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Public Involvement

The military installations and operations in Idaho are critical to local, regional, and state economies, generating nearly 12 thousand jobs and nearly $1 billion in direct and indirect economic activity annually. This activity also results in significant tax revenues that accrue to these entities.

Throughout the country, incompatible development has been a factor in the curtailment or reduction of military training operations and/or restructuring of mission critical components to other installations-typically out of state. To protect the military mission in the State, the health of the economies and industries that rely on them, and consider the rights of adjacent private property owners, collaboration and joint planning among the installations, counties and local communities must occur throughout southwest Idaho.  A mechanism used to foster collaboration and joint planning is the Joint Land Use Study (JLUS). The intent of the JLUS is to mitigate both existing and anticipated encroachment issues through improved coordination among stakeholders in the region:  the Cities of Boise, Grand View, and Mountain Home; Ada, Elmore and Owyhee Counties; Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho National Guard, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, federal and state agencies, and the public. 

Southwest Idaho is expected to experience economic and population growth in the future based on the extensive amount of open land, visibility and access afforded along the Interstate 84 corridor and continued development pressure in the southern portion of the Treasure Valley. As development interest and pressure continues to extend to the south and east of Boise and to the west of Mountain Home, a coordinated effort is needed to ensure growth is managed in a manner that allows the installations and their supportive training areas to achieve their many faceted roles in the nation’s defense while remaining vital members of the local communities and major contributors to the regional and state economies. Similarly, the military must also acknowledge the rights of private property owners when evaluating mission expansion/contraction or new mission placement both within and outside the “fence”.

Your involvement in the development of the JLUS was vital to ensure everyone's concerns and ideas are heard and considered.

Thank you to all who participated in the completion of this document.

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