Comprehensive plan amendment · Planning application
Fire districts and highway district seek plan change tied to development impact fees
Ten fire districts and Highway District No. 4 asked to add an appendix listing their capital improvement plans to the county's 2030 plan. The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval, and commissioners heard the request Sep. 2. No decision is on file.
Location
The filing doesn't give an address or parcel number, so it isn't on the map.
From the filing
The application's description as it appears in Canyon County's record. See the official record
Ten fire districts and Highway District No. 4 asked Canyon County to amend its comprehensive plan to include their updated capital improvement plans, which support the development impact fees the districts collect. The Planning and Zoning Commission held a hearing on these requests on April 3, 2025, and the matter goes to the County Commissioners for a final decision.
Applicants are requesting an amendment to the 2030 Canyon County Comprehensive Plan to add an ‘Appendix B’ to the plan regarding impact fees for Caldwell Rural Fire Protection District, Highway District No. 4, Homedale Rural Fire Protection District, Kuna Rural Fire District, Marsing Rural Fire District, Middleton Rural Fire District, Nampa Fire Protection District, Parma Rural Fire Protection District, Star Fire Protection District and Wilder Rural Fire Protection District (the “Applicants”)
Timeline
Sept. 2, 2025
Public hearing: Canyon County Board of County Commissioners
Documents
Staff reports
- Download Planning division addendum for impact fee plan amendment
Addendum for a County comprehensive plan text amendment letting the County collect and spend impact fees for fire districts and Highway District 4, with exhibits and agency comments.
Sept. 1, 2025 · 399 pages · 19.4 MB · Staff Report
Decisions
- Download Findings of fact, conclusions of law and recommendation to the Board of Commissioners
Planning and Zoning Commission findings and recommendation on fire districts' and highway district's capital improvement plans as comprehensive plan amendments, with the exhibits admitted into the record.
Sept. 1, 2025 · 19 pages · 994 KB · Decision