RIVER-MYRTLE DISTRICT CIP · LINE 30
Capitol Boulevard Streetscape Improvements — Boise River to Myrtle Street
West-side streetscape improvements from the Boise River to Myrtle Street, with minor
site-specific work on the east side north of Fulton Street: low-stress protected bike
facilities, widened sidewalks, traffic calming, and improved access to local retail —
the streetscape plantings and bioswales among them.
$3.08M
FY2024 $1.58M + FY2025 $1.50M
authorized & funded by CCDC
Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC)
Authorized · Funded
Boise's urban-renewal agency. CCDC authorized this project and paid the $3.08M
capital cost out of River-Myrtle district revenue. Building it: accountable and clean.
City of Boise
Parent public body
CCDC is a public instrumentality of the City — its urban-renewal arm, not a private
developer. Whatever CCDC builds ultimately sits inside the City's own accountability.
Ongoing maintenance — water & trash
The open question
Capital delivery is funded once; keeping the swale alive is a recurring duty —
irrigating the plantings and emptying the receptacles. Who holds it?
Downtown Boise Association (DBA)
Out of footprint
CCDC contracts cleanliness & safety — the plant-watering and trash crews — to the
DBA. But the DBA's service footprint covers the Central Business District only; it does not
extend into the River-Myrtle District. This swale sits outside the line on the map.
Boise Public Works
Default · likely unaware
With the DBA out of footprint, the maintenance duty most likely defaults to Public
Works — but nobody appears to have been told. The responsibility exists on paper and is orphaned
in practice.
▼ RESULT: a $3.08M public streetscape with no assigned steward for its
plantings. Maintenance fell between the cracks — which is exactly what this site attests, reading by reading.
Source: CCDC River-Myrtle District Capital Improvement Plan, line 30 (FY2024–FY2028).
Authority chain reconstructed from CCDC / DBA service scope; Public Works default responsibility is
inferred from the coverage gap, not yet confirmed with the City.
