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Posted 11-July-2010

In May of this year, Harriet Steele of the Idaho Department of Lands came to Boise to conduct a Firewise Community Assessment to show us what we could do as residents of the CFNA to safeguard our neighborhood against the threat of fire.  Along with members of the BLM, the Boise Fire Department and a handful of neighbors, we spent a rainy morning traversing the neighborhood association in search of homes that had created defensible spaces around their property.

 Attached are pictures of homes that owners have gone to great lengths to protect as well as some that could use some pointers on little things that could go a long way to creating a fireline around a home.  Our proximity to open space in the Foothills makes us doubly vulnerable when it comes to the threat of fire.  Becoming a Firewise Community will assist all of us in learning how to make homes safe, and is something that a number of other neighborhood associations in Boise are in the process of doing.

After the assessment ,Harriet went back to Coeur d’Alene armed with valuable information about our neighborhood and what we need to get it up to speed.  I will share her thoughts at our next neighborhood association meeting in the Fall.

Eyrie Canyon Development:

Map of proposed development

Here are some points:
1. The developer is assuming N 36th St will be widened within 5 years.
2. They are planning to put in 106 homes.
3. They will take 20 ft off the top of the ridge between N Arrow Villa Way amd N Arrow Crest Way.
4. They will use that 20 ft of soil and fill in N Eyrie Way with it.  It won't be much of a canyon any longer.
5. The loop road on the south east corner of the proposal is VERY close to the water tank by N. Mountain.
6. All the roads on the eastern side of the proposal will impact existing trails.  Actually, all the roads in the proposal are used as trails today.
7. There is a planned detention water pond on the eastern side of the proposal.

Plano Development Concerns Letter

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