In 2006, when Garden City Mayor John Evans took the city’s helm, he said, it “didn’t take much vision” for the real estate developer to see that the city would soon be “in the spotlight.”
Two decades later, development has exploded along the Boise River, drawing artists , businesses and residents hoping to escape higher costs across the river in Boise. The city, though Ada County’s smallest, has grown by over 25% from 2000 to 2024, according to the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho .
Evans, Garden City’s longest serving mayor, announced that he would not be running in the next mayoral race in November. Now in his fifth term, after being most recently elected in 2021, Evans previously served on the City Council for a decade and before that spent three-years on the Planning and Zoning Commission…