Clark County Planning Commission Briefing - August 18, 2026
Clark County Planning Commission Briefing - August 18, 2026
The Clark County Planning Commission held a briefing on August 18, 2026, at 6:00 PM to review items on the upcoming consent and regular agendas, discuss new ordinances, and address administrative matters. No votes were taken; the briefing served to inform commissioners and the public ahead of the September 1, 2026, meeting.
Consent Calendar
- Staff presented routine action items (items 4-18) including daycares, tentative maps, use permits, vacations, and companion items for an air strip and silica mining. Most had staff and town board recommendations for approval. Item 8 (outdoor storage) was noted as leased from railroad. Letters of support and opposition were summarized.
Public Comments
- Chair opened public comment; no members of the public came forward, so the section was closed.
Discussion Items
- Non-routine items (19-41): Staff summarized each, including sign design review (item 19, staff denial, town board approval), outdoor storage (item 20, staff denial, town board approval), and several companion items for residential developments. Notably, items 21 (requested hold to Sept 1), 22-23 (active code enforcement, staff denial, town board not met), 25-30 (plan development for attached residential, staff/town board denial), 31-33 (vehicle maintenance/repair, staff approval on plan amendment/zone change but denial on waivers), 34-38 (single-family detached development, staff approval on most, town board denial), and 39-41 (office conversion, staff/town board approval for plan amendment/zone change, staff denial on waivers). Staff clarified for item 41 that the minimum driveway width is 36 feet, not 24, and applicant is working with public works and fire.
- Procedural discussion: Commissioner Kurlarsky questioned why items not heard by the town board due to no quorum (22, 23, 31-33) would need to go back to the town board. Staff explained that the county commission requires the town board's recommendation and that sending items back is necessary for proper noticing and sequencing. The code requires the planning commission's action to be followed by the town board's second meeting before the county commission date.
- Ordinance review (item 42): Martin Yeast presented proposed changes to Title 30: (1) Changing massage use from conditional to accessory in certain districts, and from conditional to special use in CG and CR districts, allowing waivers of separation distances; (2) Changing communications tower use from special use to conditional in all districts, with new conditions for permitted use without special permit when outside BLM disposal boundary, or with administrative design review in certain locations. Vice Chair Mohica clarified that standalone massage establishments would still need a special use permit in CG and CR. No vote was taken; it was a briefing item.
Key Outcomes
- The commission directed staff to proceed with scheduling items as noted. Items 22, 23, and 31-33 will be heard by the town board on August 27, then return to the planning commission on September 1.
- The planning commission will host a presentation from the water district at the September 1 briefing.
- Staff noted that Roxy Pais Avia has been promoted to Senior Planner and will rotate at briefings.
- No formal decisions were made; the briefing was informational.
Meeting Transcript
Let's get started and um roll call. Chair Fraser. Here Vice Chair Mohica. Yesterday. Present. Commissioner Stone. Here. Commissioner Kirk. Here. Commissioner Kurlarsky. Commissioner Brady. Yeah. Commission Commissioner Rotman. Excuse. I'm here. Oh, he's here. And used. Thank you very much. All right. So first item of business is public comment. Seeing no one coming out from a comment, we'll close that section. And go ahead and start coming. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the commission. We'll start with routine action items. The first is item four, which is a first application review for review for a daycare in school. This is specifically for uh waivers uh related to the trash enclosure. Uh the staff and the town board recommended approval. We received one letter in support and one in opposition. Um the item five is a tentative map, it's just a one-lot commercial map. Uh staff and the town board recommended approval. Item six is a use permit for an advocational locational training facility in conjunction with an existing commercial complex. Uh staff and the town board recommended approval. We receive five letters in support and six in opposition. Uh item seven is a use permit for vehicle wash and uh also design review for that wash. Um this was previously permitted in 1990 for um a number of things, including washing of watercraft, uh, but that will no longer be part of this um this car wash. Staff recommended approval. Um the town board did not meet, they didn't have a quorum, so we have no recommendate recommendation from the town board. Uh and then we receive one letter in support. Item eight uh is use permit for outdoor storage with a design review for those um storage areas with shade structures in conjunction with industrial site. Uh this property is leased from the railroad, but is not related to uh the uh railroad itself, it's not actually the the applicant. Um staff and the board recommended approval. Uh eight, or I'm sorry, nine is uh request to vacate and abandon easements of interest, staff and the town board recommended approval, and we had two letters in support. Item 10 um is another vacation of is of uh easements, staff and the board recommended approval, and there are two letters in support and one letter in opposition. Um items 11 through 13 are companion items, and these the this uh project is intended to facilitate a site in the searchlight area uh to be fully developed into a usable air strip. Item 11 is a plan amendment to redesignate the existing landing use category from RN to O and OL to BE on approximately 20 acres of a 37-acre site, staff and the uh town board recommended approval. There are five letters in support and two in opposition. Item 12 is the related zone zone change from RS 80 and RS 20 to IP staff and the town board recommended approval. Uh there are three letters in support and two in opposition, and then we had a tentative map for the entire site uh for one industrial lot staff and the town board recommended approval. Uh items 14 through 17 are companion items uh to be re-establish a silica mining use, which had a use permit from 1981, uh which expired and now they're doing a new uh storage structure on the site.
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