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Idaho Code § 67-6508 (2026)

Planning duties. 

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Planning duties. 

It shall be the duty of the planning or planning and zoning commission to conduct a comprehensive planning process designed to prepare, implement, review, and update a comprehensive plan, hereafter referred to as the plan. The plan shall include all land within the jurisdiction of the governing board. The plan shall consider previous and existing conditions, trends, compatibility of land uses, desirable goals and objectives, and desirable future situations for each planning component. The plan with maps, charts, and reports shall be based on the following components as they may apply to land use regulations and actions unless the plan specifies reasons why a particular component is unneeded.

(a)  Property Rights — An analysis of provisions which may be necessary to ensure that land use policies, restrictions, conditions and fees do not violate private property rights, adversely impact property values or create unnecessary technical limitations on the use of property and analysis as prescribed under the declarations of purpose in chapter 80, title 67, Idaho Code.
(b)  Population — A population analysis of past, present, and future trends in population including such characteristics as total population, age, sex, and income.
(c)  School Facilities and Transportation — An analysis of public school capacity and transportation considerations associated with future development.
(d)  Economic Development — An analysis of the economic base of the area including employment, industries, economies, jobs, and income levels.
(e)  Land Use — An analysis of natural land types, existing land covers and uses, and the intrinsic suitability of lands for uses such as agriculture, forestry, mineral exploration and extraction, preservation, recreation, housing, commerce, industry, and public facilities. A map shall be prepared indicating suitable projected land uses for the jurisdiction.
(f)  Natural Resources — An analysis of the uses of rivers and other waters, forests, range, soils, harbors, fisheries, wildlife, minerals, thermal waters, beaches, watersheds, and shorelines.
(g)  Hazardous Areas — An analysis of known hazards as may result from susceptibility to surface ruptures from faulting, ground shaking, ground failure, landslides or mudslides; avalanche hazards resulting from development in the known or probable path of snowslides and avalanches, and floodplain hazards.
(h)  Public Services, Facilities, and Utilities — An analysis showing general plans for sewage, drainage, power plant sites, utility transmission corridors, water supply, fire stations and fire fighting equipment, health and welfare facilities, libraries, solid waste disposal sites, schools, public safety facilities and related services. The plan may also show locations of civic centers and public buildings.
(i)  Transportation — An analysis, prepared in coordination with the local jurisdiction(s) having authority over the public highways and streets, showing the general locations and widths of a system of major traffic thoroughfares and other traffic ways, and of streets and the recommended treatment thereof. This component may also make recommendations on building line setbacks, control of access, street naming and numbering, and a proposed system of public or other transit lines and related facilities including rights-of-way, terminals, future corridors, viaducts and grade separations. The component may also include port, harbor and other related transportation facilities.
(j)  Recreation — An analysis showing a system of recreation areas, including parks, parkways, trailways, river bank greenbelts, beaches, playgrounds, and other recreation areas and programs.
(k)  Special Areas or Sites — An analysis of areas, sites, or structures of historical, archeological, architectural, ecological, wildlife, or scenic significance.
(l)  Housing — An analysis of housing conditions and needs; plans for improvement of housing standards; and plans for the provision of safe, sanitary, and adequate housing, including the provision for low-cost conventional housing, the siting of manufactured housing and mobile homes in subdivisions and parks and on individual lots which are sufficient to maintain a competitive market for each of those housing types and to address the needs of the community.
(m)  Community Design — An analysis of needs for governing landscaping, building design, tree planting, signs, and suggested patterns and standards for community design, development, and beautification.
(n)  Agriculture — An analysis of the agricultural base of the area including agricultural lands, farming activities, farming-related businesses and the role of agriculture and agricultural uses in the community.
(o)  Implementation — An analysis to determine actions, programs, budgets, ordinances, or other methods including scheduling of public expenditures to provide for the timely execution of the various components of the plan.
(p)  National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors — After notification by the public utilities commission concerning the likelihood of a federally designated national interest electric transmission corridor, prepare an analysis showing the existing location and possible routing of high voltage transmission lines, including national interest electric transmission corridors based upon the United States department of energy’s most recent national electric transmission congestion study pursuant to sections 368 and 1221 of the energy policy act of 2005. "High-voltage transmission lines" means lines with a capacity of one hundred fifteen thousand (115,000) volts or more supported by structures of forty (40) feet or more in height.
(q)  Public Airport Facilities — An analysis prepared with assistance from the Idaho transportation department division of aeronautics, if requested by the planning and zoning commission, and the manager or person in charge of the local public airport identifying, but not limited to, facility locations, the scope and type of airport operations, existing and future planned airport development and infrastructure needs, and the economic impact to the community.
(r)  When considering amending, repealing, or adopting a plan, the local governing board shall consider the effect the proposed amendment, repeal, or adoption of the plan would have on the source, quantity, and quality of ground water in the area.
Nothing herein shall preclude the consideration of additional planning components or subject matter.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17 cases, 1977–2015 · leading case: Neighbors for the Pres. of the Big & Little Creek Cmty. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 358 P.3d 67 (Idaho 2015).
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Neighbors for the Pres. of the Big & Little Creek Cmty. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 358 P.3d 67 (Idaho 2015). · cites it 35× “ANALYSIS The issues presented in this appeal are whether: (1) this Court has jurisdiction to consider a challenge to the validity of the comprehensive plan; (2) the comprehensive plan is invalid because it is missing components required by Idaho Code section 67-6508; (3) the…”
Petersen v. Franklin Cnty., 938 P.2d 1214 (Idaho 1997). · cites it 16× “I.C. § 67-6508 requires consideration of the following components, unless there is specification why a particular component is unneeded: a.”
Taylor v. Canyon Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 210 P.3d 532 (Idaho 2009). · cites it 16× “However, as set forth in Idaho Code § 67-6508 (e), the land use map merely displays " suitable projected land uses for the jurisdiction.”
Langmeyer v. State, 656 P.2d 114 (Idaho 1982). · cites it 16× “I.C. § 67-6508. While many courts have addressed the nature of candidacy and durational residency requirements for elective office, see, e.”
Urrutia v. Blaine Cnty., 2 P.3d 738 (Idaho 2000). · cites it 4× “The language “shall conform to the comprehensive plan” shall be given the same interpretation as Idaho Code 67-6508 in the Bone v. Lewiston case.”
Bone v. City of Lewiston, 693 P.2d 1046 (Idaho 1984). · cites it 6× “I.C. § 67-6508 directs planning and zoning commissions to prepare and implement comprehensive plans.”
Gumprecht v. City of Coeur D'Alene, 661 P.2d 1214 (Idaho 1983). · cites it 4× “The acts and procedures required by the Act include: holding advisory and informational meetings and hearings in developing plans and zoning structures, I.”
Friends of Farm to Mkt. v. Valley Cnty., 46 P.3d 9 (Idaho 2002). · cites it 2× “(citing I.C. § 67-6508). “This Court has held that a comprehensive plan does not operate as legally controlling zoning law, but rather serves to guide and advise the governmental agencies responsible for making zoning decisions.”
State Ex Rel. Roark v. City of Hailey, 633 P.2d 576 (Idaho 1981). · cites it 6× “” I.C. § 67-6508 (emphasis added). Following today’s opinion, and despite the clear- statutory language set forth above, annexed areas that are not “in conflict” with existing comprehensive plans will not have to have public services, such as sewage, drainage, transportation and…”
Evans v. Teton Cnty., 73 P.3d 84 (Idaho 2003). · cites it 2× “2d 741, 750 (1995); See Also I.C. § 67-6508. However, a board of commissioners cannot ignore their comprehensive plan when adopting or amending zoning ordinances.”
Whitted v. Canyon Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 44 P.3d 1173 (Idaho 2002). · cites it 2× “I.C. § 67-6508. This Court has held that a comprehensive plan does not operate as legally controlling zoning law, but rather serves to guide and advise the governmental agencies responsible for making zoning decisions.”
Dawson Enter., Inc. v. Blaine Cnty., 567 P.2d 1257 (Idaho 1977). · cites it 2× “, especially §§ 67-6508, -10. The record shows that the zoning ordinance in question was not enacted in accordance with a comprehensive plan, [2] and therefore the zoning ordinance is invalid.”
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— Idaho Code § 67-6508(c) — 1 case
Bone v. City of Lewiston, 693 P.2d 1046 (Idaho 1984). “I.C. § 67-6508 directs planning and zoning commissions to prepare and implement comprehensive plans.”
— Idaho Code § 67-6508(e) — 3 cases
Taylor v. Canyon Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 210 P.3d 532 (Idaho 2009). “However, as set forth in Idaho Code § 67-6508 (e), the land use map merely displays " suitable projected land uses for the jurisdiction.”
Sprenger, Grubb & Assocs., Inc. v. City of Hailey, 986 P.2d 343 (Idaho 1999).
Kirby Vickers & Cheryl Vickers v. Canyon Cnty. Bd. Of Commissioners (Idaho 2009).
— Idaho Code § 67-6508(g) — 1 case
Worley High. Dist. v. Kootenai Cnty., 663 P.2d 1135 (Idaho Ct. App. 1983).
— Idaho Code § 67-6508(h) — 1 case
Neighbors for the Pres. of the Big & Little Creek Cmty. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 358 P.3d 67 (Idaho 2015). “ANALYSIS The issues presented in this appeal are whether: (1) this Court has jurisdiction to consider a challenge to the validity of the comprehensive plan; (2) the comprehensive plan is invalid because it is missing components required by Idaho Code section 67-6508; (3) the…”
— Idaho Code § 67-6508(p) — 1 case
Neighbors for the Pres. of the Big & Little Creek Cmty. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 358 P.3d 67 (Idaho 2015). “ANALYSIS The issues presented in this appeal are whether: (1) this Court has jurisdiction to consider a challenge to the validity of the comprehensive plan; (2) the comprehensive plan is invalid because it is missing components required by Idaho Code section 67-6508; (3) the…”
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