Clark County Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

All right, so we're on the air. We're going to go ahead and open up this public hearing for the meeting, Clark County Planning Commission meeting for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026. And so we'll start first with our roll call, please.

Yeah. Chairman Frazier? Here.

Vice Chair Mohica? She'll be on the line.

I'm here. Can you hear me?

Yes. Commissioner Stone? Here. Commissioner Kirk. Here. Commissioner Kolarski.

Here.

Commissioner Brady. Here.

Commissioner Reutemann. Live and in person. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. Thank you. So can you rise and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands,

All right.

First item on our agenda is public comments. This is a section of our meeting. We open up to the public. You're welcome to come down and make comments. The commission cannot act or make any comments on your public comments. It can be on any issue. Now's the time to come down and do that. All right, seeing no one coming down for public comments, we'll close that section of the public hearing and we'll start with the first agenda item.

Good evening, everyone. The next item on the agenda is approval of the agenda after any additions, holds, or deletions. At this time, we have the following requests. Delete from the June 2nd, 2026 Planning Commission meeting to be heard at the June 3rd, 2026 Board of County Commissioners meeting per staff. is item number 11, DR260236. For the applicant's information, additional re-notification fees may be required in accordance with Title 30 for items held or deleted, or if there are modifications to the original application. The above public hearing items are going to be open as a public hearing and immediately recess until the date previously stated. This is for item 11. If there are no requests by the Planning Commission or any members of the public, the agenda stands ready for your approval.

So I'll then attend a motion for approval of the agenda.

If there's nothing further from any member of the Board, I'll move that we approve the agenda with the deleting item number 11.

Thank you. There's a motion on the floor for approval of the agenda. Cast your vote.

Commissioner Mojica, yes.

Thank you, Commissioner. That motion passes. Next item.

The next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes. There are no Planning Commission briefing and regular meeting minutes for tonight's meeting. For the audience's information, items on tonight's agenda are final action unless appealed to the Board of the County Commissioners or otherwise announced. All appeals must be filed in writing to the Comprehensive Planning Department by five o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, June 10th, 2026, and any appeals from tonight's meeting will be heard by the Board of County Commissioners on Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 at nine a.m. in these chambers per title 30 an agreed person may appeal an item an agreed person includes the applicant someone who attended this meeting in person or through an authorized representative or someone who has submitted comments and writing which may include a person include a postcard or letter members in the audience must complete the meeting sign-in sheet found at the entrance of the chambers as well as near the dais to confirm their attendance at this meeting mailed notices of appealed applications will be sent to the property owners within the same notification radius as the original application and to those listed on the meeting sign-in sheet. Additionally, any person may call the comprehensive planning department at 702-455-4314 or go to the county's meeting agenda webpage and review the meeting notice of final action to find out if any items have been appealed. Next are the routine action items, which consist of items four through 12. Except those items that were previously deleted, these items may be considered together in one motion and are subject to the conditions listed with each agenda item. If there are no objections, the public hearing is now open and the routine action portion of the agenda stands ready for approval.

Thank you very much. So this is a section of the meeting where we're going to approve the routine action items, that is items four through 12, It will be all in one vote unless someone wants to have an item removed to be heard separately. And so if you want an item removed, now's the time to come down and ask for that. So pick up the mic, give me your name and address for the record and tell us which item you'd like for us to pull.

Hi, my name is Rachel Park. My address is 6850 Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89146. I request to remove the item number nine, UC 260229, be removed from the consent agenda to be heard, please.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

All right, anyone else wanna have any other items removed from the consent agenda? Okay, so we're about to approve, again, items four through 12, except for we're gonna hear number nine, and number 11 has been deleted. So I'll entertain a motion for approval.

Mr. Chairman, I'll move that we approve items four through 12, with the exception of item 11, which had been deleted, and item nine, which will be heard separately.

Thank you. There's a motion on the floor. Cash to vote. Vice Chair Mojica?

Yes.

That motion passes. Thank you. Next item.

This is final action unless appealed. We're going to go ahead and hear item number nine now. So item number nine is UC 260229, use permit for household pets in conjunction with a proposed recreational or entertainment facility within an existing shopping center on 1.67 acres in a CG commercial general zone generally located east of Rainbow Boulevard and north of Spring Mountain Road within Spring Valley.

Thank you very much. Your applicant for number nine?

Hello, yes, my name is Marco Salvador. I'm residing at 10931, Terrazzo Place, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89138. Yes, I am one of the applicants.

Thank you. Tom, tell us about your application.

I do have a presentation here.

That's fine. If it looks good to you, it looks good to us.

Good evening, Commissioners. My name is Mark Salvador. I'm here with my wife, Maria Salvador, also co-applicant of this application for a special use permit, APR 25102093 for the location 6870 Spring Mountain Road, Suite 9. First of all, thank you for this opportunity, for hearing us out. And to hear us out, that's something that we believe that could contribute to this community. So what is our business all about?

I think if you leave it like that, we'll get staff to... They'll zoom in. Yeah, thank you.

So the business is called Cat & Koi Lounge, and what is this business all about? It is a supervised animal interaction and relaxation space, hoping to give the guests a calm and cafe-style lounge where guests... Spend structured time session with resident cats. So guests purchase 30, 60, 90 minute time session and staff will always be there to guide. We are not a shelter. We are not a pet store. We are not a boarding kennel. We are a recreational and entertainment facility with household pets. For those who are not familiar with the concept, let me give you some briefing. So Cat Cafe concept, it is a proven global concept. It started back in 1998 in Taiwan. It jumped to Japan in 2014, where it is over-popularized. And back in 2014, it first Cat Cafe has been established in Oakland, California. Right now, we have 200-plus cat cafe around the states. To give you a more concrete idea what's this all about, this is what is something we are trying to bring in this county. This is only a brief short. So you can see it's a lounge where one can study, read, and interact with cats. Okay, and just to point out, again, there are different cat cafes, thriving cat cafe already across America. There's Crumbs and Whiskers in Washington, LA. There's one in New York. There's one in Denver. Actually, we do have two here in town. Las Vegas has two cat cafe, but under the jurisdiction of city of Las Vegas, not in Clark County. Again, I want to emphasize enough that this is a precedent cat cafe in Long Rainbow Boulevard. This is a Hearts Alive cat cafe, which is still operational right now, and immediately next door, Calabasha African Kitchen, meaning next to a food establishment. Here is just a map of different cat cafes across America. Again, we have two here in town, but none at Clark County. So we are here mainly for this one special use permit that we are respectfully requesting. We are requesting to allow us to keep a maximum of 18 household cats on site in a commercial general CG zone not associated with residential development. Because under Clark County Code 30, Title 30.3.4.8.11, household pets in CG zones are conditionally permitted only in conjunction with residential development. And because Cat & Koi Lounge is a stand-alone commercial use with no residential component, a special use permit is required. And this has been coordinated with Clark County Animal Control already. In fact, Clark County Animal Control would allow us to have 10 cats with their fancier permit. However, we want 18 cats. And I'll explain why later, why 18. And at this point, I want to clarify why household pets. So household pet is something that provided or advised by the planning planners from the zoning committee just to emphasize that we are not keeping anything exotic or wild. For the purpose of this permit, this is essentially domesticate household cats. why 18 cats essentially is to support animal welfare rotation model. Having 18 cats would allow us to have six to eight cats, resting cats, and at the same time, 10 to 12 active cats interacting with the guests. That's why the 18 number. And this number is not something that we just guessed. This is something backed up by a peer-reviewed science. So back in 2025, there's a study conducted inside an operating cat cafe found that Cats consistently retreated to a cat-only room during high occupancy period. So authors specifically called for a private rest areas and available to guests, exactly what our 18 cat rotation model provides. I want to also briefly talk to you about our space. It's only 1,200 square feet rectangular functional zone. There will be a reception area, cat interaction area, a quiet study area, cat care or staff room area where guests cannot come in and a restroom support. This will be the floor plan. This will be our envisioned reception area where the guests will be briefed up. This will be our envisioned cat interaction area where people will interact with the cats. This is a study area, quiet area. There will be a digital koi pond, hence cat and koi, where people can relax, read, and study. And this is a cat care only for staff and for cats area. And this is how we run, quickly, our workflow. It is a timed session again. It's 30, 60, 90 minutes. Again, staff members always present. Children under six is not allowed. No outside footwear, no outside food. Hand sanitizers are provided all over. And I'll discuss later in more depth about sanitation and animal welfare. I want to raise two common misconceptions or concerns. Concern number one, sanitation near food establishment and animal welfare. For sanitation piece, I just want to point out that the prior tenant of this Suite 9 is Puppy Town, a dog and puppy retail store. They operated at exact address with nine from 2018 to 2025, November 2025. So, they're relocated to a Sahara address now, still at Clark County. The food establishment on both sides operated throughout all those seven years. As far as we know, seven health incidents attributed to this pet store. So we are proposing a cleaner, a better ventilated, professionally managed operation. If the neighboring restaurants or neighbors drive beside Papi Town for seven years, I believe there's no objective basis for sanitation objection here. And regarding animal welfare, again, this is not a pet store or a breeding facility. These cats will be treated and protected as the companion they are. Animal welfare is the founding value of the business, not an afterthought. As you can see, this is the picture. This was taken in 2024. The puppy town was there. Beside it is a hot pot restaurant. Beside it is a bakery. Next to it is a pineapple cafe. So up to this point, they are still operational. Again, puppy town was the previous tenant. It was a dog who was occupying, and this time we just want to change it to a cat. I want to discuss our five-layer sanitation system because we want to make sure that everyone is comfortable. Number one, layer one, we have dedicated exhaust ventilation. Our enclosed litter room is connected to a dedicated exhaust duct in our TI plan. Air flows outward and upward, never into the guest spaces or neighboring units. Layer two, we are going to utilize automatic self-cleaning litter boxes, meaning all litter boxes are automated. Every use triggers an immediate scooping cycle. Waste is sealed into a closed drawer. No open waste is ever visible to gas area. Layer three, we are going to utilize HEPA rated air purifiers and enzymatic deodorizers that continuously run throughout the lounge. Layer four, again, we won't allow any outside footwear or outside food. And layer five, we do have waste disposal protocol. We have coordinated and affirmed this with our public service that cat litter is a regular non-toxic municipal waste only. There's no need for extra or additional preparation to trash it. However, we're still going to decide to double bag it just for added precaution. Also, if I may add, both owners, me and Maria, are an active licensed nurse practitioner. Why? Why does it matter? Because meaning public health and infection control and hygiene is something integrated in us when we're planning with this project. This is the envisioned cat litter, cat care area. As you can see, we're going to utilize automatic litter boxes connected to vent system. And then HEPA air purifiers will be all over the lounge. This is just to show that on the right side that, again, it's connected to the exhaust outside. The air is going to go outside and upward. Regarding our cats, we're assuring, I'm sorry.

Yeah, just let me finish looking at this.

Thank you. How about our cats? Again, we do have fire and evacuation protocols. Cat carriers are stored on-site all the time. 24-7 security cameras will be utilized. We do have staff close of day protocol with a checklist just to make sure all cats are counted, including their water and food statuses. And these protocols are in line with industry's best practice and benchmark, including the crumbs and whisker, or even PetSmart. Again, we have written emergency plans, care storage, veterinary contact, and evacuation assignments. For the next couple of slides, I'm almost done. For the next couple of slides, I would like to highlight the benefit it would bring our community. There are actually four benefits that this business could bring. Number one, it has a positive or it could bring something good for the Las Vegas family, the individual, and the community. For Las Vegas family, actually let me step back and step back from the technical attributes or arguments and talk to you as a father. Me and Maria has three kids. They're six, 10, and 12. We're always looking for a family-oriented wholesome attraction here in town, here in Chinatown. We're running out of ideas. We've been to different places. Chinatown has many things to offer, including marijuana dispensary, vape shop, hookah bars, oversaturated boba or matcha teas, Korean-Japanese barbecue, club machines, arcade, indoor golf, pickleball, indoor playgrounds, but none of these can offer a 10-year-old kid interacting with a cat. None of this can have a teenager decompress during the study, and none of this could give an elderly who cannot have a pet in their residence, perhaps. And this is the place where he or she can have that experience. So again, we want to contribute something positive to the community by adding a wholesome family-oriented attraction. Number two, as a man of science, I want to highlight what's the benefit it could bring to an individual, the cat therapy itself. According to study, it could lower down cortisol, or that's the stress hormone. Within minutes, according to National Library of Medicine, multiple peer-reviewed study confirmed interacting with cat lowers cortisol level. It could increase oxytocin level, or love hormone. So according to a 2022 Japanese study, 10 minutes of feline interaction significantly increased oxygen level that actually lowers down your stress, depression, and anxiety. According to Mental Health Foundation and Cats Protection, 600 people found 87% of cat owners reported to have a positive impact on well-being. And according to Harvard Medical School, feline interaction could lower down blood pressure. Number three, we are fully aware that there are 200 cats awaiting for adoption here in Clark County area. And Clark County has released three million emergency fund for the expansion based on our research to increase cat intake up to 25%. By doing this cat and koi business, we're planning to have an adoption partnership plan with different foundation like Animal Foundation and Local Rescue to promote adoption. We believe that adoption doesn't occur by looking at a website with a picture of a cat. Adoption occurs if someone could feel a cat coming to him or her and the actual petting of the cat could actually promote that adoption. And then our proceeds also, we plan to share it with these nonprofit organizations. Lastly, for Spring Mountain Road, we believe Cat and Coy Lounge is positioned to generate cross-traffic and economic activity that extends beyond our 1,200 square feet. Our guests will book a 60-90-minute session. They will arrive early or some will stay late. They're going to eat at the neighboring restaurant, shop at the local market, and explore the corridor. So a customer becomes a corridor's customers. Number two, Las Vegas tourist seek authentic non-casino experience. A Japanese-Korea-inspired cat cafe on Spring Mountain Road is uniquely marketable. We think this will be an Instagramable destination that will put this corridor on tourist itineraries. Jobs and local spending. We will generate two to four full-time equivalent job at opening. We will support local vendor relationship for food supply and cleaning services. There would be event private bookings and membership that will create steady recurring revenue. And then again, daytime and evening food traffic would be generated with this. Lastly, just want to talk to you not as a business entity, but as who we are. Again, we are healthcare professionals. If sanitation is one of the concern, we are telling you that we are having a rigorous sanitation plan to implement this project. We are just starting small family business. We are not outside investors. We are a Filipino-American family and we choose this community who lives in it. We are very thankful for this community and we want to give something back to this community. Before we ask, before I tell you my final ask, again, I believe I've explained to you in detail our business plan, our thriving business plan, the science behind it, the benefits of it, and our mitigation plans for different issues. And with this, we, with deep respect and humility, seek for your support for this approval of SUP. Thank you.

Thank you very much. All right. So thank you for that presentation. And so now we'll open this application up for a public hearing. And so now's the time. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this item? Now's the time to come down and do so. You can just have a seat. That's fine. And just so the record is clear, name and address again and then tell us your comments.

I'm Rachel Park again. I'm from 6850 Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89146. I'm the property manager of the Koreatown. I am here for just a little bit of concerning about their business model. And before I prepare, while I'm here, his presentation, I have some question again, so I brought it up again first. So he showed one of the cat cafes, which is located in the city of Las Vegas. It's under animal rescue organization. One of them is from... You can see in the file that the Barbara Boyd, who is from House of Second Chances Animal Rescue, it's under their organization. One of the cat cafes is like a rescue under their organization. So most of the cat cafe or animal cafe is non-profit right now in the city of Las Vegas. So I wanna point that one. And another one is he told that the Nextdoor restaurant, when the pet store was there, they don't have any issue. They have a lot of struggling because of Nextdoor is pet store. And then they sold the pet, which was illegal. It was not illegal at the first time. But then by the Clark County code, we cannot sell any pet. So they are struggling because of the illegal issue, and then the next door restaurant and bakery cafe had a lot of issue about the sanitation, ventilation, because they try hard. I know that. But then the pet store, they try hard, but they were not the professional. as an animal rescue or animal sanitation. So they were kind of struggling next door. I want to point that. So my concern, so more than 120 individuals signed a petition to deny the application for a special use. as in the file submitted by Cat and Koi Lounge. As the property manager of Koreatown Plaza, I have a concern about how Cat and Koi Lounge intend to operate its business, remain in full compliance with application regulation, and ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the cats in its care. First, under Clark County Code, a maximum of 10 CAD is allowed. The applicant is requested 18 CAD. Why would 10 CAD, which are allowed by the law, not be enough? Because there should be a reason making a code, making a law. All the professionals are going to have a research and everything, and then they made a decision. The maximum of the 10 CAD is enough.

Please continue.

Okay. So I am also concerning about whether the applicant have any experience operating this type of business relating animal business. And second, Clark County Animal Control Condition koi lounge as follow in the agenda you can see no sales no breeding or transfer of animals allowed also no animals will be replaced or substituted for animals listed without prior authorization However, the applicant stated that they need 18 cats to improve adoption opportunities. So how many cats do they ultimately plan to adopt or how long do they intend to keep those adopted cat and then like five year, ten year, or rest of their life? Or after five year or ten year, what will they do with this adopted cat? So I'm concerning about that too. And also third, this is the applicant business. And they need to make a profit. I'm concerned about how they intend to make money from cats that cannot be sold, just keep for the rest of their life. They have to take care of it. Vaccination, they have to bring the cat to the vet too. And then, especially if they plan to keep them for a long period of time. Also, where will this cat come from? Are they rescue cat, customer owned cat, or cats from breather? So the source of the cat is like, it's concerning too. Fourth, the applicant is proposing 18 cat and 26 to 32 people in 1200 square foot. They assert that 18 cats are needed to improve cat welfare rotation. However, as you see in the letter from the director of the animal rescue, she submitted a letter to the commission stating that 10 cats would be better than 18 cats for welfare purpose because cats are very territorial. and may become extremely stressful if 18 kids are kept in one space regardless of the size of the space, but 12 square feet is like too small. It will not be completely for them. Restroom, the staff area, litter area, and reception, locker, you see all the plan, right? So... So also, can the public clarify actual usable secure footage of the cat interaction area, which is zone two? The entire travel script will not even available for the cat. I mentioned it before, so. Lately, if customer-owned cats will be allowed in the facility, a system for the vaccination verification, disease prevention, and animal health monitoring will be necessary. Who will be responsible every single day operation environment? In addition, the application provides limited information regarding the ventilation. He showed the automatic ventilator box, but it's only in Zone 4. What about Zone 1, 2, 3, and 5? We need a special ventilation for 26 to 32 people with 18 cats, cats' welfare, the people who visit there, and then all the public health and safety and not... So we need a ventilation plan for everywhere for that facility. Also, how will be the ventilation system protect neighboring restaurant and next door bakery cafe? So this is all the concerning that I have from the application and then the last time hearing and agenda. So I respectfully request that the applicant clarify these concerns. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much. Anyone else in the audience like to speak on this item? Seeing no one else coming down, we're going to close the public hearing. I'm going to open it up to commissioners for comments. I'll start with Commissioner Brady.

Well, I actually had a question. Were you the property manager for this location?

Just for the record, can you just please come right down? Sorry. Just so we can have the record clear. And I need name and address.

Rachel Park, 6850 Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89146. I'm property manager for 6850. They're going to be located 6870.

Okay, so it's one of the stores. Yes, yes. Okay, thank you. That's what I just wanted to understand.

Any other questions for the... But you're not the property manager for this location?

No, I'm for the 6850 right next door, in between 6870 and 6820.

The landlord has accepted this use. Maybe that's a question for the applicant. You don't represent the landlord for this property?

No, I represent another landlord in between 6870 and 6820, and then I'm in 6850.

All right. Sorry, Commissioner Brady, would you continue? Okay, no. So is that the bakery?

Bakery is the tenant of the 6870 as well, but then bakery located inside 6850 as well.

Okay, sorry, and I just wanted to understand that a little bit. And then, all right, I'm done with questions with you. I just wanted to figure that, but I do have a couple of questions for the applicant. For sure. Thank you, ma'am.

You're welcome.

All right, so we get the applicant to come back up. Yes, 100%, both can come down. I need both names and address for the record.

Hello, Commissioners. My name is Maria Salvador, 10931 Terra Azul Place, Las Vegas, Nevada.

And Mark Salvador again at 10931 Terra Azul Place, Las Vegas, Nevada, 8913.

Thank you.

Commissioner Sass, I have a few questions for you. Go ahead, Commissioner Murray. So this was originally Puppy Town, is what it was before?

Yes.

Okay.

According to our Realtor, which he double-checked with the property of that whole building, the Papi Town tribe there for about seven years? Seven years. We actually went there before. We've been there before. And according to the Realtor, why would that be a question when they tribe for six, seven years when there's no...

That's fine. You answered the question.

Yeah, so then just... The only thing I saw is, like, in the drawing, the ventilation part of it. There's a hole in ventilation that probably helps the place smell better inside and ventilates, keeps the air flow. Someone like me, I'm allergic to cats, so that would save me if I were to go there. But I just... Is there going to be cat boarding as well in this location or is it strictly it's the same cats all the time?

Yes, these are the same cats all the time and we'll hire cat attendants slash groomer who are going to care for them at least for their grooming, feeding.

Okay, then my only, I guess I'm gonna just make a statement and then overall I'm fine with that, with this whole entire thing. It's just the air ventilation part of it, cycling the air and putting it outside if there's some type of air filtration or something like that. So people like me who are allergic to cats.

In this presentation, I'm sorry. In this presentation, I only highlight the cat care room, but all over the lounge has a ventilation system that's going outside. That's number one. And number two, we are utilizing the air purifiers as well inside in every part of the room.

Okay. That's all the questions I have. Thank you.

Commissioner Kowalski?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sorry. I'm not quite certain what I'm looking at. A lounge? We have dog parks, so I guess having a cat park, and that's essentially what this could be called, would be the same thing. This is new to me. I have never heard about it, okay? Let me get my thoughts going, please, because I tend to forget. So I'm really kind of confused on what exactly we have here. In reading our back-up material, it sounds like this could be a place for adoptions, but yet I didn't see that in your presentation. But it's written here that that's, I guess, your intent down the road. Not quite certain. So that I would like to have addressed. Now you're talking grooming. Well, that's a whole other use, and I don't know if that requires a whole other use permit. Because grooming, I think, isn't that something different? That's a different business?

Well, we would consider it basically accessory if there's an attendant coming in to just groom the cats so that they're clean for the patrons. We view the facility as more of a recreational facility.

Well, that's why I was asking if they need another permit because now they're talking grooming and that I think is a separate use.

I think there's just a groomer coming in to groom the cats. They're not offering grooming services to the public, correct?

Just that we want to make sure that cats are taken care of. It's like a staff in our lounge.

And that's fine. That was the question I had, so I wanted just to make sure that I had the right answer. So thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. What are your hours of operation that you're looking at doing this? It's 10 to 7. 10 to 7? Okay. And... I saw where you had the three, six to 12, and then 12 to 18, and the number of cats. Why is staff okay with going up to 18 is my question, rather than what's allowed? Usually we don't do that.

Well, code says any dogs or cats shall be in conjunction with a residential development. So we view it as they're not even allowed to have any because it's not with a residence. So they're asking for the 18 because that's what they basically want.

Okay, but according to Ms. Park, she said that somewhere in code it said 10.

No, not for us. Our use table says... Any dogs or cats will be in conjunction with residential development. So we wrote the staff report as where none are allowed because it's not with a house.

Okay. And right now that's all I can, that's all I have, but I may have more.

So let's go to Vice Chair Mojica online.

Any questions?

I'm sorry?

It's her area.

Okay, all right. So we won't go to Vice Chair Mojica online. Let's go to Commissioner Raisman.

This is for staff. So if we approve the use permit, there's gotta be like animal control or some other folks around here that are gonna make sure that things are operating safely for these animals and stuff like that? That's not our job. That's correct. Okay. We don't even need to condition that because that's going to be part of the overall plan is that these cats will...

Right. We have an advisory in the staff report to have compliance with Title 10 of the county code and policies and procedures for animal protection services are required.

I'll say I am okay with this, right, Mia? And I might suggest that there be a year review. But other than that, I don't see a problem with it if this is the business model and they want to get going on it. And again, I don't think it's really our role here to determine that these cats are going to be safe and things are going to be taken care of because that's going to be animal control. which will have some jurisdiction over this. Is that just for, that's confirmed, right? Okay, cool, thank you.

I think animal control and health district. So before, Commissioner Mojica, I can make the motion, but before I do, can you just give us your comments if you have any?

Yes, I actually have several problems with this. I was contacted by a community leader who shared with me that the that there might be an issue with sale of the cats, number one. Number two, there's too many businesses that have food in that little shopping center, and there's a major concern. And I know Commissioner Kolarski also brought that up as far as the ventilation. and too many cats. And that's the other thing I don't understand. Staff just said that they said zero cats were allowed, so why was this on consent?

I guess we'll let staff answer that question.

So we consider the cat lounge, the cats are household pets. So if it's not in conjunction with the residents, then we'd say that none are allowed. So we, just from previous history of what's happened to the site, it's a commercial use. We're not going to get involved with what animal control would require. We're looking at it as... Is it compatible to the commercial center? There was a previous pet store that's been there for several years and existing restaurants, and that's why we recommended approval.

Well, again, I think there's just too many concerns with this that I'm not in support of it.

Okay, that's fair enough. I'll just give my comments and then we'll, since it's your area, we'll let you make a motion and we'll see where it goes. But I can support the application. I agree with Commissioner Workman, especially with the review period. And so I won't go into many more details than that. It looks like they're responsible for care of the cats, health district's gonna monitor them. We also have, let's see, planned adoption, we've talked about that. Yeah, I'm good with the application. So Commissioner Mohica, I'm sorry, Commissioner Weidman, one more question, yep.

Just for one clarification, so when you have a puppy town, that needs to apply for a special use permit because those are more than zero household pets in a commercial or no.

So we considered Puppy Town retail if they were selling the dogs. This is more of, this is a recreational facility. They charge an entrance fee to come in, hang out with the cats.

So how many puppies, could you have 18 puppies at Puppy Town as a retail?

I don't know that answer. You probably could have more if I'm unsure of how many dogs you could sell.

So if they were applying to sell these cats, which to be clear, there's no sales. Just tell me if I'm wrong here. There's no sales, correct?

Correct. No sales.

There's no adoption, correct?

No adoption.

No one can bring their own cats and no one can leave with a cat?

Correct. It's our resident cats. The cats will stay on site.

And the only people who are going to be coming there to do any grooming are the people who are going to come to be caring for the cats that live on site?

Correct.

Okay. And theoretically, if they were selling the cats in the same location, they would be able to have 18 cats there for sale with multiple cats rotating in and out? And they would not have to apply for a special use permit?

Theoretically, yes, if they're because it's retail.

Okay, so if they were applying to bring in 18 cats to sell, they would not require the special use permit, they would not be for us today?

Retail sales and services is a permitted use in CG Zone.

Okay, so their landlord will allow it. If they were selling the cats, it would be allowed. And the only difference here is that it's going to be the same cats living there and hanging out with kids, reading books and looking at fish? I can support this application.

Great point, Councillor. Go ahead, Commissioner Brady. And Puppytown could have also sold cats.

Sure. They call it Pettown, maybe.

All right, Commissioner Mojica, I think the board is finished. It's on you to make a motion, please.

Okay. My motion is I still feel uncomfortable due to the fact that there's a lot of food in that area, so my motion is to deny the application.

All right, thank you. There's a motion on the floor. Cast your vote. All right, that motion does not carry. I will make a motion to approve the UC 260229. Motion on the floor, cast your vote.

Excuse me, Commissioner, would you like to add the review from certificate of occupancy?

I'm sorry, thank you for that clarification. With staff, if approved conditions and adding a review period, let's give them two years.

Two years to review from CFO?

Yep.

Okay, thank you.

Motion on the floor, cast your vote.

Commissioner Mohica, no.

The motion passes. Good luck. I'm sorry, staff. Next item.

Thank you. Next item on the agenda is item number 13, UC 260142, holdover use permit for proposed Banco facility in conjunction with an existing commercial center on a portion of 1.74 acres in a CG commercial general zone generally located south of Tropicana Avenue and east of Duneville Street within Spring Valley.

Thank you.

Thank you. Name and address for the record. Tell us about your application.

Good evening, commissioners. My name is Rebecca Mahan, the owner of Wow Party Decor.

My name is James Mahan, and I'm your husband, and I live at 6877 Black Ash as well, 89148.

Thank you very much. Tell us about your application.

My application is a special permit proposed to a banquet facility. We request a business license for an event space, but it's falling into a category of a banquet hall. That's why we're here. We are within 200 feet from the residential area. That's the concern. We're here to please.

Okay, all right, so thank you for that. I will open this application up for a public hearing. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this item? Now's the time to come down and do so. Seeing no one coming down, we will close the public hearing and I'll open it up to commissioners for comments. No one, no lights on right now. Vice Chair Mojica, any comments on this application? No comments. Okay, I think Commissioner Royten is gonna have some comments and he'll take us right on.

I'm not gonna belabor the point. I think you were here a couple weeks ago and we asked you to go to the town board meeting that had already been missed or maybe ignored a couple times. I think in that meeting, I didn't check, but I think I said that I was gonna deny it maybe with prejudice and make you wait another year, but based on the recommendation of the town board, which was, I believe, to allow them to come back one more time to present, I'm going to follow that recommendation and hold this for one more month. But you are going to have to pay the refiling fees. And I really hope that you guys can get it together to make it to the town board. Because by my count, this was the third. This has been on our agenda four times. And this has been in front of town board, I think, three times. And I don't like to waste everyone's time up here, which I'm doing with this diatribe, or to waste the town board's time. So we really do respect what they're doing out there and their work. And so you're going to have to refile and you're going to have to re-notice. I think that might cost you some money. But I was very close to denying this with prejudice. And so we will hold this for another 30 days. to give them time. Is that enough time?

That's correct. We need to hold it to the July 7th Planning Commission meeting and the June 30th Town Board.

So I suggest you talk to someone in planning to make sure you have all the information you need to make this next one. If I may.

Yeah. Just before the motion is made, I just want to say, I hope that the applicant understands that the process is the process, and it's important, and we're here to help, and we wanna get you to the finish line, but you gotta go through the process, so please make town board. Okay.

And I don't mean to talk down anyone, I know life happens. I don't think you were, I'm just. Yeah, life happens to all of us, but okay. So with that, I motion to hold it for 30 days, go to town board, thank you.

There's a motion on the floor, cast your vote.

Commissioner Mojica, yes.

That motion passes. Thank you.

This is final action as appealed. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is item number 14, UC260232. This is a use permit for a proposed vehicle maintenance or repair in conjunction with an existing vehicle sales facility within an existing office warehouse complex on 4.31 acres in an IP industrial park zone within the airport environment's AE60 overlay, generally located north of Warm Springs Road and west of Buffalo Drive within Spring Valley.

I'm sorry, name and address of the record. Tell us about your application.

jonathan james 40 92 50 whitting avenue las vegas nevada 89149 i currently have a exotic dealership on this location just adding maintenance and upkeep to the facility so we can take our business to the next level all right thank you for that i i will i will open this application up for a public hearing anyone in the audience like to speak on this item all right seeing no one i will close the public hearing

and open up to commissioners for comments and questions.

One question, if you don't mind.

Go ahead, Commissioner Kolarski.

Do you do outside storage on this?

Not at all. It's just only our vehicles indoor.

Okay, thank you. I don't have any questions or comments. Vice Chair Mojica?

No comments or questions.

All right, Commissioner Raichman, you want to take us home?

So when do you plan to do the vehicle maintenance?

As soon as this is approved.

What hours during the day?

I have to get it approved with DMV as soon as I get the special use permit that I can submit to DMV.

Is there a time that we would be approving here? And is that part of the reason this was rejected by staff or denied by staff because it's too close to the residence? I imagine that's because of concerns.

That's correct. Where the lease space is located, it's 15 feet from the residential uses to the west. And we require 200 feet.

And that's mainly because of noise?

Yes, noise, odor, things that happen with vehicle maintenance places.

Can I add? Please. Okay, yeah.

Yeah, I guess the question, in my mind, is how do you plan to mitigate that?

So before Title 30, as far as I'm getting to know this process, there's a unit in my vicinity who had the repair and maintenance quite a bit down. So when this was placed in effect, now I need a special use prevent prior. I wouldn't have needed one. The back of the building is facing the residence, which is over 100 feet from the nearest actual building, and our actual building is the back of it, so vehicles won't even be anywhere close to where the residence would be. They wouldn't be able to see it or do anything, and all our maintenance will be inside the building, so...

Staff, so you're saying it's 15 feet. It looks to me like there's a street separating the back of his building from the actual homes.

Right? These are not homes.

That's a parking structure. So when you say 15 feet, it's because it's 15 feet from the parking.

Right, so from the lease space to the property line of the residential.

Can I condition on some noise mitigation? And you're going to be doing it all indoors, inside there. Can we condition on some type of noise mitigation?

Like keeping doors closed or something?

Or installing something at the back of the building?

Well, we already have noise standards that are measured at the property line. But I mean, if you want to somehow mitigate noise like required during certain activities, maybe have their garage doors closed or something, like

Yeah, and we can limit the hours?

Yes.

To daytime hours? So what was your plan of operations as far as hours?

Service is usually nine to five.

Okay, so we'll limit the service to nine to five, keep the doors closed? Okay, I'm okay with it.

I was going to say, if you wanted to add a review period, you could do that.

Yeah, and we'll review after one year. If your neighbors are complaining and stuff, maybe you come back here and we ask you to put up some of those fancy foam barriers or something.

Okay. Hopefully I own a property by then.

Okay. I motion to approve with the conditions of nine to five for the operation of the maintenance, a one-year review period, and that they make efforts to mitigate noise, including keeping the doors closed during those hours. And with those conditions, I motion to approve UC260232R. the maintenance is done inside.

All right, thank you very much. There's a motion on the floor, cast your vote. Vice Chair Mojica.

Commissioner Mojica, yes.

All right, that motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, you're welcome. Good luck, next item.

This is final action unless appealed. Next item on the agenda is item number 15, WS 260202, waivers of development standards for the following. Number one, reduce setbacks, and number two, reduce building separations for existing accessory structures in conjunction with an existing single family residence on 0.15 acres in an RS 502, residential single family 5.2 zone, generally located east of Talbot Street and south of Balboa Avenue with Winchester.

Thank you. Name and address for the record. Tell us about your application.

Carol Pareda. I'm the daughter of the property owner Alma Amaya, 1931 Balboa Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89169.

You have to tell us what you want to do.

Oh, I'm sorry. Well, we wanted to request a waiver to reduce the setback and separation requirements for RS 5.2 zone.

Do you have any photos or a floor plan of what you? Yes. Yes.

Invention, whoa, my floor plan. I also have photos.

Yeah, I'm interested in photos if other commissioners are.

You have photos?

Do I just put whatever I have here so you guys can...

Yes, ma'am. If you put them up there, the staff will...

I can line them up here? Put it on the dot.

Put it on the dot. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's the cardboard that we have there because... We're quick learners, so if you put it on the dot, then you can move to the next one. Okay. We'll stop you if we need to see it for a longer period of time.

They're a little bit mixed. Right.

Okay, next one. Okay, next one. Okay, next one. All right, no problem with me, next one. Next one. Hold that for a second.

Okay. Commissioners, if I can just kind of interject here on this particular picture. Those are the two gazebos. You'll see the wall that looks, that first wall,

The retaining wall?

That's the retaining wall, and then it goes back probably about four or five feet, and then you have the perimeter wall. I just want you to be aware that you're looking at two different walls, same property.

Yep.

So, commissioners, there's nobody looking down in their backyard? You can't?

No, because of that, but you can see the roof of the house behind them.

It's also a... Thank you.

At least five feet above grade, above their grade anyway. Sounds good. And I understand that because that's my house with the neighbor behind me.

You can put the next photo up that shows that. Okay, I'm good with pictures unless commissioners want to see some more. All right, so are you done with your presentation? Yeah, you can continue giving us photos if you want. That's fine. Show us some more. Put it on the record.

We do entertain a lot with the family. Our sheds, we store our seasonal stuff, Christmas. We have a tool shed. We like to be in the backyard. We just like to throw family parties and gatherings and stuff.

I think it's nicely done. So I'm going to open this application up for public hearing. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this item? Now's the time to come down. All right, seeing no one coming down to speak on it, I'm going to close the public hearing and open up to commissioners, and I'll start with Vice Chair Mojica online. Any questions or comments for the applicant?

Yes, I do have a question. The first set of pictures where the cars were parked, So that's the front and that's all wood, right? Yes.

It's too pergolas. We, to, you know, provide shade to the cars because we have direct sunlight and a lot of damage is getting on top of the cars, the color and stuff.

Okay. My concern was just that there's a lot of wood and I just don't know how close it is to the house and just in case of a fire. But that's just a comment I have.

Thank you very much. Any other questions? Commissioner Brady.

I'm sorry. I just want to make a couple of comments here. There's the building to the what I call southeast part of it that's right on the wall line. It looks like it's older. Was that one approved already?

Um, which one?

So let's say if you were looking at the house from the street, go all the way back to the rear, back left.

Side by side, so you could...

So shed one, is that, it's two feet from the wall? Or is that two inches from the wall?

Yes, I also have a picture if you wanna see it here, to see how it looks.

Put it side by side.

Side by side. Side by side, oh, okay, okay.

One on the right, one on the left.

The side.

That's like.

Yeah, and then I also have the back and the front of it.

One foot, not even two foot, okay. One and a half feet. And then it's one feet from the wall and that wall, and that's a wood fence.

Yeah, that's how it was when we moved in.

I'll have to tell you, that one brings concern to me. And then also, when you go to the back, to the opposite side of the backyard, in the far corner, and there is the lifted wall.

Yeah, it's the retaining wall right here.

And the distance off the back of that one between that was a high wall. All right, and then on the side of the house, what you'd call number four, number three, and number four, that's a foot and a half in between that wall.

Those are the two beds together next to your neighbor.

And have we heard anything from the neighbors on these?

No, our thing was with enforcement that we had all nothing but rocks. She fixed it up with cement, the grass, because you're not allowed to have full cement. We didn't know that. So we put the hards, one part is hardscape grass and then rock gravel. So everything got approved. And then we got another complaint about the structures. But after that, we haven't gotten surprisingly any complaints or anything.

I just want to make a comment. This is something that comes up every single time, and this is just where I always have a hard thing with, is when we start cutting into these easements and we're putting things against wall lines, and then if the neighbor wanted to do the same thing, it just... If a fire happens, this is why you jump from one wall to the next wall. This is the Chicago fire. So that's what ends up happening here.

Because we have plenty of space, I'm sorry, on the gates.

Hang on. Just one second, ma'am. This is just my concern, and I see this happening time and time again. And there's plenty of room in that backyard to build one big shed that could hold all of this. And so that's where, with me, I struggle with these type of things. I just... I... I'm someone, I can't approve it, for me, and that's just me. And so what the rest of the commissioners do, they can do. It's just that at some point, we have to say that there's easements and there's this separation created for a reason. And for me, I can't go along with this one, but it's not up to me, so.

Thank you for the comments, Commissioner Brady. I apologize, I'm losing track. Did I go to Vice Chair Mojica already?

You did, but I do have something to add. Yes, ma'am, please do. Mr. Chair, I agree with Commissioner Brady. I am extremely concerned about a fire hazard in this property.

All right, so, all right, thank you, Commissioner Mojica. I'm going to, I see no more lights, so... You know, for this particular one, I guess I'm going to try to give a little level of what my concerns are. I can support the application. However, because of the majority of the structures being wood and up against wood fences, I do have similar concerns. So I'll let Commissioner Kolarski give us what she wants to do, and then we'll make a vote.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have one question. At one time, under old code, we had a certain amount of footage that we could have for accessory structures. Is that in the new code?

It is not.

It is not. So then she could have, when you add all these sheds, she could have more than, it used to be what, 50%?

Right, I believe old code is you couldn't exceed the total number of accessory structures that were not agricultural related, could not exceed, I think it's 50% of the residents.

Okay, that was only in RS20? No, it was... Because this is an RS5, or it would be the old R1.

Sorry, commissioners, it was one accessory structure could not exceed 50% of the footprint of the house, and then the total of all accessory structures could not exceed the footprint. So the first one was one, could not be more than half the footprint of the house, and then all accessory structures added together could not exceed the total footprint of the house.

Okay, and that no longer applies because that's no longer in code. Correct. So all that information I can just throw out of my brain. Correct. Okay, thank you. Which, how many, I know the sheds in the pictures that I saw, the sheds that are behind your hardscaping, okay, they're on, as you look at your property, they'd be on your right-hand side.

Yes.

Okay. Those are made out of what?

For the Lifetime brand sheds, you know, those, I think it's plastic, these over here.

Okay. Those are made out of that. Yes. And this is?

Oh, okay. So is the one above the retaining wall.

Okay.

We were thinking about that one could go down if anything has to be removed.

So that's not the wood. No, it's not. And we're asking for the setback from the wall and from the primary structure. Those are the two waivers that I've got here. Am I correct on that, staff?

That's correct.

Okay, and what about the two, what about, then you have the gazebos, the shed in the back in the upper left-hand corner that Commissioner Brady was talking about, that's made out of wood?

No, this one right here, the one on top.

Oh, what is that made out of?

This one, it's the same brand, Lifetime, it's the plastic.

Okay, so that, okay. And what is the shed that is to be on the opposite corner of that? What's that made out of?

The opposite corner is, it's this one we have right here. That's wood.

And that's the one that's made out, that's the one that's up against the wood fence?

Yes.

Okay.

That was the first one that was in there.

You have a lot of stuff back there.

Yeah, that's mainly my brother's tool shed and stuff, because he's in the military, so he likes to, he works on cars and stuff.

Well, I don't know if I'm so much worried about the sheds creating problems with fire, but with all the stuff you have, I see the pallets, I see a lot of wood in between.

Oh, yeah, we've cleared, we've been clearing a lot of stuff that's, that's not there no more. There's quite a few, yeah, we've cleaned up, it's just...

Do you have electrical running into the sheds?

Excuse me?

Electrical?

No, no.

There's no electrical running into the sheds? No, no, no. Did you get letters of support from either the neighbor in the back or the neighbors on either side of you?

No, I didn't know. We were very new with this. We didn't know.

Because somebody has called you in on this. Oh, yes. And whether it's the neighbors on either side of you or behind you, I don't know, or across the street, I don't know.

Well, there is, this past year, a new house that got turned into an Airbnb. So everybody's saying that because my other neighbors are getting complaints about their front yard, stuff around their house as well. But ours was the main one because we only had nothing but dirt.

Okay. Yeah, it's possible that, sorry, Commissioner Kolarski, it's possible that code enforcement just made their way to that side of town right now.

Commissioner Kolarski, I have a question. Can you tell us, right, you said there were no electrical running to the sheds, but what is that nine-foot arrow pointing at? What is that? Is that a wire?

That's the nine-foot. No, I think that my brother had something hanging while he hangs his clothes or something. I don't know what. That is.

So that's not a light I'm looking at, that little black? No, leave that up there. So I'm pointing. Put that back, please. Yeah. What is that, right? Is that a light?

No, a light. No, we don't have electricity on.

Must be just by maybe it's a four by four sticking through there. Okay.

All right.

You can say there's no electrical.

No, we don't have electrical.

Thank you.

They also mentioned about like they can have somebody like the fire and safety or something go look to see if it's a fire hazard. They on the board meeting or less. It can go take a look.

Are any, like, I look at flammables, so paint, lacquer thinner, anything like that, is it, I was in wood shop in high school, and you put a whole bunch of rags with lacquer or anything like that, or chemicals together, and it can ignite?

Oh, yeah, but no, we don't, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah.

Okay, all right. Okay, these particular flammables, They have to, unfortunately, be X number of feet away from the primary residence, which is six feet. So if you can't get them, if you want to put them on the side of your house in order for them to meet that six-foot setback.

We could move them, like, yeah.

Okay, can I finish, please? Okay, and then we can see what you can do to help us, okay? Thank you. The ones on the side is the separation between the primary and the perimeter is probably about eight feet. So there's no way that, unless she moved that into the back, then you have a problem with the back because then you have your separations between the gazebos. That retaining wall, unless we put them on the top, which I don't want to do, but that retaining wall now, takes up part of their yard. So I think what I would like to do, I don't like the one on top because it oversees, and when you go up there to do whatever you do, you go and you're overseeing your neighbor. So since the building department has to go in there and make sure that it's fire rated, that it's whatever, I'm going to go ahead and move to approve sheds... The carport one and two, it's one carport, basically. They're just not attached to each other. So the carports one and two. Sheds, can you put your site plan back on again? Thank you. Sheds three and four. And one. Gazebos one and two. And you have to take down And I am going to have you do that one year to complete the building permit with an 18-month review so that they can get all that all done. Oh, wait a minute. No, that won't work. I want to do a review period, and I'm trying to look at staff to see what they're recommending, how they're recommending I do that.

I mean, we're recommending the one year. I'm not sure if that's enough time, but you can do the 18 months or two years. Okay.

I don't know, I'm gonna look to my, do we think, especially our chairman, because he's a contractor and he's.

So we could say, let's review one year after they're finished with permits.

We could do that.

Okay.

And that would be one year for the permits to be completed?

No, no, I'm not putting a time on the permits, I'm just saying one year after they're finished with permits. Yeah, permits could be six months or permits could be two months.

Then how will we know what the review period will be? How will that be notified?

All right, y'all got me too many questions.

That's the applicant's responsibility to track that. So if they don't come back for the review, then at some point if they're ever caught without having done the review five, 10, 20 years down the road, then they'll come back before you.

In other words, what you do is when you get your inspection done, you need to apply for review for one year. Am I correct?

If you're adding, if permits are required and you're adding a one-year review from the date that the permits are finalized, then yes, within one year. So she should put a note on her calendar for 11 months after that final permit. And she should apply at that point.

Yeah. So kind of what my thoughts are is because permits could take anywhere from two months, four months, six months, or whatever. If you don't put a time limit on a review, it's how he said, it's never going to come up again until they're reported again down the road. How about maybe put like a two-year check on it? So no matter what, they'll get permits done within that amount of time.

So the standard is for them to be completely done with the permits when they have code violations within one year. One year from today, done with the permits. If she's done with the permits in two months and gets her final inspection in two months, then you'll see her again 14 months from now.

All right, let's make it 18 months from now, okay?

So one year to complete building permit and... A year and a half from today for a review? Yeah, for review.

Okay. And if you don't understand that, who's your planner? J.I.?

Yes.

Yes. Jolene. Jolene. Okay. She's one of our new planners.

Jolene, yes.

Get with her, and she'll explain it perfectly. All right, there's a motion on the floor. Cast your vote.

Mr. Chair, may I ask a question, a clarification question before I vote?

Yes, please do.

And this is for staff. So permitting will confirm that there is absolutely no electrical in any of those sheds, am I correct? That's correct.

Thank you.

Then Mujica, yes.

All right, that motion carries. That motion carries, good luck. Next item.

This is final action unless appealed. Next item on the agenda is item number 16, WS260206. We have development standards to increase the proposed fence height in conjunction with the existing single family residence on 0.42 acres in an RS20 residential single family 20 zone within the neighborhood protection RNP overlay, generally located south of Arby Avenue and east of Hinson Street within Enterprise.

Thank you very much. Name and address for the record. Tell us about your application.

Hi, good evening. Jessica Lane with Proficient Patios representing the homeowners, Mr. Nick Walker. So here we are requesting today for a side setback reduction for a privacy wall, lattice wall built out of the Luma wood product, like we build a lot of the Luma wood covers. This is pretty much the final product of what the lattice wall looks like. It is with a one foot separation instead of a five foot, I believe is what's being required on this one. Going 36 feet in length and five foot in height over the existing CMU wall. So this is the existing CMU wall and it would be five foot in height over in height. Color of it is color as you see pretty much, I mean it's a similar color here, but to match the color of the wall. So color is to match the color of the wall. Main deal why the customers are asking for this is for privacy. Let's put this in the center. This is their privacy. Basically, it's for privacy from this main neighbor. They have kind of a big tree, but the tree doesn't go this length, and they're just trying to get the lattice wall to go longer into this side. So no HOA in this community. And this is the corner here.

where the lattice wall was going prior um and that's pretty much it open if you guys have any questions uh thank you very much so i'm going to open this application up for a public hearing anyone in audience like to speak on this item no okay so i will close the public hearing and open up the commissioners for questions and comments um i see a billion lights i'll start with commissioner kirk

Thank you. Is the neighbor in approval? Has a neighbor approved of this?

No, no letter. No, I don't have any signed approved from the neighbor.

Have they contacted the neighbor at all? Do you know to at least discuss with the neighbor what's being proposed?

Yeah, I'm not sure on that, Mr. Kirk.

All right, let me just...

I do know I asked if we had neighbor's signatures, but because there was no HOA, no, she didn't go for neighbor's signatures, so I believe not.

All right, I'll go next to Commissioner Kolarski. I'm gonna say that if we don't know, they had to have been notified. Were there any protest cards?

No, we did not receive any.

You didn't receive anything. I personally, I cannot support an 11 foot wall without knowing one way or another about the neighbor. And I have, I approved one one time and it was, but the neighbor was, he was absolutely thrilled to have it there. So I don't know. I, I can't do an 11 foot wall. I'm sorry.

And that's all for me. All right, thank you, Commissioner Kolarski. I'll go next to Vice Chair Mohica. Any questions or comments for the applicant?

I agree, especially if the neighbor was, it's not part of this process, but I would never approve an 11-foot wall, ever.

Thank you, Vice Chair. I have a question for the applicant. What is the height of the existing CMU wall?

Here, Commissioner. Five foot two.

I don't even know if I can, all right, five foot two. So just for the record, I mean, I could go within three feet on top of the five, so at eight foot height, that would be a no-brainer for me. I am having a problem with 11 feet, but I will defer to my fellow commissioners. I'll turn it over to Commissioner Roikman.

I think I agree with the rest of the commission that if, the neighbor was on board with this, I'd feel a lot better with a yes. But I don't think I can do that even with not knowing. What I'm willing to do is to hold this for 30 days And if you go get the neighbors to sign off on this, then I think I'm not going to say it's a yes for me. But again, if it was an eight-foot wall, I'd feel a lot better about it. Neighbor approval, I think you can definitely come back with neighbor approval and get a wall increase, just maybe not at this level. So if that works, then... Does that work?

Yeah. So I actually brought that up at the town board, not about the neighbor, but yes, we will definitely onboard with that. My question was, okay, so let me propose to my customer if we can go down to eight. And I think town board said, no, Jess, you would have to like, or staff, I don't know if you guys would know. Basically what I got from town board was that I couldn't just modify it at this point.

Let me ask that. So if she comes back in a month and say, doesn't get the neighbor's approval and then can we reduce the, I know we don't design from the dais, but can we make that reduction?

Yes, she can come back and make the reduction.

Does that work? Yeah. All right, with that, I motion to hold this for 30 days, and I encourage you to go talk to your neighbors.

All right, so the motion on the floor, cast your vote. Commissioner Mojica, yes. Thank you very much. All right, that motion passes for a hold. Thank you. Thank you.

Just for clarification, that'll be going to the July 7th Planning Commission meeting, and this is final action unless appealed. And for the last set of items for tonight's meeting, items 17, 18, 19, and 20, for current planning items, will be heard together. So that's for PA 26-700018, plan amendment to redesignate this existing land use category from neighborhood commercial and see to business employment BE on 1.24 acres, generally located north of Quail Avenue and east of Santa Margarita Street alignment within Spring Valley. ZC 260214, zone change to reclassify 1.24 acres from an RS-20 residential single family 20 zone to an IP industrial park zone, generally located north of Quail Avenue and east of Santa Margarita Street alignment within Spring Valley. VS 260216, vacant and abandoned easements of interest to Clark County located between Russell Road and Quail Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive and a portion of right away being Quail Avenue located between Rainbow Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive within Spring Valley. And last item on this set is WS260215. Waivers of development standards for the following. Number one, reduce buffering and number two, increase parking. Design review for proposed office warehouse on 1.24 acres and IP industrial park zone within the airport environment's AE60 overlay. Generally located north of Quail Avenue and east of Santa Margarita Street alignment within Spring Valley.

Thank you very much. Name and address for the record. Tell us about your application.

Good evening, Jennifer Lazovich, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here tonight on behalf of the applicant. The site is located in Green, which is just north of Quail Avenue. The two major streets just to the west of us are Rainbow and to the north is Russell. I think this is a good map to really get an idea of what is going on in reality around the site. Immediately to the north is a two-story office building and a commercial development. To the west of the site is a developed electrical substation. All of the property all the way up to our edge is owned by the Clark County Department of Aviation. The substation sits on this piece, but the entire piece is owned by the Clark County Department of Aviation. To the east of us is a community residence which has a business license to operate and to the south of us is vacant land approved for a church. Diagonal is a multi-story mini warehouse. We are asking for a plan amendment to take this property which is currently planned for neighborhood commercial and as you can see, neighborhood commercial is to the north, corridor mixed use to the east. This is where the church is to the south and to the, excuse me, that was to the west, and to the east of us is also master planned for neighborhood commercial. We are asking for a plan amendment and zone change To go to business employment, if you can scroll up just a little bit to see the full site. To go, thank you, from business employment and industrial park for the zoning. This is the site plan. We do have a little bit of an offset, if you will, right here. We worked with Public Works on the front end to... see where they would rather have our driveway given that Santa Margarita Street comes in. We have sited the building to the east of the site so that there's no activity on the east side. I would like to withdraw Waiver 1B. That would be the waiver that is reducing the landscaping on the east side. As I explained earlier, this has a house, but it is being used as a community residence. Nonetheless, it is a house. so we can comply with the landscaping on the east side. We do have a waiver to reduce the landscaping to the north. This is where that two-story office building is, and on the immediate other side of this block wall is the carport for that two-story office building. In addition, we do have a waiver to increase the number of parking spaces. We don't think that that's an inappropriate waiver given the tenant mix that we may have here. And to give you an idea of what this would look like. It really has, it's an office warehouse but we tried to give it the look of a retail building with that warehouse component and you can see that with these taller doors right here. They are not depressed docks or anything that would allow for an 18 wheeler. These are just doors that would allow for maybe a smaller box truck or a van. We had a tenant in a prior project whose business, it was a local company. Their business was that they used the office for office activity, but they used the smaller warehouse set up just like this for snacks, bulk snacks, and then their kind of van delivery trucks delivered those snacks to their customers. So those are the kinds of tenants we get in these spaces where they do have some office use but they have that need for that, what I would consider a very low intense warehouse or storage area and that's what this would bring. Town Board actually did recommend approval of the plan amendment and with that I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much. I'm gonna open these applications up for a public hearing. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this item? Seeing no one coming up, I will close the public hearing and open up to commissioners for comments, questions. Go ahead, Commissioner Kowalski.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've been looking at this, and I got briefed, and when you look at this whole thing, if you can put up the master plan, I would appreciate that. Okay, we see this. We know what we've got here. Her site will be the only industrial. We know that over here in this open land and the public, all of this is owned by the Department of Aviation, probably is not going to be residential. And putting this as an industrial land use is now just shoving that door wide open for everything to the east of that to become industrial. You have homes south of there that are large estates. I cannot in all good conscious open that door for the possibility of this to become industrial. If you were staying there and We had special use permits for projects like this, like the warehouses, that could go with a special use permit into a commercial zone. I think we'd be better off, but I think that's a cleanup thing. That's something that we need to get with our commissioners about, our board. But I do believe there are some projects that should be able to go into commercial, and they can't. They have to go into an industrial. This is gonna open it up. I cannot do that. So sorry, but you don't have my support on the plan amendment, which means that I will be voting no on the rest of them.

Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Kolarski. Before I go to Commissioner Roikman, Vice Chair Mojica, any questions, comments for the applicant? while she's getting her mic on. I'll just say that for the record, I can support the application. I see it's a tough piece. There is development to the east of it already, which kind of breaks it up a little bit. And I believe that the site plan that you provided is not intense as it relates to what's surrounding it. And I'm okay with the application.

This is Commissioner Mojica, Mr. Chair. With the removal of 1B, I can support it.

Thank you very much, Commissioner. I'm sorry, Commissioner Brady.

I came in here today actually thinking I was 100% in favor. But when you mentioned something that we always keep on talking about is spot zoning. And that is something that makes me concerned here is where this is a spot zone and it does, I agree, open up some future possibilities of what could then turn this area into something completely different. So as much as I came in here thinking I was gonna go one way, I think I'm gonna have to go the other. And I'm really, well, I'm really interested to see what you say down there at the other end, but I'm here. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Brady. Commissioner Reutemann?

I don't find this to be that much more intense than a lot of the stuff around it, including, like, the mini warehouse and the office building to the north, right? And so, understanding the concern about the spot zoning, I wonder if there... maybe this is for some of the folks who've been on here longer than I, is the concern that we're setting a precedent with this one, even though the building is not gonna be so intense, that the next one, this will be used as a justification? Is that the concern? Because even if we know that this is the site plan, and I'll pass it along in a second, then even if we put another condition on this parcel, which is you are going to do it this way with this type of light office warehouse thing does that solve some of the concerns that you say oh well yeah we did it but this doesn't mean this whole thing is going to turn industrial and i don't know i i guess this is a question for some for the rest of you yeah so if that is a question i would say you know um the way i look at it is and i think i've said this before that we look at all applications on their own merit and and

Granted, we're putting something in the site. To me, I still say there's a boundary where you see the group home parcel, you see the church, and then to the east of that is all of the other property that could be developed. And we have, as a group, the control of there's something else that comes before us that's non-conforming. If we don't want to, or if we feel it's not a good fit, we have the opportunity to say no. And I would also offer to the board that those folks that are developing land in our community, they have an idea of what the commission and what the county commission and also the planning commission for the county, what we expect and what we would like to see. So most times they're not gonna bring anything before that's unreasonable. I'll use that word. And so that's my two cents. Go ahead, Commissioner Brady, and then Commissioner Kolarski is our light back up.

I just want to throw one more thing on this. So I go there and I hear, I'm the one that used the word spot zoning everything. I do see the big power treatment there right next to it, which to me does feel industrial to me. What it comes up is later on when we're all sitting here and we say pull up the plot map and we see all the different colors and then we're going to see something that's yellow or we're going to just see the different color. And so it's going to be somehow I wish we could tag this that showed, yeah, this is yellow, but there's a way to know why it was done. And the use and what it is going to be by the image of it, I actually think it fits the area fine. is the precedence of what might go next to, and yes, we've always said we do things on its own merit, but man, that own merit really carries over from what's around it. So anyway, with that, it's gonna be interesting how I go on this one.

Yeah, I'll just, I think maybe I saw that there was a lot of this, I think maybe you stayed, oh, I apologize. Sorry, Buffy.

Oh, you're fine. And I agree with what you say about the substation. That is more of an industrial type thing. I get that. This mini warehouse goes in at a, on a commercial, okay? You're a warehouse office. So what makes it required for that to be industrial? You got a mini warehouse just south of that in a commercial zone. So why can't, why are we having to change this into an industrial? That becomes my question to staff. And I still, and I understand what you're saying, Mr. Chairman, but we got to, you know, you got to remember that we do take a look at these individually, but when we start putting bits and pieces, then we kind of lose where we're going and we just lose that whole, that whole area to whatever.

Thank you, Commissioner Kolarski. I think you bring up a good question about why what's being proposed can't go in a commercial zone. But while staff is looking that up, let's go to Commissioner Kerr.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To me, this feels a lot like an infill piece because To the south, you have a church. To the west, you have a substation, a power station. And to the north, you have a building, an office building, I think, right? Yes. And then to the east, it looks like that's a house, an old house. Group home. Group home, right? Yes. It's an infill piece. I mean, it's one of those parcels that we just, I mean, irrespective of the fact that you might say it's a spot zoning, that's kind of what infill is. It's kind of a spot zoning. We try to find something that fits in the neighborhood. that works irrespective of what the zoning says. So church, power station, group home, office building, this is not perfect for us, but I think it's the way the building's designed and what you've displayed tonight and what I heard in my briefing, I'm okay with it. I think it fits. It doesn't stick out like a sore thumb, and I think it'll work just fine where it's at, and I'm in favor.

Thank you, Commissioner Kirk. Staff, you have some comments for Commissioner Kolarski's question?

Our code says that warehouse and distribution, it's permitted in IPIL and a special use permit in IH. It is not permitted in CNCP, CG, CC, CUCR. So they would have needed to do the zone change anyway because they wanted to, they're proposing the office warehouse buildings.

Then how did the mini warehouse to the set?

Mini warehouse is... In a commercial. It's a special use permit in CG zone.

Might I just offer, I think the mini warehouse is a different type of, I think it's considered a different type of storage that then you would find in something like this that it's a business storing something, whereas in a mini warehouse it might be people who live in the surrounding areas renting a storage unit and putting their leftover furniture or Christmas decorations in. And so that's a use that's allowed in commercial. Chemicals versus no chemicals.

Like I said, I think that the product is good. I just think that we need to not do the land use change with the plan amendment, and that's where I stand. And so that makes me go with a no all the way. Thank you.

Okay, I won't ask any questions. Go ahead, Commissioner.

I appreciate the responses from the board to my questions, and I agree that we up here and hopefully future boards can have the judgment to look at what's actually there and not just say this was spot zoning. And I think the other point about the aviation zones and that there will not be a bunch of residents being built in this area. For those reasons, although I am sympathetic to the other opinions on the board, I can motion to approve the plan amendment, PA2670018.

All right, there is a motion on the floor for approval of the plan amendment, item number 17. Vice Chair Mojica?

Mojica, yes.

Okay, that motion carries. Next item.

I'd like to motion to approve items number 18, 19, and 20, ZC260214, VS260216, and WS260215 with the removal of waiver 2B.

It is waiver 1B.

With the removal of 1B as stated by the applicant.

All right, so motion on the floor, cast your vote. Vice Chair Mojica.

Mojica, yes.

All right, that motion carries. Thank you very much.

These items will be forwarded to the Board of County Commissioners meeting for final action on July 8, 2026 at 9 a.m. unless otherwise announced.

All right, next item.

Item number 21 is the agenda item. And that is for ORD 26-900-317, review and ordinance to amend Title 30 regulations as previously directed by the Board of County Commissioners. Board, and to bring regulations in alignment with the Nevada revised statutes for legal non-conforming lots, residential multifamily 18RM18 standards, cannabis special event, light manufacturing or correction to the accessible space and access design requirement, and make corrections and clarifications as appropriate, and providing for other matters properly related thereto.

Thank you very much. Do I need to open this item up for public hearing? Okay. And also, I'm sorry, the last question is, do I just need to motion that we forward this to the Board of County Commissioners?

A motion's not required. It's just for discussion and direction.

Thank you very much. So this item has been read into the records. Any questions or comments from the commissioner, the commissioner's board? Vice Chair Marjica?

No questions or comments.

All right. Thank you very much. So we'll move on to the next item, which I believe is public comments. All right. Thank you very much. So now is a section for public comments. And so section we open up for the public to come down and make comments to the board where the board cannot act on any of those comments and seeing no one rushing down. Go Knights, 5-4. So seeing no one coming down, I'll put that on the public record. Seeing no one coming down for public comments, we'll close that section and adjourn the meeting.

Thank you.