Review ·
How Do Annexations Impact You in Idaho?
by Brian Rogers
In 2023, Coeur d'Alene neighbors learned that no one could take the Coeur Terre annexation to a judge, because the landowners had asked for it. Idaho rewrote its annexation law in 2024, but the statute still grants an appeal only for a "city-initiated" annexation, a phrase described by process not by definition. The neighbors just outside a landowner-requested annexation, who cannot vote for the council deciding it, are left with a demanding lawsuit, a zoning appeal with a 14-day deadline, and appeals of later plats. Striking "city-initiated" from section 50-222(14) would let them appeal.