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Caldwell Housing Authority
March 17, 2025
The Housing Authority of the City of Caldwell (a.k.a. Caldwell Housing Authority), was created by
resolution by the City of Caldwell on June 4, 1946, under Idaho Code Title §50-19 and reaffirmed nunc
pro tunc by the City of Caldwell on May 15, 2016. Although the housing authority was created in 1946,
the property known as Farmway Village, was built and operated by the federal government in 1939 under
President Roosevelt’s New Deal Plan until it was transferred to the Caldwell Housing Authority in 1957.
The project has provided affordable housing opportunities and services to the Greater Caldwell
Community for approximately 85 years.
The Caldwell Housing Authority has certain statutory authorities under the Idaho Code to provide decent,
safe and sanitary urban or rural dwellings, apartments or other living accommodations for persons of
low(er) income with necessary appurtenances including streets, sidewalks, utilities, parks and recreation
spaces, landscaping; administrative, health, recreational buildings; and buildings for the purpose and
general welfare of the tenants of its housing. The project currently has sixty-two (62) 4-plex building (or
248 apartment units) and twelve (12) other building/facilities to include: offices, convenient store, laundry
facility, community center, tenant storage, maintenance shops, childcare facility, congregate living
facility, equipment storage, parks, restrooms, and other amenities. The project has undergone several
improvements since its opening including the addition of new housing stock in 1970 and again in 1992.
The Caldwell Housing Authority has title to 78.92 acres of certain real property identified as Canyon
County Parcel No. 34658000 (36.34 acres), 34658010 (17.79 acres) and 34658011 (24.79 acres) located
at the southeast corner of Highway 44 and Farmway Road, between Highway 20/26 and Interstate 84,
commonly referred to as the “Farmway Village” housing project, and legally described in the attachments
to this application. The property is located with the Caldwell North Urban Renewal District (CNURD),
and its annexation into the city may be pivotal for other developments in the CNURD.
In 2014, a sewer line was constructed connecting Farmway Village to the south along Pond Lane to the
city’s wastewater treatment plant. In 2021 Canyon County Planning and Zoning approved 220 units of
recreation vehicle (RV) parking at Farmway Village in addition to the multi-family units. In 2022, the
Urban Renewal Agency created the new URD anticipating growth north of Highway 20/26 and Farmway
Village sets in the middle of that district. In 2023 the city used American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
funding construct an 18” pressurized water line along Pond Lane, through the existing industrial park and
behind the Sinclair fueling station, north along Farmway Road, east on Highway 44 and back south on
CHA’s eastern boundary, creating a complete waterline loop in anticipation of growth and development.
As stated previously, the property has been a multifamily housing project for eighty-five (85) years and
currently has two hundred forty-eight (248) units of rental housing, with plans to add an additional 72
units of multi-family housing and 220 units of recreational vehicle parking. CHA has a professionally
prepared and board-approved Mater Plan for Farmway Village. Farmway Village is, and always has been,
a medium density multi-family housing project that meets the Neighborhood-2 standards.
Again, annexing Farmway Village will be pivotal to future annexations and substantial development in
the URD.