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Clark County Planning Commission Briefing – December 16, 2025

Meeting PortalTuesday, December 16, 2025
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DateTuesday, December 16, 2025
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0:10

I'm going to call the uh December 16th Planning Commission briefing to order, please.

0:16

Roll call.

0:18

Madam Churkolarski.

0:19

Here.

0:21

Vice Chair Frazier.

0:23

Commissioner Stone.

0:25

Here.

0:26

Commissioner Kirk.

0:27

Here.

0:28

Commissioner Mohica.

0:30

Present.

0:30

Commissioner Gibson.

0:32

He's excused.

0:34

Commissioner Boydman.

0:36

Present.

0:37

Thank you.

0:42

Okay.

0:43

If we can then go on to the first item, which is the presentation.

0:47

Thank you, Madam Chair.

0:49

Uh, first item on your briefing notes tonight is items for holds requests or deletions from tonight's agenda.

0:57

Item eight, UC 25068, hold per the applicant's representative until the January 20th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting.

1:06

I would advise the members of the Planning Commission that the applicant has missed the last three previous town advisory boards, and stated in the hold request letter that they would be willing to go back to the Paradise Town Advisory Board on January 13th.

1:21

However, Paradise Town Advisory Board recommended denial of that application.

1:26

It's within the Planning Commission's scope and purview if they want to remand that application back to the January 13th.

1:38

Paradise Town Advisory Board, and then we would just coordinate with agenda processing accordingly.

1:48

The reason why the applicant did not attend the Paradise Town Advisory Board meeting is there was not a representative from the office to represent the application.

2:02

Okay, thank you.

2:05

Next is going to be item 14, UC 250761.

2:10

Hold per the applicant's representative until the January 20th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting.

2:22

Item 250767.

2:27

Item 26 VS 250768.

2:32

Item 27 WS 250769 is a request by the applicant's representative to hold until the January 6th, 2026 planning commission meeting.

2:44

The corresponding Board of County Commissioners meeting date for items 24 through 27, which are companion items will change from January 21, 2026 to February 4th, 2026 Board of County Commissioners meeting.

3:00

The next items are the routine action items 4 through 12 on tonight's agenda.

3:07

Item 4 is an application for review 25400 120.

3:12

Uh WS 19618 is a waiver development standards for increased wall area, wall sign area, and a design review for wall signage, which the Winchester Town Advisory Board and staff both recommend approval with one card in support.

3:34

Is a design review first extension of time for signage in conjunction with an approved shopping center.

3:39

Both the Spring Valley Town Advisory Board and Planning Staff recommend approval of the application.

3:46

Item 6 ET 25400 119 UC UC 230514 is a use permit.

3:56

Second extension of time to allow a service bay door to face the street with waivers of development standards to eliminate screening for mechanical equipment, eliminate gate setback and reduce trash enclosure setback with a corresponding design review for an expansion of an existing vehicle repair facility.

4:13

Both the Paradise Town Advisory Board and Planning Staff recommend approval of the application.

4:19

Item 7, ET 25400121, UC 240088.

4:24

A use permit for a first extension of time for large livestock for horses with waiver development standards.

4:31

Eliminate street landscaping in conjunction with a single family residence in RS20 zoning district, Sunrise Manor Town Advisory Board recommends approval.

4:41

Staff recommends approval.

4:43

Staff receive two cards in protest.

4:44

Item 8, UC 250668 is the holdover use permit for a vehicle rental facility in conjunction with an existing shopping center.

5:00

As previously indicated, the applicant did not attend the Paradise Town Advisory Board meeting as there is not a representative, and the applicant's representative requests a hold until the January 20th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting.

5:07

Paradise Town Advisory Board recommended denial.

5:10

Staff received three cars and one letter in support.

5:12

Item 9 is vacation 250718.

5:17

Vacation and abandonment of easements to facilitate development of the site.

5:22

Lone Mountain Citizens Advisory Council and staff both recommended approval.

5:27

Staff received one card in support, two cards in protest.

5:31

Item 10, VS 250766, vacate and abandoned easements of interest to Clark County.

5:39

Enterprise Town Advisory Board and Planning Staff both recommended approval.

5:42

Staff received one letter in protest.

5:48

Items 11 and 12.

5:52

PA 257047 and zone change 250745 are companion items.

5:59

The plan amendment is to redesignate the existing land use category from public use to mid-intensity suburban neighborhood.

6:06

And the zone changes to reclassify a 0.12 acre portion of a 0.70 acre site from RS 20 to RS 3.3.

6:16

Paradise Town Advisory Board and staff recommend approval on both the plan amendment and the zone change.

6:24

Staff has received two cards in support for the PA and the zone change and one card in protest for the proposed plan amendment.

6:35

With that, Madam Chair, this concludes the routine portion briefing of tonight's agenda.

6:42

I have a question.

6:45

Okay, Commissioner Mujika.

6:47

It's a very simple question.

6:49

Why would somebody want to hold number eight?

6:51

Why would they want to hold an item that's being approved?

6:57

Applicant is not present to attend the meeting this evening.

7:03

Commissioner Mujica, and based on the applicant's hold letter, they're requesting to go back to the Paradise Town Advisory Board to make a presentation.

7:13

However, Paradise Town Advisory Board recommended denial of that application.

7:19

So ultimately, the planning commission could remand it back to the January 13th.

7:26

Paradise Town Advisory Board for the applicant to make a presentation and then come back a week later to the planning commission on January 20th.

7:34

However, you would have to make that condition.

7:38

That is uh explanation information that I have.

7:44

But he did say that he would not be here tonight.

7:47

That is correct, uh, madam chair.

7:50

Okay.

7:52

Well, I'm gonna think about that for a minute.

7:54

It's in my area, so I'm just gonna think.

8:00

Any other questions?

8:03

Okay, thank you.

8:06

Next on your agenda, Madam Chair is a non-routine action items on tonight's agenda.

8:12

Items 13 through 27.

8:15

Item 13, UC 250703 as a use permit for the following banquet facility and live entertainment in conjunction with an existing shopping center on 1.86 acres.

8:28

The Spring Valley Town Advisory Board and staff are both recommending denial of the subject application.

8:34

Staff has received three cards in protest.

8:37

Item 14, UC 250761 is a use permit for a vehicle wash facility with corresponding waivers of development standards to modify residential adjacency standards, including a design review for a vehicle wash on 3.7 acres in a commercial general zoning district.

8:56

Applicant is requesting a hold until the January 20th, 2026 planning commission meeting to engage in further dialogue with staff regarding the recommendation and possible revisions to the plans.

9:15

Staff received three cards in support and one card in protest.

9:19

Item 15 UC 25770 is a use permit for a campground and a use permit for a caretaker unit with waiver development standards for reduced setbacks and a design review for a campground facility on 2.09 acres in an RS80 zoning district within the Red Rock Overlay.

9:39

The Red Rock Citizens Advisory Council recommended approval, subject to following low lighting restrictions for the Red Rock Conservation Area.

9:48

The Red Rock Citizens Advisory Council also expressed concerns regarding light pollution, the availability of fire hydrants, left turn exits from the site that could potentially be unsafe and disturbing the existing wash located within the rear of the site.

10:03

Revised plans were submitted to planning staff on December 15th with the following changes.

10:09

The caretaker building and common building are subject to the roof pitch for both structures being revised to a one-to-one pitch.

10:18

As a result of this change, the overall height of these buildings increased from 27 feet to 27 and a half feet for the caretakers building and from 26 feet to 27.5 feet for the common building.

10:30

The small cabin and open air shade structure, which staff also received revised plans for reflector revised roof pitch of one to one.

10:40

However, no changes in the overall height were necessary for these buildings.

10:46

The applicant's representative is going to request to add the following conditions to UC 2570, with one being all lighting will be low level and soft yellow to minimize brightness, and the second condition being only smokeless fire pits will be allowed.

11:03

Staff recommends approval of the use permit and denial of the waivers of development standards and design review.

11:10

Staff has received four cards in protest.

11:14

Next item is item 16 WS 250709 holdover waiver development standards for the following.

11:39

Staff recommends approval of waiver development standards number one C in denial of waiver development standards number 1A, number 1B, number 2, and number 3.

11:50

Be advised that CE 2501972 is an active violation for zoning violations, primarily setbacks in building accessory structures, a carport without a building permit.

12:04

Item 17, WS250734 waiver development standards to allow a six foot high.

12:12

Non-decorative fence within the front setback in conjunction with an existing single family residence in an RS 5.2 zoning district.

12:20

CE 2509282 is an active code enforcement case for building without a permit.

12:29

The Paradise Town Advisory Board and Staff recommend denial.

12:34

Staff has received one card in support and eight cards in protest.

12:42

Item 18 WS 250782 waivers of development standards for the following.

12:49

Eliminate drainage study and two waive full offsite improvements in conjunction with the proposed minor subdivision.

12:56

Is important to note that items 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 are companion items on tonight's agenda and can be heard together.

13:12

Item 19, PA 257048 plan amendment to redesignate the existing land use category from entertainment mixed use to a compact neighborhood on 5.16 acres is requested in conjunction with the corresponding zone change 250763.

13:30

A zone change to reclassify a 5.03 acre portion of a 5.186 acre site from a CG commercial zone to an RS2 zone.

13:42

The corresponding vacation item 21 VS 250765 is to vacate and abandon easements of interest to Clark County to facilitate the development of the site.

13:55

Item 22 is the associated waiver development standards to eliminate a setback for a non-depressed freeway, eliminate street landscaping and eliminate and reduce landscape buffering and screening with a corresponding design review for a single family residential development and an RS2 zoning district.

14:20

Going back to item 18 with the waiver to eliminate the drainage study and the waive full offset improvements.

14:26

Enterprise Town Advisory Board recommended approval subject to amending public works bullet point number one to read as drainage study in compliance with future development and public works bullet point three to be amended to read as follows full off site improvements with future development.

14:41

The Enterprise Town Advisory Board recommends approval of both the plan amendment and the corresponding zone change, in addition to staff recommending approval of the corresponding plan amendment and zone change.

15:00

Staff has received two cards in support and five cards in protest for both the plan amendment and the zone change with two cards in support and seven cards and protest for the associated vacation and abandonment with the waiver development standards and design review requests associated with the single family residential development.

15:15

The Enterprise Town Advisory Board recommended approval of waiver development standards number one and two in denial of waiver development standards three in the design review.

15:27

The Enterprise Town Advisory Board recommended adding the following condition to the comprehensive planning preliminary staff conditions.

15:34

Establish entry and exit on the southern end of the property.

15:44

Planning staff is recommending approval of waiver development standards number one in the design review and denial of waivers of development standards number two and three.

15:56

Item 23, which is a corresponding tentative map 25500, 186, which consists of 48 single family residential lots.

16:06

Enterprise Town Advisory Board is recommended denial of the tentative map, and staff recommends approval of the corresponding tentative map.

16:19

Items 24 through 27 are companion items on tonight's agenda.

16:26

However, the applicant has requested to hold those items until the January 6, 2026 Planning Commission meeting.

16:37

At this time, Madam Chair, I would be happy to entertain any questions the members of the commission may have on the non-routine portion of the agenda.

16:44

Okay, do we have any questions from any of the commission members?

16:49

Okay, I just have one.

16:51

I went out to the site uh on item 16 because we were talking about front, the front yard landscape uh being heartscape 71 percent.

17:02

Are do are we now counting artificial grasses heartscape?

17:07

Because what I saw is cement most of this of the cement there was the driveway.

17:18

So I have great so I'm just don't know if we're now considering uh artificial turf as heartscape.

17:27

Uh Mr.

17:27

Alswing has indicated that we are not considering artificial turf is hardcape, madam chair.

17:33

Okay, then I'm just confused as to where that why they needed the uh the waiver for that.

17:39

So I'll talk with you guys later.

17:41

We'll see if you can help me figure that out.

17:44

And that would be the only thing that I would ask.

17:53

Seeing nothing, nobody else.

17:55

Let's move on to newer upcoming ordinances.

18:03

We don't have any.

18:04

What about any administrative items?

18:08

No administrative items, madam chair.

18:10

Okay, then I'm gonna open it up to public input.

18:15

If anybody would like to come down and speak, just note that we cannot take any action on any of the items.

18:22

See no one coming down.

18:24

I am going to close public comments and I will adjourn our briefing and we will see everybody at seven.

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Summary of Proceedings

Clark County Planning Commission Briefing – December 16, 2025

The Clark County Planning Commission held a briefing session on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the Commission Chambers. The meeting was chaired by Vivian Kilarski and included commissioners Edward Frasier III, Leslie Mujica, Michael Roitman, Nelson Stone, and Steve Kirk; Donnie Gibson was excused. Staff presented items on the December 16, 2025 Planning Commission agenda, including routine and non-routine action items. No public comments were received, and no new ordinances or administrative items were discussed. The meeting adjourned at 6:19 p.m.

Discussion Items

  • Staff Presentation of Agenda Items: Principal Planner Mark Donohue presented an overview of the December 16, 2025 Planning Commission agenda, noting holds requested by applicants for several items.
  • Item #8 (UC 25068 or UC 250668 – transcript discrepancy) – Vehicle Rental Facility: The applicant requested a hold until the January 20, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, citing inability to attend the Paradise Town Advisory Board (which had recommended denial). Commissioner Leslie Mujica questioned why an applicant would hold an item that staff recommends for approval. Staff clarified the applicant wished to present to the Paradise Town Advisory Board on January 13, 2026, and then return to the Planning Commission on January 20, 2026. The commission could remand the item back to the Town Advisory Board. Chair Kilarski indicated she would consider the matter.
  • Item #16 (WS 250709) – Waiver of Development Standards: Chair Kilarski inquired whether artificial grass is considered hardscape. Staff clarified that artificial turf is not considered hardscape, as per planning manager Jason Allswang. She expressed confusion about why a waiver was needed for front yard landscaping if artificial grass is not hardscape, and stated she would follow up with staff.
  • Items #14, #24-27 – Holds Requested: Item #14 (UC 250761, vehicle wash facility) was requested to be held until January 20, 2026 for further dialogue with staff. Items #24-27 (companion items) were requested to be held until January 6, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, with the corresponding Board of County Commissioners meeting date changing from January 21 to February 4, 2026.
  • Non-Routine Items (13-27): Staff provided details on various use permits, waivers, plan amendments, zone changes, and tentative maps, including recommendations from town advisory boards and staff. Key items included a campground in the Red Rock Overlay (Item #15), waiver for a fence in a front setback (Item #17), and a 48-lot single-family residential development (Items #18-23).

Key Outcomes

  • The meeting was a briefing only; no votes or formal decisions were taken.
  • The commission acknowledged the holds requested for items #8, #14, and #24-27, but no action was taken to approve or deny them.
  • Chair Kilarski noted that the briefing concluded and the regular Planning Commission meeting would follow at 7:00 p.m.
  • The meeting adjourned at 6:19 p.m.

Meeting Transcript

I'm going to call the uh December 16th Planning Commission briefing to order, please. Roll call. Madam Churkolarski. Here. Vice Chair Frazier. Commissioner Stone. Here. Commissioner Kirk. Here. Commissioner Mohica. Present. Commissioner Gibson. He's excused. Commissioner Boydman. Present. Thank you. Okay. If we can then go on to the first item, which is the presentation. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, first item on your briefing notes tonight is items for holds requests or deletions from tonight's agenda. Item eight, UC 25068, hold per the applicant's representative until the January 20th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting. I would advise the members of the Planning Commission that the applicant has missed the last three previous town advisory boards, and stated in the hold request letter that they would be willing to go back to the Paradise Town Advisory Board on January 13th. However, Paradise Town Advisory Board recommended denial of that application. It's within the Planning Commission's scope and purview if they want to remand that application back to the January 13th. Paradise Town Advisory Board, and then we would just coordinate with agenda processing accordingly. The reason why the applicant did not attend the Paradise Town Advisory Board meeting is there was not a representative from the office to represent the application. Okay, thank you. Next is going to be item 14, UC 250761. Hold per the applicant's representative until the January 20th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting. Item 250767. Item 26 VS 250768. Item 27 WS 250769 is a request by the applicant's representative to hold until the January 6th, 2026 planning commission meeting. The corresponding Board of County Commissioners meeting date for items 24 through 27, which are companion items will change from January 21, 2026 to February 4th, 2026 Board of County Commissioners meeting. The next items are the routine action items 4 through 12 on tonight's agenda. Item 4 is an application for review 25400 120. Uh WS 19618 is a waiver development standards for increased wall area, wall sign area, and a design review for wall signage, which the Winchester Town Advisory Board and staff both recommend approval with one card in support. Is a design review first extension of time for signage in conjunction with an approved shopping center. Both the Spring Valley Town Advisory Board and Planning Staff recommend approval of the application. Item 6 ET 25400 119 UC UC 230514 is a use permit. Second extension of time to allow a service bay door to face the street with waivers of development standards to eliminate screening for mechanical equipment, eliminate gate setback and reduce trash enclosure setback with a corresponding design review for an expansion of an existing vehicle repair facility. Both the Paradise Town Advisory Board and Planning Staff recommend approval of the application. Item 7, ET 25400121, UC 240088. A use permit for a first extension of time for large livestock for horses with waiver development standards. Eliminate street landscaping in conjunction with a single family residence in RS20 zoning district, Sunrise Manor Town Advisory Board recommends approval. Staff recommends approval. Staff receive two cards in protest. Item 8, UC 250668 is the holdover use permit for a vehicle rental facility in conjunction with an existing shopping center. As previously indicated, the applicant did not attend the Paradise Town Advisory Board meeting as there is not a representative, and the applicant's representative requests a hold until the January 20th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting. Paradise Town Advisory Board recommended denial. Staff received three cars and one letter in support.

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