{"id":11466,"date":"2025-12-28T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:43:55","slug":"icymi-not-the-preferred-method-wilks-brothers-skirt-subdivision-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11466","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Not the \u2018preferred method\u2019: Wilks Brothers skirt subdivision rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-123950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11467\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-123950.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-123950.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-123950-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-123950-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/boisedev.com\/2025\/03\/20\/wilks-brothers-skirting-subdivision-rules-in-plan-to-sell-2000-acres-near-cascade-2\/\">https:\/\/boisedev.com\/2025\/03\/20\/wilks-brothers-skirting-subdivision-rules-in-plan-to-sell-2000-acres-near-cascade-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BOISEDEV ICYMI 2025<br \/>\nIn Case You Missed It: Some of our best stories of the year<\/p>\n<p><strong>A company owned by Texas billionaires Dan and Faris Wilks is selling 73 ranch sites carved from about 2,000 acres south of Cascade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plans for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dfdevelopmentllc.com\/communities\/legacy-creek-ranch\/\">Legacy Creek Ranch<\/a>, as dubbed by DF Development, look like subdivisions across Valley County, but are not subject to the same rules and review process because the ranch sites were created by a series of lot line adjustments and original parcel splits.<\/p>\n<p>That, Valley County Planning and Zoning Administrator Cynda Herrick said, is the difference between selling raw land and being required to follow the county\u2019s subdivision laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been talking with (DF) and they understand that this isn\u2019t the preferred method,\u201d Herrick told Valley Lookout. \u201cBut it\u2019s what they\u2019re entitled to by law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The method used by DF enables Legacy Creek Ranch to <strong>avoid<\/strong> the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/codelibrary.amlegal.com\/codes\/valleycountyid\/latest\/valleycounty_id\/0-0-0-4383\">county\u2019s subdivision requirements<\/a>, which include plans for <strong>drainage, irrigation, drinking water, septic systems, utilities, and streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It also means that the company is not required to create a fire protection plan covering things like water supply, emergency access, and vegetation management.<\/p>\n<p>The plan also avoids review by the Valley County Planning and Zoning Commission, as well as several state agencies, including the Idaho Transportation Department, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, and the Idaho Department of Water Resources.\u00a0 \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/boisedev.com\/2025\/03\/20\/wilks-brothers-skirting-subdivision-rules-in-plan-to-sell-2000-acres-near-cascade-2\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/boisedev.com\/2025\/03\/20\/wilks-brothers-skirting-subdivision-rules-in-plan-to-sell-2000-acres-near-cascade-2\/ BOISEDEV ICYMI 2025 In Case You Missed It: Some of our best stories of the year A company owned by Texas billionaires Dan and Faris Wilks is selling 73 ranch sites carved from about 2,000 acres south of Cascade. Plans for\u00a0Legacy Creek Ranch, as dubbed by DF Development, look like subdivisions across Valley County, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}