Donate today via our PayPal portal above, or mail a check to Project 7B at PO Box 2365, Sandpoint ID 83864.
With your donations, we can focus on special projects like:
- Educating the public, like the time we hosted an educational film festival on land use, with the generous sponsorship of the American Planning Association’s Idaho chapter.
- Continuing to work with other area nonprofits on documenting and protecting public access to the county’s waterways.
- Consulting experts and helping convince Bonner County to improve zoning code.
- Hosting surveys like one we ran capturing nearly 800 people’s opinions on land use in Bonner County, and using that to petition the planning department for change.
- Helping improve the Comprehensive Land Use Map, with the help of many citizen comments.
The vast majority of operational costs and administration are covered by the board itself, so we use our day-to-day donations to:
- Support our mission to educate and involve people in land use planning, which is more important now more than ever because of the intense growth pressures we are facing.
- Help us cover the costs of public records requests and fees related to holding public officials accountable for decisions that don’t follow the county land use code or comprehensive land use plan.
- Consistently update the public on what’s going on.
- Advocate for transparent land use planning and processes. For example, the county is currently rewriting the comprehensive land use plan — the blueprint for how our county is supposed to grow. It’s important that we have adequate funding so we can make sure the public interests are heard and honored during this process.