Planning project · Planning application
Owner seeks legal status for basement apartment in historic home
The request would formally recognize a 1-bedroom, 900-square-foot apartment below a single-family house. The owner must show the unit existed before 1988 and has been used since. City staff will review it administratively; no parking changes are planned.
From the filing
The application's description as it appears in City of Boise's record. See the official record
Establish Legal Non- Conforming for bottom unit
Project name on file: 926 N 8TH ST
Timeline
Oct. 13, 2026
5 documents added
July 29, 2025
Concept Review Complete: CR Complete - Type 2
July 6, 2025
Application Submittal: Online
July 6, 2025
Application filed
Documents
Project narrative
- Download Concept review summary report
Planning concept review summary for a proposed legal nonconforming basement apartment, with planner notes on required proof of pre-1988 use and approval findings.
July 29, 2025 · 2 pages · 451 KB · PDS-Concept Review Summary Report
Application
- Download Planning project application form
Application form for a planning project proposing to restore a basement apartment with its own separate address and entrance in a R-2 zoned home.
July 6, 2025 · 2 pages · 154 KB · PDS-Application
Photos
- Download Site photographs
July 6, 2025 · 7.7 MB · PDS-Other Small Docs
Other documents
- Download Idaho Statesman articles on apartment use
Newspaper articles reportedly showing the property was used as an apartment; the filename is the only source, so the publication details are unconfirmed.
July 6, 2025 · 1.9 MB · PDS-Other Small Docs
- Download Miscellaneous planning document
July 6, 2025 · 7 KB · PDS-Other Small Docs
