Margaret Carmel

1 week ago | boisedev.com | Margaret Carmel

Plans for road upgrades to span an Eagle foothills planned community across Highway 55 are years behind schedule due to an environmental investigation by two federal agencies.

2 weeks ago | boisedev.com | Margaret Carmel

The City of Boise is still completing new park projects and hiring new staff, but Mayor Lauren McLean also wants to tighten the belt as costs climb. Tuesday, the Boise City Council held its first budget workshop to delve into the details of its plans for the fiscal year 2026 budget set to be approved later this summer.

2 weeks ago | boisedev.com | Margaret Carmel

A Boise neighborhood association is asking a judge to intervene in the approval of a mixed-use project that will replace industrial buildings and single-family homes stretching across a Southeast Boise city block. On May 6, the Londoner Neighborhood Association filed suit in Ada County’s Fourth District Court asking for a judicial review of the Boise City Council’s decision to approve a rezone for a nearly six-acre development at 1519 S. Londoner Ave.

2 weeks ago | boisedev.com | Margaret Carmel

More firefighters mean a quicker response in an emergency. The City of Boise has a new ten-year plan to add staff to more stations city-wide to expand its four-person staffing model. The new plan examined which stations can most accommodate extra firefighters, get the most calls, and have the most infrastructure risks for fire. This led to recommendations that stations across the city have more staff, not just the far-flung stations on the perimeter.

2 weeks ago | idahoednews.org | Margaret Carmel |Boise Dev

This article was originally published in BoiseDevTwo seats are up for grabs to run the Ada County Community Library District next week. On Tuesday, voters across unincorporated Ada County will get a chance to cast their votes for who will set the budget, policy, and review challenges to books deemed “harmful” to children under Idaho law for the four branch libraries serving Southwest Boise, Star and Hidden Springs.