Boise River Greenbelt (Boise, Idaho)
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Jerome Mapp, July 22, 2010 and April 14, 2011
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Jerome Mapp served on the Boise City Council during the 1990s when Boise saw very little conflict; money was not tight at the city level and the general feeling from the community was positive. Boise was growing quickly, and development was on the fringes of the city as well as in the downtown core. Brent Coles was mayor, he focused on transportation, fighting drugs, and neighborhood reinvestment. Mapp continued to serve into the Bieter administration.In two interviews with...
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July 22, 2010 and April 14, 2011
Joe LaMarche , July 22, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on July 22, 1998, Joe LaMarche discusses his involvement with the Greenbelt and Pathways Committee. He describes the role the committee played in development of the project, how the meetings worked, and how the committee balanced competing interests. He touches on his memory of the river in the 1950s, how his experience with the Greenbelt led him to understand the river as an asset to the community, and his feelings about the Greenbelt currently. Joe...
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July 22, 1998
John Chapman , June 15, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on June 15, 1998, John Chapman discusses his involvement with the Greenbelt Committee beginning in the early 1970s. He recounts his appointment to the committee as a representative of the Planning and Zoning Commission. He explains some of the first steps of land acquisition involving condemnation lawsuits to acquire parcels across from Ann Morrison Park, how the Greenbelt Ordinance was necessary to keep property owners from building on the riverbank, and his...
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June 15, 1998
Jon Mason , July 13, 2010 and July 22, 2010
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In two interviews with Brandi Burns on July 13 and July 22, 2010, Jon Mason discusses his career in engineering at Morrison-Knudsen Company and as a professor at Boise State University. He describes how he worked on several committees prior to entering government including the Boise Vision Plan and his appointment to the Design Review Board by Mayor Coles. He explains how the city’s poor handling of transportation problems led him to run for city council and discusses the many solutions that...
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July 13, 2010 and July 22, 2010
Judy Peavey-Derr, August 4, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on August 4, 1998, Judy Peavey-Derr discusses her work advancing the Boise Greenbelt project as an Ada County Commissioner from 1987-1991. She describes how her appointment to coordinate Ada County’s activities in the Idaho Centennial Celebration led her to create a 501(c)(3)—The Boise River Trail Foundation—to help fund connecting the pathway from Lucky Peak Dam to Eagle. The project would be Ada County’s contribution to celebrating the Idaho Centennial, but...
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August 4, 1998
Kathleen Day, September 19, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on September 19, 1998, Kathleen Day discusses her involvement with the Greenbelt and Pathways Committee. She describes how she first became interested in helping to protect public access to the waterways while acting as the environmental chairman for the League of Women Voters. She recollects her fist impressions of the committee, the other members, and their major accomplishment of maintaining open space and public access to the river. She notes the struggle...
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September 19, 1998
Keith Gilmore , July 15, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on July 15, 1998, Keith Gilmore discusses his involvement with the Greenbelt and Pathways Committee and his experience as a landowner dealing with the Greenbelt development. He describes how his meeting with Mayor Amyx at a restaurant led to his applying for a seat on the committee, and the original goals of the group to control the setback and to create rules on building restrictions along the riverbank. Keith notes how much the appeal of river front...
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July 15, 1998
Ken Pursley , July 23, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on July 23, 1998, Ken Pursley discusses his involvement with the Greenbelt Committee from around 1971-1975. He recounts how he moved back to Idaho from Chicago because of his desire to be close to the clean water and recreational opportunities he grew up with; he was horrified to learn that the Boise River was too contaminated to safely swim in. He created Citizens Alliance, an organization focusing on local planning and zoning issues and exploring ways to...
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July 23, 1998
Ken Stolz , July 28, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on July 28, 1998, Ken Stolz discusses his involvement with the Greenbelt Committee in 1976. He describes his first impression of the committee as a very dedicated group of people, his astonishment that the Greenbelt has extended to Eagle, and the irony of property values increasing when the popular opinion was that they would decrease if the Greenbelt ordinance passed. He remembers a positive relationship between the Committee and the City staff and leaders,...
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July 28, 1998
Marvin "Mike" Misner , June 22, 1998
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In an interview with Troy Reeves on June 22, 1998, Mike Misner discusses his involvement with the Greenbelt and Pathways Committee from 1992-1996. He describes the completion of the Willow Lane segment of pathway as an accomplishment he is most proud of, the conflicts with BSU on the plan to build the pathway through campus, and some of the pushback from property owners near the proposed pathway on the Willow Lane segment. He recounts some of the compromises that were made to balance public...
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June 22, 1998