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The Apostle Paul, one of his first instructions to his protege, Timothy, was to pray for rulers and all who are in th all who are in authority that we may live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness.

And so, Lord, today we pray for all who serve in our local communities.

We pray for our mayor, our city council members, and all you've called to lead in this city.

I ask that you strengthen them with your wisdom and grace for the heavy burdens that they carry.

May they manage their teams and projects with love, keep their hearts pure, and their eyes turned toward your face as they work in the best interest of the people they are called to serve.

I ask for your blessing to be upon the proceedings today, and then all things you'll be glorified.

I pray these things in Jesus' name, and everybody said, Amen.

Please lead us in the pledge.

Absolutely.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for the we will now proceed to our ceremonials.

And so, as much as as you all may be lobbying us, we are actively lobbying you to come into downtown Las Vegas because you cannot have a great city without a great university partner, and we are ready to be partners.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Obviously, I'm all in red.

So I am a rebel through and through, and uh one of my honorees is also from uh UNLV grad.

So I just want to say that um UNLV was uh the first institution of higher learning that my family had access to, being the first generation uh to go to college.

It's so important that you continue that work in our community and that we make sure that we're still inspiring and motivating our youth to see themselves on your campus because there's so much talent, there's so much energy, there's so much genius in Las Vegas that we need to capitalize on.

I wanted to also say that obviously uh through the work that Freddie's doing, um, we're partnering, and I hope that we can partner more with uh real hands-on learning, real world application and scenarios for so many of your departments that would go amazing with just what the city does, and hopefully inspire some of that talent to come to the city post their studies so that they can get a little bit ahead and help us figure out what the path uh for the future is because we're constantly trying to innovate and to be forward thinking and to make sure that we're heating the call and meeting the needs of our community.

So just wanted to articulate that we are all about making sure that we're partnering.

Um I know that the School of Landscape Architecture is uh very heavily involved right now with a few things in my ward, and it warms my heart to see college students already putting their heads together to help us figure a way around problems and figure out solutions because I think that's so so imperative in their formation, especially their academic formation.

So thank you so much.

Um, I've been entertaining whether I go back for more education.

Uh, but you know, it life learning, lifelong learner here, being a teacher, you have continuously have to take credits and be on top of your uh education game, but maybe we pivot in another area.

But looking forward to seeing all the amazing things that UNLV is capable and competent of doing, and I also want to elevate that it's a R1 institution, and that is not an easy thing to secure.

So bravo to UNLV for being the research institution, premier institution in our state.

And um, you know, Notre Dame has been around a really long time and hasn't always had it either.

So uh I think it's it just speaks to the quality of work that's happening at our alma mater or my alma mater here, UNLV.

Good morning.

I am not a UNLV graduate, but I used to teach a lot at UNLV, and I think in addition to providing access to higher education for our students or our community members, one of the key responsibilities of a university is the community engagement.

And I just want to actually call out President Heavey and your leadership team because you have taken community engagement to a whole new level, and I look forward, we look forward to working with you as we continue to build that partnership and help our community.

I too am a graduate, but that's not why I'm wearing red today.

I'm wearing red because it's UNLV day, and no matter where you graduated from, UNLV is an important and incredibly uh instrumental part of the fabric of our community, and so I want to thank those who wore red simply too to be able to say go rebels, uh, just as I would proudly wear blue if I was up in Reno celebrating um UNR.

And I have three degrees from UNLV, and know that that is part of how I'm here and why I'm here.

And I'm so grateful for the leadership.

Uh Chris, you have been a terrific and integral part of the university university.

I'm so pleased to be able to be at this city council at a time when you're leading the university with your vision.

Thank you.

Come back.

I have some things to say.

Wait a minute.

Um everybody here knows my family story.

Um I'm the granddaughter of immigrants that came to America that couldn't speak English.

Neither one of my parents graduated high school.

But in our family, it didn't matter if you were pretty or popular, it mattered that you got good grades so you could make something of yourself.

Of course, I was pretty and popular.

I just want that known.

Um I uh if it wasn't for UNLV, I can guarantee that I wouldn't be mayor of Las Vegas now.

It opened up an entire world to me as the first person in my family to go to college, and it not only changed my life, which it did dramatically, but it changed the entire trajectory of my family because of course of course all of my children are our college graduates and beyond.

And that was uh our family was afforded that opportunity because of UNLV.

My son Sam graduated from the School of Hotel Administration.

My son Max, who's with the public defender's office, graduated from the Boyd School of Law, and UNLV has been an integral part of our family and our family's destiny.

And I don't think we are very unusual.

I think there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people living in southern Nevada and Nevada and throughout the world who have come here for our hotel of uh hotel administration, uh college, and so many others that have a national and international flavor.

UNLV has made a difference in all of our lives, and we are very, very grateful to you.

And I say this often.

Um being a graduate of UNLV gave me the education I received was wonderful for the life I'm leading.

And when I was in Congress and I interacted with presidents and prime ministers and titans of industry, I never once felt inadequate or second best.

If they had an Ivy League education, and I graduated from UNLV, I had the tools that was necessary to do my job, and that was because of the fine education that I received at UNLV, our local institution.

So I want to thank you on behalf of everybody that calls Las Vegas home and tell you how much we appreciate how you have impacted our lives and made a difference for all of us.

And uh Chris, if you wouldn't mind introducing who's with you and say a few words if you please.

Sure.

Thank you, Mayor and uh City Council for honoring UNLV.

It's uh been a pleasure to be at UNLV for 33 years and to now have the chance to lead this institution, which they've so eloquently talked about the impact that we have uh in this community.

And so really pleased to be with you all today to talk about the institution and to hear the stories of people whose lives have been directly impacted by UNLV.

As the mayor said, um over the years, I've seen thousands and thousands of students graduate and go on to do great things, and it's uh incredible honor to lead this institution and to work with a great leadership team.

Part of our vision is being more involved in the community and making sure we are leaning into community engagement as proactively as possible, and so very honored to be here with our vice president of government affairs, Constance Brooks, Dr.

Constance Brooks.

30 this year, all right.

And she leads the uh academics of the university.

And then we have the fine Mr.

Leo Benavides, who is our uh associate vice president in government affairs and also uh a law graduate, an attorney by training, and so really pleased to have him on our team.

Um my chief of staff, Miss Tonder Day, who does all things important at the university and helps us all survive.

So really honored to have her with us.

And maybe the colleague I've actually had the chance to work with the longest, uh, Dr.

Michelle Paul.

Dr.

Michelle Paul and I started together because I'm a clinical psychologist, and I hired Dr.

Paul into the university more than 20 years ago now.

21 years ago now, and now she is uh really leading our mental health work where we're trying to work closely with our community, and as Councilman Knutson said, to address the very urgent mental health needs of the Southern Nevada community.

So she's a great honored or great asset to our community.

And if I could invite all everybody to come in front of the podium, um, this is a very special day, not only for UNLV, but for everyone here at City Hall.

So from the mayor's office, but on behalf of all of the city council members, I have uh issued a proclamation.

I'm not gonna read it, but uh suffice it to say that November 19th, 2025 is UNLV Day and the City of Las Vegas.

So thank you so much for everything you've done on behalf of all of us.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Hi.

Thank you so much.

My pleasure.

All right.

We will now uh recognize our employee of the month uh on our ceremonial agenda, and for our first item, I want to invite our city attorney, Jeff Dora Catt, to join us.

Thank you.

Our employee.

Our employees strive to meet our values of being kind, committed, and smart.

And they work to build our community to make a better life.

I am proud to announce that the employee of the month is Carmen Gilmett Gilbert.

Uh Carmen, uh, please come forward.

Great.

Carmen is a deputy city attorney and has been with the city since 2023.

Carmen works closely with our building and safety division and is a key point of contact for approving agreements that allow developers to begin work on new projects in the city.

Carmen shows outstanding professionalism and collaborates easily with other city staff.

She always takes the time to review the agreements thoroughly while also balancing the need to have a high standard of timeliness and customer service for those doing business with the city.

Carmen's patience, work ethic, collaborative approach, and grace under pressure make her an invaluable asset to the city.

Carmen, thank you for all of your hard work and all that you do.

And I'd like to give Jeff a chance to say a few words, and then we will hear from Carmen and have a photo.

All right, they said they keep it short, so we'll try.

Um good morning.

Yes, it's an exciting morning for the city attorney's office to have this honor, even for a profession as modest as the legal profession.

It's uh always appreciated and honoring for one of our attorneys or any of our legal support staff to uh receive the employee of the month recognition because usually, as is the case here, the nomination comes from someone outside of our department for one of our employees.

Uh Deputy City Attorney Carbon Gilbert daily demonstrates the values of the city of Las Vegas, being kind, committed, and smart.

So it was unsurprising to all of her supervisors and anybody in our office that these qualities came right through in the nomination that was put forward for her.

As the mayor mentioned, Carmen joined the city team about just over two years ago.

Uh she's a graduate of UNLV for law school and UNR for undergrad, so we have everything covered today.

We're not gonna we're not gonna have any problems.

And then uh significantly, her background of experience was tremendous and why we brought her into the team.

Uh before joining the city attorney's office, she worked at two of the large law firms here in southern Nevada.

She has experience as a development officer for UNLV.

She also served as a regional representative for Senator Reed's office and spent uh a couple of years, I believe, as a volunteer for the Peace Corps in Guatemala.

So, with all of that depth and breadth of experience, as I said, it was unsurprising that she was able to hit the ground running and do all of the amazing things that Mayor Berkeley already mentioned, dealing with franchise agreements, uh working on the Animal Foundation contracts with our transactional team, and right up till today and continuing onward monitoring all of the federal events that are happening so that the city and our office know exactly what's going on and what need to be done for our departments.

And then specifically with the nomination today, as a mayor also mentioned, uh Benita Crook, a management analyst in the building and safety division of code enforcement, hit all of the major points uh that reflect who Carmen is.

She's diligent about getting work back, committed to doing that, one of the city values.

She is smart, she always makes sure to provide options to the department with how to deal with developers or to developer demands.

And then finally, she does it in a way that's approachable and personable.

She's very kind and open to everybody in the city about providing advice and not coming off in a way that obviously pushes anybody away and don't bother me.

So we love that about her.

We love that about everybody in our office who demonstrate those things as well.

And Carmen, congratulations from our office and the city council.

Uh so thank you so much to the mayor and council.

Um, I really want to thank Benita Crook in community development.

She is a joy to work with, and I really appreciate the kind things she said in her nomination.

Um, employee recognition committee, thanks for all the work in the process.

Um, I understand nobody really likes it when the attorneys have to get involved.

So it's very nice to know that people appreciate our input.

Um for everybody who came on Monday to eat cake and for the announcement.

I really appreciate it.

It's nice to see that in the city manager's office, every level of leadership came to celebrate, and it's nice that everybody takes that time.

Um, like I said on Monday, I can't really take a whole lot of credit because I feel like everything that Benita put in her nomination is reflective of the city attorney's office, and it's reflective of the city of Las Vegas culture as a whole.

Um, I'm really lucky to work with supported supportive and talented professionals.

Um, and so with that, I want to thank all of my colleagues.

I want to thank everybody in the city attorney's office for making me look good.

Basically, everybody in purchasing and contracts, everybody in strategic services that I work with, fire and rescue have worked with, the people in community development, my lunchtime workout crew, and uh I also want to really thank my family who's here today.

Um, my husband, my daughter, my mom, my sister.

Um, it's been a joy coming back to public service and being here at the city.

So this is really like the cherry on top.

So thanks, everyone.

Nice job.

We take home with her and then have her family come too.

Yeah, of course.

More than pull her shirt out.

Thank you all.

And now we have another special uh recognition, and I'd like to turn this over to Councilwoman Diaz to uh recognize our partnership that's helping so many in our community.

Councilwoman.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Good morning, everyone.

I have the privilege of closing out ceremonials today, and after a star-studded morning with UNL V representation and our employee of the month, Miss Carmen Gilbert.

Um, it is my honor uh to celebrate Freddie Goldines and Alexander Stabler.

If they can come on up.

Mr.

Freddie Godiness and Alexander Stabler are an incredible couple that are not only residents of our fabulous city and award three, but they own their own business, Frederick Alexander in the heart of my ward at 1110 East Bonneville Avenue.

Uh, they're equally devoted to using their skills and talents, not just to beautify the spaces that they're contracted to work on, but also to uplift our great city in any way that they can.

Uh, they give a lot back, and I just want to give you a flavor of uh who these um men are.

And so Freddie Goldines brings his technical background as well as a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from UNLV.

And he also obtained his master's in urban planning from the University of Southern California.

Um Freddie, uh, he says about the work that they do that they really try to help push their clients to go bold and to make fun, beautiful design decisions that are meaningful, impactful, and functional.

Now, Alexander Stabler came to Vegas as a professional performer, um, initially for Cirque du Soleil and worked as a performer up until 2020 when his show Le Rev closed.

But he dove right into this work after that.

So it's never, you know, one bad turn, a good one kind of comes around.

And so they were able to start this endeavor.

And uh he says that he leaned into design because design has a strong impact just like performing does in a performance, you have the opportunity, and these are his words and a performance, you have the opportunity to captivate an audience and have a profound emotional impact on them.

I feel like design has the same impact, but even more meaningful and powerful because it impacts people's daily lives, and that's something that there's that's always been important to Freddie and to him is to have a positive impact on people and create meaningful change for our community.

So recently, Mayor Berkeley, MPT Knutson, Councilmember Summers Armstrong, and myself had the privilege of attending uh the ribbon cutting of the Gavin Gorgeon Health Center, also in the ward.

Um, and it was formerly the Wolfson Medical Building at the uh intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Charleston.

I was not only impressed by the incredible range of health services offered to our neighbors now through that FQHC, but also by the beauty, it was breathtaking to walk through the transformation of that once upon a time bank, uh, and then dilapidated, half-utilized medical building, and now to the wonderful, beautiful health center that it has become.

If you haven't been there, I highly recommend you swing by and check it out.

The health center truly feels like an oasis for the members of the LGBTQIA plus community, but also all our residents in Nevada in Las Vegas that also need its services.

Some of our most vulnerable neighbors seek their health services at their greatest time of need and crises.

And it brings me such great joy and reassurance to know that they are welcomed by the caring staff there at the Gavin Gorgeon Health Center, but also into a thoughtfully designed environment.

And you can kind of see some of the slides are going on the screens, and that kind of just gives you a glimpse into the transformation these gentlemen were involved with.

Uh a little bit about this uh impactful work, but uh I want to thank them publicly for charting the course and delivering this health center to our community.

Can we give them a round of applause?

It just elevates everyone's mood from the moment you walk in because Alexander and Freddie designed it just so beautifully and you're just captivated from the moment you set foot in there.

It's you know, from the cozy telehealth rooms to behavioral health therapy rooms, and not only uh is it pleasing to your eyes, but it's like just bedazzled everywhere with their um what do you call it?

Sophisticated funk.

That's their that's that's their brand right there.

Um, and so Freddie and Alexander understood the vision for the health center, and with that, I'm going to hand over the mic to John and to Liana so they can tell you about how these gentlemen definitely made their life easier and better, and uh and now we're as a community enjoying the amazing health center.

Thank you, councilwoman, and thank you for everything that you do for us and everyone on the city council, the mayor, uh, we appreciate you very much.

Um of the things about our clinic that uh that the councilwoman talked about is that we serve everybody in the community and we don't turn anybody away.

And when we created this space, we could have just made a very clinical looking place where people just funneled through.

But we wanted our community to feel safe, to feel welcome, and everyone that comes through the doors to feel welcome.

And so when we started working with Freddie and Alex, it was a game changer for us.

When you come there, you go down in the basement as you see in the pictures, and there's windows.

Think about that for a minute.

There's windows in the mental health space, so you don't feel like uh you're in the basement, and you really just have to come and see it.

It the work that they did just changed everything for us.

Everything for our community just blew us away.

And nobody speaks more passionately about it than our chief um healthcare officer, Dr.

Leanna Ramirez.

So I'll just let her say a few quick words.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, everybody.

So as I was watching the pictures and hearing councilwoman talk about our space, I'm tearing up because it's truly an honor to be here with you and with all of the community.

And just being able to share in the passion that you brought to the building and being able to have you with us to build this space and to create this amazing place for people.

So inspiring.

And let me tell you guys, when I walked in the room and I see these guys there with an iron ironing the curtains so that the curtains, I was like, yes, yes.

So truly, truly, to find people with like-minded passion and like-minded hearts that care and share and spread kindness is truly an honor.

Thank you so much for all you do.

Thank you, Dr.

Ramirez.

And so to finalize, Freddie, obviously, and Alexander understood the vision for the health center from the get-go and exceeded all expectations.

And they worked with local vendors and local artists like Randy Mendre, who designed and created the beautiful rainbow piece that you've seen in some of the shots, you belong.

And it's his signature steel medium.

That is a beautiful addition.

Alexander and Freddie, um, you've dedicated not just your valuable time to this effort, but you're currently also launching um friends of Hunter Circle Park, a nonprofit that is partnering with UNLV landscape architecture students to develop some creative proposals about how uh we could be smart about activating the park.

Um that is uh gem and a jewel to the community around it.

And so beyond their these contributions to the health center and the friends of Hunter Circle Park, Freddie and Alexander are actively involved in so many other noteworthy causes like AIDS.

Um aid for AIDS of Nevada, the center, young equal, and actors equality.

So again, thank you so much.

And on behalf of the city, we have a little um something for you, and it just says, uh, this is to recognize Alexander Stabler and Freddie Gomez for their exceptional contributions to the city of Las Vegas.

Thank you for your vision, generosity, and unwavering commitment to uplift our Ward 3 community.

And now we want to hear from you.

Thank you.

Um wow, this is amazing.

Um, I mean, first of all, with the center project, we met these two at uh event where the Bears were the Bears community were do giving donations and they were giving donations to young equal.

And we were eager to meet them because we work across the street from them.

And so we're like we introduced ourselves and said we're neighbors.

If you need anything from us, please let us know.

Cup of sugar, we're here for you.

They came to us with this project, and honestly, Liana, we just fed off your passion.

Your passion drove this.

You wanted to provide a space that created care for everybody, for everybody that needs it and deserves it.

And that was what fueled our passion and our ability to create this beautiful project.

So thank you.

And thank you to our friends and to family who are friends and everybody here.

It's just been a wild journey, and we're just really, really grateful for what we're able to do and how we're able to turn our passion into purpose.

I echo everything Alex says.

I also want to thank Olivia, so our councilwoman and the rest of the city council, and as well as all of our friends and family that are here present with our award, and we can't be more grateful to our partners, the center, John and Liana and Lily as well.

Thank you.

And I do know your last name, it's Glovinas.

So sorry.

Freddie Godina, so we're gonna go ahead and take a picture with our honorees.

Very good.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

I really appreciate that.

Okay.

May I invite everyone to take your conversations outside of city council chambers?

In other words, leave the start.

Agenda item number seven.

Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action.

The amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited.

All comments made will be cross-referenced to those specific items.

If anyone submitted a speaker card or who wishes to speak under this portion of the agenda, please come to the podium and state your name for the record.

This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue.

And I just want to say that I'm here to talk about the Cashman development project.

So the more we can get that going, the better.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody thank you for all of your service?

Thank you.

Is there anybody else wishing to speak with the city council?

Good morning and welcome.

Good morning, uh Madam Mayor and this distinguished city council.

I'm here to speak on agenda item.

Uh it's I got this card in the mail to about the housing authority.

It's on the last part of the agenda.

I think it's like number 60.

Okay.

So um I really um concerned that the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority has failed to.

Would you mind stating your name for the record?

I am so sorry.

Perfectly on the Catherine Duncan.

Thank you.

1001 F Street.

I'm concerned that the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority has not gone beyond the call of duty to do public engagement around the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority Marble Manor Project.

We have consistently requested that the housing authority establish a STEM lab in the neighborhood that we could do meaningful public engagement.

There are so many uh landowners that are coming to me saying, What's going on at Marble Manor?

They're tearing down Marble Manor.

And I know from where you sit in, you could think, how could someone not possibly know what's going on?

But there are still people in our neighborhood who don't have internet, they're not getting the newspaper, but they still are required to be notified in a meaningful way based on federal standards.

So we're asking the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority to help resource the STEM.

All we're asking for is one penny out of every dollar that they've gotten to have meaningful public engagement by resourcing a STEM lab that we could bring in the residents, the churches, the businesses, and the schools so that we can come up with the safety plan.

Our neighborhood doesn't have a safety plan.

We don't have a broadband infrastructure plan, and we don't have a transportation plan around surrounding all of the things that are going on in the 100 plan.

So we would really like for you to mayor to encourage the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority to set aside one penny out of every dollar that they get in to do meaningful public engagement around the whole hundred plan, which is really impacted by what's going on at Marble Manor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Duncan.

I appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else wishing to address the city council?

In that case, we will move on to agenda item eight for possible action.

Any items from the 9 30 a.m.

session that the council staff and or applicant wish to be stricken, tabled, withdrawn, or held in abeyance to a future meeting may be brought forward and acted upon at this time.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have several items.

Uh the first is 43B 25-0291 SUP2.

Applicant is new life solutions, LLC owner, K and K property management, and appeal of the denial by the planning commission on a portion of the following land use entitlement project requests at 1502 South Las Vegas Boulevard.

There's a withdrawal request by the applicant.

51A through 51B, 25-0326 ZON1, and STR1.

Applicant owner is Holy Cross Missionary Baptist Church Incorporated on.38 acres at 1328 West Lake Mead Boulevard.

There's an abeyance request to December 17th, 2025, uh requested by the applicant.

55A through 55C, 25-0335A, GPA1, Z I-N1, STR1.

Applicant is integrity concrete.

LLC owner is Coleman Street, LLC on 1.42 acres at the southwest corner of Ricky Road and Tom Boulevard.

There's an abeyance request by the applicant to the January 21st, 2026 City Council meeting.

57A through 57B, 25-0382 GPA1 and Z O N one.

Applicant is Greystone, Nevada LLC owner, Estate of Nevada Division of State Lands on 22.77 acres at the northeast corner of Washington Avenue in Las Vegas Boulevard.

There's an abeyance request by the applicant to the January 21st, 2026 City Council meeting.

58A through 58B, 25-0383 GPA 1, Z O N one.

Applicant is Greystone, Nevada LLC owner, City of Las Vegas on 50.54 acres, generally bounded by Washington Avenue, Maryland Parkway, Sagman Street, and Las Vegas Boulevard.

There's an abeyance to the January 21st, 2026, made at the request of the applicant.

And 61A through 62 and B.

25-0436, ROC1 and ROC2.

Applicant is Tripoint Homes in Nevada Incorporated.

Owner is KL LB by 3 LLC on the north side of Log Cabin Way, approximately 630, 630 feet west of Alpine Ridgeway.

There's an abeyance request by the applicant to the December 17th, 2025 City Council meeting, and that'll be my motion.

Thank you so much.

Shall we vote on the motion?

Please post the amount.

Motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item nine for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the October 15th, 2025 regular city council meeting.

Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion to approve the minutes?

Move to approve item nine.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda items 10 through 25 are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, are recommended for approval by the departments and may be enacted in one motion.

Are there any items the council wishes to bring forward?

May a pro tem.

May I have a motion for the consent agenda for items 10 through 24?

Move to approve items 10 through 24.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

We are now going to move to item 62 out of order to accommodate the president of UNLV's very busy schedule.

This is a report by Chris Heavey, PhD, interim president of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, regarding an update on the various programs and recent activities of the university.

This affects all wards.

Welcome and thank you for being here.

Thank you, Mayor.

Honored to be here on behalf of UNLV, and thank you for giving me a few minutes to talk about the university that uh is carries the same name as the city of Las Vegas proudly.

Uh we talk about it as the anchor institution of Southern Nevada.

Um, and um as we talked about earlier this morning, it is a Carnegie R1 institution, and we talk about our vision is transforming our community through engagement and education.

These are just some of the figures that show the scope of the work that we do at UNLV.

I think people are generally familiar with the institution and how large it's become.

I'd love to tell a little bit of the story of its growth.

And this is a slide that talks about the 17 counties in Nevada and their population.

And on this slide, you'll see that there's really only three lines that are distinguishable.

The 15 counties at the bottom that have had very similar small population from 1900 to today.

And around 1940, we see that we start to see some dramatic population growth in Nevada, and the lines start to separate.

And it's not hard for people to distinguish what the three county or the two county lines are that are distinguishable from the other 15.

We see the explosive growth of Southern Nevada that starts in about 1960, right about the time that UNLV is founded.

People believe that we need an institution of higher education to represent Southern Nevada.

And this shows the similar population demographics for the cities of the state of Nevada, and you know which line on there represents the amazing city of Las Vegas, which separates from Reno in terms of overall population right about the time that UNLV is founded in 1957 and continues its explosive growth, especially starting in 1990 and beyond.

And so here we are in Southern Nevada, recognizing that the explosive growth of our community has also created challenges.

And so we have been playing a game of catch up for the last you know 50 years plus, where we're trying to basically deliver higher education and services to our community at scale, but have struggled to keep up with that explosive growth.

And I think these figures are well known to the people in this room where we're low in many key characters, care uh demographics of professionals, mental health providers, doctors, registered nurses, teachers, etc.

Um.

And so we have been working to try to catch up with that growth, and you'll see on this slide that since 1980, uh, UNLV has tripled in size, but Southern Nevada is actually quadrupled in population during that uh basic 45 year period.

And so we haven't even grown quite as fast as the explosive growth of Southern Nevada.

But um, it's also some pictures of our campus to see how it's changed from the early days when it was really remote and uh dirt road running down Maryland Parkway and now is uh in the heart of the urban center of Las Vegas.

And this just shows the kind of higher education in the state of Nevada across the whole state.

UNLV has become now the largest institution of higher education in the state of Nevada, uh, and with UNLV and CSN combined, about 60 or plus percent of all of the higher education uh in Nevada by headcount and by FTE.

And the word that we most talk about, and the mayor highlighted so well in her remarks is opportunity.

That UNLV is a place of opportunity.

We primarily serve residents of Nevada, especially residents of Southern Nevada, many of whom come from lower income families, and more than half will be the first in their families to earn a college degree.

And we try to make our education affordable with about 25% of our students attending with no direct costs paid for to UNLV because of the financial aid that we're able to offer.

And so we are delivering impact at scale.

Last year we graduated about 7,000 students from UNLV, and most of them stay in the state of Nevada to serve our community.

We're trying to make sure that every graduate graduates workforce ready with valuable credentials to serve the community.

And we're definitely focused primarily on what the community needs from us.

And as was also recognized in the earlier remarks, the School of Medicine is going to be a key asset to try to meet the healthcare needs.

We have dramatically expanded our nursing program and now are the largest nursing program in the state of Nevada, building our mental health capacity and serving the community, and also doing a lot to expand the teacher pipeline.

And these are just some statistics that talk about where key areas of growth are, all of which are in disciplines that I think the council recognizes are key to the vibrancy and success of Southern Nevada, including adding key new programs in cybersecurity, insurance and risk management, applied health sciences, and micro credentials that deliver high value skills to our residents.

And as we talked about earlier, partnership is going to be key for our success.

And so I'll talk a little bit more about the medical district on the next slide, but also working in the innovation corridor for Clark County, a lot of work with arts in across the community and cultural opportunities, et cetera, serving many areas in the community.

We are a major resident in the medical district, as you know well, with three of the programs that are highlighted there medical, dental, and nursing being housed in the medical district.

We have about 600,000 square feet of space in the medical district and serve thousands of students serving in the medical district and in health fields.

Just kind of some of the overall statistics about what we're doing to try to advance community health as well as particularly in the area of mental health, where there's tremendous needs, and we're excited to have established a mental health care clinic in the medical district, and we're looking to dramatically expand the footprint of the mental health services we offer in the medical district, as well as working to add new programs that will tremendously increase the number of graduates prepared to serve our mental health needs of the community and really appreciate the partnership of Councilman Knutzin and helping us drive forward some of these programs, including a new PSI D program that which will come online soon that will focus on children with neurodevelopmental disorders and a new undergraduate degree, which will graduate a lot of students to help at primary level of kind of initial interventions with children with mental health concerns.

And thinking about tomorrow, obviously, online education is a big part of what we do.

We have an incredible new immersive learning space, and that's going to become an increasing part of the curriculum.

Artificial intelligence is going to impact all of our lives, and we're moving fast to incorporate that into our curriculum and doing research on issues that are really going to be vital to the long-term success of our community, such as water resources, sustainability, et cetera, all of things that will be crucial for the success of Southern Nevada.

So thanks for giving me a few minutes to talk about UNLV and the community that we love to serve, and uh happy to answer any questions if anyone has any.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

Seeing none, we'd like to.

Oh, pardon me.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I just wanted to take another opportunity to kind of update the council on some of the work that we've been working on together with the support of Mike Jansen and Dina Babski and our economic and urban development department.

So a little while ago, we met uh with some of your colleagues in the higher education space, and the outcomes of that meeting was this the city is working with each of the institutions to find uh what are the degree programs offered that in the mental health and health care space, um, as well as what are the gaps in our community to see if we as a community need to come together and focus in on developing specific uh professional specialties uh to better serve our community.

And then we're also at that at Mike's with Mike's leadership, we're doing an asset mapping of the medical district to determine what is the highest and best use of land within the medical district.

The university uh owns quite a bit of land, and I think there's a higher and better use for that land.

So that's that's my request is if we can keep working towards the land in the medical district, because we can provide better care and more training for students, and then looking at what other additional professional licensures, uh degree programs that UNLV could offer that would meet the needs of our community.

And I I think my guess is is that if we do that jointly uh with the state legislature, maybe with our federal delegation, uh it makes it a much more compelling case than any one of us going at it individually.

And I appreciate you've been a breath of fresh air over the last year working with you, and I very, very much appreciate it because it means a whole lot to my family and to the people that I serve.

Thank you, Councilman Knutson, and we're excited to continue that partnership and as you said, figure out what more we can do together to serve the community.

Want to thank you for your leadership in that space, and really can't say how more about how excited we are about partnering with the city of Las Vegas.

Uh yes, Ms.

Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and uh Dr.

Heavey, we're really excited that you have the length of time you've worked at UNLV and that you're hungry to come, and you really do have a pulse of what the university um has offered, but where the opportunities for growth and partnership lie.

So I guess it's more of a I'm looking forward to hearing uh the ways that we can advance many different areas uh that may be lacking in terms of workforce development, in terms of uh academia overall, we know that um medical services are a really big need, but our education uh pipeline is also uh a really major need.

And so um, and going out there and meeting some of your folks that you brought along today for UNLV Day, there's lifelong learning, looking for opportunities of how do we bring these services and these classes uh closer to some seniors that may have mobility issues.

So I just want to say we're here uh to always support UNLV and any endeavor and reaching all the community members that it needs to throughout all of its diverse programming.

Well, thank you for those comments.

And we're councilman Councilwoman Diaz.

We're really excited to bring UNLV out in the community more and excited to put in proposals to potentially occupy some more space in the city of Las Vegas to be able to offer some of our lifelong learning and high value credentials to the workforce and others who will be able to benefit from that.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else on the council wishing to comment?

All right, seeing none, Miss Newby.

Do you have anything you would like to share with us?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'm just so glad to see everyone in red today.

And uh UNLB is such an asset to our community and so important to the future of our economy here.

I'm glad to have President Heavy here, and um super excited for what may come.

Thank you so much.

And thank you again.

Uh, this is a report only, and no action is required.

Thank you.

Thank you for joining us today.

Agenda we're back to regular order, agenda item 25, abeyance item regarding the fair market value of city of Las Vegas owned real property located at the west side of Osoblanca Road and north of TP Lane, in anticipation of the sale of the property on an internet auction website, Ward 6.

Ms.

Bruni, please note this item is related to council item 21, R-71-2025.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Ms.

Boyce.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, Teresa Boyce, real estate manager.

And I think we're just opening the hearing.

Anybody had any comments?

All right, thank you so much.

Is there anybody uh wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing only, and no action is required.

We will now hear related items 26 and 27 together.

26 regarding the fair market value lease rate of the city of Las Vegas owned civic plaza retail suites based on a market rent study regarding two retail spaces as part of the new Civic Plaza dated June 30th, 2025 by Anderson Valuation Group, LLC, which is in anticipation of leasing the 2,000 uh the five 547.5 square feet located at 525 South Main Street, suite 150, and uh agenda item 27, R-80-2025 discussion for possible action regarding a resolution consenting to certain undertaking of the city of Las Vegas in connection with the retail lease agreement between the city of Las Vegas and Gonzo Madness LLC, concerting the retail lease located at 525 South Main, suite 150 is in the best interest of the public and to be in compliance with and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the City of Las Vegas downtown master plan.

Discussion for possible action regarding a resolution consenting to certain undertaking of the city of Las Vegas in connection with the retail lease agreement between the City of Las Vegas and Gonzo Madness LLC, concerning the retail lease located at 525 South Main, suite 150 is in the best interest of the public and to be in compliance with and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the City of Las Vegas downtown Master Plan.

These items are in Ward 3, Ms.

Diaz.

Item 26 is a public hearing, which I now declare open.

Ms.

Babski.

Yes, good morning, Mayor, City Council members.

Dina Babski, Director of Economic and Urban Development.

And with me here today at the podium is Mr.

Robert Gonzalez and Mrs.

Maribel Gonzalez.

Welcome.

Hello, Madam Mayor and City Council.

Hello.

So let me just get started.

That we are so excited because this has been in the works for many months now.

As you know, we've been uh keeping it a secret because you know, until this meeting happens and we get a boat, uh, we can really talk about it.

But we're so excited to bring it forward for your consideration today.

Teriaki Madness, I'm sure all of us have had a chance to have a teriyaki bowl.

They are all over uh the southern region or the Southern Nevada region.

But I don't know if you're aware that Teriyaki Madness is actually a homegrown success story.

The very first shop opened on Maryland Parkway back in 2003.

Since then, the franchise has gone national with almost 200 locations nationally in 41 states.

And so we're so excited to bring it back home to Civic Plaza in Las Vegas.

So with that said, um, I also want to highlight the fact that you know we now have office tenants at Civic Plaza, we have open spaces, we have uh programming that's coming online in the in the plaza itself, and so to complete that experience, we need food.

And so bringing teriyaki madness is definitely going to complete um complete the story.

Without further ado, just a little bit about our uh partners on the other end of the lease.

Uh so uh as I mentioned, uh Mr.

Gonzalez and uh Miss Mara Bel Gonzalez, they own this is gonna be their fourth shop, Port Port Teryyaki Madness here.

Uh so we know that they know what they're doing.

They've proven that they're successful in other locations, and so we're thrilled to have a proven business owner to come to Civic Plaza.

Um again, long time Nebatans, they've been here for many many years.

I'll let them tell their story when I pass over the mic uh to them.

Now, some uh some points about the lease itself.

So it's the first floor retail space uh on the in building one, so facing Main Street, uh 2500 square feet.

Uh it is currently gray shells, so uh Mr.

Gonzalez and his team will be taking on the tenant improvements to get the restaurant uh built out, and that is uh the portion that you all voted on earlier during the RDA meeting, the $600,000 contribution.

Uh the lease term uh is 10 years, the initial term, plus two options for five-year extensions, and we're hopeful and certain that that's gonna happen.

And then overall lease value over the 20-year lease term is 2.27 million dollars.

Since it's a public hearing, um, I do have to state that the um the appraised value per square foot for the retail space at Civic Plaza is $3.25.

Anticipated opening is quarter two of 2026, so right before the summer starts, and we're able to get on the plaza and enjoy a bowl of teriyaki.

Uh with that, uh couple of uh screenshots on the floor plan.

Uh the restaurant will see uh a little bit over 50 um uh you know clients.

Uh obviously it's gonna be pickup uh deliveries as well because we know that you know this is gonna be a very busy area in just a few months when all of our tenants are going to move in.

Uh, and so uh we're excited to be able to provide this fast cash casual option for everyone in here uh in this area.

Um, of course, we all love to see uh signages and pictures, so there will be a sign on the main street uh that's gonna um you know obviously make it very visible that teriyaki madness location is inside Civic Plaza.

And with that, I can't hold my excitement any longer.

I'm gonna pass the word over to over to Mr.

Gonzalez.

Welcome.

Thank you, Madam Mayor and City Council.

It's uh privilege to be up here.

Um, our background is we're just a small family.

We started uh one my wife in the casino business and I worked all over the city, and now we're uh entrepreneurs in the city of Las Vegas, which is a blessing.

This is a uh a town where we meet and greet many, many people, millions of places from all over the country, and we are happy to serve uh this community with teriyaki bowls.

Uh it's a pleasure to be um part of Dana.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for being a I would say um calm and collective and taking your time with us, and it's a special thanks to Jonathan King, who uh put up with me for many months.

Um, I'm very um very tough to work with, but it's because we come from a small background, and we want to make sure that we're doing the right thing, and we feel that this is the right thing for us to grow this city and to be able to employ uh people in the city is is a blessing.

On behalf of my wife and I, thank you once again for everything you've done.

Councilwoman, we met you the other day, Ms.

Diaz.

We are very pleased to be in your ward.

And again, thank you for your time that day.

And again, thank you, everybody here.

We appreciate the time.

Thanks so much.

We're looking forward to your opening.

Thank you so much.

And is there anybody else that would like to uh speak on this item?

Seeing uh none, I'll close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

Okay.

Um no action is required on item 26.

Is there a motion on related item 27?

Councilwoman Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

And before I make my motion, I do want to um say that this would be about a third location serving ward three uh residents.

They have one already established on the Nellis and Charleston that kind of serves that part of the city.

They have another one on Sahara and Decatur.

Um, even though I think they may be in Ward 1, they serve the people that kind of live on the other side in Ward 3.

Um, and this is another three for three.

Uh so the locations you have in the city are definitely of service to my residents, and I did want you to give us a glimpse.

If everything goes as it's supposed to, when could we start enjoying a teriaki bowl?

Right here.

If everything goes accordingly, uh we hope to open um late March, 1st of April, mid-mid-April, hopefully.

Yes, we're gonna push to get it done very rapidly.

All right.

Wanted everyone to like take note so that as soon as your doors open, they go in support.

So with that, I'm gonna move to approve agenda item 27.

All right, shall we vote?

Please post.

Motion carries.

Congratulations and best wishes.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 28.

R 81-2025 discussion for possible action regarding a resolution, finding that the proposed lease agreement between the state of Nevada, Department of Administration, Public Works Division, Buildings and Grounds, for and on behalf of the Nevada Secretary of State and City of Las Vegas, located at 70 East Bonanza Avenue, suite 100, for a lease term of 10 years with two five-year options, is in the best interest of the public.

This is ward three, Miss Diaz.

Ms.

Babski.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

City Council members Dina Babski, director of EED, and I am still super excited because this is another very uh very uh exciting moment for us, again, having to do with Civic Plaza and our wonderful, wonderful tenants.

With me at the podium here today is Deputy Secretary of State, uh, Mr.

Ruben Rodriguez.

Welcome.

Good morning, thank you.

Welcome.

So uh again, you know, we've been working on Civic Plaza for a few months, and this lease has been uh in negotiations.

I want to say probably about um six to eight months or so, so it has taken a little bit of time and a little diligence from both teams on the state side and the city side.

And you know, the thing that I learned that was uh very impressive is that the Secretary of State is the third highest ranking official in the state.

So uh, as we all know, uh high-ranking offices don't move lightly.

And the fact that the Secretary of State's office has chosen Civic Plaza as his future long-term home, is a great show of confidence in the downtown and everything that we have to offer here.

Um, another exciting uh component of this deal is the fact that as you all know, we've been building out Civic Plaza with a big vision of bringing this uh economic development business support hub to downtown.

And having Secretary of State's office right then and there is going complete that synergy.

Uh they're going we're essentially bringing public-facing services, everything that you see on the screen now that the Secretary's office uh supports to the residents where they actually live, work, uh, and are able to get the services here and and you know, including everything that we have to offer between the Vegas Chamber, the workforce connections, the city business licensing team, and of course, you know, the everything that the Secretary of State has to offer.

And I'm sure our own city clerk's office is super excited to have Secretary of State right across the plaza as well.

Um again, a little bit about the lease term itself.

Uh it is the first floor in building two.

Uh so that's the same building where Vegas Chamber and the workforce connections um attend our tenants now.

Uh a little over 4,000 square feet.

Um, the secretary's office and the staff will have a similar type of access to the event spaces that we have uh offered to all of our other tenants.

The initial term is 10 years with two year uh with two five-year extensions.

Again, we are hopeful that the full term is um executed and we will have you all here for 20 years.

The lease values a little bit over $3 million for the 20-year term.

And we are currently starting the TI build-out, and if everything goes well, like Mayor said earlier, we're hoping to have the Secretary and his team to take occupancy June 1st of 2026.

So without further ado, I'd like to pass the mic over to the Deputy Secretary of State.

Thank you.

For the record, my name is Ruben Rodriguez, Deputy Secretary of State.

Thank you, Mayor and Council members, for the opportunity to speak on agenda item number 28.

On behalf of Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, I want to express our strong support for this lease agreement and for the continued partnership between the uh state of Nevada and the City of Las Vegas.

Relocating uh our North Las Vegas office to the City of Las Vegas Civic Plaza is not simply an address change.

Uh it's a strategic investment in access, efficiency, and services to our community.

The Civic Plaza uh relocation places the Secretary of State's office at the corner of one of the fastest growing business quarters in the states.

Being here means that entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and small business owners who rely on our services now have easier, more direct access to our resources that helps start and grow and maintain operations for many small business owners, especially first-time business filers, emerging entrepreneurs and sole proprietors.

Proximity matters.

Being located at Civic Plaza allows for us to meet people where they are.

It places our team in walking distance to our other city departments, uh, workforce partners, permitting offices, and community organizations, the small businesses interact with every single day.

It reduces runaround that many small businesses often experience instead of creating a one-stop shop.

Uh, as previously before, we will we will create that here in the city of Las Vegas Civic Plaza.

This move also strengthens our ability to serve the public more efficiently.

Civic Plaza provides a modernized accessible space that supports a level of service that Nevada's ex that Nevadans expect with improved access to in-person services, leading to quicker processing times and streamlined customer service windows as our office continues to modernize uh our leasing notary and document services statewide, having a facility that aligns with modernization is essential.

Ultimately, this agreement represents more than an office space.

It represents efficiency, accessibility, and support for businesses and community.

By anchoring our services with Civic Plaza, we are strengthening infrastructure that helps new and existing businesses, navigating state requirements without barriers.

This location positions us to deliver faster services, expand outreach, and provide the kind of hands-on guidance that small businesses in southern Nevada consistently ask for.

This partnership reinforces a shared commitment between the state and the city of Las Vegas, uh, one of the most business friendly cities in the country.

We appreciate your consideration and look forward to the continued collaboration as we try to make this possible.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the city council?

Mayor Pro Teb.

Thank you, Mayor.

Ms.

Babsky, I just wanted to say you're doing a great job, so you should be really proud of you and your team.

Um then I wanted to remind the councilwoman that Word One resident to do eat teriyaki and we also vote.

So I'm grateful for you here in Civic Plaza.

Thank you.

Ms.

Rooney.

Thank you.

I just wanted to ask a clarifying question.

You offer public notary services at the Secretary of State's office, or you will be?

We're the licensing of notaries.

Okay, so you don't offer notary services the way that we do here.

That's correct.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yes, this uh Miss Babski, congratulations on your hard work for you and your team.

I'm curious, um, just because I'm new, tell me what the the special event acts uh to the plaza.

Just tell me a little bit about what our leases include there.

Sure.

Uh thank you through you, Mayor.

Thank you, Councilwoman, for your question.

Um, so the leases that we have with the Chamber of Commerce and with the workforce connections.

Uh there's a few um event spaces in Civic Plaza that includes the plaza itself.

Then there is the rooftop on the building A where the beautiful grass is.

Uh essentially you can hold events there, and then of course, there is the the van cafe, uh, that the it's the portion uh where there you could have uh host events and have catering and things of that nature.

So those spaces uh are all included um obviously on a reservation type of you know basis, they have to be scheduled through that through our special events team that's led by Jasmine Freeman.

And so all of that is outlined in the lease that there is a I believe uh between two and four events uh per space per year, uh and I can confirm exactly the number that could be scheduled through our special events team.

Not necessarily, just was in general interested.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Kelly.

Is there a motion, Councilwoman Diaz?

Uh before before then, it's great to see you, Deputy Um Secretary Rodriguez.

I know that it's been a priority of our Secretary of State Aguilar to ensure that things are um streamlined for small businesses, and he doesn't want to see them going through a ping pong experience of being bounced around between.

And I think that selecting the city of Vegas to now house and um your services, I think is achieving and making some um headway on on this uh undertaking that I know is so important to him.

So uh please tell him we congratulate him and we are appreciative of his vision and making this a reality.

Um it's so so cool to hear he'll be there, Vegas Chambers there, workforce connections there.

So we are gonna be extremely business friendly.

So with that, I move to approve agenda item 28.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 29, boards and commissions.

Discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee Jesse Sleezer to a ward four seat of the parks and recreation advisory commission.

Ward 4 is entitled to appoint two representatives to the board.

Earl Stitz occupied one of the ward four seats and had to resign.

Ms.

Mr.

Sleezer is eligible and wishes to serve.

Is there a motion?

Councilwoman Polenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um Jesse is president of Mountain Ridge Little League out in the Northwest about 10 years ago.

They made a big run to the Little League World Series.

Really proud to have him.

He's agreed to serve on our Parks and Recs Advisory Commission.

I can think of no better person who spends seven days a week at our parks to serve in this position.

Uh with pride, I uh move to approve item number 29.

Thank you so much.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item 30.

Discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee uh Kenneth Kraft to the ward six seats of the traffic and parking commission and the traffic signal capital improvements advisory committee.

Mr.

Ronald Calderone occupied the ward six resident seat on the traffic and parking commission.

His term has expired.

Mr.

Calderon was originally appointed to the ward six seat on the traffic signal capital improvements advisory commission board on 2021.

A recommendation can be made at any time as a members serve until replaced, but it is usually done in conjunction with the replacement of a ward specific seat on the traffic and parking commission.

Is there a motion?

Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you, Mayor.

Ken Kraft was very involved with his North Las Vegas community, and we stole him away.

He's now a resident of ward six.

And so I'm happily willing to nominate him or to approve the nomination to have him serve on the traffic and planning sorry, traffic and parking commission and the traffic signal capital improvements advisory committee.

Thank you so much.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Agenda item.

Agenda item 31 recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting.

Councilman Kenudson, would you like to have the bill read?

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2025-36, an ordinance to amend various sections of L VMC chapter 6.75 relating to short-term residential rentals to confirm the definition of the term to the definition of that term as found in L VMC Title 19.

Update and clarify requirements relating to owner occupancy and liability insurance and provide for other related matters.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Councilman Kenudson, would you like to have this bill read?

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2025-37 in ordinance to amend L VMC Title 7 by adding a new chapter therein, designated as chapter 7.43 to require certain owners and operators of commercial establishments engaged in the business of handling pets to complete a training course on handling pets and to provide for other related matters.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Agenda item 33.

Council a councilman Kenudson, would you like to have the bill read?

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2025-38 in ordinance to adopt that certain document entitled Development Agreement for Desert Pines, including the incorporated Desert Pines Development Standards and Architectural Design State Guidelines and other incorporated elements and to provide for other related matters.

Move to approve.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Count uh agenda item 34.

Councilman Knutson, would you like to have the bill read?

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2025-40, an ordinance adopting an extension of an advalorum property tax rate in the city of Las Vegas for the purpose of employing police officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as required by the Senate Bill 451 of the 83rd 2025 session of the Nevada Legislature in providing for other related matters.

Mayor, with your indulgence, Jeff Dorcak City Attorney.

I need one minute.

If possible, yes, of course.

Thank you, ma'am.

As I mentioned with the bill title, this bill will adopt an extension of an already existing property tax rate that is effective for all city of Las Vegas residents for the purpose of employing Metro Police officers as mandated by the legislature this past session.

This bill is an extension of the existing tax that was approved originally by voters in a general election vote in 1996, which imposed a 20 cent per 100 valuation property tax rate on all the homes in our jurisdiction and Clark County that are covered by the Metropolitan Police Department.

In 1997, the state legislature set that uh property tax to end in 2027.

As a result, this past session, uh the legislature went in and extended it for 30 years through 2057 with the passage of, as mentioned, Senate Bill 451 for the city and the county.

As part of that bill, the state legislature required both the Clark County Commission and this city council to approve a corresponding ordinance to take care of the extension.

Uh finally, of note on the property tax money itself, because of the imposed property tax caps and property tax abatements that came into effect in the early to mid-2000s, even if the legislature had not extended this property tax because it came into effect in the late 90s.

The property tax would have been backfilled by abated property tax.

In other words, no matter what, uh the property tax rate, the property tax bill of people in the county and the city affected by this property tax would stay the same.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 35.

Uh item 35 bill 2025-39 will be heard at a later meeting.

Agenda item 36.

Item 36 is on the consent agenda, is considered to be routine and is recommended for approval by the Department of Community Development.

Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion to approve this consent agenda?

Move to approve the consent agenda.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Item numbers 37 through 42 appear on the one motion, one vote agenda, and may be considered in one motion, one vote, as they are routine items with no condition changes.

Any person representing an application or a member of the public or member of the council not in agreement with the conditions of all standard conditions for the applications recommended by staff should request to have that item removed from this portion of the agenda.

Item 37, 25-0350-SUP1.

Applicant Zera India catering, Inc.

Owner Mercado 888 LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed 1,510 square foot alcohol on premises full use at 1118 South Rainbow Boulevard C1 Limited Commercial Zone Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson.

Item number 38, 25-0356-GPA1.

Applicant A4 Builders LLC Owner Andrew Grasso IV on a land use entitlement project request from PF Public Facility to M medium density residential on 0.16 acres at the southeast corner of Wilson Avenue and 10th Street Ward 5, Miss Summers Armstrong.

Agenda item 39, 25-0374-MOD1.

Applicant slash owner, the Howard Use Company LLC on a land use entitlement project request for the proposed modification of the Summerlin West Village 22 plan to amend the special land use designation of parcel B1 from VC M F3, Village Commercial Commercial High Density Multifamily to VC Village Commercial and Parcel L from VC M F 3 Village Commercial High Density Multifamily to SFSD, single family special lot development on 47.90 acres at the northeast corner of Sunset Run Drive in Surrey Bend Drive, Ward 2, Ms.

Kelly, Agenda Item 40, 25-038 for VAC1.

Applicant Taylor Morrison Homes of Nevada LLC owner, Holy Trinity Orthodox T Wahado Church et al.

on a land use entitlement project request for a position petition to vacate the public drainage easement generally bounded by Oakie Boulevard, Mohawk Street, L Parque Avenue, and Edmund Street, Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson.

Item 40, Agenda Item 41, 25-0397-RQR1.

Applicant Clear Channel Outdoor LLC owner, Safety Institute Buildings LLC on a land use and title and project request for a required review of an approved SUP-4521 for a 40-foot-tall 14-foot by 48-foot premise sign on 820 South Valley View Boulevard, C1 Limited Commercial Zone Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson.

Item 42, 25-0416, GPA 1.

Applicant owner, City of Las Vegas on a request to amend the City of Las Vegas Master Plan of Streets and Highways Map, Ward 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

The Planning Commission recommends approval of items 37 through 40 and 42.

Staff recommends approval of all items.

These are public hearings that I now declare open.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on items 37 through 42?

Hearing and seeing none, I'll close the public hearings.

Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion for the one motion, one vote items?

Madam Mayor move to approve items 37 through 42.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Okay.

I agenda item 43.

Items 43A was not part of the appeal, and items 43B was withdrawn.

Item number 44.

25-0304-VAR1 appeal item variance.

Applicant, um, owner, and uh may I ask you to please come forward if you are here for possible action on an appeal of the denial by the planning commission of a land use entitlement project request for a proposed residential accessory structure, a gym that does not conform to Title 19.06 development standards for steadbacks on 0.48 acres at 1540 South Tanaya Way, R.

E.

Residential Estate Zone Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson, the Planning Commission and the staff recommends denial.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

I see that the applicants are here.

Would you please state your name and perhaps spell your name for the record and then tell us about your project?

Of course.

Yeah, my name is Yongqing Ren.

My first name is spelled as Y-O-N-G, Q I N G.

My last name is spelled as Y U A N.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak here.

My name is Shundan Shao S H U N D A N and my last name is XIAO.

Thanks, Blue Attendee.

Great.

Yeah, so we'd like to start about uh we we actually moved from California to Vegas because we're able to work remotely and also we have a passion of poker.

So that's why we moved here.

And the reason we have a gym, because as you can imagine, that poker requires long hours of sitting, and it's important to keep our health physical health and having a gym at home is both very safe, reliable, and also lower maintenance from our perspective.

And the the reason I think we really appreciate the discussion last time, I think with the council about um, I think the the concern with the safety was already addressed.

The major feedback we got was the location of the gym, because there's some feedback from the board member that the backyard is also pretty is fairly large.

Why can't we just build it in a place or in the location where we don't have to apply for the variance?

So that's why we actually had a drawing here.

If you would like to take a look, uh but basically uh the the main point we're trying to address here is that are there other locations where the gym is more suitable?

And the answer is actually no, if you can actually see um this the design of our backyard.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Oh, that is nice.

Yes.

So as you can see, our our backyard is actually on a very steep slope, right?

So you can kind of see here.

I don't know if it's very clear.

Uh so it's actually not safe to build the gym in a very steep slope because you have heavy equipment, right?

So and also if you can see the only flat portion of our backyard is actually in the back, right?

And also we have a swimming pool in the middle, right?

And there's a lot of there's a pool equipment here, which makes this location also not suitable.

So that actually leaves us with only one option, which is the flat region in the back in the in the uh left back portion of the backyard.

And in order for us to keep a safe distance from some of the steps in the original swimming pool, that's why we only able to uh construct our gym in this lower portion of the backyard.

And that's the reason that we're applying for the variance.

In addition, we actually spoke to our neighbors before the construction idea, actually for our neighbors, um, even though like some of the neighbors are only touching the corner, like they they all feel like this is a good idea, and they actually signed a consent letter for us.

And also a couple days ago, another labor from like two blocks away came to us and said they they actually support our petition for this gym location.

I'm gonna quickly stop here and see if you have any questions.

Okay, I think what we're going to do is have a staff report, and then we'll ask members of the council if they have any questions.

So may we have a staff report at this time.

Yes, thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh Mayor, this is an appeal, as you noted, of the planning commission's denial of this application.

No evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented.

The applicant has presented a help self-imposed hardship by constructing a residential accessory structure that fails to comply with Title 19 setback requirements, and therefore stack or staff is recommending denial of the requested variants and therefore denial of the appeal.

Okay, thank you.

Um is there anybody wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Um are there any questions or comments from the council?

Yes, Ms.

Kelly.

Thank you.

Um you just review the process for me, Seth, um on how the appeals work, please.

Just in terms of I wasn't here when they first approached.

Sure.

Uh yeah, so Seth Floyd for the record.

So this initially came to planning commission on a variance request to allow some relief from the setback requirement because they are too close to the property line.

The planning commission uh move for and ultimately denied that request for a variance.

Uh, because it was final action at Planning Commission, the applicant had the option to appeal that to you, the city council to re-review that and make a new determination.

Okay, thank you.

And then when you had said in your report that there was no evidence of um, I'm sorry, I have it right now.

Yeah, hard to do that.

Thank you.

Uh it right in front of me, in fact.

Um the uh residents right here talking about this the slope of the property.

Was that not presented?

Uh I just want trying to figure out the relevance to this.

So Seth Floyd for the record, uh, I believe they did make that argument or or something similar to that argument at Planning Commission.

So we get our variance language from state law.

It's very narrow the circumstances under which a variance is appropriate.

Uh, and typically that would be if the lot is irregularly shaped such that you couldn't put a structure because of the shape.

Uh the slope here is uh in my view not significant enough that an alternative location couldn't be found.

So that's how we reached that conclusion.

Thank you.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Okay.

Does anybody else have any questions?

Um Seth, I'd like to know.

Can anybody from uh that see this addition from the street?

So Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

In one of the photos, um if if Jeff can go back to the photos that were scrolling, there is a uh a photo from the front, the other one, Jeff, the next one that's yep, you can see it in the back from there, uh although it is in the very back.

But that that picture was taken from Tanea.

I see.

Okay.

Did you un Okay?

Go ahead, Ms.

Bruni.

Hi, I have a question.

Are the neighbors next to you and behind you?

Are they in support of Yeah, four neighbors?

We also have another support letter from uh another neighbor that's not oh yeah, old neighbor that's touching the bond we have to sign them.

Yeah, old neighbors uh plus this neighbor who actually came to us the other day to send the support.

Yeah.

Okay.

Any other questions?

In that case, uh, is there a motion, Mayor Pro Temp?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I appreciate the presentation.

We haven't met.

Um I typically rely on my planning commissioner to make the decisions around all of my residential areas.

He spends quite a bit of time reaching out to to folks.

Uh he did reach out um and asked for some level of compromise, and there wasn't any agreement to compromise.

He also asked for compromise at the planning commission meeting, there wasn't any agreement to compromise.

Um I'm not sure if they've already started construction.

I believe you've already started construction without the appropriate variance.

So Seth Floyd for the record, I I believe it is still in the condition that you saw in the photo.

So some of the construction has started, yes.

Yeah, so if if you would have followed the proper process, um but the planning commissioner would have been willing to work with you, um, but you weren't willing to compromise in any way.

And so I I tend to follow my planning commissioner's recommendation, which would be to uh deny the appeal.

Can I ask one more question before we vote?

Um can uh can they uh if in fact there is a compromise possible, can they come back and re-petition the city council?

So Seth Floyd for the record, mayor, if they are denied, they would have uh a one-year cooling off period essentially where they could not bring the same application.

Um if it were obeyed and they were willing to look at it, they could certainly explore some other options uh and then if that was your pleasure, they could bring that back with a revised design.

Can I ask a question?

So because we weren't here for the planning uh commission meeting the first time, what kind of compromises were proposed during that meeting?

Mr.

Floyd?

I would have to review.

I don't remember exactly what uh the discussion was on the compromise because there were no plans that were presented and it was all verbal discussions, so I'm not exactly.

It was a verbal discussion, and the planning commissioner at that at the meeting asked if you would like to uh think about moving it to a different location.

The I understand the the grade variance or the slope within your backyard is a concern, but he also asked about potentially moving the pool equipment and all of this was to align with what the rest of the neighborhood looks like.

The rest of the neighborhood doesn't have buildings right next to somebody else's backyard.

So he was trying to figure out if there was a way to compromise and meet in the middle, but at that meeting there was no compromise requested or offered.

Um in those in the days since that last meeting, no one's reached out to our office to offer a compromise either.

So I would stick with my motion, which would be to deny.

Um let me ask one other question.

Um if they uh decided to withdraw this item at this time.

Can they start negotiating with uh the city to see if we can't come up with a compromise?

So Mayor Seth Floyd for the record, I would defer to Jeff on this, but I believe if they withdraw the item before you is an appeal.

So if they withdrew the appeal, what would be left is the denial from planning commission.

So I'm not sure that would quite get you where I think you're trying to go there.

I think the if if you were looking for them to compromise the abeyance is probably the better way to go because that buys some time to have that discussion because a denial has already happened at planning commission.

If they chose to do that, would be able to be able to remand it back to the planning commission.

I'll defer to the city attorney on that one.

Uh describe that again, MPT, please.

If they wanted to obey and think about doing a compromise, would it would I be able to remand it back to the planning commission is yes, and I will go with that because we have done a remand before on various items, and obviously not the exact same as here, but um it would we'd have to word it just right with your motion, which I don't think would be that difficult, but remand uh to the planning commission so long as a uh substantive change is made with the proposal, right?

We don't want them just taking the same thing back to planning commission.

Something like that.

That would be the compromise that I would offer is my planning commissioner is really good and spends quite a bit of time with people and really puts a lot of thought and energy into helping people get to that variance approval.

If you're willing to take time and go back through that process and compromise where it's appropriate, then I'm happy to remand it back to the planning commission if if the city attorney agrees.

And when when you talk about compromises to replan where the structure is.

Correct.

Yes.

Yeah, maybe we can also share some context here.

Uh last time the contractor company actually represented us uh in the in the meeting.

And um when we first moved here, we were actually not aware that we need to apply for this process because uh we kind of trusted the contractor to take care of it.

But the you can see the project was paused because one day I kind of stumbled stumble upon a neighbor who is actually working for the city, and he told us, oh, I saw your you guys are working for this structure here.

It looks pretty nice.

And we started talking, and he's like, oh, you actually have to go through this process to apply for the approval.

So we were actually capping the dark for for a long time.

And that's why we kind of um asked our contractor to represent us in this, and we always got the promise that you know the the variance or like the structure approval should be okay.

So I think we really get some advice on like how to proceed from here, because if we had known that we should have started the process at the beginning, like if we were not kept in the dark, we would have followed this from the start.

But now we're also kind of in this difficult spot uh now that we have a structure that's not finished, and we actually specifically ask them to pause this uh ourselves and to basically obey like this struct this process.

I uh you should probably find a different contractor that does understand the process and hopefully they're licensed and bonded and doing uh the work as they are legally required to do.

My challenge is for the rest of my colleagues is I have a lot of uh unpermitted work in my ward, and so I struggle with because there's several items coming before the next planning commission where one neighbor is fighting with another neighbor because they did go through the right process and the other neighbor did not go through the right process, and it just becomes a back and forth.

So if I bend on one issue, then I have to justify every other issue that comes before me and my planning commissioner.

So the option would be is if you want it, I'm happy to remand it back to the planning commission.

Um, but he is going to ask you to compromise, and my suggestion would be is to find a different contractor that's legally bonded and licensed and understands the rules if you want that.

Yeah, the contractor is actually legally licensed.

Uh so that's why we are if you're I would check on that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we checked.

We actually checked on the website.

Well, he didn't he did not do a good job of representing you at the planning commission.

We wonder if there's like legal action we can take against him.

That's not for me to answer.

The question for you is I can deny the appeal now, or would you like for me to remand it back to the planning commission and start working with the planning commissioner?

Yeah, I think that would be the best option for us.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

Okay, then I'm gonna ask for help from the city attorney on how I do that.

MPT's motion is gonna be to remand for redesign and a reconsideration by the planning commission.

Do the uh community development department folks want to have an outside end date for them to pull all this off so we don't have it kind of just out there forever.

Uh so the next uh probably available planning commission for us would be the January.

So if if we want to remand that to the January Planning Commission meeting, that gives them time to submit revised plans and for us to review those.

And we would need that submittal by the time.

I'm looking at Peter um this Thursday.

We have it.

We have a closing this Thursday, so if they can get a revision in by this Thursday, that would want you to be able to do that.

Do the next one then?

So February would be the next one with a closing in December.

So what would I I would suggest if if you're willing to do that is I'm happy to work with you if you want to reach out to my office and ask for guidance on how to walk through the process.

I am going to connect you with the planning commissioner again, his name is Commissioner Jeff Rogen.

Um, just to say what his thoughts and expectations would look like.

He he is pretty willing to compromise, and so it's just kind of going back and forth with him on how he feels comfortable making uh an approval of a variance, and then if we give you time, which would be the February Planning Commission meeting, it gives you f time to work it out with your contractor, whoever you choose to work with, um, but make sure they understand what the process for the city looks like and understands and and uh informs you appropriately.

Is that fair?

Yeah, yeah, that's fair.

Okay.

Uh, Mayor Pro Tem, would you withdraw your original motion before you make the next one?

I will withdraw the emotion the motion to deny the appeal and make a new motion to remand this to the planning commission for the February.

Sorry, Mr.

Floyd, I forgot.

February 10th.

Okay, so I'm gonna re rescind the first motion.

The second motion will be to remand this item back to the planning commission with substantial changes to the plans already submitted for the February 10th planning commission.

Okay.

Shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

I do wish you the best of luck.

I I love working out in gyms, so I I I hope we can come to a compromise and you can get your gym and reach out if we can help in any way.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 45.

25-0361-VAC1 appeal item vacation applicant stone land holdings LLC owner, Clark County Vacanceries of a CAB of the CAB properties LLC for possible action on an appeal of the approval by the Planning Commission on a Land Use Entitlement Project Request for a petition to vacate U.S.

government patent easements generally bounded by Alexander Road, El Capitan Way, and Giuliano Road, R1 single family residential zone, ward four, Miss Alan Polenski.

The Planning Commission and staff recommend approval.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Does the applicant wish to come forward?

Good morning, Jennifer Lazovich, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here today on behalf of the uh developer of the project and the original applicant for the vacation R office did not file this appeal.

So uh perhaps if the person who appealed it is here, they could make a presentation and then I could fill in, or I'm happy to talk about the vacation, but we didn't appeal this, so I just want to make that clear.

Is there anybody here that wishes to address this item?

Is there a staff report?

Yes, madam mayor.

Peter Lowenstein for the record staff has no objection to the vacation of the U.S.

government patent easements and therefore recommends approval of the petition to vacate with the original conditions, and so we do not support the appeal.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing.

Does the app uh applicant are there any questions or comments from the council?

Okay, very good.

Um is there a motion, Councilwoman Palensky?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Without representation from the resident who filed the appeal, I feel like there's no other choice other than to deny the appeal and move forward the project.

Thank you.

So denial of denial of the appeal is approval of the vacation.

Correct.

Thank you.

Okay, so um if we vote if the council members vote yes, that's the appropriate vote.

All right, shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Item number 46.

4624-0508 tabled item re notification on the following land use entitlement project request.

Um see uh on 0.32 acres, generally located west of Harvey Mumford Street, approximately 725 feet south of Washington Avenue, 46A 24-0504-VAR1, tabled items re-notification to allow a 60-foot law lot width where 100 feet is the minimum required.

Uh 46B 24-0508-o-n one tabled item re-notification from RE residential residence estates to C2 General Commercial.

The applicant is Champion Resource Group, LLC, and the owner is DFA LLC.

The Planning Commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong in our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes.

Would you like to tell us about first?

Would you give your name and then will you tell us about your project?

Sure.

Lloyd Benson.

Um my address is 7140 Doe Avenue 89117.

Um the property that you're speaking of, Mayor.

Um let me just put this map gives you a better idea of what we're talking about.

So uh this land uh on West Bonanza, over the years that Aheard Rentals has been in business, has purchased properties over the many years, and some of it has been rezoned to accommodate the business's growth.

And some of it that's more been recently acquired, uh hasn't been rezoned.

So what we're trying to do here is just get all the properties conformed into one zoning, just to kind of clean up the zoning in the area.

Um another part of that puzzle is that I'm not that young anymore.

We're all getting older, including Don Ahern, and uh he sold his company in 22 to United Rentals, was an asset sale.

So he owns the land still, uh leasing part of it to United Rentals so they can continue with their business model.

Umetheless, uh it's a lease, so there's a couple years left on the lease.

There's gonna come a point in time because of the age of both of us that something's gonna have to happen with that land, whether it's uh developed into something or it's sold.

And I think both of those things are easier to do if the land is zoned, if the entire block of land that he's purchased over the years is zoned uh with the same zoning.

Okay.

So does this show up on the on your screen?

Oh, yeah, there it is, right there.

Okay.

So I know that some of the the properties that have been denied by the planning commission or that have recommended denial by the planning commission are properties that don't meet the criteria to re to be rezoned commercial, and that's because the frontage doesn't meet the minimum requirement of a hundred feet.

Do I need to flip that?

Okay.

Okay.

So this is this is the property we're speaking of.

Along here, this is Washington.

This is Harvey Mumford Street, and this along here is Bonanza.

And then this street here is Clark Way.

So in totality, this acreage right here represents about 50 acres, uh, broken up into several different zones, several parcels are differently.

Um the the one on Harvey Mumford Street, this little piece right here, I think the frontage is like 60 or 80 feet.

Um for us to merge it, so the the purpose of rezoning it right is to merge it into one parcel.

And for us to, before we can do that, we have to make sure that all the parcels are zoned the same before it can be merged.

This is currently RE, and and so for us to get to that point where we merge the properties, we have to uh to get it zoned C2.

So that's part of the that's part of the the issue.

The other issue is uh all these properties that are circled with the different zonings, um, are owned by DFA, Don Ahern.

The uh the ones that aren't circled are owned by private individuals, which would be this one right here and this one.

Those are the only two properties other than one out here on Bonanza that uh uh that Don doesn't own, that TFA doesn't own.

So that's kind of my story.

Okay, thank you very much for sharing your story with us.

Uh staff could uh we have a report.

Yes, thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh Mayor, this item was tabled at the August 6th, 2025 City Council meeting and has been re-notified to be heard today, as you mentioned at the beginning.

Staff finds the proposed rezoning from RE to C2 is not appropriate and not consistent with the adjacent single family dwellings bordering the site, as the rezoning would allow intense commercial uses commonly located along commercial corridors and other commercial areas to encroach into an existing residential neighborhood and directly adjacent to a single family residence, and therefore staff is recommending denial of the land use entitlements.

Thank you.

Is there anyone else wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Miss Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, and thank you very much, uh, Mr.

Benson, uh, for being here.

Um we've had a couple of several conversations about this, and um I've expressed uh my concerns to you all about what happens on Harvey Munford.

Currently, we have three um families living on that street.

Um they have been there for years, and although you have individual agreements with them about some future use of their land, they still live there.

And our consideration for what you're asking for on in this uh on this item is would be considered spot zoning, in my opinion, because the street is currently zoned RE, and you want to change it in order to do a combining, but you can't combine because you don't own two of the properties.

And as I've expressed to you all before, um part of the job that I hold is to have consideration for the people who are already existing and living in these communities.

And at this point today, I just cannot believe I cannot agree with the rezoning there on these.

Once you have control of those two properties, um, I think that's a different conversation.

But to put commercial use where we already have two residences on that side of the street and then one across the street, I think it would be um uh inappropriate at this time.

So I have statements from both these individuals.

Do you mind if I read them?

It doesn't matter.

I mean, yes, you can.

Yes, you want to read them.

Yes, I'm sorry.

Okay.

Um Macon Jackson, he lives right here.

This is his property right here.

He stays, dear city council.

I've been asked to give a statement about the zoning applications for the properties next to my home.

Honestly, I know this area is going to become commercial at some point, probably sooner rather than later.

So this is just part of how things are developing.

I've known Don Ahern and Lloyd Benson for many years and consider them not just neighbors but friends.

They've always been straightforward, respectful, and fair, and I trust they'll handle this process the right way when it comes to me and my property.

From my perspective, I don't have any concerns about the rezoning at all.

In fact, I think it could end up being really beneficial down the line.

I'm confident that whatever happens will be managed responsibly, and I feel good about the changes coming to the area.

Overall, I'm supportive of the process, and I'm looking forward to seeing how things develop.

Sincerely, Megan Jackson.

Uh James Gray has this property right here.

Um Dear City Council, Mr.

Benson asked me to write a letter expressing my feelings about the rezoning for the property around my home.

I have known Don Ahern a very long time, and I've done business with him over the years.

We have developed a friendship.

He is a good friend, and he is always willing to help out.

I support him with this because he has always supported me.

I have no problem with the commercial zoning, uh James Gray.

Can I ask you a question?

You're not planning on evicting these uh people that live there at this time.

No, madam.

Um we actually have a handshake agreement with both of them.

Uh James is looking at other properties.

If he found a property that would be acceptable, he would move tomorrow and we would buy his property, and he and we're working with him to that end.

Macon Jackson is the same situation.

Uh we've talked about buying Macon's property.

He's agreed to sell it to us.

Uh and uh and he too, he's not ready to move to be honest with you.

But his his family built that house in the 60s.

I think he said 63, and he knew eventually that that the property would eventually be torn down to make way for other development.

And he says, We're to that point.

He says, So if if uh if you don't need my property right now, um I'll just live here.

But if you do need it for some development, I would be happy to sell it to you today.

Okay.

And Macon would be here today, but he he's working, and James Gray would be here today too, but he's his health uh doesn't allow him to be here.

So that's why I brought the statements with me.

And yeah, any other members of the council that wish to speak at this time.

Yes, Mayor Pro Temp.

Just a quick question.

Is there future plans for that area?

Like, have you thought about what the development would look like outside of the zoning?

Yes.

So Don hasn't given me the uh the freedom to speak to the to those things, but yes, we we do have a two or three ideas uh for development, and it would be consistent with that whole area, believe me.

And the other uh the other idea that that we've talked about is just selling the property to a developer that would promote uh some of those ideas that that he has for developing.

But there are some there are some thoughts about that.

Uh I'm not privy to to talk about it in public, but I would probably be happy to sit down with the council one-on-one or uh or as a group with Don Ahern there, and he can tell you what those plans are anybody else wishing to comment.

Yes, yes.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, Mr.

Benson, can you I guess educate some of us are kind of like we know you're you're requesting the zone change for a future project.

Um I know you have significant land holdings on this entire in this entire space.

Can you make it clear, I guess, to us what you all currently own and what you don't, just so that we can kind of keep that.

This this map doesn't show the entirety of the the property that we own over there, but it's the bulk of it.

So Washington, uh Harvey Mumford, Bonanza, and Clark Way.

So Clarkway is the street just before Tonopah going west, okay.

Uh there's property that we own going west on uh beyond Clark, or I would say between Clark Way and Antonopah.

But speaking to this section, this is about 50 acres.

Um we do not own the two the two properties I just mentioned, Macon Jackson's property, which is this one, and James Gray property, which is this one.

And across the street, and that's the only two.

Across the street, we own all the property between Bonanza and the 95, from MLK down to about Tonopah, which would be about right here somewhere.

Okay.

So that's kind of the land holdings in that area.

Um sorry, we think that's surveillance.

Well, sorry, on the other side of Harvey Mumford Way, uh, which fronts MLK.

We own three lot, these three lots right here that are that are circled.

And two of those, and those are some of the lots that are on the agenda to be rezoned to C2.

So this this piece right here is the one that uh the ones across the street are zoned, I think, like manufacturing.

Um but but this the bulk of the property, which is this 50 acres here, is the one is is the is the properties that we're trying to uh uniformly get zoned C2 so that everything is and then at that point after there's zone C2, uh we'd like to merge all the partial all the parcels.

Uh this piece right here, this yellow piece that's R3.

That used to be an apartment complex called Desert Gardens, and it was a mess.

Um, in fact, do you mind if I read a letter from President uh from President from Sheriff McMahill?

Yes, please regarding that.

Okay.

This R3 property represents about 25% of that 50 acres.

It's right in the middle.

And uh I started purchasing that about seven years ago.

It's been a it's been a long journey.

Uh when I went over there to confront the the owner to see if we could purchase it, because it became infested with crime.

It was horrible.

And so I went over to see if we could purchase it, and I found out that in 2005, these 148 units had been condominiumized.

So now I'm dealing with not one owner of the apartment complex, I'm dealing with 148 different landowners.

So this is the letter that, and I partnered with the Metropolitan Police Department to help me with this because it was so crime-ridden.

Uh, this was dated May 23rd, 2025.

Dear Mr.

Benson, on behalf of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to you, Don Ahern and Ahern Rentals for your unwavering commitment and long-term efforts toward the redevelopment and beautification of the historic West Side neighborhood.

Specifically, the acquisition of the Desert Gardens condominiums at 1720 West Bonanza.

This project, almost a decade in the making, represents more than just a real estate transaction.

It marks the turning of a new page for a property that for years had been a focal point of criminal activity and concern for both LV MPD, Bolden Area Command specifically, and the surrounding community.

The Desert Gardens condominium complex was plagued by some of the most dangerous criminal elements we confront as a department with a high frequency of emergency calls.

Domestic violence was the top call for service at the complex.

Officers responded to over 500 calls from 2018 until the the apartment complex was demolished in 2022.

Additionally, the complex saw 187 violent offenses, including assaults, robberies, sexual assaults, and homicides since 2018.

Your tenacity and investment in this property in this project reflect a clear dedication to the betterment of the historic Westside neighborhood and the city of Las Vegas.

Transforming a site long associated with crime and instability into a place of renewed opportunity requires tremendous effort and vision.

At LVMPD, we truly appreciate partners like Ahern Reynolds who step up, commit resources, and dedicate themselves to the challenging work of making lasting community change.

Your actions are contributing to a safe to safer neighborhoods and a more helpful future for residents who have long deserved better.

Please accept this letter as a formal expression of our gratitude and support.

We look forward to continued collaboration and to the positive impact this redevelopment would bring to the Las Vegas community.

With sincere appreciation, Kevin McMahill.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Mayor Pro Temporary Just a quick question to Mr.

Floyd or Mr.

Lowenstein.

Whoever wants to answer it.

I I know there's a couple of other items on the agenda, and I kind of hinted at this in the briefings as I just got confused by the number of items.

Do the other items how do they how do they align with this item or not?

And I apologize for my confusion.

I don't know how I was to ask that question.

So Seth Floyd for the record, well, they're they're technically all separate uh requests.

I think what Mr.

Benson is doing is sort of showing you the bigger picture of what all of those requests look like.

So you have it, you do have a few items on here.

There's the rezoning that's the subject of item 46, which is the little small parcel on Harvey Mumford.

Uh there is a rezoning request also for that R3.

Well, it's a it's a bunch of parcels, but for the R3, and then there's the the two the there's a couple of RE parcels.

Um sorry, Lloyd, I'm maybe going to a little too fast there.

If you want to point out where those are, that'll be the easiest.

So that's that's 46.

Uh, and then if you want to show where your others so you've got those three are also a rezoning request.

That's 47.

That's 47.

And then 50.

Let me make sure I give you the right number.

53.

52.

Sorry, 52 is the large uh R3 parcel.

Uh 54 is um corner.

Uh sorry, 54 is the northwest corner.

5253 is the one 53 is yeah, sorry, I may have my numbers off.

I'm just trying to show you exactly where all of these would be.

The last one is those.

And then the last one is those three that uh Mr.

Benson's just pointing to uh along MLK.

So the way they all relate is if all of those were rezoned, this map would look a little bit different because all of those would be C2 with the remainder as uh which they do not own as RE, and then there's a uh PR as well and a C1 on the hard corner of MLK.

One one last question to make it more confusing for everybody for me.

Um so I'm always looking about the potential of rezoning and potentially putting parcels together so that development becomes possible in Ward 1 with a combined C2 zoning in this area.

What are the development possibilities?

So Seth Floyd for the record with I mean there are there are a number of permitted uses uh within C2.

Typically, you think of C2 as your uh most intense commercial district, less intense than manufacturing, but you would get your um auto uses, uh there's they have a trade school on their C2 use, um contractor yards, um, and I'm sorry there's a longer live, but they would get everything that comes along with C2.

So if you look at our permitted use table, anything that's in C2 would now be permitted in those areas Councilman.

One of the reasons we landed on C2 is the the bulk of the, I would say over 50% of it is already C2.

So that's why we decided on the C2 zoning.

Mac McKnight uh 4310 Premieria best.

Also, part of the uh variances and stuff with with this right here becoming uh uh C2, the school they've got a truck driving school here that has been there, and we can't by code, can't go through an R3 location to get to the school because that's the way they have access to that area.

So we have to do a C2 to allow us to get even in there, which we didn't realize that was an issue until this whole process came about.

So all of that action also affects this too.

Sorry.

Thank you.

Um Ms.

Alan Kalinski.

Did you care to speak?

Okay.

Uh thank you, madam mayor.

Um I have known Don Hayaron for over 25 years, and um he has been a friend and uh a great part of the city of Las Vegas, for my opinion.

And he has been talking to me for my three years on city council specifically about this project with this excitement of collecting up all the monopoly pieces to bring forward at some point a really big project, which I have verbally been supportive of him uh in the last three years.

I had no idea until your remarks five minutes ago that you would object, uh, which puts me in a strange position here.

But I've also known Makon Jackson, I've been in that house.

I'm kind of thinking what would Harvey Mumford do, and I'm pretty sure that he would be in favor of some sort of big project.

But uh I wanted to be clear to anybody who's listening that uh that this collection of land could potentially be uh monumentous for us at the city of Las Vegas, and I just want to keep that on everybody's forefront and make sure everyone's mindful of that.

Councilwoman is Summers Armstrong and respectful all at the same time.

Thank you to all of you for your questions and your input.

Um I live across the street.

The neighborhood directly to the north, my husband and I purchased land there in 1997, and we raised three sons in this house since 1999.

I know Mr.

Ahern too.

I've seen that the collection of the property, and I'm not opposed to it.

But we live in a in a in a reality where a to move out of this neighborhood, move into anything even similar, not even similar.

The cost of a house right now is 485,000.

Mr.

Harvey Munford's property went after he passed, and what he sold, what his family sold it for his wife was less than 300.

We have to be honest about allowing the people who live on that street the opportunity to relocate and not be forced to relocate because everything around them is changing, and they're the last ones standing.

This is still zoned in RE Street.

This is where people live.

And that is whether not allowing spot zoning is appropriate at this moment.

And my position is still holds is that we have residents who live on the street, and until they own that property, they can't combine anyway.

And also what is not being discussed is that we have code enforcement issues on these properties, which is part of the reason why we're here, because they started if we want to jump ahead to the item that has to do with the the trucking company.

They've been running their trucking company on RE property for years with the in proper zoning.

And these are not novices.

The ladies that were here before us before, they don't know what they're doing.

They're they're trusting someone.

This is not a novice company, and they if they didn't know, they should have known that they needed to go through the proper process before they began running their business, running trucks on that land without proper zoning.

So this is a multi-layered situation, and I think it requires a multi-layered and thoughtful solution.

Before you make a motion, um Ms.

Bruni.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just wanted some clarification.

Are you is one of the items that we're visiting today uh rezoning of the northwest parcel, the I think is that the orchard or those the orchards?

Yes, this is this is the orchard right here.

This is the green portion.

No, that does not it does not include that.

And the reason being as uh as I understand it, uh an orchard can't be zoned C2.

That's what I was wondering.

What was gonna happen if you were coming and asking for a C2?

So thank you for clarifying.

So we have that kind of in our back pocket.

If when the when the redevelopment happens of this parcel, then we'll be back to rezone that, and unfortunately, we'll have to bulldoze the trees.

So that's for can I can I say something?

Um councilwoman um mentioned that I'm running a trucking school on R3 property, which is not true.

Um this area, the trucking school is in this area that I'm outlining with my finger.

Right up here.

So this red part, it's all C2.

The trucking school has been there for about three years, and it's been operating for three years on C2 property, not on R3 property.

The uh the one the one caveat to that is that we used to access this property back here through the front gate, which would be right here.

Uh once United Rentals leased this property, there was a fence that went right down here.

And so that uh forced us to uh to ingress and egress the trucks through this R3 property, this driveway right here.

So that's another reason that I need to uh rezone this R3 property to see too, so I'm not driving my my school trucks on the R3 property.

Now the school is very important.

Uh in the last two years, we've probably we've probably had 800 commercial driver licenses that we've issued through the school.

Students that we've trained.

I've partnered with John Ponder, you might know him, he runs Hope for Prisoners.

We've actually put a school out at Southern Desert where we train, we've we've paved almost three acres of property out there on the uh Southern uh Desert Correctional Facility where we use our trucks to train these pre-release prisoners.

The beauty about that is these pre-release pre-release prisoners that have three or four months before their release, when they get out, they actually have a CD, a commercial driver's license, and a job waiting for them.

So this has been a game changer for uh for some of the individuals getting out of prison.

And they come back to this.

So I'm also a third party tester for the uh department of motor vehicles.

So not only do I train them, but I have certified testers that work for me that test them.

So they come from the desert from the from prison, and they come over here, they're they're brought over here by officers where they're tested to get their commercial driver's license, and they're transported over to the department of motor vehicles where the other picture taken and get their license.

So they actually have their license before they get out of prison.

So this is an important component to that whole process.

Is there any other council member wishing to speak before I entertain a motion?

Yes.

Oh, this is uh really difficult situation to put us in.

Um because I I am equally understanding both points of views, and it seems like we need to split a baby in like I don't want to split a baby.

Um just down my colleague, she's obviously in the neighborhood.

She's elected to represent her neighbors and her residence in the ward, and I know that that's a very important role that we have, right?

Sitting council members, and then we have you all that we know that uh everything that you've done for the city has been above board.

Um, and I know that you're trying to land us some future economic development opportunities, but we don't have that just to substantiate like justifying the zoning, right?

So I'm kind of in this weird middle where I'm like, I don't know, like uh we don't have the project plans quite yet to justify the C2, and then we have our colleague who's very invested in the neighborhood, so it really is it's really really um a difficult call.

Um I wanted to ask anyone from our city manager's team.

Let's say they land a couple of projects, they have the ability to move forward, they want to move forward expeditiously to be able to then transact because obviously they're the landholders, but if they land a couple of projects and bring some really good um economic diversification to the city, how quickly and how nimbly could we, if if not granted today, how quickly and nimbly could we look at that when something concrete is put in front of us?

So I just kind of want to have that in the back of our head as we're all munching this or mulling this over.

Uh councilwoman Diaz, uh Mayor and Council Mike Jansen City Manager.

I think the city prides ourselves on our expediency of processing development-related actions as well as the permitting that goes with them.

Uh the long pole in a tent is just usually the advanced notice that's required by state law to get an item on the agenda.

And so we have a certain advanced application uh to get on planning commission, a certain advanced uh period of time to get on city council.

But when a developer comes in and meets with our team and says we're interested in pursuing an entitlement of X, Y or Z on our property, uh, our process is pretty quick.

Um as it relates to the development of the site itself.

A lot of that really depends on how uh urgent uh the developer is in wanting to prepare their architectural engineering plans and go through the permanent process.

Some developers are much more uh uh expedient uh and others uh you know there's a there's a certain uh component related to financing or something else that uh stretches some of those things out.

I would just say, you know, this is a perfect uh example of how uh sometimes we have some very challenging entitlement requests to address when you look at the five items before you today, um, five of them have approval from the planning commission, but denial from city staff.

And that's why uh these these are these are the types of issues that are uh really at the end of the day, it's a policy question of what is appropriate uh for the um the location and the surroundings.

And uh uh that's why I think Councilwoman Summers Armstrong uh has a a tough uh uh situation here because there's so many things that are in play.

And I want to just reiterate you know, staff's flexibility to recommend denial or approval lies with the code, and so they could love the project, but if it does not comply with the code, they have to recommend denial.

The flexibility to consider things outside the code only falls upon the planning commission and the city council.

So hopefully that helps you just kind of get a picture of that.

And Councilwoman Seth Floor, I'll just uh Mike's exactly right about all of that.

I would just add one uh nuance here that if an applic if if you denied 46, for example, which is the rezoning request, there is a one-year cooling off period before they can come back with the same request.

So that could potentially affect timing if they were to assemble these properties within that time and attempt to move uh forward.

There would also likely be given the number of parcels and the size of these parcels, a mapping action uh that would have to happen along with any future development as well.

I'm just gonna chime in because I was feeling the same way that Councilwoman Diaz was.

Just curious about on your timing, like is there but the potential to bring these things back with the idea of what you think development could look like?

Even though you can't say it publicly, like privately, you're able to say that this is what the rezoning means, and this is what the development would look like because the picture is a lot easier to support than uh the rezoning, even though the rezoning is needed for the picture.

It's uh what comes first, the chicken or the egg, and I kind of get that.

But it's helpful to kind of put them together.

Yeah, before I ask that question, uh I have one um councilwoman mentioned spot zoning, and and I have a question about that.

Um if you go over to this side of the property, Clark Way, there's a property right here, you see part of it in red that was rezoned commercial this year.

And it's the only property on Clarkway that is commercial.

Isn't that spot zoning thank you?

Um with uh great respect and admiration, I will call for uh councilwoman Summers Armstrong to make her motion.

Uh before I make my motion, I want to just ask you all do you want to pause this until you're ready to deal with the two um homeowners?

Because I think what was said by uh Mr.

Uh Seth Floyd, Mr.

Floyd, was that if we deny it, you have to pause for a year.

So if something happens with your development concept, you won't be able to bring it back for a year.

And so I don't want to put you in that situation.

Um, in case you're able to work things out with the two residences so that you do own those properties, and then you can move forward with packaging.

But you also have a piece of land at Bonanza and uh Harvey Munford that you don't own, that clinic that is there, and so that also will not allow you to have a contiguous uh a continu contiguous piece of land, and so you're still not going to with so you're still in a situation where you've got three pieces of land on one side on that in that whole package that you don't have under your control.

Well I don't know what to say about all that other than um it seems to me, and in my uh limited ability to understand the all the processes in this uh meeting that if I have the support of the two property owners, 100% that should place something in this decision.

Well I don't know what to say about all that other than um it seems to me, and in my uh limited ability to understand the all the processes in this uh meeting that if I have the support of the two property owners 100 percent that should place something in this decision and both Harvey Mumford and Macon Jackson has given me a hundred percent of their support to rezone.

I don't understand why you don't take that into consideration.

I did take it into consideration.

I will entertain a motion at this time.

I I'm ma'am, may I just ask them one more time because I'm inclined to move for a denial.

And if I do that, you're barred for a year.

And I don't want to put you in that position, because I I still we've talked about this four or five times already.

I have a concern.

Do you if I deny if I move for a motion to deny it?

It's approved, you're barred for a year on just on this on these two on this Harvey Munford Street.

So we're just talking about the Harvey Munford properties.

We're not talking about the R3 property.

No.

Yeah, 52.

We are on 46.

47.

Uh-huh.

So we're just talking 46 here.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Right here.

This one right here.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, my two options are one, denial, and what's my other option?

Uh Mr.

Floyd.

Yeah, so Seth Floyd for the record.

So I think what uh if you did not want to move forward today and not get a uh denial or a vote either way, it would be a withdrawal without prejudice.

Um that takes the application off of our agenda, and you could bring it back at any time in the in the future with a new app with a new application, it would be a new submittal.

Mr.

Floyd, would that also apply to 47?

So if you were to incline to do the same thing on 47, yes, a withdrawal would mean that that comes off the agenda, they could bring it back at any time with a new submittal.

Okay.

Withdrawal?

Withdrawal.

Okay.

Madam Mayor, I'd like to move uh for a withdrawal of item 46.

And without prejudice.

Oh right.

Um shall we vote on that motion?

And this is what you are agreeing to.

As long as I understand that we're on the same, we're on the same agenda item.

So agent we're talking about agenda uh agenda item 46.

Item 46, which is the variance, right?

And 47.

Not we're not doing 47 yet.

This is 46.

Okay, 46 is the variance.

The variance, yes, and the rezonings, yes.

So you're withdrawing I'm withdrawing item 40 six.

And you know that you can bring it back at any time.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Um all those in favor of the motion that withdraws this agenda item, please uh vote.

Post motion carries agenda item 47 24-0510-ZON tabled item re-notification, rezoning applicant champion resource group, LLC owner D F A L L C for possible action on a land use entitlement project request from RE residentiates to C2 General Commercial on 2.68 acres, generally located at the southwest corner of Washington Avenue and Harvey Mumford Street, uh, Miss Summers Armstrong, the Planning Commission recommends approval, the staff recommends denial.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Um the applicant is present.

Would you like to tell us about this project?

Okay, so we're back to these three right here.

And and that's just part of the overall um plan to uh to uh to rezone all these properties consistently.

So thank you.

Yeah.

Uh uh staff, may I have a report?

Yes, thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh Mayor, similar to item 43.

Staff finds the rezoning would be incompatible with the existing adjacent low density residential zoning districts in the surrounding area and may allow more intense uses commonly located along commercial corridors to further encroach into an existing residential neighborhood, and staff therefore recommends denial of the request.

Is there anybody else that wishes to be heard on this item?

Seeing nobody, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Mayor and Seth Floyd for the record.

I'm sorry, I said item 43.

I'm in item 46.

Sorry, thank you for the clarification.

Members of the council.

Seeing no one, is there a motion?

Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

I would like to do the same thing, gentlemen.

If we can just withdraw.

Withdraw without prejudice and uh we can bring it, but you can bring it back once you've worked out these items, the the properties.

Okay, so I'm agreeable to withdraw that item.

All right.

Umers Armstrong, uh, are you are you saying that the um uh the parcels that are still in private hands need to be sold to Ahern before they can bring it back?

I'm trying to get a handle on what we're doing here.

Thank you, madam mayor.

I'm not certain how if if the if the overall plan is to develop the entire 50 acres, how can they do that if they don't have control over all the property?

And that's where they are right now.

And we have people who live on at least two of the properties.

Um I think that that has to be resolved in some manner that is legally binding in order to then them for them to move forward with a development agreement.

And you don't think that the letters of support for their project is sufficient is a letter of support binding in any contractual manner?

Jeff Dorkek City Attorney.

No, I I would describe it as a just a letter of support and to the question earlier from the applicant.

It it is evidence that the council could take into uh consideration, but um it's up to your discretion how you weigh it.

Okay, all right.

I um if there are no more questions from the count.

Oh, yes, Ms.

Falenski.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Uh if I guess this is a general question, I don't know if staff or uh Mr.

Bence would answer.

Uh we're speaking specifically to the three parcels circled.

Correct.

Are they occupied at all?

No, there's vacant land.

And it's commercial on C1 on one side and C2 on the other side.

Yes.

C one, R3.

And you own the land.

Yes.

I personally don't have any objection, but as I said before, I'm respectful of the councilwoman who uh who represents the area.

Thank you.

Uh I'll entertain a motion.

Uh councilwoman Summers Armstrong same motion.

Um withdraw without prejudice.

Please vote.

Post motion.

Post.

It's five to two.

Oh, here we are.

Okay.

Um the vote is five to two, so it passes agenda item 52.

25-030 on the following land use entitlement project requests on a portion of 29.09 acres on the southwest corner of Bonanza and Clark Way Drive.

25 uh 52A, 25030-ZON1 from R3 medium density residential, RE residence estates, and C1 limited commercial to C2 General Commercial.

Item 52B, 25-030-SUP 1 for a proposed trade school use, uh, commercial drivers license training.

The applicant owner is D F A L L C the Planning Commission and staff recommend approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 5, Summers Armstrong and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

The applicant is present.

Um is there any more you would like to tell us about your project?

No, I kind of gave you an overview in the beginning.

That was the the the this larger piece right here is the one I think we're discussing now, right?

And that was the letter I read from Sheriff McMahil.

And then these three.

And these three right here.

So we'd like to make this, and we'd like so we are we already own these right here.

This middle one is C one, it looks like the ones on both sides, but there's one tenant in there that utilizes the whole area, and he's getting ready to move out.

So we just like to be consistent in our zoning.

And if we're gonna rezone this R3 property to C2, we'd like to include these three properties on that front bonanza.

We also need the zoning.

So we have the ability to go through.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you very much.

Um, this is a public hearing.

Does anybody else wish to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Um, there any questions or comments from members of the council.

Just yes, Ms.

Um we're the rest of us are catching up because we haven't had um as much time.

So this agenda item 52A and 52b is the entirety of the yellow, correct?

Just so that I'm making an informed on that one?

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Any other questions or comments from the council?

At this time, I'll entertain a motion.

Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Just uh Mr.

Floyd, if you could just confirm.

Um my map says that this would include both the R3 property and the two RE little legs on the bottom and the C one.

Uh Seth Floyd for the record, yes, that is correct.

And you'll also notice on your header there are about 48 parcels.

Those were the condo parcels as well that were on the R3.

148, sorry.

Uh so all of those parcels are in.

So if you're wondering why the parcel list looks like that, it's because of those condo individual parcels.

Okay.

I move for approval.

All right.

Please vote.

Should we vote verbally?

Uh city clerk.

I'm voting yes.

I'm assuming that okay.

Uh motion carries unanimously.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Agenda item 54 through 54B, 5425-0332-DFAC LLC, are the following land use entitlement project requests on 1.65 acres located on the west side of MLK Boulevard, 370 feet south of Washington Avenue.

25 Dare 0332-VAR1 to allow an 80-foot lot width where 100 feet is required.

Uh point uh.08 acres, 54B, 25 DAR 0332-DON from RE residence estates and C1 Limited Commercial to C2 General Commercial.

The applicant owner is DFA L L C the Planning Commission recommends approval on the entire land use uh entitlement project.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

Uh these are in Ward 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

It's a public hearing, which I now declare open.

The applicant is present.

Um is there anything further you would like to share with us at this time?

Um the only thing I would add to that, Mayor, is the I think the denial stems from the fact that one of these parcels uh doesn't meet the minimum requirement of a hundred feet to rezone.

But we're rezoning it so that we can combine all these into one parcel.

And we have to do that before we can combine them.

Okay.

This is a public hearing.

Is anyone um interested in speaking on this item?

If not, I will close the public hearing.

May I have a staff report, please?

Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh, mayor, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented in that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing to rezone to C2, a parcel that does not meet the Title 19 development standards for lot width for that zone.

The lot with variance is therefore not justified by the physical site constraints, and therefore staff is recommending denial of the rezoning and the variance.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

Ms.

Kelly.

Councilwoman Kelly.

Yes, Ms.

Kelly.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is a pardon me, a point of clarification.

Um, and I don't know whether to direct to uh Mr.

Floyd or Mr.

Dorkett.

Is the staff when they do reviews, if it's not in compliance with an ordinance or a plan, is the staff allowed to uh still uh uh sugg uh recommend approval?

Okay.

Thank you.

Who wants to answer?

What Director Floyd mentioned earlier as practice, and I don't think there's anything that would allow otherwise in the code, which would make sense.

It's a very it's a straightforward technical black and white review.

Do these things meet Title 19, yes or no?

And that's what they go through, if not staff denial if they meet everything, staff approval.

And uh that's the end of the discussion.

Okay.

Um, is there a motion, Councilwoman Summers Armstrong?

You know what?

I think it would be a wonderful idea at this time.

Let us take a five minute break and we'll be back.

We're taking a five minute break.

I'd like to reconvene the meeting of the city council.

We are on item fifty-four, and I will entertain a motion, Miss Summer Armstrong.

Um it's occupied um house right adjacent.

Um staff gave their opinion.

Would you agree to at what we did with the previous ones?

Just withdraw with part uh with prejudice, and then once you have a um we've gotten things squared away, um we come back.

I would say yes, except I I have a hard time understanding the the thought process behind that because MLK is a major commercial corridor.

So you see all over the city where there's residentials behind the commercial land development on a major street like that, and behind it there's a street and residence.

It doesn't seem like that should be an issue to me.

The challenge that we have is that there Harvey Munford is an access street, and there's access onto those properties from Harvey Munford at this moment, not from MLK.

And so if you want to use them for any purpose while you're working your development, you would be access accessing it from Harvey Munford, which is a residential street.

If you look at all of the the two but book in commercials, they have access either from Washington or Bonanza or from MLK.

Those two don't have that, and we don't have any development.

Um we don't have a development plan for you right now, but if once the zoning is changed, you can still have some use of those properties in a C2 manner, and the only access is from Harvey Munford, which is a residential street.

So are you saying that C2 is the wrong zoning for these priority?

If I went in for a C1, you wouldn't No, I don't, I don't, I'm not saying that.

I'm saying that in the present condition without a plan.

Okay.

You're not bringing it a development plan, you're just asking for a rezoning.

If you had a development plan, we have we just did one a couple of weeks ago, same setup.

When they came to us, they came with a plan and we talked about access.

Everything was all wrapped in to one, and we knew that there would be no access on a residential street because that's how they presented it to us.

You're giving us step by step, which is fine.

Um, but we've made it, I've made it ask you, and you agreed on the other side of the street that's still residential.

You still have a neighbor that's residential.

Um I I would just like to allow you to be able to come back.

Okay.

All right.

So that would be my motion.

Um draw without prejudice.

Okay.

Thank you.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Okay.

We're gonna go back to item 53, which I inadvertently over uh passed over.

Um agenda item 53, 25-031-CON rezoning applicant owner D F A L L C for possible action on a land use entitlement project request from RE residence estates to C2 General Commercial on a 0.65 acres at 1700 Bonanza Road.

Planning Commission and staff both recommend approval.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

The applicant is present.

Is there anything else you uh wish to add?

Just that I got my fingers crossed that I can get this one through.

Um don't tell us about your project.

Um staff, you have anything you wish to contribute.

Uh yes, thank you, Mayor Seth Lloyd for the record.

The proposed rezoning from RE to C2 conforms to the existing general plan designation of commercial and is compatible with the JSON commercial and office land uses.

The subject site is located along Bonanza Road, a major collector, and is suitable for future commercial development.

Therefore, staff is recommending approval of the requested rezoning.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing.

Does anybody wish to be heard at this time?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from the council members?

In that case, I will entertain a motion, Miss Summers Armstrong.

I just have one question.

Um can you assure us that you will enter while while the land is empty, because it is empty right now.

And I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna air a little laundry here.

Okay, it's not dirty, but it's a little stained.

We had some problems and on Harvey Munford with condex containers lined up.

We're still having some issues with condex containers that are being placed on property and things are stacked up.

I think Mr.

Floyd can speak to that.

Um I need to just commit to that you will not run trucks down the street, um, that you'll enter from bonanza, um, and that we will have clear understanding of the storage issues that that we won't have a repeat of the storage issues that we have had on the R3 property and on the RE property at the top of the of the um of the street.

And Mr.

Floyd, if you could just kind of just give us a little brief overview of some of the challenges.

Sure, yeah.

Thank you, Councilwoman Seth Floyd for the record.

So going back about six or eight months, there have been uh uh several code violations on some of the properties that are reflected on uh the maps that uh Mr.

McKnight, Mr.

Benson showed.

One of those issues was the storage of connex containers.

Uh at least one of those cases has been closed, and we have been doing windshield surveys.

I think I believe you're right, there is one that is still uh open, and we will be following up on those as well.

So uh with your direction, if if this gets approved today on that site, we will we will keep an eye on that and make sure there's no improper outdoor storage on the site.

Okay.

Thank you.

Are we okay?

100%.

Am I right on that?

In that case, madam mayor.

I would um move for approval.

Thank you so much.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you all for your time.

Are we done here?

Thank you.

You tell me.

No, I think we are.

But I'll be back.

I I was gonna if you don't mind indulging me.

I'm inclined to support this project.

Um, I I think the plans are uh it is the future.

And uh I I'm assuming that you're planning on coming back uh with additional information at the appropriate time.

Yes, ma'am.

All right, we will look forward to uh seeing you at that time.

Okay, I would just want to weigh in as well.

I would love to uh a picture to see what the future plans are, and I also look forward to supporting the project.

Okay, thank you.

All right, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay, goodbye.

Okay.

Okay, I think are we uh okay.

Agenda item 51 has been held in abeyance.

We're at okay, give me a minute.

Okay, got it.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Items 48 to 48.

25 25-0286 on land use entitlement project requests on approximately 940 acres on the north side of Moccasin Road, approximately 16 feet east of U.S.

Highway 95.

Item 48A, 25-0286-CON 1 from you undeveloped, uh TND, traditional neighborhood development, general plan designation to T D Traditional Development.

48B, 25-0286-VAC1.

Petition to vacate portions of BLM right-of-way grant easements on the north side of Moccasin Road near the North Sky Canyon Drive line park drive alignment.

48 C 25-0286-DIR 1 regarding the adoption of the Monument Hills Development Agreement between the City of Las Vegas and Monument Hills Partners, LLC 48D, 25-0286-DIR2 regarding the adoption of the Monument Hills Parks Agreement between the City of Las Vegas and Monument Hills Partners, LLC, the applicant, the city of Las Vegas, and the owner is United States of America.

The Planning Commission and staff recommend approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 6, Ms.

Bruni, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

May I have a staff report.

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Peter Lenstein for the record.

This project is the culmination of over eight years of planning outreach and negotiations.

The project began to take shape with the adoption of the Upper Las Vegas Wash Vision Plan in 2017, followed by the City Council's selection of Olympia companies as the developer partner in 2019.

Since then, considerable efforts have been put forth to engage our regional partners and stakeholders, including the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, the National Park Service, the Protectors of Thule Springs, Bureau of Land Management, Clark County School District, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, as well as the U.S.

Air Force.

At the core of the project are two components that the city council has affirmed as a priority for the city.

Those being the development of a community within within the larger master plan development specifically for the military members and their families, and secondly, the establishment of an economic driver within the community that will bring highly skilled jobs to the area.

The plan before you accomplish those goals as well as others outlined within the Las Vegas 2050 master plan.

The proposed development emphasizes sensitivity to the surrounding natural environment, housing for local workforce, and promoting economic development.

The subject site does not encroach into the Thule Springs Fossil Bed National Monument, and buffering will be provided adjacent to both the monument and tribal lands.

The proposed rezoning to the TD Traditional Development Zoning District is in conformance with the underlying TND traditional neighborhood development, general plan land use designation, the associated development agreement and parks agreement are in conformance with the Nevada Rise Statutes 278.0201 and accomplishes the goals and objectives of the Upper Las Vegas Wash Vision Plan and the Las Vegas 2015 Master Plan.

Staff therefore recommends approval of the project.

Thank you.

Yes.

Good afternoon, your honor, members of the council.

My name's Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.

I'm here representing Olympia Companies, and with me to my left here is Chris Armstrong with Olympia Companies.

What Peter was mentioning is just give you a little bit of background about with about Olympia and the investments that they've made up in this northwest area to get to being selected as the master developer for this 940-acre BLM parcel.

And many of you have seen this as we've had discussions with you over the last couple of months.

What this is is a regional picture of the northwest area here, the map.

The property that we're going to be talking about today is this here.

I call it the blank canvas, which is up by the Paiute Reservation.

But I want to take you for a little bit of a ride going from the south of down the south of the northwest area all the way up to this project so you can appreciate the amount of economic development between the city and Olympia have created here leading up to the BLM 940.

The first thing I do want to point out is you see this red area here.

This is known as Sky Summit.

This was in Councilwoman uh Alan Polinski's uh area we just got done within the last year or so.

That took a year plus of negotiations.

This is a $2 billion economic development agreement that we put together where we are in conjunction working with the city to help build Sheep Mountain Parkway in this area.

Just directly across the street is Sky Hills, another development by Olympia that's under construction today, which is approximately another one billion dollars of economic development of infrastructure and value that's created in this area.

As you go further up along Sheet Mountain Parkway, this area is known as Sky Canyon.

Um we got this done many years ago, Sky Canyon in here.

This is about a $2 billion development agreement that I'm showing you here of stuff that's being done here.

This also was a part of Sky Canyon.

We called this at one point in time Sky Canyon East, that was the creator under Olympia Companies, which was sold over to Lenar Homes, which is now Sunstone, which is about a two and a half billion dollar uh development here for a master plan that's currently under construction.

Now it takes us north of Moccasin in this area for the 940 acres.

I'm proud, along with Chris, standing before you and working with your staff.

Today, what we're presenting to you is about a three and a half billion dollar development agreement that uh is planned for a master plan community called uh Monument Hills.

As Chris will tell you in Monument Hills, the goal is there's gonna be two types of people living there.

It's gonna be the people living in Monument Hills who live there, and the second person is gonna be the person who wants to live in Monument Hills.

I hear that from Chris all the time through the negotiations, and that's a motto of the Olympia.

So what I'd like to do is the neat thing about these development agreements, and when you're dealing with vacant land, it's like a blank piece of canvas here.

You just see the red here, and that's all you see.

After many meetings and many hours, and as I think Peter mentioned, there was a vision here about eight years ago.

We've been negotiating over six years.

Chris and I are still friends.

We still have respect with your staff, and uh your staff has been great to work with.

As a matter of fact, as I told Councilwoman Bruni, we're going through this process at one of the lower points of negotiations.

I looked at her and she didn't have the confidence.

I told her, I said, we're gonna get there, don't worry, this is how negotiations go.

And so that's why we're standing here today, and we're excited to present this development to you.

Now, as I I'm showing you all these different colors, and this is like the artist now is on the blank canvas, putting a community together.

So we've sat with your staff for over the last six years.

We created this vision up here in the Northwest.

We've worked many hours where councilwoman Bruni was in these negotiation meetings and was in there along with the language, and then at the end we had the closure with Mike coming in, your city manager, and Mike Jansen did a great job to wrap up most of the issues or all the issues is the reason why we're here.

But with that being said, there's some nuances here that are very important before I turn before I turn it over for any questions.

What is unique about this master plan community is this is going to be the first master plan community in the country that will have airport military housing, okay?

We have military housing that's prepared that's planned in this area, which is down in the southwest portion of our property here.

We've worked very long and hard with your staff and with the federal government.

We've been to uh Creech Air Force Base, we've talked to Nellis officials, we've been in communications with them with respect to this type of development.

And what's unique about this, the first in this country is we have no subsidies here that we're getting from the federal government or for the city.

Olympia's coming in here and they're coming in and they're building what is really needed, not only just housing is needed anywhere, but this here housing for military personnel.

So that's one of the great things that's coming out of this development agreement, and that's what I usually start with when I start talking about how great this community is going to be, because we're actually adding housing that's for a purpose for our military personnel who need that.

The other important piece here is known as the economic development parcel, as I'm showing you in this area here.

Uh we've had a lot of negotiations with your staff.

This is another key component of the development in this master plan community.

Uh what is in the development agreement, it requires us uh to work with the city.

It's either the city or us are gonna bring a uh developer here.

Um, the developer is a Fortune 500, Fortune 2000, it may be some type of private uh public sector company coming in here and coming in and developing.

A minimum of a thousand jobs is gonna be required, is that's the goal.

That comes out to probably about 300 to 350,000 square feet of some form of office space.

So this is a job creator.

Okay, not only now do we have the military housing, but we have a huge economic job creator as I'm showing you there.

This area here is where a mixed use commercial is going to be.

It's obviously uh we can't tell you exactly who's going to be the end user today for commercial, as you know, commercial changes over the years, and this is probably several years away, but we do have commercial, as Chris has told you, and he's in everybody knows Olympia has a commercial component that was critical when uh when they were selected in this process.

And so we have a commercial component here that will come forward when we're ready to come with uh the commercial users and end users.

Uh, the other important part here in this master plan community, which I also call somewhat of a first, is and this is with uh councilwoman's uh leadership here.

She wanted some type of form of some type of affordable housing here.

Okay.

And what Olympia is going to do, and what we've agreed with Mr.

Jansen and your staff and working through one of the final components here is we're gonna be providing that 150 AMI bumper, that benchmark in that area.

And what we've what we've negotiated with the units that would be in here in this M category in orange, in this mixed use category, and in this pink area, which is the military housing, that is where we're gonna have our what we call our affordable housing in that area.

So in the development agreement, there are certain requirements that we have to meet and report on, and we negotiated that in the details, but to let you know that is another key component where we're not getting any type of subsidies there, and this is something that Olympia is doing.

And we negotiated that in the details, but to let you know that is another key component where we're not getting any type of subsidies there, and this is something that Olympia is doing.

It's a little more of a haircut as you go through a development process, but that's what's been negotiated.

So in this area, there's a lot of action going on just in the southwest area.

And then one of the other things I want to point out is uh, as you can see with all of this development here, the different colors represent the yellow, the orange, uh represents the mixed uses of residential development.

This is a master plan that's gonna be 6,000 residential units.

When you multiply that part by people per household, that's approximately over 15,000 people.

It's a mini city that we're creating here, right?

Which is great, and that's why it's a 3.5 economic boost here to the economy of 3.5 billion economic boost.

Um, outside of that in the green areas, one of the things I do want to point out that was added on in the 11th hour, and this was with uh uh councilwoman Bruni wanted a part of her vision was having some added soccer fields.

So, as part of our agreement in here, this is a 10-acre site that is going to be designed for soccer fields, and in that area that will give you a conceptual um design in there that we added in this in our negotiations that came in within the last month or two over actually over the summer, whenever that was a few months ago.

The other thing of the master plan community, a part of what Chris always talks about is the building blocks of how they build their master plan communities for Olympia.

We got to have schools.

We've met with the school district in this area here.

We're looking to put a charter school first because respectfully it takes some time for the Clark County School District to get in here and start building schools.

So typically what Olympia do does in their master plan communities, such as Sky Canyon, they come in and they will go and find a charter school partner, discount the property to bring them in so we at least will have a school early on in this community, which is located here.

Um the other thing I do want to point out is uh as you may know, uh the city and Olympia has worked with the Paiutes for many years, okay.

And matter of fact, on record in this development agreement, we have what is known as an interlocal government agreement.

I think it's an IGA.

And in that interlocal um government agreement, there is agreement on development standards and design guidelines of protecting the golf course and the Pai U properties over here.

So what you have is some extra green space and buffering.

You have some single story homes to help protect the views, and there's other design standards and development standards that are a part of that agreement.

So we have set down, we as a team, meaning the city and Olympia have sat down with the Pai Utes over the years and kept them in communications, kept them a part of this development.

One of the other nuances, because there's a ton of open space here, as you can see in the trails that connect.

One of the neat things is if you're a resident out here, you're gonna be able to walk around the exterior of this project here because there's walking paths on the exterior.

It's about a three and a half mile loop.

So you could walk, you could run, you're gonna do whatever you want in this area.

There's gonna be interpretive trails in here, there's gonna be workout stations and so on.

So the last thing that I want to point as a reminder on behalf, and I know Chris is gonna say a couple things here, is we went through an extensive process to be selected.

Uh matter of fact, we we were in a competition with another group.

There were two groups, it was very extensive with the council.

Um, we were selected unanimously.

We've stayed uh stayed with the city for the last six years.

Olympia has spent millions of dollars, not on me, but on their other consultants, I wish, but uh on their other consultants and getting uh getting here on the fact of that we could get here for a development.

And uh I just a lot of thank yous out there.

I want to start with councilwoman Bruni.

She's been in all those, as I always say, she saw how the sausage got made in in these development agreements, and now she knows one day when this is built, she'll know all the little nuances of why things were agreed to and why we did this and did that.

And that's the cool thing about all the development agreements that Chris and I are involved in that I walked you up on that path going up is we know a little bit of everything about these master plan communities that no one will ever know, but those are things and memories that you have negotiating.

Your staff, you know, starting with Mike Jansen, you know, from city management on down, you have you have Seth, you have Peter, you have Lucian, yeah.

You have a total great team, right?

Uh the good news is we know each other so well from doing all these development agreements.

The bad news is it's kind of hard to argue because when you negotiate, you don't like to go negotiate against your friends.

It's easier if we were adversaries, right?

So uh that's a little bit hard when we when we do the negotiations, but we get the uh get the job done.

And um, with that, I think um that's pretty much it.

I'm gonna turn over to Chris fairly quickly.

But like I said, a lot of hours have been put into this, and this is gonna be a great product, just like all the other master plan communities at Olympia has done.

That's why I'm a little bit excited here and wanted to talk a little bit more than Chris because this is another jewel that we're getting done here today.

Thanks, Bob.

Appreciate that after all of Bob's words.

I don't know if I have anything else to say.

I think he got it all out on the table, but uh I just wanted to extend our appreciation.

It has been a you know a very long process, as Bob indicated back in 2019, and the process was a very open process, a very competitive process with a number of people who you know made the initial cut, I think, and then there was a final presentation between a couple of um teams.

Uh, we ultimately were selected uh unanimously um by the uh by the city council.

So uh we appreciate that.

And since that time, we've been working, you know, diligently with staff and all of our consultants, as Bob has indicated, uh tremendous amount of effort over the six years, and you know, a lot of outreach as well, which we take a lot of pride in in making sure that we're in regular communication with our our partners, so whether or not be the Paiute, whether or not be the National Park Service were um were coordinating some activities as we um develop our plan and our master plan for our parks and our um you know we've gonna have uh interpretive centers that involve the National Park Service as well as the Paiutes throughout our community.

So we're really excited about that, and like I said, take a lot of pride in in making sure that we have you know really good communication with all of the partners in the area.

Um the uh protectors of Thule Springs, which is a um a uh a small but strong um you know group of folks who are are personally have a lot of vested interest in um protecting the national monument and we've we established a partnership actually before we secured this property with them and look forward to that ongoing uh partnership.

But and then we're just as Bob indicated.

I would just like to extend our you know our appreciation for everybody who's been involved in this process.

It has taken a long time.

Some people have come and gone, and some people have stayed the entire time, so we appreciate that.

And and also all of council and and councilwoman Bruni as well for your leadership.

So thanks very much.

We're very excited.

We take a lot of pride in our projects.

Um, you know, we try to do everything once we do one project.

We like to learn from what we did on that last project.

Take you know, all of the great things we've learned and implement them here and sort of you know take new ideas and implement those as well.

So we're super excited to uh to move forward and appreciate all the work.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing.

Is there anybody that wishes to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearings.

Are there a public hearing?

Is there are there any questions or comments from members of the city council?

Yeah.

Um I would entertain the motion at this time.

Thank you, Mayor Berkeley.

Um for me, I feel like the 940, the number 940 does not just symbolize the acreage, but also the number of overtime hours that we all have put in this summer.

And I I do want to thank by or start by thanking you all and you know, Bob and your team were amazing.

And you know, this project's been going on so long that we I want to acknowledge Steve Ford and Tom Perigo, who also spent a lot of hours, but certainly our team, Lucian, Peter, Seth, and John Radilla.

I'm just working over time to get this done.

I look at this and I um I'm just so proud.

I think this is going to be an amazing, beautiful community that everyone will want to live in.

And to that point, when I look at how much you've done in the Northwest, Chris, my hope is that you and Gary Goet will, you know, want to come live in the Northwest and maybe even in Monument Hills, because it is going to be just an amazing community.

So thank you for sharing the vision and working really hard to create a community that everyone will want to live in.

So I feel a little emotional.

I'm so proud and happy to make a motion to approve.

Item number 48, 25-0 to 86.

Oh, A through D.

Yes, correct.

All right.

There is a motion.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Thank you, Gentlemen.

Very much.

Thank you very much.

Agenda item 49 through 49B.

25-0294 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.42 acres at 2147 North Decatur Boulevard, suite 110, C1 Limited Commercial Zone.

49A, 25 dash 0294-VAR1 to allow 14 parking spaces where 48 spaces are required.

49B, 25 dash 0294-SUP1 for a proposed motor vehicle parts sales, installation and repair, motor vehicle repair, minor use.

The applicant is Dave Duquay Jimenez Jimenez, and the owner is the 2147 North Decatur series of LR future LLC.

The Planning Commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Would you please state your name and tell us about your project?

My name is Dave Jimenez.

I stay on 4429 Mossy Rock Court.

I'm seeking permission to operate my small automotive business at this location.

Like you said, 2147 North Decatur Boulevard Unit 110.

This proposal is exactly the same way as it was before.

Previously recommended by a planning commission.

There has been no changes or additions to the project.

I'm simply asking for final approval so I can move forward with this permit.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

No evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented in that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing to operate a motor vehicle repair, minor use with insufficient parking.

Therefore, staff recommends denial of both the variants and the special use permit.

Thank you.

Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments by the members of the council?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Ms.

Humbers Armstrong.

Thank you.

Staff, could you please explain how we got here?

I think that there's some part of the story is missing.

Sure, through you, Madam Mayor.

Peter Lonstein for the record.

So this tenant space was previously entitled for a minor auto repair repair garage.

As indicated in the staff report, the use had ceased to operate for a period of time.

In this case, I believe a period of one year, and therefore the entitlement has lapsed, and therefore they're seeking to re-entitle this tenant suite for minor auto repair.

Thank you.

Can you also please put up the pictures that you can see from Decatur?

Jeff, if you can go to the photos from the presentation.

So this if I'm understanding correctly, there are other businesses in this particular space that you that you're starting to reopen your business, and their licenses allow them to have certain space, right?

Parking.

And all three of you together, you should have 48 spaces, but you only have 14.

Is that correct?

Correct.

Okay.

So when I look at the pictures, I am very concerned.

If you just kind of go back a couple pictures for me, please.

We have people parking in the landscape.

We have people parking on both sides in the landscape.

There just is not enough room for the number of spaces that you need in order for you all to run your businesses jointly in this space.

And it's a huge reach from 48 spaces to 14.

That's a fourth, right?

My math is not great, but it's close to a fourth.

And I'm just very concerned about that.

I know things were tough, and you had let your license go.

Um, and which is why the other people came in and now they've got the parking and and you don't.

Um, but I think I'm going to agree with staff on this that there just is not enough parking in this um location for an industrial business that does automotive.

Um, and we can see it evidenced by the pictures and the parking on the curb and parking in the landscape.

I think is an indicator that you just don't have enough parking.

And so um I would like to um make a motion uh for denial of this.

Before you do that, can I um see if there's anyone else that uh has any comments or questions?

Any other members of the council have any questions?

Okay, thank you.

Let me ask you something.

Is there any way for you to remedy the um that is a serious uh divide between uh the parking spaces you have available and that which our um uh which we require as a city?

Is there any way you could remedy that?

Yeah, so um I also this concerns were brought up with the planning commission too.

And um just a note, most of these vehicles on property are personal vehicles to the other tenants.

This has nothing to do with customer vehicles.

Any customer vehicle that is brought to me specifically is always stored inside, would be stored inside the garage.

Um, the businesses around or next to me is and the other picture you can see.

There's only one mechanic next to me, which he would probably be the one with the more cars.

Um, the business next to me is a smog and window tent.

The that business is uh where cars will come and go.

There are no cars stay overnight for a window tent.

Same thing with the smog, a smog will only probably take the five to ten minutes.

So those that is a business that has cars coming and going, no cars stay overnight.

Uh, along with next to that is a tire shop with the same um same thing in a way.

Uh tires just come and go, and no cars that are for them would be there overnight.

Uh again, most of those cars have been moved.

This was this picture was uh taken a few months ago, and most of those personal cars were um told to be moved by the landlord, but yeah, again, uh most of those cars were personal.

No um customer vehicles would be parked outside or anywhere other than inside the the law in our garage space.

Madam Mayor, may I ask a follow-up?

Yes, of course.

So, where are your employees parking their cars?

So uh I actually don't have any employees.

Uh it would only be me and my dad.

We live uh literally in front of the shop, so we would commute together, and if anything, we might not even have to drive all the time if that is really a uh issue.

If not, um well right here.

We have like you said, um Do you have a picture?

You could put it under the screen and we could see it.

So right there with the five spots I have we have marked out, or the ones that were given to us specifically in case if we do need a parking spot.

So if let's say me and my dad need a spot, we would just use up one of the five uh spots that we have right there.

Again, uh the customer cars that we're working on are usually would be inside, so those parking spots aren't even being uh used by us right now.

Okay, Miss Summers Armstrong.

I guess I'm unclear of if you're if if your landlord is going to give you the five spots which you hadn't been using, that means that your neighbors are displaced and now they have to park someplace else.

And the only place that's nearby is the adjacent residential street, which you should not be parking on anyone, right?

And so staff, could you help me understand what kind of controls when we ask for these parking spots is for a reason, right?

Which is to keep commercial parking and business on a commercial space.

So if there's not room, what do we generally see happen?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

So overflow uh from the site onto the adjacent roadways uh where there is ability to park.

So in this particular case, you could have overflow parking that could impact the residential street to the south of the subject site.

As you've already seen in the pictures, you can have parking in areas that aren't dedicated for parking, so you would have parking in landscape.

Uh the remedy for this would be code enforcement for on-site property and parking enforcement for off-site.

And it's you know, the those efforts come with their own challenges for city staff, you know, to indicate where cars coming from for what business to monitor those kind of things.

So if the city was gonna go with you would have parking enforcement and code enforcement.

Thank you.

Um wait, I'm sorry, Mr.

Armstrong, you know the question.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, just from this view, it's very apparent that right now this action item is uh related to one 10, which I assume is the red box.

Yeah, how many other suites are in this shopping center?

So in total, there's four.

Yeah, so all four of you have to share 14 parking spaces.

Wow, okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

Today's been a rough day.

Um we need businesses in ward five.

We need them.

We want you to do business in ward five.

But I'm going to tell you from personal experience.

I know what happens.

We don't have enough parking.

I live off of Washington and Martin Luther King, and we have a business on Bonanza that doesn't have parking.

And they have 20 cars parked on a residential street every single day.

I've seen people walk from that business a half a block to park their cars on a residential street that looks very much like the residential street that's to the south of you.

And when we're not mindful of this, we end up having issues encroach into communities that were there before.

And so I'm going to move forward denial and encourage you to work with our EUD department to try and find another possible space for you to go to set up your business.

I just don't think there's enough.

You're the latecomer, and so everybody else is in front of you and they're taking up all the spots.

And I just think that this is this is just gonna turn out bad.

We're gonna end up with code enforcement all the time, parking enforcement, trying to make sure that the neighborhood is not having cars parked up and down.

It's just a problem.

Um and I'm I'm I'm sorry that this is the situation, but again, our job is to make sure that the neighborhood surrounding is just as protected as a business that wants to come in.

That's my motion.

So your motion is to deny.

All right, uh please vote.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Um your motion is passed, and this project is denied.

Okay, thank you.

Um for the record, um uh council uh councilman can excused for the rest of the meeting.

Item 50 through 50 B.

25-0322 on the following land use entitlement project requests on zero point one nine acres at 512 North First Street, Ward 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong, 50A 25-0322-ZON from C2 General Commercial to R1 single family residential.

Um item uh 50 uh B, 25-032-WVR1 to allow a three-foot side yard setback where five feet is required for an existing single-family dwelling area too.

The applicant owner is Raymond Hamadani.

Uh, the planning commission and staff recommend approval of the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in ward five, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Uh, this has been your day, and our public hearings, which I now declare open, is the applicant present.

Hello, good afternoon.

My name is Laura Drea, 520 South 4th Street.

I'm here on behalf of the current owner of the property.

Would you like to tell us about the project?

Yes.

Uh, this application is a result of a fire that occurred to a single family home in 2022.

There's been a couple of owners since that time.

I'll do my best to condense the many details of this matters that span several decades since this house was built in the mid-1900s.

Uh following the fire, the building department logged a punch list of items that need to be addressed.

However, before that this can be processed by the building department, there's minor housekeeping items that must first be processed through the planning department.

Uh these housekeeping items were very unexpected, as most were rooted in a city zoning act in a city zoning action and initiatives that were adopted in the 1960s.

Uh, this action included a rezone in in and about the larger area, but it also uh rezoned this parcel, which is at the bottom of a residential cul-de-sac, and now it's an anomaly.

Um so now I think we have a situation where a home isn't a cul-de-sact, it's a non-conforming use as it's in C2.

Uh many manners on matters on the building department citation are solved by simply reserve returning the zone to C1 as it was assigned when it was built.

Um we also were asked by planning to re-establish two on-site parking spaces.

So I'd like to thank Cassandra Cerna, the assigned planner for helping me navigate and simplify this situation to a point where it has planning support.

I accept all of her conditions of approval and I ask that you follow planning's favorable recommendation as well.

Thank you so much.

Uh, this is a public hearing.

Is there anybody that wishes to be heard on this item?

If not, I will close the public hearing.

May I have a staff report?

Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Mayor staff finds the proposed rezoning from C2 to R1 to be compatible with surrounding residential uses and in alignment with the city's long-term planning goals.

The previously requested waiver of parking requirements has been eliminated as two parking spaces are being provided on site, and staff supports the request for rezoning and waiver of the building setback.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

Okay.

Seeing none, is there a motion?

Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

Um, I just want to tell you that we were just walking this neighborhood a couple weeks ago, and it is looking very exciting that people are coming back and updating their homes over there, and I'm excited to see people uh moving back into the Biltmore area, which is where it is, and I'm going to move for approval.

Please vote.

For both A and 51A and B.

Thank you so much for the clarification.

Vote.

Post.

Motion passes.

Thank you so much.

Item 51 A and B were held in abeyance to the December 17th, 2025 council meeting.

Items 55A through 55C were held in abeyance to the January 21st, 2026 City Council meeting.

Agenda item 56, 25 0353-VAC1 vacation.

Applicant dash owner Northland LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a petition to vacate a portion of an existing Bureau of Land Management, BLM right of way, grant for sewer, drainage, and roadway generally located on the southwest corner of Brent Lane and Eric Lloyd Street.

Uh T D traditional Development Zone L residential low and G C General Commercial Sky Canyon Special Land Use Designation.

Ward 6, Miss Bruni.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes.

Well good afternoon.

Chris Serena.

Tell us about uh please give us your name and then tell us about your project.

Uh Kirst Sereni, 500 South Rancho Drive Suite 17.

I'll be Nevada 89106.

Um civil engineer for the project.

I'm here representing Woodside Homes.

Um this is for Lira Unit 3 and the Sunstone Master Plan.

Unit 1 is constructed, unit 2 is under construction, and unit three, we're working on permitting right now.

Part of that is vacating and drainage easement that is located in the southeast corner of unit three.

Um this is a existing BLM easement that is no longer needed as we're taking drainage through our on-site drainage easements and streets and the SOAR and drainage will come out and connect into the existing storm drain and Brent Lane.

So as part of that, we just asked for your approval of the vacation.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Peter Longstein for the record.

Staff has no objection to the requested petition to vacate the city's interest in the Bureau of Land Management's right-of-way grants for sewer drainage and roadway purposes.

Uh as such, staff is recommending approval.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing.

Does anybody wish to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from council members?

Seeing none, I will entertain a motion, Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you.

I'd like to make a motion to approve item number 56, 25-0353.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion passes.

Congratulations.

Items 57A and B were held in abeyance to the January 21st, 2026 City Council meeting.

Items 58A and 58B are held in abeyance to the January 21st, 2026 City Council meeting.

Item 59.

25-0389 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 12.23 acres on the north side of Alta Drive, approximately 2,115 feet east of Wallapai Way, C1 limited commercial zone.

59A, 25-0389-VAR1 to allow 863 parking spaces where 1,018 are required.

59B, 25-0389, SDR 1 for a proposed two-story 178,400 square foot medical office development with waivers of building placement and perimeter landscape buffer requirements.

The applicant owner is Panther Alta 12 LLC.

The Planning Commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 2, Ms.

Kelly, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, good morning, Madam Mayor, members of council for the record.

John Curran, 10801 West Charleston here on behalf of the applicant.

If I can first present a brief history of the site, my group acquired this 12.2 acre parcel from the City of Las Vegas through a disposition and development agreement in 2022.

We closed on the land in 2023, and that DDA mandated that we develop a minimum of 100,000 square feet of medical office at this site.

The site is also deed restricted for medical and ancillary uses, so uh this medical use is certainly appropriate for uh for the site.

We got this site uh entitled previously in 2023 with a with a different design, and that design included three-story buildings, it included 20,000 feet of retail.

Um we went to market with that design for uh for quite some time and um ultimately decided to redesign the site with a more thoughtful approach, and we're really pleased to present that uh that updated design today.

So we'll we're proposing a total of four buildings that sort of work with the curvature of the site.

Uh the regular parcel shape uh necessitated a lot of our design decisions, um, which we'll get into some of the uh corresponding waivers we requested.

But uh these are four two-story buildings.

The design we're proposing today is less intense than what was previously approved across the board.

They're two-story buildings as opposed to the three stories we had previously.

Uh it's less total square footage.

We eliminated the the retail altogether, and the parking variants we're requesting as a lower uh deviation to code.

Um present some renderings of the project.

We think it's a really thoughtful design.

We've got these uh earthy palette uh colors with some wood accents and uh a nice modern-looking design that's been really well received by the marketplace.

Uh you can see it's gonna be really lushly landscaped.

Uh I am requesting a few a few landscape waivers, and we talked about it at length at Planning Commission, so I'll just summarize some of those things here.

Uh I think we have a waiver of perimeter and um buffer landscape trees.

338 trees are required.

We're proposing 335.

So we're deep we're short just three.

However, I'd point out that we have a total of 420 trees in total on this site, so really exceeding code overall, and it's gonna be a lush uh green site, and that's in addition to the 3500 uh shrubs and cacti as well.

On the parking variants we're requesting, it's a total of 15,000 15 percent uh deviation, I believe.

Frankly, it doesn't do us any good to build a project that's underparked.

Um we design a site, we're worried about what the end users are going to ask us and what they're gonna be looking for.

In the world of medical office development, there's sort of a gold standard parking ratio, and that's about four to five spaces per thousand square feet of office.

Uh we are about 4.85 spaces here, so certainly adequately parked.

Uh we also designed and developed the Queens Ridge Medical One, just 500 feet west of here, and uh it's a similar parking ratio.

We've never had any parking challenges there.

Um, with that, I am uh happy to answer any questions you may have.

Otherwise, we respectfully request you follow planning commission's uh vote for approval.

Thank you so much.

May we have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Peter Lonsing for the records the applicant is requesting a variance in site development plan review for revised medical office development totaling 178,400 square feet.

Request includes as indicated 15 percent parking reduction, waivers from building placement and landscape buffer with and they expect exceptions to not meet perimeter landscape buffer materials.

Staff finds the requested variance to be self-imposed and proposed parking insufficient for the intensity of use, therefore staff has recommended denial both of the variants and the site development plan review.

Therefore, staff has recommended denial both of the variants in the site development plan review.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing.

Is there anyone that wishes to be heard on this item?

Seeing nobody, we will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

I will entertain a motion at this time, Ms.

Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh I move to approve item 59 25 0389.

Shall we vote?

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I'm sorry.

Including 59A and 59B.

Thank you so much.

Shall we vote?

Please post.

Motion carries.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Item agenda item 60.

25-0406 on the following land use entitlement project request on a portion of 35.74 acres at the northwest corner of McWilliams Avenue and H Street.

T4N T4 Neighborhood Zone.

60A 25-0406-VAC.

One petition to vacate public right of way located along Washington Avenue, generally located on the south side of Washington Avenue, 175 feet west of H Street.

60B 25-0406-SDR1 for a proposed four story 223 unit mixed use development with 10,389 square feet of commercial space with waivers of title 19.09 form based code development standards.

The applicant owner is Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.

The Planning Commission and staff recommend approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 5, Miss Summers Armstrong at our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, we are.

And thank you, everyone.

Good afternoon.

This is actually the phase two for you as a name is Eric Gross with KME Architects.

We're at 5195 South Durango Drive, suite 103.

Again, this is the phase two development of Marble Manor.

We're actually hopefully going to be getting the permits for phase one here in about a month.

We're very excited for the uh start of this uh project.

Uh this is for uh 223 new units that are going to be developed as part of the uh five phases of the full development of Marble Manor.

This is taking everything all the way up to the east side of J Street between Washington and McWilliams.

And one of the things that we're very excited about this is we do have a couple of retail spaces that are going to be part of this, as well as a shell space for a future Head Start Daycare Center that is going to be serving the overall community uh first serving Marble Manor, but also the community at large.

So we are very excited for this.

I also have uh a member from Brynshore with uh the development to give a little bit of information on the types of units that we are going to have.

Hi, yes, I am Nick Pachero with Brian Shore Development, uh representing the developer partner of SNRHA and our team.

Uh I just wanted to note a breakdown of the 223 units that Eric mentioned uh and give you guys some additional information.

Uh 85 of those 223 units are going to be PBV units, project-based vouchers rating ranging from 30 percent AMI to 80 percent.

Uh additionally, of those 223, 93 will serve residents at 80 at 50 percent AMI or below.

Um, of the 223, 88 will be LITEC units serving uh residents from 60 percent to 80 percent AMI.

We also have 50 market rate units at the project, uh which is helping us meet the requirement of the choice neighborhoods grant that is assisting in the the funding.

Uh this is truly a mixed income project, and as Eric said, we are very excited to be a part of it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Um, earlier during public comment.

Oh well, for may I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

The applicant is requesting a site development plan review and a vacation to facilitate the phase two of the Marble Manor Redevelopment Project.

Pros development aligns with the Vision 2045 Downtown Master Plan, the 100 plan and the West Las Vegas plan.

Therefore, staff is recommending approval of both the site development for site development plan review and vacation.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Um, this is a public hearing.

Does anybody wish to be heard on this item?

Please come forward and state your name for the record.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'm Catherine Duncan with the Unified West Side Neighborhood Association.

My major concern is the way this development is engaging with the community.

They have never answered our request to come and make a presentation at the neighborhood association.

I have people knocking at my door on 1001 F Street now who don't know what's going on.

They see that the buildings are being torn down and they don't know what's happening.

So I believe that they have tried to engage with us, but they just really don't know how to do it.

So we propose some measures that they can use to come in and be better so they can better inform the neighborhood of what's going on.

But there seemed to be a disconnect between the landowners, the property owners, the people who live there, and these developers.

And we know that there was a $50 million grant awarded to them to engage the community, but the people don't feel that they have outreach to this development, and we really don't know what's going on, and we're not a part of it.

There's also a complete streets development that's going along Washington Street.

We don't know how complete streets or safe neighborhoods integrates with this neighborhood.

We don't know their broadband infrastructure plan where they're gonna get their power because we still have old power poles that are leaning over.

We don't see any of this.

We don't know what the streetscape's gonna be.

So that's just a lot of um ideas that we could work with these developers, but there's been a disconnect, and we have not been engaged with them.

So we believe they fail to meet the choice neighborhood initiative guidelines, and we would like for them to come back and truly engage the neighborhood in a meaningful way before this entitlement moves forward.

I thank you, Ms.

Duncan.

Thank you.

Um, can somebody clarify for me?

I was under the impression that um that this project was supported by the community and that they had worked very closely together.

I don't know if this is a staff question or uh Miss Summers Armstrong could enlighten the rest of us, but do you have any idea um uh about the communication, which is very important.

We have someone from Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority here.

I think um it would be helpful if you could sort of give us an overview of what you all have been doing over the last couple of years.

I'd appreciate thank you so much.

Would you state your name for the record?

Good morning, Frank afternoon, Frank Stafford, Director of Development Modernization with the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.

Uh, just speaking on the uh community engagement, uh this CNI project that started with HUD.

Um, we started the transformation plan back in 2021, and then we shifted over to implementation, which is the part that you get the funding to uh actual build the units in 2023.

Uh HUD, along with the City of Las Vegas, who's our partner uh with this process.

The process the project started with engagement with the residents of Marble Manor as well as the community at large.

We've had numerous meetings uh on the Marble Manor property at the uh West Las Vegas School.

So we did outreach with the community and the residents throughout every step of this project.

We also have a marketing specialist that has also helped us increase getting the word out to the community.

So we HUD has uh HUD is basically, you know, that's that's part of the requirement for the CNI.

We meet with HUD, communicate with them all the time, and they're aware of all the meetings that we have, as well as with our consultant that HUD has overseeing the entire project.

Uh may I ask you to confer with Ms.

Duncan after this agenda item and see how um you can better communicate with her organization that seems to have gaps in their knowledge of what's happening.

Yes, we'll be glad to do that.

I appreciate that very much.

Thank you very much, Ms.

Duncan.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Thank you, Council.

There are any other questions from uh from the council.

Yes, Ms.

DS.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, I just wanted to comment that I was a previous board member of the housing authority, and the CNI grant uh was a partnership between the city and the housing authority um to do a lot of the community outreach efforts, and I remember that we even hired folks to help us uh ensure that we were getting everyone into, especially the very beginning vision of what the community wanted to see in the redevelopment of Marble Manor.

And um I know that our neighborhood services staff has worked very hard in trying to engage the community and bringing them in and hearing from all folks who want to be part of the process.

Um, and I remember Councilman Creer putting it out and saying it in his announcements many times.

The housing authority had a significant investment and responsibility in engaging residents.

So I'm just speaking from the time that I sat on the board that I did see a lot of announcements and notifications and things being done to engage the community.

So I just wanted to say that I'm very excited that we're at this juncture because as it was stated, 21 is where it started.

But this is more exciting for me because we actually are seeing renderings and progress and eventually the buildup coming up from the ground, and hopefully, people who are from the community and want to come back to it will be able to be the very first residents of this awesome uh gem that will be the redevelopment of Marble Manor.

Ms.

Bruni.

Thank you.

I I won't repeat what my colleague has shared, but I'm currently the chair of the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.

We regularly receive reports of the progress with our with Marble Manor.

And I will just share with the public, including Ms.

Duncan, if you go to the newly rebranded website, which is so much better than it was earlier.

There's actually there's a section called CNI, and if you click on that, there's all the updated information on what's happening at Marble Manor.

So just one more resource that the public can avail themselves of to find out what's going on.

Thank you so much.

And at this time, Miss Summers Armstrong, I'll entertain a motion.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Just a couple of thoughts.

I just want to say I'm really excited.

I remember when uh these were first being discussed in 2021, and I was attending community meetings then.

I think we've had at least five that I've attended just this year at uh uh the guy center as well as at um uh the Westside School.

Um, and I think that you all are making a serious effort to get the information out.

I know I'm sharing it in my newsletter and also on Access Las Vegas.

We've talked about this a couple times, and every time I'm in the community, I'm talking about what is happening at Marble Manor.

My feelings that the community is excited about the rebirth of Marble Manor, and I can't express it any more than that that it is a rebirth.

What I really like about it is it's a master plan community.

So the first time on this scale in this urban center where we have mixed income housing that is thoughtfully planned, and I'm excited about what's gonna happen, and um I'd like to make a motion for approval.

Shall we vote?

60.

Please post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Agenda item 61 held in abeyance to the December 17th City Council meeting.

Agenda item 62 was already presented earlier in our meeting.

We will now set the date on any appeals filed or required public hearings.

I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeals from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings and nuisance uh litter abatements.

We'll do, thank you.

All right, thank you so much.

Agenda item 64.

Citizen participation, public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the city council.

No subject may be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion on any single subject, as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed, may be limited.

Uh, this is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion for two minutes?

Would you please state your name for the record?

Good afternoon, Madam Mayor and members of the council.

My name is Johnny Rawlinson.

I reside at 5901 Mendoza Court with me as my neighbor Edfix.

He resides next door to me, and we are here on a matter of concern for a home in our neighborhood that was recently sold.

We live across the street, but the neighbors on either side also share our concern.

It was expressed by the owner that they have the intent to turn this single family residence into an 11-room property for rental to commuters, whatever that means.

And we are in strong opposition to that.

The concern we have is that the house has already been gutted.

And they have been working on that premises.

And we are here requesting that a stop work order be imposed on their premises until this property owner has gone through the process and been permitted to restore this house to a single family residence and not expand it into a boarding house or mini apartment complex.

And do you have the address the list?

It's 5,900 Mendoza Court directly across the street from my home.

Okay, we will look into this.

We will look into this matter.

And Judge Rollinson, it's very nice to see you after all these years.

And I thank you for coming and sharing this concern with us.

Thank you.

I have been in contact with a representatives from your office and also our councilwoman uh Sandra Shandra Thomas Armstrong.

But we this the people still continue to work there.

So our concern is whether or not they've continued to engage in working while the city is doing the process of getting them permitted.

So we just wanted to bring this to the council's attention.

Okay.

And Mr.

City Manager, is it appropriate for me to ask you to have the appropriate person in our city government to look into this?

Yeah, Mayor Berkeley, Mike Jensen City Manager, uh, for the record, uh, we'll take this uh information from Ms.

Rollinson and our code enforcement team will do the follow-up.

So uh after this meeting, I'll work with Seth.

We'll uh we'll we'll take it from there.

And maybe what we can do is we can get Ms.

Rollins' contact information uh so that we can give her an update on uh where we are, what we found.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item 65, a council emerging council emerging issues, discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas.

This is uh for all wards.

Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda, and no discussion regarding the substance of any such proposed topic shall occur.

No action shall be taken.

Do any members of the council have any topics they would like to bring forward under this item?

Seeing no one, we will move to item 66.

Council members' recognition, comments made by individual city council members during this portion of the agenda will not be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and scheduled for action.

Ms.

Summers Armstrong, if you promise me that you're gonna go home right after the meeting, you will speak first.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank everybody for your patience with all the coughing and hacking today.

We're gonna keep it brief.

Um we were able to uh attend the ninth annual NPHC Sisterhood Luncheon, which is um an event that the Divine Nine uh hosts as a joint event.

Um I was asked to be the keynote speaker.

Uh it was so much fun.

I saw folks that I hadn't seen in a while, and these organizations come together to support uh community events, and on this date, they supported Dress for Success, and every woman who was there brought a brand new bra to be given away.

And we know that the basic the foundation of looking good in business is to have a great bra, and they recognize that, and it was just a lovely event in support of the organizations, but also in support of women in need.

Um, November 7th, we went to the Urban Chamber of Commerce's green tie awards ceremony, another awesome event in the community where we have the Urban Chamber of Commerce whose goal really is to support small businesses in the community.

They gave awards to some community leaders, uh, and of course it was Old Home Week to see many of my uh prior legislative um folks, but also to see others in the community who really care about advancing the small businesses in our community.

On November 8th, uh Ward 5, we're doing a lot of community outreach, and we had a twofer on November the 8th.

First, we were with Cox Communications in what used to be the Rose Garden, it's now um a garden more towards um our local flora and fauna, did a cleanup, pulled weeds.

Um, and it was lovely uh to see the folks out there really working so hard, and it's exciting to see our neighbors coming out and doing community service.

And on the other side of Lorenzi Park, we had a paper shredding and RX drop-off, which was also well attended.

And we will be that was a special request from us of a constituent, and we will be doing more of these things in the future.

Finally, this past Monday, the 17th at the Westside Education and Training Center, teamed up with State Treasurer Zach Conine and folks from the affordable housing space, Nevada Housing Neighborhood Housing Services, and Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority and other folks who are experts in this space came together to talk to the community about affordable housing, how we can work together, the need, and really to try and find solutions.

So that was lovely, and we will be doing this more often.

It was a special request that we do more of this type of outreach in the community.

Upcoming events uh tomorrow night is the holiday lighting in the Cox parking lot, um, our awesome public works.

Folks have put up the beautiful um candy canes and other uh festive lights on the polls.

Um tomorrow we will light them up until uh Christmas.

So we invite you all to come out.

Uh there's gonna be hot chocolate and cookies, and the choir from Western High School is going to regale us with holiday music.

Um, we also have a uh community faith-based health fair happening uh on the 22nd from 9 a.m.

to 2 at Second Baptist Church over on Madison.

Um, all kinds of good information about um uh um health, nutrition.

We'll have exams, dental and eye exams.

So we invite our neighbors to please take advantage of this uh wonderful event, and then on the 24th, um uh Commissioner McCurdy and the mayor is also a sponsor and as well as myself and others are uh sponsoring the fourth annual Blessed Giving event.

It's going to be at Pearson Community Center.

This is an effort put together by Minister Stretch Sanders, and um it's always good to see our neighbors who need help getting help for the holidays.

Uh on the 26th, uh 100 black men and uh other sponsors, including City of Las Vegas and my office, are supporting um a Thanksgiving dinner, prepared dinner for seniors, veterans, and families in need.

Um ward five is concentrating on our seniors.

We will have um dinners delivered um into our senior communities, and we're so excited that we are partnering with them so that the seniors don't have to go out and pick up anything, it will be delivered to them already prepared.

So if you're interested in assisting, I believe there's a Q code somewhere uh on this.

And finally, as always, come out to Lorenzi Park, hit the green ball, get your stress down.

I'm talking to myself and enjoy the outdoors.

The weather's amazing right now.

It's playing tennis when it's a little chilly is the best time of year because you can really stay out there a long time.

And finally, here's my team.

Um, I love these folks.

They they know I'm crazy, but they are supporting me 100% in my effort to be as responsive to the community as possible.

Um, there's a QR code to sign up for our newsletter.

We've always got something going on, but if you need to make a direct connection, please call.

You'll you will connect with either Aura, Nora, or Julius at 702-229-5443.

Thank you, Mayor, for your all your indulgence and my and my colleagues today.

It was a lot, and I appreciate you all very much.

Um thank you, Miss Summers Armstrong.

Let me say that Julius did a very fine job representing you yesterday at the Neonapolis.

And if um as your friend as well as your colleague, please leave.

All right, Miss Alan Balensky.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

On Veterans Day, we were proud to honor those who have served our country and to uh take the exciting step forward in honoring them year-round.

The mayor's fund launched a 10 million dollar campaign to create the Nevada State Veterans Memorial, located in Ward 4 at the Thunderbird Family Sports Complex.

This memorial will feature 18 bronze statues honoring America's military service from the Revolutionary War through today.

It will be a lasting space of healing, learning, and pride.

Next up, the morning of Wednesday, November 12th, I attended downtown Summerlin's Giving Machine kickoff.

The giving machine features 30 items that can be purchased to benefit local nonprofit organizations.

It's a big vending machine.

Items include water, food, medicine, warm clothing, baby care, emergency shelter, and more.

The giving machine is a great way to give back to the community, and I appreciated being part of the kickoff event.

Later that evening, I had the privilege to attend the Residents Forum Veterans Tribute in Sun City Summerlin.

It was a night to honor the brave men and women who have served our country with courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment.

Thank you to everyone who attended and those who spoke.

I want to give a special shout out to our very own mayor for attending and speaking at the event.

It was a night to remember.

Next up, Friday, November 14th, I participated in Career Day at Sheila Tarementary School.

I spoke to the fifth grade students about what it's like to work in city government.

The students were incredibly curious and engaging.

They were uh asking about how they themselves could become leaders and help make a difference.

Uh it was a rewarding way to share my experiences with this group of kids, and I look forward to the opportunity to do it again in the future.

Next up, I started Saturday, November 14th at Buckskin Basin Park with Get Outdoors Nevada.

We cleared 295 pounds of trash, weeds, and planted 12 new trees.

I want to thank the volunteers that came out.

We had several, despite the rain, uh almost 50 folks that came out.

I appreciate the time, care, and hard work they put in.

Whether you were planting trees, removing litter, or pulling weeds, your efforts helped make Buckskin Basin Park healthier, more beautiful space for our residents.

Later that morning, I went to uh the shredding and prescription drug collection event in Sun City Summerlin.

It was very wet.

Thank you to the 443 cars that came through the shredding and prescription drop-off.

I'm especially grateful to all the volunteers and staff who worked throughout the rain to make it happen.

I truly appreciate all your hard work and dedication making this event a humongous success.

And may I say one of your constituents contacted me and told me what a trooper you were in the rain helping everybody out.

So I it was noticed and appreciated.

I don't know if you realize this, but when the paper gets wet, it's even more heavy.

My arms didn't work great the next day.

But uh it was an experience.

Next up, nine children are missing from our community.

With the holidays fast approaching, it is time to come together and help bring these kids home.

If you have any information that could help, please contact LVMPD's missing person detail at 702828 311.

And lastly, you can stay up to date with our updates, community news, and upcoming events and happenings in Ward 4 by following me on Facebook, Instagram, X, all the things.

And if you ever need any assistance or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us directly.

The phone works, 702-229-2524.

We are always here to provide any help that we can.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Thank you very much.

Miss Diaz.

All right, thank you.

I should turn on my mic first.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, on November 5th, we had uh Friends of Hunter Circle Park host a community event where UNLV School of Architecture students offered various design proposals for what the future of Hunter Circle Park could look like.

And these thoughtful and creative plans were varied and received much engagement from Ward 3 residents that attended.

Thank you to my earlier ceremonial honorees, Freddie Goldines and Alexandra Stabler, as well as Randy and Lynn Mendre and all the amazing students that worked on this project and um shared their vision.

Um there will be an upcoming showcase scheduled at the top of December, so stay apprised of the date and the location so you can join us.

On November 6th, we headed over to Desert Pines High School to their the other Los Muertos Altar Showcase.

And I want to just thank um Desert Pines High School student organization of Latinos uh for helping share the de los muertos tradition with their classmates and community at large.

Um, I know Councilman Baron from North Las Vegas was also in attendant, but we had two marshals, our very own Lieutenant Manning and Jacqueline R.

Archemball from DPS were also there to take it all in.

So everything was beautifully curated, and I enjoyed seeing the Mariachi from Desert Pines also performing in the space.

And uh look forward to receiving future invitations from our high school students.

On November 12th, we stopped by the We Care House.

Uh this home is a 30-day residential facility whose mission is to help women recover from the affliction of alcohol and drug addiction.

And it's been a continuous operation for over 50 years.

It's tremendous success is and is no doubt owed to the great heart and love of the site and their partners offer the women during some of their most challenging moments.

These women become family and then they continue to pay it forward.

And we've even had some of our Win Court graduates go to this house.

And uh, I think two of them formerly were here that are gonna graduate in December.

Um, so it was just awesome.

I wanna thank Robert Binghart for introducing us and giving us a tour of this bright spot in our community.

Also on November 12th, the Department of Public Service Police Academy graduation happened, and I had the honor of celebrating the graduation of so many folks, 27 to be exact, um, from the Department of Public Service Citizens Police Academy.

I wanna thank Chief Potts and the entire team at DPS, especially Jacqueline, for the intense and varied curriculum that these community members completed throughout the 12-week course.

I saw some familiar faces, including Jackie Bruno and Gail Lloyd Lico's daughter, Morgan, who successfully completed the academy.

Again, congratulations to all the graduates.

I hope those needing, um, I served as a conduit and a connector to the Mexican consulate because they're neighbors, they're diagonally across from each other.

And I said, hey, if you have a need and you have a need, um, and you have a space, make sure that you guys are referring folks to each other.

So that was my mission that day.

Uh, just for the future, my annual Ward 3 Senior Thanksgiving lunch is coming up on November 21st.

If you're 55 years young or older, please RSVP via the QR link on the screen or call us 702-229-1515.

This is one of my favorite events of the year because it includes yummy food, but has music, dancing, and fun raffle prizes.

Uh, wanted to put a plug in for our Neon City Festival happening this weekend that will return to downtown.

We had it last year and we're repeating it again.

2025 lineup is officially out with music from all genres.

Uh so just make sure you check up the lineup and uh come on down to downtown Las Vegas.

Um, wanna put a plug in for our Tamales and Mariachi Festival that is quickly approaching.

It will be Saturday, December 6th in our fabulous um Goodman Plaza in our newly inveiled Las Vegas Civic Center.

So again, Saturday, December 6th from 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m.

And those that have um gone to one of these before, it's just an awesome lively event um where the Latino culture kind of brings a lot of mariachis, some of them Grammy Award-winning, and then you get to enjoy one of the yummiest uh things that uh we enjoy during the winter time, which is tamales.

Um and uh you gotta get there early to get the best kind because they do run out.

So that's my tip to you.

If you want to get the best ones, come on early.

It's 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m.

Um, just putting out that we're working on our Christmas events in the ward.

Uh, we will have two happening on Saturday, December 13th.

So just follow our social media channels and you'll get all of the information.

It's free and open to the public.

Uh so we just want to make sure every child has a really wonderful Christmas and has a gift to open um during this holiday season.

And then last but not least, we have Viva La Popera, holiday spectacular.

So um we're having opera, um, and it is again at the Carolyn G.

Goodman Plaza, Saturday, December 20th, noon to two.

And I know we all want to start getting into the holiday spirit, so this is a perfect one a few days right before we get to Christmas.

So, as always, you can get a hold of my dynamic team and myself via the phone, via email, and or even at a city council meeting.

So, um, thank you so much, Mayor, and I look forward to seeing someone in one of these events coming up soon.

Thank you so much.

Miss Bruni.

I'd like to start today by recognizing our team member, Maddie Weingart.

Tomorrow is her birthday, so if you see her today, please stop by and wish her a very happy birthday.

As well as tomorrow.

Maddie, thank you for being a part of our team and always bringing your A game.

Um, we love you, even though you are a member of the Wolf Pack and did not wear red today.

Next slide.

Earlier this month, we had a town hall meeting dedicated to discussing how to keep our ward six neighborhoods safe and clean.

Thank you to our city and metro partners for joining us to share helpful information with our neighbors.

We're not all work in Ward 6.

Team Bruni was pleased to have co-sponsored Iron Mountains Movie in the Park where we handed out free popcorn.

Thank you for allowing us to be part of the fun.

It's that time of the year again to acknowledge our small businesses in Ward 6, and we're thrilled that it was another full house at our Ward 6 small business breakfast.

Thank you to our guest speakers and special thanks to our Northwest area small business owners who keep our economy charged.

Another wonderful book Ados with Bruni on the books.

We're so grateful for our engaged neighbors, some new faces and familiar faces who showed up to talk development, schools, water conservation, and everything in between.

We truly love these conversations.

In our latest episode of Axis City Council, we wanted to address the growing crisis in our valley of fatal accidents involving e-bikes and e-scooters.

As such, we talked with local bike shop owners and metro about why my e-bike ordnance is so important.

Special thanks to Crystal Allen who allowed us to go out into the field and play reporter for a day.

Last weekend, we wrapped up our last Centennial Hills Tales and Mocktails book club meeting of the year.

Thank you to all of the readers who joined us this year as we explore Nevada's unique history and character.

A special thank you to Centennial Hills Library for being such a stellar partner.

Our next book club meeting is January 17th.

And next year we'll be lightening things up a bit and focusing on murder mystery books.

Last Saturday, I was honored to give the commencement speech at United Education Institute's graduation.

The United Education Institute is a career and trade school that gives their graduates hands-on learning experience.

We celebrated almost 300 graduates in the areas of HVAC technology, medical billing, insurance coding, automotive technology, and electrical electrical technology, important careers that are keeping our community running and that cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence.

We're heading into the holiday season.

If you're looking for ways to work off some of the desserts that you indulge in over Thanksgiving, join us on Saturday, December 6th.

And this is the date here is wrong.

Oh, actually, I guess no, there we're doing it Friday.

Okay.

Friday, December 5th from 9 to 12.

Uh, we're going to be cleaning up Centennial Hills Park.

We're going to be partnering with uh Get Outdoors Nevada to beautify our favorite park.

After helping clean, come celebrate the next day and get into the holiday cheer by joining us at Floyd Land Park from 10 to 2 for our annual Cowboy Christmas event.

The following week we'll be hosting our annual Navidad Concolibres event at Bradley Bridal Park from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

As always, we want to hear from you.

There's the yep, great.

Please call us at 702-229-5463 or email us at Ward6 at Las Vegas Nevada.gov.

Thank you so much.

Miss Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Well, we've been out in the community working side by side with residents to celebrate support and strengthen Ward 2 and the rest of the community.

We invite you to join us for a monthly Ward 2 Breakfast Buzz, which is a great way to connect.

We first got outdoors with Nevada and at the Kelly Zahar Parks, and we were talking about the joy that cleaning up parks gives to people who visit them.

And so I think that's always important to remind people when they're picking up trash and planting trees.

We also I had a chance to visit with uh Tom and Russ Latesia on his show, The Middle Ground.

Uh Tom and I were reminiscing, we've known each other 38 years, so I'm old enough to have been an adult 38 years ago.

Breakfast Buzz is our monthly reach out to Ward 2 constituents, and we're going to be starting mobile hours on in January.

So to reach out to even more constituents.

We also I had the great distinction to represent you, Mayor, uh in it with the um teenagers of Hope Means Nevada.

Hope means Nevada is a very important nonprofit in our community whose mission is to eliminate teen suicide and empower Nevada's youth to live hopeful lives.

And what was terrific about this event, and you can see the young people, many of the young people who were recognized.

The young people did, the teens, uh, in uh through their networks in order to support what they are doing and to uh uh promote the mission of eliminating two teen suicide.

So I was very honored to be able to spend some time with those terrific people.

And then upcoming events, we have a Breakfast Buzz coming up in December, as well as a towway drive and classic car show.

I also am responding to constituent concerns in their neighborhoods.

And finally, uh we were we are excited more too to help the superintendent of schools, Joan Ebert celebrate American Education Week.

Six schools in Ward II received uh recognition as being part of her honor role, and that is something that I know that we all celebrate when our schools succeed.

Want to wish everyone a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving, and uh we always encourage Ward II residents to connect with us, make sure you're telling us about the challenges that you're having, if any, and we hope to see you at an event in our community soon.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Kelly, and on behalf of the entire city council, uh city staff, city leadership, we want to wish everybody a very happy Thanksgiving.

And uh, as we go forward, we know people.

Uh some people are having serious challenges.

Please know that the city is here to serve you and do whatever we can to help with uh help um deal with any challenges that you have.

And with that, the city council meeting is now adjourned.