This is a polygon data set depicting the current comprehensive planning areas for Boise City. A comprehensive planning area is defined in Appendix B, Glossary of Blueprint Boise, the current Boise City Comprehensive Plan as, "On the largest scale, the entire area (area of impact) for which the City has authority to prepare comprehensive plans. On a smaller scale, planning area refers to the various sub-areas (i.e. West Bench, Central Bench, Southwest, etc,) which the City has defined as making up the larger planning area. These sub-areas are defined by physical barriers and/or the character of existing developments within them, and may each have specific planning objectives and policies articulated in the Comprehensive Plan." Each polygon in this data set is a specific smaller scale (sub-area) planning area. Collectively, the polygons represent the geography for the Boise City large scale comprehensive planning area. This data set was originally created by Spatial Dynamics, Inc., in 1997, as a part of the Boise City Comprehensive Plan, and has been maintained by the Boise City Planning and Development Services Department since that time. The dataset was amended to include a new planning area as well as revisions to existing planning areas with the adoption of Blueprint Boise in 2011. The dataset is generally coincident with the Boise Area of Impact; and is updated through City Council approval when the Boise Area of Impact changes. The data is current to the date the data set was published.