Opinion ID: 874396
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The district court's judgment must be vacated and this matter remanded with instructions to dismiss the petition for review.

Text: Neighbors has conceded that it has no right to petition for review of the Board's decision in light of this Court's recent decision in Giltner Dairy v. Jerome County, 145 Idaho 630, 181 P.3d 1238 (2008). Appellants agree that Giltner, which was released after Appellants brought this appeal, is totally dispositive of the substantive issues in this matter. In Giltner, Giltner Dairy sought judicial review of the county commission's decision to amend its comprehensive plan map to reflect that the land belonging to Giltner's neighbor, Golf Ranch, is an area transitioning from agricultural to urban use, rather than an area of strictly agricultural use. Id. at 631, 181 P.3d at 1239. Giltner argued that the district court had jurisdiction to review the commission's decision under I.C. § 67-6521, which grants the right to judicial review in accordance with the Idaho Administrative Procedure Act to [a]n affected person aggrieved by a decision. Id. at 632, 181 P.3d at 1240. This Court noted that I.C. § 67-6521(1)(a) defines affected person as one having an interest in real property which may be adversely affected by the issuance or denial of a permit authorizing the development. Id. We held that because the county's amendment to its comprehensive plan map was not a permit authorizing development, Giltner was not an affected person and was therefore not authorized by I.C. § 67-6521 to file a petition for review of the amendment. Id. at 634, 181 P.3d at 1241. Neighbors, like Giltner, petitioned for review pursuant to I.C. § 67-6521. The Board's amendment to the Plan designating the peninsula as a rural area, like the amendment by the Jerome County commissioners, is not a permit authorizing development. Neighbors, like Giltner, is thus not an affected person and is not entitled to judicial review of the Board's decision under I.C. § 67-6521. We therefore vacate the district court's judgment and remand with instructions to dismiss the petition for review. We turn now to the question of attorney fees.