Interfaith Sanctuary is hoping for more flexibility in what type of guests and how many can stay if the nonprofit gets the go-ahead to relocate its emergency shelter to State Street.
On Tuesday at 2 p.m., Interfaith Sanctuary will appear at Boise City Hall to make its case to the Boise City Council for final approval for a conditional use permit to move from the Shoreline area of downtown Boise to the former Salvation Army warehouse in the Veterans Park neighborhood. This is the second time the project went all the way through the approval process after the Idaho Supreme Court ruled against the City of Boise for violating its own zoning code procedures in approving the shelter in January.
This time around, the shelter is coming before the Boise City Council under a set of zoning code rules giving council members wider discretion to change or overturn Planning & Zoning Commission decisions on appeal. IFS is also proposed to use an approved waitlist for guests with an 8 p.m. check-in curfew, instead of the current walk-up system at its downtown emergency shelter. This new shelter, as it’s always been proposed over the past five years, would also operate 24 hours instead of requiring most guests to leave during the day…