Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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It's up here. It's up on the podium? Yeah.

OK.

Conditional use permit 26 years

Sorry about that. That was my bad. I forgot to ask your name, Matthew. Sorry. Well, your complaint will not come through this board, at least as it sits right now. So what you would need to do is contact Corey at Mr. Rice at the county and see what he would be a better. He would have a better advice than this board because we don't deal too much with that. So if it is becoming a problem, then they will definitely look into it. And I'm not sure 100% the process. And I guess we could ask legal, because I'm not 100% sure.

It's my understanding, and I missed the commissioners meeting. Sorry. I missed the commissioner's meeting when the appeal was brought up, but it's my understanding they approved it and they removed a couple of the restrictions.

No, no, no, no, no. We're talking about something completely different. You're talking about the ski resort. We're talking about.

That's what he was talking about.

No, we're talking about Thane Church's, the property he bought from, I believe it was Tachwant, and he wanted to hold weddings out there.

Okay, different part of that.

He didn't make it to our meeting in March, if I remember correctly, and I'm going to. Yeah, he was down in Round Mountain, and then he pulled his application in April. He says, or I guess you're saying that he's having events? Then we will defer that to the legal counsel and where they need to go from there.

Hearing aids. Okay.

The first step. That's the first step. I will tell you, and this is personal knowledge on my part, is this last weekend, I believe it was, him and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. They were previously my neighbors. We were invited to the event. We did not go. We had another previous event. So if that's what you're talking about, that may be what, I don't know anything beyond this last weekend. Okay, I don't know anything about that, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have anybody else that would like to speak?

I guess I need to get some hearing aids, huh?

Why do you put me on the spot?

I keep threatening, but. Okay.

Do we have anybody on Zoom?

No, wishes to do that.

Approval of the minutes. Discussion and consideration approval minutes from the May 21st because I got all caught up in reading.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, we sure did. Excuse me. Anyone agreed by the action of this Planning Commission may appeal such decision to the Elko County Board of County Commissioners within 10 days of said action. An appeal form may be obtained from the Division of Planning and Zoning located at 540 Court Street, Suite 104 in Elko. WHEN COMPLETED, RETURN THE APPEAL FORM WITH THE REQUIRED $250 FILING FEE TO THE DIVISION OF PLANNING AND ZONING WITHIN 10 CALENDAR DAY PERIOD. ALL RIGHT. NOW, APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. I THINK I'M ON TRACK. I was not here, so...

I'll make a motion to approve the meeting minutes from the May 21st, 2026 meeting as written.

Second. Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve the meeting, or approve the minutes as written. Do we have any discussion on the motion?

Scott did.

No, no, it's discussion.

He asked if there's any discussion Seeing none yes all those in favor aye aye aye I also stayed I wasn't here, but I'll prove the minutes as written Public hearing application VAR 26-004. Staff?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is an application submitted by Beth Mini Air requesting a variance for a rear yard setback reduction from 30 feet to 10 feet. in an agricultural residential district for a proposed new three-sided pole barn carport for RV storage. Location is APN 023-017-003, being lot 3 of block Q, Pleasant Valley State subdivision, as shown on the map thereof, filed in the Office of the County Recorder of Elko County, State of Nevada, on October 6, 1961, as file number 5976. BEING A PORTION OF LAND, 0.86 ACRES, MORE OR LESS IN SIZE, SITUATED IN A PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 33 NORTH, RANGE 57 EAST, MOUNT DIABLO BASIN, MERIDIAN COUNTY OF ELKO STATE OF NEVADA. THE PHYSICAL ADDRESS IS 330 SUN MOUNTAIN LANE IN SPRING CREEK. So this is a request for, as I stated, a rear yard setback reduction from 30 feet to 10 feet. They want to build a carport, a pole barn structure for covered RV storage right here. There are some existing utilities that are coming in from the, this would be the, sorry, the southeast side of the property here. Thank you, Justin. That are in the way. And then the septic, the leach field for the septic's over here. The septic tank sits over here. You can kind of see it better on this plot plan. So that's the reason for the variance request. So I'll read our proposed, our recommended conditions. We did notify the local agencies listed here and the 30 closest property owners. We didn't receive any comments from local agencies or the 30 closest owners. Recommended conditions are as follows. This variance is subject to restrictions and conditions as outlined in Elko County Code Title IV, Chapter 9, Section 5. At the time of development, the developer shall comply with all applicable provisions of the Nevada revised statutes, Elko County Code development criteria, and all local building and development requirements pertaining to the proposed residential development and agricultural residential district properties. If said property is sold in whole or otherwise conveyed to a new owner or owners, the deed of conveyance shall contain verbiage that identifies and adopts the recommendations, findings, conditions, and requirements of approval of this specific variance. And so the minimum rear yard setback shall be 10 feet as applies to the proposed. Carport, as shown on the attached site plan, drawing submitted with application VAR 26-004. And that concludes our recommended conditions. Staff does recommend approval with those conditions.

Okay. Is the applicant here and wish to speak on it? No, pretty self-explanatory. Okay. Comments by the commissioners?

Corey, or Ian, one, were any comments received back from any of the contacted agencies or the 30 closest neighbors?

What's the white building that's existing there now?

I think that's his RV.

That's what, sir? Truck body. Oh, truck body. OK. It's already moved. OK. No, I just want to make sure it wasn't a permanent structure in there. Any other comments?

Well, I feel like the only impact this would have would be to that rear neighbor. And if they are not opposed to it, then I'm certainly not opposed to it.

If you're going to speak, you need to come up to the podium. Sorry. We just can't have a yelling match back and forth. If you'll state your name, ma'am. Okay.

And Pleasant Belly does not have an association, right? Okay.

Okay. Any other questions or comments to the applicant? No. Okay. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, I make a motion to approve variance number VAR 26-004 with the staff's comments, recommendations, and findings.

I will second that motion.

Okay, I have a motion for approval of variance 26-004 and a second. Do we have any comment in reference to the motion? Comments by the public? Seeing none. All those in favor, please state by saying aye. All those opposed I also vote aye motion carries Board vacancy Review and discussion of new applicant interest in filling a Planning Commission members vacancy in consideration of to forward a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners for appointment. Corey.

Good evening. Corey Rice, local county. From Andrew to fill our vacant seats.

Mr. Chair, can I make a brief disclaimer? Yep. Okay, just on a disclosure, I've worked a couple times with Mr. Meek on some advising concerning census data a few years ago. It was in a non-compensated capacity, so for disclosure purposes, I think I can make a fair and impartial decision. Thank you.

I'm good with it. Okay, perfect. Mr. Meeks, would you like to come up and say anything to the board? Now's your opportunity. Please. And I know your name was just mentioned several times, but if you would state it again for the record. I think I missed that the first time.

Mm-hmm.

Thank you.

Excellent. Any questions for the applicant?

What is your current employment?

Currently, I am in the city of Carlin. I know GI going from GI to collar, but just for a quick background.

If there are no more questions, I don't think we need to open this up to the public, do we? Or just the motion?

Well, it's just a recommendation. Just for recommendation, but it wouldn't hurt if you opened it to the public. Okay. I'm not sure if anybody's here to speak on it.

Thank you.

Do we have anybody that would wish to comment on this potential appointment?

Okay.

Seeing none, I will open it up for a... Motion.

I will make a motion to forward the board application of Andrew Meek to the county commissioners with a recommendation for approval. If that meets with everybody's.

I second.

Okay.

We have a motion and a second. We're moving this on to the commissioners. So for approval. Any comment in reference to the motion? Seeing none. All those in favor, please state by stating aye. Aye. All those opposed? I also state aye. Thank you, Mr. Meeks. Appreciate it. Okay. Staff's update and Commissioner's comments. This time is devoted to comments by the Elk Valley Commission and or county staff for general information or update purposes. No action may be taken upon a matter raised under the item on the agenda until the matter itself has been specifically included on a successive agenda and identified as an action item. Corey.

Can I ask a question, Corey, real quick before you sit down? Just going back to this Thane Church thing, just for clarity, what are we looking at on timetable for a potential report back to us? Is it a 30-, 60-day investigation period? Thank you.

Real quick, a couple of meetings ago, this body received a bunch of variance applications that had to do with buildings that were too close together that also weren't required to be permitted. THERE WAS A CONFLICT OF OPINION AMONG STAFF. I BELIEVE THERE WAS SOME INSTRUCTION TO LOOK INTO IT. WITHIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER THAT WE DID IDENTIFY WHERE THE CONFLICT IN THE LANGUAGE IS AND THE WAY TO REMEDY. I SUBMITTED A DRAFT OF of a change in the Elko County code to Corey, we just need to finalize the language and get it on an agenda before this body for approval to the County Commission to amend the Elko County code to kind of just solve the issue and to where these folks aren't having to submit so many variance applications.

Nice. We kind of knew that was going to happen, didn't we, Corey? We're going to clean up a lot of this stuff over the next few years. I'm glad to see it taking place. Excellent.

Excellent.

Ian, do you have anything? One final update. I think that, so on that Don Knight appeal, red tag appeal that we had on the agenda in March, it may have been in February and March, but I think the final action taken in March was that it would be revisited by this board six months after a A boundary line adjustment or application was received by our department. And so we did receive that boundary line adjustment application in the last week or two or so. So just an update on that. That's all. Perfect.

Good. I'm glad that's moving forward. Any comments by staff?

No.

No? All right. Comments by the general public. I'll read it again. Pursuant to NRS 241, this time is devoted to comments by the general public. If any in discussion of those comments, no action item may be taken upon a matter raised under this item on the agenda till the matter itself has been specifically included on a successive agenda and identified to be an action item. If anybody wants to know about my previous reading of the comments by the general public, they can refer to my first comments by the general public. Anybody comment? Nope. All right. We will adjourn.