The five-acre catch in Idaho's timber exemption.
There's a property tax program a lot of Idaho landowners never hear about, and the acreage rule inside it is one of the reasons every homesite at Clagstone is sized the way it is.
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There's a property tax program a lot of Idaho landowners never hear about, and the acreage rule inside it is one of the reasons every homesite at Clagstone is sized the way it is.
Most subdivisions start by asking how many parcels you can squeeze out of the ground. Starting from a different question changes the lot lines, the infrastructure, and what the place feels like to live in.
We're recording the Clagstone build as it happens. The parts that show up in the aerials, and the parts that don't. Here's the first short.
A six-acre buyer asked me about an apple orchard last summer. Two years ago that was a routine question. Last year it became a complicated one, because the law changed.
The difference between a five-acre lot and a six-acre lot doesn't sound like much on paper. It's the difference between a neighborhood and a homestead in person.
First public look at what we've been quietly working on outside Athol. Fifty-eight homesites, six acres give or take, twenty-some minutes from Coeur d'Alene.