Help Hoodoo Valley to stay rural. 

Come to hearing Tomorrow, say you oppose the changes proposed

Zoom Meeting raise hand and say you oppose!

Write to Commissioners(See below)
 
1)   Hoodoo Valley Proposed Rezone is this Thursday, at 5:30 p.m., Bonner County Administration Building!
 
Please speak up for the Hoodoo Valley when the Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission hears a request from Daum Construction LLC to change the zoning of 160 acres from Agriculture-Forest 10-acre to Residential 5-acre minimum size parcels.
 
This zone change is inconsistent with the current Comprehensive Land Use Plan, which currently designates this area as Agricultural/Forest land to protect the working land heritage of this area.
 
Please support the neighbors and show up in person or by Zoom to express your opposition to doubling the density in this largely rural area. The P&Z Commission denied this request several months ago, but the BOCC approved it, and because of the hard work of Hoodoo Valley residents, it’s back to the drawing board.
 
Here’s a few talking points to consider:
·     According to our county’s land use code, applicants must show why a zone change is necessary and what the effects of the change will be on neighboring property – the applicant has failed to meet those basic requirements under the law;
·     This proposed increase in density is not consistent with the current county Land Use Plan, and just because someone wants to sell off more lots does not justify a change in the county’s land use plan or the zoning;
·     The original staff report recommended denying this zone change – and now the planning department has reversed itself, but the conditions have not changed. This land should still remain in the 10-acre minimum zoning designation;
·     This area has more forested and agriculture land around it than 5-acre neighborhoods, so changing it will be inconsistent with the character of the area.
·       Idaho Supreme Court has ruled spot zoning is illegal. There are two types of “spot zoning.” Type one spot zoning may simply refer to a rezoning of property for a use prohibited by the original zoning classification. The test for whether such a zone reclassification is valid is whether the zone change is in accord with the comprehensive plan. Type two spot zoning refers to a zone change that singles out a parcel of land for use inconsistent with the permitted use in the rest of the zoning district for the benefit of an individual property owner. This latter type of spot zoning is invalid.
 
For more information, you can read the staff report here: https://www.bonnercountyid.gov/AM0018-20/ZC0015-20

To Zoom, be sure you have downloaded Zoom to your device.
To attend by Zoom, here’s the link: www.bonnercountyid.gov/PZHearingsFinally here’s a slideshow about the process this zone change request has gone through: https://www.flipsnack.com/project7b/spirit-lake-cuttoff-daum/full-view.html
 
2)   Help us get a public hearing on the Clagstone Ranch Development!
 
The developer of Clagstone Ranch, a 360-acre development off Clagstone Road, created 72, 5-acre parcels for this gated community approved without any public knowledge or hearing. The developer used a Minor Land Division process, which means no public notice or hearing. The divisions were administratively approved and rubber-stamped by the county commissioners.
 
The neighbors, KBCR and Project 7B banded together to raise the funds to appeal the final 7 of these land divisions to help expose what is wrong with the Minor Land Division process. The request cost $1,625 (the commissioners refused to waive any of the fees). Please email the commissioners and ask them to grant us a public hearing.
 
If they don’t make a decision in the next two weeks, our request is automatically denied.
 
·     Please email them this week and simply ask, “Please put the motions to reconsider the Clagstone Ranch Minor Land Divisions on an upcoming business agenda soon, and then have your staff schedule a hearing on the motions.”
 
Commissioners email addresses are:
Steven.bradshaw@bonnercountyid.gov
Jeff.connolly@bonnercountyid.gov
Dan.mcdonald@bonnercountyid.gov
 
For more information about this issue, read this article: https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2021/nov/14/project-7b-calls-review-clagstone-ranch-land-divis/
 
Thanks for helping us to protect the rural character of our home!
 
Your neighbors at Keep Bonner County Rural