Neighborhood Planning Program

What is Neighborhood Planning?

Neighborhood planning is an important tool promoting collaboration between the City and Neighborhood Associations to guide the future of Boise’s neighborhoods.

• The City serves Boise’s neighborhoods with a Geographic Area Planning (GAP) program. Geographic Area Planners are Planners from other work groups (Current Planning, Design Review, Subdivisions etc.) who are assigned to cover specific geographic areas of the City. Planners can develop expertise in the unique issues within their area of the City, and use that knowledge in their project review of development applications from those areas. The GAP program also familiarizes Planners with the Neighborhood Associations of their particular geography.
• The City no longer has a single designated Neighborhood Planner position. However, Joan Johnson has been selected to be the GAP coordinator. She will track neighborhood association meetings and agendas and attend or coordinate GAP attendance as needed, maintain the list of current neighborhood association contacts, coordinate the Neighborhood Mini-Grant program, produce the Neighborhood Reinvestment Grant documentation, and assist groups with the neighborhood association registration process.
• GAP Planners Contact List

Important Neighborhood Documents

• Neighborhood Association Contact List
• Neighborhood Association Map
• GAP Planners Contact List
• GAP Planning Area Map (Coming Soon)
• Neighborhood Forms and Procedures

Neighborhood Programs

• Neighborhood Reinvestment Grant Program

Porch Talk
The Mayor's Neighborhood Newsletter

• Porch Talk: Spring/Summer 2009 Issue