If you were looking for a golf course front home in the Boise foothills, a potential option just got crossed off your list.
Last month, the Ada County Commissioners voted unanimously to deny an application from Bend-based developer Larry Kine for a 395-home planned community on 560 acres spanning both sides of Highway 55. Sandwiched between planned communities Dry Creek Ranch to the south and Avimor to the north, Shadow Valley Planned Community was proposed to add more than 300 homes on the east side of the existing Shadow Valley Golf Course, and the rest would be on a separate parcel on the west side of the highway on larger lots.
In a mid-November public hearing on the proposal, Kine laid out his pitch for the mostly residential community as a natural fit for the area with two large planned communities already under construction. He argued the community would use existing services at Dry Creek Ranch and Avimor and bring additional revenue to Shadow Valley Golf Course, which is also owned by an LLC based in Bend affiliated with real estate agent Cheryl Kerry who works with Kine’s firm…