Editing Boise, Idaho (section)

====Southeast Boise====

[[File:LibraryExclamationPointAtBownCrossing.jpg|thumb|upright|The newest<ref name="Boise's Newest Library">{{cite web |url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article150236297.html |title=10 fun facts about Boise's newest library opening Thursday |last=Webb |first=Anna |date=April 12, 2017 |website=The Idaho Statesman |access-date=January 17, 2018}}</ref>

[[Boise Public Library]]<ref name="The Story behind Library!">{{cite web |url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article189932889.html |title=Man behind Boise library's exclamation point tells story; mayor eats crow |last=Moeller |first=Katy |date=December 15, 2017 |website=The Idaho Statesman |access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> branch at Bown Crossing]]

Southeast Boise ranges from Boise State University to Micron Technology between Federal Way and the Boise River. Its oldest neighborhood, Original South Boise, was platted in 1890, and accordingly has variegated housing (assiduously maintained by [[zoning]]); it consists of 33 blocks bordered by W Beacon Street, S Boise Avenue, and S Broadway Avenue, and hence is a triangular neighborhood immediately adjoining BSU.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cityofboise.org/media/3620/original-south-boise-2003.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.cityofboise.org/media/3620/original-south-boise-2003.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |title=Original South Boise Neighborhood Plan |publisher=City of Boise |access-date=September 21, 2022}}</ref> The rest of Southeast Boise was developed over the decades, largely by a variety of [[suburbia|suburban]]-style homes.

Columbia Village subdivision and the older Oregon Trail Heights were the first major planned communities in Southeast Boise with an elementary and middle school all within walking distance from all homes. The subdivision is at the intersections of Interstate 84, Idaho 21, and Federal Way (former U.S. Highway), which are all major arteries to get anywhere in Boise. The subdivision, a baseball complex, and swimming pools were developed around the Simplot Sports complex. The fields are built over an old landfill and dump, and the fields and gravel parking lot allow radon gases to escape through the ground. The most recent planned community is the {{convert|35|acre|ha|adj=on}} Bown Crossing, which has easy access to the [[Boise Greenbelt]].<ref name="Bown Crossing">{{cite web |url=https://pds.cityofboise.org/innovative-development/projects/bowncrossing/ |title=Bown Crossing |date=January 18, 2018 |publisher=City of Boise |access-date=January 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119120814/https://pds.cityofboise.org/innovative-development/projects/bowncrossing/ |archive-date=January 19, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On August 25, 2008, at about 7:00&nbsp;pm, a fire started near Amity and Holcomb during a major windstorm. It destroyed ten houses and damaged nine. One person died in the fire.<ref name="NWCN">{{cite news|url=http://legacy.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2014/06/27/11463805/|title=Loose electrical connection blamed for Boise fire|date=October 14, 2009|work=KTVB|access-date=February 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309172753/http://legacy.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2014/06/27/11463805/|archive-date=March 9, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>