The Las Vegas Recommending Committee convened on August 4, 2025, at 4:59 PM UTC. The meeting covered several agenda items, including a public comment period, approval of minutes, and action on four bills. Notable actions included the striking of two bills, approval of ordinances related to e-bikes/e-scooters, pet shop regulations, and updates to development codes. The meeting also included a brief period for citizen participation.
Good morning. We are calling to order our recommending committee for August 4th, 2025. We are now in order. And I will ask for our compliance with the open meeting law. You are in compliance. Thank you very much. Item number three is public comment. Comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action. If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record. Hearing and seeing none, we'll move on to item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the July 14th, 2025 recommending committee meeting. I'll entertain a motion. Move to approve. There's a motion, please vote. And post. Those minutes are approved. Moving on to item number five, bill number 2025-13. This is an abeyance item. For possible action amends various provisions of LVMC Title 7 related to the regulation of pet shops, including requirements for animal enclosures and housing, disease control and quarrant quarantine of animals with a communicable disease and warranties for the sale of dogs under 12 months of age. This is sponsored by Councilwoman Victoria Seaman. So I would like to obey this. I'm a no. Strike. Strike it from the record. Okay, there's a motion to strike. Please vote. Sorry. And post. And that bill has been stricken. And item number six, bill number 2025-14, abeyance item for possible action amends provisions of LVMC Title 7 related to the penalties for violations of various provisions of LVMC Title VII and prohibit newly licensed pet shops from selling dogs, cats, rabbits, or pot-bellied pigs. This is sponsored by Councilwoman Nancy Bruney and Mayor Shelley Berkeley, and I believe this has a request to be stricken as well, which will be my motion. And post. On pages five and eight, we clarified that the new provisions in the bill will be prosecuted only as civil infractions, which is also how the county handles these violations. And on page nine, we added an effective date of October 1st, 2025, which lines up with the county's effective date. Very good. Thank you so much. And I have learned a lot about e-bikes and scooters over the course of the last month. I'm grateful that Councilwoman Bruni brought this forward. It seems like there's lots of opportunity for improvements within Southern Nevada. There are representatives, I believe, from Metro and our Department of Public Safety. If they want to come forward, I'll give them the time. But you don't have to. Just in case you want to. Well, why not? I just uh for the record, uh Jason Potts, Chief Department of Public Safety City of Las Vegas. Um we we're in support of this ordinance. Um, obviously uh with e-bikes and e-scooters e-scooters, there's uh a safety consideration. Um these bikes and scooters go pretty fast and it it causes issues uh in our parks, uh not to mention there's potential for damage of our grass in our parks uh and those kind of things. So uh we're in support. So just wanted to put that on record. Thank you very much, Chief.