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Rear addition and larger garage door approved for historic Boise home

The city's historic preservation staff approved a 96-square-foot rear addition expanding the master bathroom and walk-in closet, plus a wider double-width garage door, with conditions on materials, windows and siding.

ApprovedDRH25-00325Filed Sept. 12, 2025North End · 1317 W Hays St+3 related filings
Site plan for Rear addition and larger garage door approved for historic Boise home
Site plan from the application documents.
Pin at the reported location; the shaded outline is the primary parcel (Ada County).

From the filing

The application's description as it appears in City of Boise's record. See the official record

A rear addition is proposed on a historic home at 1317 W Hays St in Boise, and the single-car garage door will be replaced with a larger one. The city's historic preservation staff approved the work with design conditions covering materials, windows and siding.

Addition to rear of home in the historic district.

Project name on file: 1317 W HAYS ST

Timeline

  1. Nov. 15, 2025

    Appeal Period: Completed

  2. Nov. 4, 2025

    Review Complete: Completed

  3. Nov. 4, 2025

    DR: Complete

  4. Oct. 20, 2025

    DR: In Review

  5. Oct. 20, 2025

    Assign Reviewers: Completed

  6. Sept. 18, 2025

    Fee Payment: Payment Received

  7. Sept. 18, 2025

    Prescreen Review: Passed

  8. Sept. 18, 2025

    Prescreen Review: In Progress

  9. Sept. 16, 2025

    Prescreen Review: Corrections Required

  10. Sept. 15, 2025

    Prescreen Review: In Progress

  11. Sept. 12, 2025

    Prescreen Review: Corrections Required

  12. Sept. 12, 2025

    Prescreen Review: In Progress

  13. Sept. 12, 2025

    Application Submittal: ePlanReview

  14. Sept. 12, 2025

    Application filed

Documents

Site plans

  • Site plan and project notes for a primary bath addition, kitchen and dining renovation, and garage door opening expansion, with area and lot coverage figures.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 842 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Project notes and site plan, primary bath addition

Plans

  • Sheet A2.1 and A2.2 elevation drawings for a proposed residential renovation, showing front (NE), rear (SW), left (SE) and right (NW) elevations with roof and foundation notes.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 2 pages · 779 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Proposed front, rear, left and right elevations
  • Drawing sheet showing the existing building elevations; the extracted text is mostly garbled scan noise, so details are not readable.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 410 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Existing elevations
  • Existing main level and lower level floor plans, with demolition plan for the main level, from Rigg Construction Inc. drawing sheet A1.3.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 634 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Existing floor plans
  • Sheet showing existing garage foundation and elevations, with demo plan and notes that the rear, left and right elevations are unchanged.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 386 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Existing detached garage elevations and demolition plan
  • Drawing of the proposed basement and foundation layout, submitted by RIGG Construction Inc. with the Certificate of Appropriateness application; the text is mostly garbled and mirrored.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 445 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Proposed basement and foundation plan
  • Front, rear, left and right elevation drawings for a proposed detached garage, with foundation and header details from Rigg Construction Inc.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 381 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Proposed garage elevations
  • Drawing of the proposed main level floor plan with keynote schedule, framing notes, and ceiling heights for a Certificate of Appropriateness application.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 661 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

    Download Proposed main level floor plan

Project narrative

  • Describes a 96-square-foot rear addition to expand the master bathroom and walk-in closet, plus replacing a single garage door with a 16-foot double door.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 1 page · 72 KB · PDS-Letter of Intent

    Download Letter of explanation for rear addition and garage door

Decisions

  • Approval for a rear addition on a contributing structure and a larger garage door, with conditions on setbacks, lot coverage, garage door material, and siding and window styles.

    Nov. 4, 2025 · 8 pages · 477 KB · PDS-Action Letter

    Download Certificate of appropriateness with conditions of approval

Notices

  • Planning and Development Services notice that a Certificate of Appropriateness for a rear addition and larger garage door was approved, with an appeal deadline of Nov. 14, 2025.

    Oct. 31, 2025 · 2 pages · 879 KB · PDS-Legal Notice

    Download Notice of approval

Application

  • Application for a minor certificate of appropriateness to add onto the rear of a contributing historic home, proposed as a rear addition by a construction firm for the owner.

    Sept. 12, 2025 · 4 pages · 161 KB · PDS-Application

    Download Certificate of Appropriateness application form

Photos

  • Nine photographs dated 9/18/2025 submitted with the Certificate of Appropriateness application, with no further detail in the text.

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 9 pages · 16.1 MB · PDS-Photos

    Download Site photos

Correspondence

  • Boise Parks and Recreation, with Community Forestry, has no comments, noting no impacts to existing mature trees are expected.

    Nov. 4, 2025 · 1 page · 58 KB · PDS-Agency Comments

    Download Parks and Recreation comments
  • Public Works says the property must connect to central sanitary sewer, which is available in the adjacent alley, and sewer capacity fees may apply at building permit issuance.

    Nov. 4, 2025 · 1 page · 41 KB · PDS-Agency Comments

    Download Public Works sewer comments
  • Public Works street light trades supervisor reports no comments on the application.

    Nov. 4, 2025 · 1 page · 125 KB · PDS-Agency Comments

    Download Street light comments from Public Works

Other documents

  • Noticing radius map

    Oct. 31, 2025 · 538 KB · PDS-Maps and Drawings

  • Statement of legal interest

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 96 KB · PDS-Statement of Legal Interest

  • Transmittal sheet to agencies

    Oct. 22, 2025 · 99 KB · PDS-Transmittal Agencies

  • Receipt

    Sept. 18, 2025 · 131 KB · PDS-Receipts

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