Clark County Planning Commission - meeting_notice

Let's get started and roll call. Chair Frazier.

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Vice Chair Mohica. Present. Commissioner Stone.

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Commissioner Kirk.

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Commissioner Kurlarski. Here. Commissioner Brady.

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Commissioner Roteman.

Excused. I'm here. Oh, he's here. And excused. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, so first item of business is public comment. Seeing no one coming up for public comment, we'll close that section and go ahead and start the program.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the commission. We'll start with routine action items. The first is item four, which is a first application review for a daycare and school. This is specifically for waivers related to the trash enclosure. The staff and the town board recommended approval. We received one letter in support and one in opposition. The item five is a tentative map. It's just a one lot commercial map. Staff and the town board recommended approval. Item six is a use permit for an avocational locational training facility in conjunction with an existing commercial complex. Staff and the town board recommended approval. We received five letters in support and six in opposition. Item 7 is the use permit for vehicle wash and also design review for that wash. This was previously permitted in 1990 for a number of things, including washing of watercraft, but that will no longer be part of this car wash. Staff recommended approval. The town board did not meet. They didn't have a quorum, so we have no recommendation from the town board And then we received one letter in support. Item eight is the use permit for outdoor storage with a design review for those storage areas with shade structures in conjunction with industrial site. This property is leased from the railroad but is not related to the railroad itself. It's not actually the applicant. Staff and the board recommended approval. Eight or I'm sorry nine is Request to vacate and abandon easements of interest staff and the town board recommend approval and we had two letters of support Item 10 is another vacation of easements. Staff and the board recommended approval, and there were two letters of support and one letter of opposition. Items 11 through 13 are companion items, and this project is intended to facilitate a site in the searchlight area to be fully developed into a usable airstrip. Item 11 is a plan amendment to redesignate the existing land use category from RN and OL to BE on approximately 20 acres of a 37 acre site. Staff and the Town Board recommended approval. There are five letters in support and two in opposition. Item 12 is the related zone change from RS 80 and RS 20 to IP. Staff and the town board recommend approval. There are three letters in support and two in opposition. And then we had a tentative map for the entire site for one industrial lot. Staff and the town board recommend approval. Items 14 through 17 are companion items to reestablish a silica mining use, which had a use permit from 1981, which expired, and now they're doing a new storage structure on the site. This is within Moapa Valley. First item is the plan amendment to redesignate the site from business employment to outline neighborhood. Staff and the town board recommend approval. We received one letter in support and one in opposition. The zone changes include a one acre parcel from RS 40 to RS 80 and 50 acres from IL to RS 80 staff and the town board recommended approval. And there were two letters in support and one in opposition. 16 is a vacation of a portion of right of way. Staff and the town board recommend approval and we received one letter in support and one opposition 17 is a use permit for mining and extraction waivers development standards for lot size reducing both the gross and net lot size increasing building height Sorry eliminating parking lot landscaping buffering and screening and to allow outdoor storage adjacent to residential uses, and a design review for this activity. Staff and the town board recommend approval. There are two letters in support and one letter in opposition. And the last item on the agenda is just a report to the commission. Back in June, we heard a request to... Let me get to that right here. was p a twenty six seven thousand eleven uh... request for uh... a plan amendment uh... which the commission recommend for denial uh... did end up going to the work and commissioners in june june seventeenth and the commission recommended uh... change things change from our end to ellen for this uh... property so that uh... concludes the routine action portion

I'll move on to... Thank you, thank you. Hold on one second. Any questions by the board on the routine action items? All right, seeing no questions, you continue, thank you.

Moving on to the non-routine, first item is 19. It's a sign design review for the following, proposing to increase the area of electronic message unit, static sign, and also increase the number of freestanding signs. This is at a shopping center at Eastern and Silverado Ranch. Staff recommend denial because the justification was not provided for the increased number of signs. and the size of the electronic message unit was not compatible with the area. The town board recommended approval. We received seven letters in support and nine in opposition. The next item is a use permit to allow outdoor storage and display. We raised development standards to modify residential adjacency and design review. for outdoor storage and display. Staff recommend denial due to the intensity of the use and potential visual impact. Neighboring areas of the site, the town board recommended approval. Item 21, this item has been requested by the applicant to be held until September 1st, 2026 PC. The request is on the agenda for your consideration. So that's item 21. Item 22, waivers to development standards to eliminate setbacks and eliminate building separation for existing carport in conjunction with existing single-family residence. This is an active code enforcement case. Staff recommend denial. The Town Board did not meet on this, although it has been rescheduled for August 27th. We received one letter in support and three letters in opposition. Item 23, waivers of development standards to reduce setbacks, reduce building separation for existing and proposed structures in conjunction with existing single-family residents. Again, another active code enforcement case, staff recommend denial. And again, the board didn't meet. They'll be hearing this on August 27th. There were two letters in support and 11 letters in opposition. 24, waivers of development standards to eliminate and reduce setbacks and reduce building separation for existing accessory structures in conjunction with an existing single-family residence. Again, an active code enforcement case. Staff recommended denial. and the Town Board recommended approval. Items 25 through 30 are companion items for planning and development for single-family attached residential development. They are seeking reductions to the front and rear setbacks and to the minimum lot size, increased fill, retaining wall heights, and elimination of the landscape buffer. First item is 25. It's a holdover plan amendment to change the existing land use category from corridor mixed use to compact neighborhood. That's on two acres approximately, and the staff and the town board both recommend denial. There were six letters in support and 10 in opposition. Next is a zone change, holdover zone change from RS-20 to RM-18. Staff and the Town Board recommend denial. There are five letters in support and ten letters in opposition. Item 27 is a vacation and abandonment of easements of interest. A portion of right-of-way being Serene Avenue and a portion of right-of-way being Grand Canyon Drive. Staff and the Town Board recommend approval. There are six letters in support and nine in opposition. Item 28, holdover waivers of development standards for the following modified driveway geometrics, reducing the street intersection offset and the back of curb radius. Staff and the town board recommend denial on this one. 29 is the plan unit development for 26-lot single-family attached residential development. Staff and the town board recommend denial. There are eight letters in support and 10 in opposition. And then the tentative map for this project is also recommended for denial by both the staff and the town board. Next three items are companions, items 31 to 33. It's for proposed vehicle maintenance and repair use, um, along with vehicle sales. Um, these items not been heard by the town board again, because of not having quorum at the last meeting. However, they are scheduled on their agenda for August 27th. First is a plan amendment, uh, from business employment to quarter mixed use, um, staff recommended approval. The next item is the zone change from RS 3.3 to CG. The zone change is just for one of the two parcels for the site. And staff recommended approval. There was one letter received in opposition. And then finally, the use permits for vehicle maintenance and repair and vehicle sales. waivers for to reduce street landscaping, increase maximum parking, allow loading space within the front setback, and reduce throat depth. For a commercial complex on Lake Mead Boulevard, staff recommended approval of the use permit and denial of the waivers and design review. And then we had one letter in opposition. Next is items 34 through 38. And those are companion items for a single family detached development. First is the plan amendment from neighborhood commercial and corridor mixed use to low intensity suburban neighborhood and compact neighborhood on a roughly 15 acre portion of a almost 18 acre site. Staff recommended approval and the town board recommended denial. There was one letter in support, eight in opposition, and one letter were deeming it of concern. It wasn't clear whether they were for or against it, but they provided a list of their concerns. The next item is the zone change from RS-20 to an RS-10 zone and an RS-3.3 zone. The staff recommended approval and the town board recommended denial. There was one letter in support. eight in opposition, and one letter of concern. 36 was a vacation and abandonment of easements of interest. Staff recommended approval. The town board recommended denial. There was one letter in support, seven in opposition, and one letter of concern. The waivers of development standards are next. That was to increase the retaining wall height, modified residential adjacency standards, and increase the driveway entrance for private street. design review for the residential detached development on the site. Staff recommend approval of waivers two and three, and the design review and denial of the first waiver. Town board recommend denial. There was one letter in support, eight in opposition, and one letter of concern. And then finally, for this project, a tentative map for 113 single-family residential lots, common lots staff record denial because it had Didn't have to through access drives as required under subdivision requirements the town board recommend denial and there are two layers in opposition and one letter of concern and And then finally, items 39 through 41 are companion items to convert a single family residential office, residence to an office, I should say. First is the plan amendment to change the land use category from ranch estate neighborhood to neighborhood commercial. staff and the town board recommended approval. We had one letter in support and three in opposition. 40 is the zone change from RS-20 to CP, commercial professional. Staff and the town board recommended approval. There are two letters in support and two in opposition. And then the last item is waivers of development standards. This is to reduce buffering, screening, reduce the driveway width, allow attached sidewalks to remain, and modify the uniform standard drawings. and also design review for the office. Staff has recommended denial and the town board recommended approval. There were two letters in support and two in opposition.

Thank you very much. So any questions from the board on? Yes, go ahead, Commissioner Karlofsky.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have a question. Sure. I've got two items that are each separate, then I have a three-piece. companion type thing that were not heard because there was no quorum. Yet, if we hear them tonight, you want them to go back to town board? For what? I'm going to be real honest. For what? We've already made a decision. Do we send them to town board? Are they required to go to town board? How does that work?

These are the three items that include the plan amendment.

Well, we have one, number 22 and number 23 are both with setbacks, okay? And they're also on the town board agenda for the 27th, which is the next one. And then you have the one for 31, 32 and 33, which is the plan amendment zone change.

I just,

If we're gonna take action on them here, I don't understand why we're sending them back, because Town Board is going to say it's a waste of their time, it's a waste of the applicant's time. I'm just wondering what we're doing.

So Town Board controls their own agenda, so when they didn't have a quorum, I'm not sure how they were able to put something back on their agenda. But it's up to you on 22, 23, 31, 32, 33, you're not final action on that. And so the thought was that I know the County Commissioner wants to hear what Town Board has to say, but not penalize the customer since the Town Board had two meetings in a row with no quorum. So you can take action on those. You're making a recommendation. The Town Board would also make recommendation and then County Commission has final action.

The county commission is going to hear this one month from today.

31, 32, 33. Okay. That one they're going to hear one month from today.

If we hold it for town board next week and we hear it at our meeting, which is the week after that, and then BCC is two weeks later, is that an acceptable thing?

Not generally. Not what?

Huh? Not what? Not generally, no. Okay. Why? Why?

So the code reads that it needs to be the second meeting after Planning Commission.

Okay, so that makes more sense. Yeah. Okay, so we hear it and then we send it back to town board and Okay, that's what I wanted to find out. My thing was that I wanted to be able to send it to town board and then us hear it and then two weeks later at the BCC. But if that violates code, then we can't do it that way.

And the reason being is because we send out a separate notice for the county commission and so we need enough time after you act on it to ensure that it's the proper meeting date for county commission so that if you don't vote on it for two more weeks, we don't have enough time to get those notices out.

Okay, my thought was that the BCC date was not going to change. Correct.

However, if something happened, right, so we wait until we know for sure that you've taken action before we send out BCC notices.

Okay. Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Go ahead. I said thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, thank you, Commissioner Kolarski. Any other questions from the board? I think, go ahead.

uh thank you mr chair i just want to clarify on item number 41 um there's probably it's a little confusion with the write-up and what the minimum requirements are um the minimum width for the driveway is 36 feet not 24 feet and our analysis and the write-up are so i just wanted to clarify that but we met with applicant applicant is working with public works that's probably gonna be our condition we know these um transitional Pieces are hard to accommodate today's requirements. So we have been working with the applicant. The applicant is working with fire to make sure what they're okay with, then we'll be okay with as well. I just wanted to clarify though, but the minimum requirement is 36 feet, not 24. But we have been working with the applicant on that driveway.

Thank you for that, staff. I got it noted and we'll deal with it during the meeting. Any other questions from the board? All right, great staff. You guys good?

We have one other item on the agenda, item 42, and Martin's going to present that tonight.

Thank you very much. Go ahead, Mark. Good evening, Chair, members of the Commission. Martin Gies with the Advanced Planning Division. We have an ordinance for your review this evening, just a couple changes proposed to Title 30, the first being changes to Table 3003-1, which is our summary table of allowed uses. We're proposing a change to the massage use from C, conditional, to A accessory within the following zoning districts, RS 80, RS 40, CN, CP, CG, CC, CU, CR, IP, and IL. We're also proposing to change C conditional use for massage to S special use within the CG and CR districts. That would also entail amending A SPECIFIC SENTENCE WITHIN SECTION 30-03-06, WE ARE PROPOSING TO DELETE THE PHRASE THAT SHALL BE NOT WAIVED OR VARIED FROM THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. IN THE CG AND CR DISTRICTS, MASSAGE AS A PRIMARY USE SHALL REQUIRE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT City Council Chambers, As described in 30 oh 605 D and compliance with the following standards that shall not be waived or varied that that last phrasing would be deleted and that would allow a use permit to waive the you separation. City Council Chambers, distances for 200 feet for residential Jason see 1000 feet from another massage establishment, so it was just allowed to use permit to waive those those standards which today cannot be waived. The second change would also update Table 3003-1, our summary table of allowed uses. This is for communications tower uses, changing it from S, special use, to C, conditional, within all zoning districts. It would also entail adding the following language for applicable land use approval. FIRST BEING THAT TOWERS ARE PERMITTED WITHOUT A SPECIAL USE PERMIT OR ADMINISTRATIVE DESIGN REVIEW SUBJECT TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAYOUT AND DESIGN STANDARDS, WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN OUR CODE ALREADY TODAY, ONLY WHEN THE TOWER IS LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT DISPOSAL BOUNDARY. THE SECOND APPLICABLE LAND USE APPROVAL CONDITION WOULD BE THAT TOWERS ARE PERMITTED WITH AN ADMINISTRATIVE DESIGN REVIEW SUBJECT TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAYOUT AND DESIGN STANDARDS WHEN, AND THERE'S TWO CIRCUMSTANCES, FIRST BEING LOCATED ON ANY PUBLIC Or when located within a commercial or industrial zoning district or development or when the master plan plan land use map indicates a commercial industrial or open lands designation. Those standards were in our code in years prior to the title 30 rewrite. So the main change for this communication towers is going from special use permit being required in all districts to conditional and relying on some some updated versions of the conditions we had in the code previously. And that presents, that concludes my presentation. I have to answer any questions.

Thank you very much. Yes, go ahead.

So in regards to the massage thing, so if it's for medical reasons or if it's a casino or if it comes with another business, it's allowed. But if it's freestanding, they have to apply for a special use permit.

In the CG and CR districts, for massage as the primary use, that's correct. Today, they also have to still apply for a special use permit. Just those separation distances could not be waived or varied. So now... 200 feet and 1,000 feet from another one.

Perfect.

Thank you. So that just, yeah, provides some flexibility with that special use approval.

Thank you very much. Any other questions? All right. Seeing none, staff is all good. All right. Thank you very much. We will go to the last part of our meeting, which is public comment. I'll open it up for public comment.

I have some for number three. I have a question. For two, no new or upcoming ordinances. And then number three, for administrative items, I just wanted to point out, you probably noticed Roxy Pais-Avia is over there. So she's one of our newer senior planners. She's been with us a couple years, so you'll see her rotating through as a senior planner at these meetings. And then... On September 1st, so at your next meeting during the briefing, we will have the Water District come and talk to you about the water issues that you asked about. I don't know if it was two weeks ago or a month ago, but they'll be here in two weeks. And they'll come during briefing, so we'll kind of try to rush through the regular part of the agenda so we can give them as much time as you want to give them.

Thank you for that. I skipped over the agenda. I completely ignored it. Go ahead, Commissioner Mejica.

So she got promoted.

Roxy got promoted several months ago from planner to senior planner.

Congratulations, Roxy. Thank you.

All right, very good. All right, so now we'll go public comments and I'll open the floor up for public comments. The board cannot make any decisions or speak on any of the comments, but you're more than welcome to put anything on record. Seeing no one coming down, we will close public comments and we'll adjourn the briefing. Thank you.