Government and civic life
🗺️ Idaho Planning and Zoning
Learn how Idaho's Local Land Use Planning Act works, from the comprehensive plan and zoning map to conditional use permits, subdivisions, annexation, hearings, appeals and takings review, so you can follow a land use case, check the facts and testify in a way that counts.
- 1The Planning Act and Who DecidesMeet Idaho's Local Land Use Planning Act, the boards and commissions it creates, the rules on who can serve, and the two very different hats those officials wear.16 min
- 2The Comprehensive Plan: Components and AmendmentsRead an Idaho comprehensive plan the way a planner or a judge would: what 67-6508 makes it cover, how it gets adopted and amended, and how much weight it carries.17 min
- 3Zoning Ordinances, Maps and RezonesLearn how zoning text, use tables and maps work in Idaho, what a rezone requires, how notice is calculated, and why Idaho courts treat a one-parcel rezone differently from a countywide map update.18 min
- 4Conditional Uses, Variances, PUDs and Development AgreementsTell apart the four tools Idaho uses to bend or tailor zoning for one project, and learn the standards, notice rules and conditions that come with each.18 min
- 5Subdivisions, Plats and Impact FeesFollow raw land as it becomes recorded lots under Idaho's platting law, Title 50 Chapter 13, and see how subdivision rules, water notices and development impact fees fit together.17 min
- 6Areas of City Impact and AnnexationLearn who governs the ring of county land around an Idaho city, how that ring is drawn under the rewritten 67-6526, and how a city can annex land under 50-222 as it stands in October 2026.18 min
- 7Hearings, Due Process and Being HeardLearn the notice rules for each kind of Idaho land use hearing, the due process limits on officials including ex parte contacts, what a written decision must say, and how an ordinary resident can testify in a way that actually counts.19 min
- 8Reconsideration, Judicial Review and TakingsWork the deadlines for challenging an Idaho land use decision, learn what a district court can and cannot do on judicial review, and see how the Regulatory Takings Act and the Attorney General's checklist protect owners.19 min
- 9How Big Industrial Projects Move Through PlanningSee how a large industrial project, such as a data center, finds its way through an Idaho zoning code that never mentions it, and what conditions on noise, generators, water and setbacks look like in practice.18 min