No news is good news.

I would be glad and grateful for any information about the roadwork on State Street west of 26th Street.
Also, we could have an informal poll here at the Guardian about whether to rename State Street as the Mayor Bieter Expressway.
After all, it seems the mayor is all for radically increasing traffic going back and forth between subdivision sprawl on the edges of town and development projects in the downtown. Bigger is Bieter, and moderation is for losers. (I hope I’m wrong.)
Sadly, it seems the unique local character of Boise is about to become disfigured into a bloated and bland version of Everywhere Else, USA.

AS we continue to see the homeless population increase in the Capital City perhaps I am the only one wondering why affordable housing is being torn down and not replaced.

While it would be nice to put this all on the Mayor, it’s not all on his sloping shoulders. I believe with the prices going up and social security not keeping up with the cost of living we just may be seeing more silver haired homeless limping the streets of our city.

I realize that is not breaking the law. But it also appears that zipping down neighborhood streets at 45mph isn’t either.

Topic:
Cost of living in Idaho is comparable to that of other states, yet we get paid significantly lower than most other states.

The mining industry in Idaho has significant issues. Clean up of waterways is slow, and meeting resistance. Our fish (for one) are seeing a higher concentration of heavy metals in them due to bioaccumulation.

Boise traffic systems are some of the worst in the nation. Timing, and the Poisons distribution methods that they use are flawed.

Canyon County has some of the worst people in the state working in the Judicial system. Many people currently suffering due to Canyon County decisions deserve to have their cases thrown out due to malfeasance. (ie. John Bujak).

Dave B. and his team of idiots are making Downtown a terrible place to be. Also, the growth pattern of the valley is not sustainable. Numerous models and studies have been done and the data shows that urban sprawl (like we have) is one of the worst development plans imaginable. It aids to the pollution (yearly inversions) and chokes the urban center due to long travel times to and from work vs. where to buy goods and food.

Stories about long term decline or improvements. I’m not sure about improvements, but there is plenty of long term decline – big businesses all but gone from Boise, lack of smooth arterial traffic flow, lack of affordable education and housing, slow and expensive internet (internet is just as important as electricity in our modern world), how the lack of traffic safety enforcement has lead to doubling of fatalities (would like to see other stats), etc.

A “538 of Boise” would be interesting.

Erico49, neither the site for Murgoitio or the surrounding neighborhoods are part of Boise – doesn’t make any sense to me to build a park before the neighborhoods are annexed into Boise

Concerned,

I’m not sure what you mean by lack of affordable education. K-12 education is pretty much free, and we have BSU and several other state school operations in Boise. These schools are subsidized by taxpayers and are affordable to pretty much anyone who wants to work and go to school part-time, or use their GI Bill and work and go to school part-time. That’s what many of us did and graduated with no debt.

Your comment on affordable housing is even more confusing. All housing is affordable to those with sufficient income to rent or purchase it, and equally unaffordable to those who cannot. It’s not like it is someone’s responsibility to artificially make a house affordable for you.

Ball Park
Based on the growth in the treasure valley one will be built sooner than later. We have a lot of new residents leaving them behind. My concern is that there have only been two locations brought up! Both in the downtown area of Boise. All elected locals should have a say yet I haven’t heard an Ada County, Meridian or Nampa elected local discuss the project?! Why?
A developer from Atlanta doesn’t care if he develops a ball park in the CCDC downtown core or the Ten mile and Franklin area in Meridian!
If you want proof ask an local developer!
Downtown Streetcar
Ada County residents are spending over $7 mil for the 36/State Street intersection do over.
I’m guessing 1200 new apartment units on State Street in the last 5 years or so. Then Boise elected locals in December of 2017 put another $3.3mil via the City and CCDC for continuing planing or studying for the downtown streetcar. I believe PLEASE CHECK ME this will put the planing and studying costs so far at around $5mil. To take pedestrians from St Lukes to Boise State to Linen District areas. How much money has been spent to study a western route from downtown.? The amount of traffic is an indicator that time and money should be directed to developing the existing bus service in and out of the city as opposed to moving pedestrians in the downtown core.
CCDC
Just because something is legal doesn’t make it RIGHT
Isn’t the CCDC just an extra layer of government? With the seemingly, unstoppable, growth we’re experiencing do Boiseans need the CCDC? All projects go through planing and zoning and council members have the last say on development in the end! So do we have to have the extra LAYER? Sometimes the actions by our elected locals concerns me as to WHO they are working for?

With the evidence now clear that our illustrious FBI and other deep state players were indeed pulling for the Clintons, I’m now convinced that none of these people can be trusted with important information. This caused the mind to wander to all of the other information being collected by people with no training, no rules, no badge, and perhaps no scruples. Wonder how many power company employees can look at my electrical usage. Does the lineman next door know when I take a shower based on when my water heater turns on? He is kind of nosy. How about neighbor woman who works at the membership retail store? Can she see what I buy by browsing the computers? Lots of wine but don’t want anyone at my church to know it. Can she see medications too? This sort of privacy thing was a huge problem with medical records in hospitals until privacy laws and computer software stopped it. No such laws covering all the other ways people can spy. See something say something has caused some of these people to become much nosier than ever before. Yes, there has got to be a newsworthy story in there somewhere. Hoping the retailers and utilities will come forth with strict privacy efforts as a marketing advantage over their open books competitors.

EDITOR NOTE– just remember EVERYONE has a power connection (and bill) so their records are a treasure trove for Brother.

Average Female, regarding your hope for retailers and utilities I would recommend using cash for purchases and switch to a gas water heater!

What ever happened to the landslide debacle at Terra Nativa? Lawsuits against ACHD, City Building Dept, mortgage companies?

Inquiring minds…

Why oh why does the super large cement mixer driving past make less noise and less smoke than the diesel pickup guy with the tiny manhood?

Why oh why does our Federal, State, County, and City leadership look the other way? Do all of them have tiny manhood too?

So so very very tired of the disrupting noise and choking smoke from these otherwise useless diesel passenger vehicles.

Jason: you are correct re: Golden Dawn being in city limits. Here is an “offical” map [ http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1155fc38e566465ba9c5085d4d29bdb9 ] served up by https://gis.cityofboise.org/.

Ada County posted its year-in-review. Funny how there is no mention of the commissioners multi-million dollar lawsuit or the Treasure forgetting to collect tax dollars for a levy.
https://adacounty.id.gov/Home/ArticleID/2187/Ada-County-2017-Year-in-Review

Will the real Story Teller please stand up?