This is a polygon data set that depicts the locations of easements and vacations of easements granted to the City of Boise. An easement is a legal right to make use of land owned by another party, for a specific and limited purpose as specified within an easement description. An easement vacation is a legal declaration to relinquish to the parcel owner the easement that was formerly granted.

Easements are attained by the City of Boise in the following ways: 1)through right-of-way vacation from Ada County Highway District where the City of Boise retains rights to build and maintain utility structures across the area vacated within the vacation description; 2)a Boise City Council resolution where a grantor gives the City the right to build and maintain sanitary sewer, geothermal, drainage or pressure irrigation across their property; 3)as a grant of easement or grant deed recorded at Ada County; and 4) as a note on a subdivision final plat that a specific lot, portion of a lot or lots is shown to have an easement across it (them) and may or may not include dimensions of the easement. All easements in this data set are within the Boise City Area of Impact.

This data set is maintained by Boise City Public Works GIS staff. Features in this data set are derived from available computer aided drafting CAD drawings, paper map documents and legal descriptions that define easement locations. Easements have been granted to the City of Boise since about 1900 to the present. Documentation of easements prior to 1970 is incomplete; therefore most of the easements in this data set will be from 1970 to the present. The data is updated continuously. It is current to the date it was published.