Comments on: Retired California Developer On Impact Fees

By: Example of Boise Impact Fees

Example of Boise Impact Fees — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:58:22 +0000

Boise City Impact Fees our on the city website. Here is the total for all three – park, fire, police, for a residential unit at 1401 – 2500 Square Feet.

$1716 Central Bench
$2616 Norht River
$1424 Downtown
$2301 Southwest
$2673 Southeast/Barber Valley
$2340 West Bench

Other size properties, commercial development, and the Area of Impact all have different values from those listed above. ACHD is their own entity.

By: Don't be stupid

Don't be stupid — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 22:27:55 +0000

Local political thieves would love to implement gigantic California style development fees. Problem is several of you seem to think the local polictcal thieves would then tax existing residents and businesses less. Hell no they will do no such thing. The current level of thievery will continue unabated +plus+ the new gigantic development fees.

Why do you think people like the author of this post and the hordes of Californians are here in Idaho? To escape what the author is putting forth as a bright idea.

By: Inna

Inna — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:50:12 +0000

Here we go, development fees in CA can be $28,000-171,000 per house. And $12,000-86,000 per multi-h unit.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/what-you-should-know-about-development-fees-and-the-fight-for-affordable-housing/103-530343879

By: Zoning

Zoning — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:58:42 +0000

I’m more inclined to think it will be park anywhere and then let then rot and rust. Tires optional. Yards, streets, driveways, open land.

By: Change the zoning

Change the zoning — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:46:57 +0000

I think the city should change all zoning to disallow any vehicle parking anywhere except on the street which will allow the city to write massive volumes of parking tickets and buy nicer stuff for the mayor and his friends with the ticket money.

By: The Wolf

The Wolf — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:02:30 +0000

Frank;

Your points re: the fire chief are important, although I believe he’s on the board at the Red Cross, not GBAD, and also the school board.

Keep your eyes on him. He clearly has political aspirations. Betcha he retires from the fire department just in time to get his name on the ballot for city council in two years.

Close personal friend of the mayor, so more of the same.

By: western guy

western guy — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:57:45 +0000

Possibly the 15 staffers in the city’s Community Engagement department are monitoring the Guardian, and will notify the Airport manager (part of Team Dave) about this situation.

Wanna bet the real estate promoters are not paying any rent?

By: Property Tax Bill

Property Tax Bill — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:50:49 +0000

We don’t get to see what our property tax bill will be before the elections, as only the assessment value is provided online. The state tax commission did have a tax estimator calculator available online up to September, but it is now inactive while they work on processing the actual tax bills to come in December.

The calculator had showed the estimated Ada County levy rate as: .013536330

With an 18.4% increase in the assessed value of my property for 2019, this calculator estimated my tax to be at least $300 more than last year. This does not include the separate levies and special assessment.

By: David Klinger

David Klinger — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:07:36 +0000

I had the same reaction as “Western Guy” when I got off the plane at the Boise airport on a Wednesday afternoon after a return flight from Warsaw, Poland in September. Directly opposite the baggage carousel at the Boise airport was a display and literature table staffed by two slinky female real estate agents promoting Boise as a good place to relocate to.

One solution to accelerating growth issues in the Treasure Valley would be to simply turn off the “promotion spigot” by which more and more people are being hustled to move into Boise from California and the Northwest cities. But that spigot will never be dialed back because there is too much money at stake, too much greed by the local growth industry, and too little backbone by local elected representatives to stand up to this manufactured self-promotion by local realtors, the Chamber of Commerce, and even the City of Boise itself.

The band plays on …

P.S. Poland seems to be doing a much better job managing its growth than Boise. At least Poland is honoring its venerable history and heritage, not tearing it down.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:02:13 +0000

We are paying BOTH Elected and hired Public Servants to handle GROWTH? Boise has city planers, city developers, developers on city council, planing and zoning councils all reporting to Mayor Bieter.
We are paying for a police department to protect, serve and LEAD, yet the BPD can’t even enforce Idaho code requiring license plates on the front bumper of cars? WHERE ARE WE BEING LED? ZEPPELIN!
Boise’s Fire chief went over his BOND Budget by 100% I’m pretty sure Dennis spent closer to $34 million
than the $17 million voted for? It’s not that he didn’t have fellow public servants with a background in job costing at his fingertips?! Then he’s sitting on the Boise School Board and GBAD? what the.
WE NEED NEW BLOOD IN CITY HALL.
I recommend voters call Ada County or go online and preview your property tax bill BEFORE YOU GO TO THE VOTING BOOTH! IT WILL HELP US DECIDE.
We can’t allow elected public servants to continually use GROWTH as an excuse for their incompetence of managing the needs of their constituents! WE DESERVE TAX RELIEF. SAME AS CCDC GETS