I can't imagine trying to look out that far. 10 years is hard enough as it is. So I think that was definitely a great decision to make. And taking a look at the holistic approach of all the properties that are owned by BSU, what is going to need to look like. And I just want to mention for myself, I do get a lot of questions from parents on parking. So I'm glad to see that comprehensive approach is there. What I kind of reiterate is that we wa

Madam Mayor. I want to thank you for bringing this before us. I think what's exciting about this one is that it's more pragmatic in that vision of land use than the prior one. And I do remember seeing the prior one is very specific buildings. I think there was like a field house somewhere like very, you know, obviously unrealistic probably to that timeline. And when we think about our comp plan, we think about a vision that we're pushing towards and we don't really know exactly what kinds of factors or things that we might need at that point in time, but we have a vision of the direction we wa