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Okay, by the time I finish reading all this, they'll be here.

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Before we proceed with the agenda, would everyone please please rise and remain standing for the invocation given by Rabbi Shia Harlik, Chabad of Southern Nevada, and please remain standing as our district attorney, Steve Wilson leads us in the pledge.

Rabbi, I'm in charge of this.

Thank you.

So when I see a podium, I always think I'm in charge.

Thank you for the honor.

So I say Rabona Shalola, Master of the Universe, source of wisdom, justice, and compassion.

We stand before you to acknowledge the human authority as a sacred trust, and that leadership carries a moral responsibility beyond law alone.

We ask for your presence and your guidance as this council's gathers to serve the people of the city of Las Vegas.

We gather these during these sacred days of Hanukkah, a season that recalls the courage of the Maccabees, men and women who stood few in numbers but firm in spirit.

When faced with violence, forced conformity, and the desecration of our holy temple, they refuse to surrender their faith or the consciousness.

The victory was not only militarily, but it was also moral.

And when they returned to our holy temple, restored what had been broken, they found a single curse of pure oil, enough for one day, yet it burned for eight days.

From that moment forward, Hanukkah stood as a testament that light, once kindled, can endure far beyond all expectation.

In our time, we are reminded that darkness still seeks to assert itself.

Our hearts turn to Australia, where fifteen innocent lives were taken, including two Chabad rabbis in this recent terror attack.

We mourn those who were murdered simply for who they were.

We pray for healing for the wounded for comfort for the brave and the strength for the community shaken by violence.

May their memories be a blessing, and may their loss deepen our resolve to stand against hatred, cruelty in all forms.

Our tradition teaches Nehravaya in the Shmasodim, the soul of a human being is a lamp of God.

Every life is sacred flame.

Terror seeks to extinguish that flame and to spread fear.

But Hanukkah teaches us that even one light, protected and shared, can push back overwhelming darkness.

Jewish tradition also teaches that long before there were nations, governments, and faith communities, humanity was given the shared moral foundation.

It's called the seven Noah Hard Laws.

These universal principles affirm the sanctity of life, the rejection of violence and theft, blessing of God, and the obligation to establish systems of justice.

They remind us that law is not merely about maintaining order, but above all, advancing moral responsibility and human dignity.

The message of Hanukkah resonates deeply here in Las Vegas, a city known throughout the world as a city of lights.

Hanukkah's connected to lights.

May these lights never own may these lights never be the only symbol of brightness and spectacle, but reflect the vigilance, warmth, and care for one another.

May this city shine as a place where diversity is respected, safety is cherished, and light stands for life rather than loss.

Bless the members of this council with wisdom, patience, and moral clarity, help them govern with hum with humility, to listen with empathy, and to act with courage.

May their decisions uplive the vulnerable, strengthen the community, and reflect the highest value upon which a just society is built.

May the one who makes peace above in the heaven bring peace upon us, upon the city, and upon all those who dwell on the earth.

In Hebrew, it's also Shalom Bim Romov, who yeah, the Shalom Alenov, I'll call you Israel, be Imru, Amen.

Thank you.

Thank you, Rabbi, and uh happy Hanukkah.

And um Mr.

GA, would you lead us in the pledge?

My pledge to the public.

Okay, thank you so much.

And now we will proceed with the ceremonials.

We would like to start the ceremonials today by the swearing in of our new department to judge.

Would Peter Bellin please come up to the podium?

Hello.

Congratulations.

I'm very happy.

And joining him is his brother, uh Mike Bellin and District Attorney Steve Wilson.

We're very pleased to have you here with Peter today.

Okay.

Okay.

Oh, we don't need that anyway.

Okay, would you mind raising your right hand?

Okay, we want to get the pictures.

Mr.

Bellam, do you solemnly swear that you will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and the Constitution and government of the state of Nevada against all enemies, domestic or foreign, and that you will bear true faith, allegiance, and loyalty to the same.

Any ordinance, resolution, or law of any state, notwithstanding that you are not under any direct or indirect obligation to vote for, appoint or elect any person to any office, position, or employment in our city government, that you are a bona fide resident at your stated address, and that you will faithfully perform the duties of the office in which you are about to enter, so help you God.

I do, so help me God.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

And I understand that your brother Mike will have the honor and privilege of robing you.

Please proceed.

Okay.

And now, your honor, would you care to say a few words?

Okay.

Would you get caught up?

Oh, yeah, of course.

Oh dear.

Oh, we have to do better.

No, for the pictures, you gotta figure that.

Okay.

All right, there you go.

Can I help?

Thank you.

Oh.

There you go.

There you go.

Good morning, everyone.

Um Mark Twain once said that it takes him about two weeks to prepare for an impromptu speech.

I I was appointed exactly two weeks ago on December 3rd.

But I cannot compare with Mark Twain and his talents.

So I may cheat a little bit and look at my phone.

But first I want to thank Mayor Berkeley, Mayor Pro Tem Knutson, as well as all the councilwomen for their vote of confidence in me.

It's an honor to end my career.

I had retired, and now I'm not retired.

But this will be my last year as a caretaker.

It's an honor to end it on the bench, serving the people of Las Vegas, a city that I love and I've made home for almost a half a century.

You can tell by the accent I was not born here in Las Vegas.

But I came here in 1980 to make it my home.

I went to UNLV.

I graduated.

I worked my way as a security guard at the landmark hotel, a black deck dealer at the Riviera, the Flamingo Hilton, uh short stint as a high school teacher before I left to go back to New York for law school.

That was well before we had Boyd School of Law here.

I've been very lucky and blessed in my career.

I've been a practicing attorney for over 33 years, and now I get to end my career on the bench.

I've always measured success by substance and not by symbols.

And so I've been blessed personally and professionally.

But the best thing about all those years in Las Vegas are the people I've met and the experiences and the memories I've had.

Las Vegas has given me some of the greatest memories of my life.

I want to thank there's a lot of the judges here.

I get an opportunity to make more memories with some great community court judges as well as the staff, the marshals.

I've already met great people.

I've actually was a public attorney for 22 years in the city, and I got to meet all these people, and that's one of the reasons I decided to come back, just to be with these people.

I also want to thank a lot of my friends, these other memory makers uh that are here today joining me.

Uh thank them for the memories that we've created.

Uh, and I'm just glad to be able to serve the public.

Uh I love Las Vegas.

Uh it's been great to me, and I hope I can make everybody proud on the bench for the next year, as proud as my friends and family has made me of them.

So thank you very much, and I look forward to having Steve Wilson never speak again in public.

Thank you very much, Mr.

You're very welcome.

Congratulations.

Uh yeah.

Okay, we're now before everyone leaves.

Let's do a photo.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Michael Joseph.

Michael Joseph.

Thank you, right.

I did.

Good stuff.

We got to go to work.

We gotta go to work.

It's not a day office.

It's not like Peter Bellin Day in the city, like the trade.

Thank you very much.

That's so funny.

Okay.

This is the ceremonial portion of our council agenda.

And for our first item, I want to invite our executive director of community development, Seth Floyd, to join us.

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

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

I'm proud to announce that the employee of the month is Tom Burkhart.

Tom, please join us.

Okay.

Very cute.

Congratulations.

Tom is a development services administrator and has been with the city since 2000.

Tom plays a critical role in supporting contractors, developers, and engineers, consistently serving as a dependable resource and problem solver.

His ability to navigate complex situations, situations and provide guidance reflects his vast understanding of city systems and processes.

Tom has the ability to help the customer through the city's process while also keeping in mind the standards and regulations we have to enforce.

He also maintains a positive attitude and exemplifies our core values of being kind, committed, and smart.

Beyond his daily responsibilities, Tom actively looks for ways to enhance workflow and drive efficiencies.

His forward thinking mindset and dedication to continuous improvement have had a lasting and positive impact on productivity.

Tom, thank you so much for all of your hard work to make our city safer and a safer place to live.

And I'd like to give uh Mr.

Floyd a chance to say a few words, and then we will have a photo.

Thank you, Mayor.

So, first of all, uh, this is a long time coming.

Uh, I think a lot of us were surprised that Tom has not received this award before.

Uh, at least our team uh was a little bit surprised.

Uh, and I think that's because for the last decade plus when we talk about our development review process, which by the way, I think is the best in the valley, maybe in the country.

A central piece of that is having a single point of contact, one person you can call to get all your issues resolved, and we consistently get that feedback.

But what we've also learned is it's not just having the position for it, it's also the person who's in the position.

And I think Tom has tried to give this up a number of times when I first started.

He's like, Oh, I think we need to you know get a team around me and get some other people, but it's it's Tom, and you can't replace Tom.

So he has done an excellent job uh over the years, and he's simply exceptional.

He leads by example, uh, he shows up with a good attitude.

He always knows that he can find a solution to every problem.

But with that, and I don't want to take too much time, but you were actually nominated by two people, Tom.

One of them you know about, which is Mike Cunningham, the other is our planning commissioner, Trinity Schlottman.

We were in a Trinity's hand up.

Trinity's here, and I think that's a real credit that we have developers and contractors showing up to celebrate this day with Tom.

But we were at a meeting getting some feedback, and Trinity said, if you don't nominate Tom Burkhard for employee of the month, I'm gonna lose faith in the city.

And I said, Well, we better we better make that happen.

And Mike Cunningham did.

So, Mike, I just wanted you to add a few words as well since you did the nomination.

Thank you, Seth.

All right, good morning, everybody.

And I'm glad to hear someone else did nominate him because I think I'm on the bad side of Tom because it's making him very uncomfortable.

So I get a I get a share it now.

Um, but I just wanted to add a couple things.

So Tom, as the mayor mentioned, um, is pivotable or is super good for our development community.

Um, he helps out the development process is very complicated, as everyone knows.

There's tons of departments you got to deal with.

There's a lot of jurisdictions, there's a lot of steps.

We streamline it the best we can, but it's still a very complicated process.

Tom helps out with some of the more complicated ones and a lot of the projects that are downtown that are even more complicated because of the unique situations.

Um, he does it all while knowing enough about everyone's processes to get the customers to where they got to go.

He knows what the city needs and he knows what the developer needs.

And he is a very humble person, so he does say often it's not me, it's the position.

The only thing I would say to that, I worked on the private side before I came to the city, and we worked at a lot of jurisdictions, a lot of states, and there was people that had this position.

They even had a whole team to try to do what Tom does.

Um, they weren't as beneficial, they weren't as uh as helpful.

Um, so all I would say is they had the position, but they did not have the Tom.

Um, congratulations.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

All right.

This is uh very distracting looking out and seeing your face in the crowd.

So I'm gonna try to turn so I really don't see my face anymore.

And just uh really just first thanking the mayor and counsel for giving me this opportunity to say a few words today.

Um, and of course, Mike and Seth.

Uh all right, I'll look at myself for a while too out here.

Um, but yeah, I mean, you don't get nice words said about you without having the best team in the world, and and for 25 years I've had the best coworkers.

Um I'm gonna try to keep this quick because they're the ones that do all the work, so if they're in here, there's literally nothing getting done right now.

Um but uh no, they're they're the best, they're the nicest, they're the greatest people on the planet, and I just appreciate every day that I come to work.

Um my job as Mike and Sus said is pretty special because I do get to work a lot with a lot of our uh amazing small business owners and developers and contractors and architects and engineers on the private side.

And over all that time, uh I've gotten to have a lot of fantastic relationships on that end as well.

So I value that uh immensely as well.

And on a personal note, of course, I couldn't take this opportunity without thanking the person that means the most to me, my wife Jen, who's uh always been there for me, and uh she's also a small business owner.

No, she's she's busy working because small business owners don't get a day off.

So uh, but I know she's watching, and I'm just very grateful.

And uh it's uh my lucky person to have her.

So I appreciate uh you guys giving me the opportunity to say a few words uh and and thank everyone that's meant so much to me.

So thank you.

Come on, yes.

For our final uh ceremonial item, Councilwoman Summers Armstrong will recognize a local nonprofit that has been doing great work in our community.

Councilwoman.

Thank you, Mayor Berkeley.

Um I'd like to invite Tristian Hightower Skidmore and Melody Loveday to the podium.

Uh today I have the privilege of introducing a remarkable local organization that has been making strides to combat food insecurity and provide much needed social services to Clark County.

Through their active and dedicated involvement, they help transform neighborhoods into thriving, connected communities.

The Just One Project leads this transformation by connecting people with nutritious food and essential services like housing assistance, resource navigation, and workforce development, providing a holistic approach to the challenges faced by those in need.

It is my honor to welcome Tristian Hightower Skidmore and Melody Loveday from the Just One Project to join us here today.

Tristan acts as the senior executive director of revenue for the Just One Project, while Melody Loveday is the director of community partnerships.

Along with the rest of the Just One Project staff, they form an extraordinary team dedicated to the transformative work of creating vibrant and healthy communities and that will strive for generations, thrive for generations.

The Just One Project's mission is to provide food assistance and wrap around social services to help individuals and families achieve stability, growth, and self-sufficiency.

Their impactful work includes managing community markets, mobile food pantries, and running a meal delivery service.

A shining example of their efforts is the TJOP's emergency food distribution program, which distributed eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-four thousand pounds of food to nearly sixty-four thousand people, representing eighteen thousand one hundred and fifty families just last month during the government shutdown.

So I'm gonna go off script a little bit.

Personal privilege.

Never seen anything like this happen, right?

We were all taken aback.

And we were devastated.

We were on lockdown.

And we, as leaders, community leaders, and government officials, were given list of resources that we could use when we were getting phone calls from our communities.

And a lot of seniors.

They're alive.

They are fed, they know that there are resources for them, and the Just One Project is in Ward 5.

And I'm so grateful to have you all as a partner.

I get teary-eyed because it's so important that we look out for one another when times are difficult.

So I just want you all to join me in recognizing the Just One Project as Citizen of the Month and celebrating the outstanding contributions that their dedicated team makes to our community.

And we have a proclamation for you.

But first, I'd like to give you an opportunity to speak.

So give them a round of applause.

Thank you, everybody.

So my name is Tristan Tower Skidmore.

I'm the senior executive director of revenue at the Just One Project, and we're so honored to be here with you today.

When our CEO and founder, Brooke Newbauer, started the Just One Project.

Her intention was not to create the agency that we are today.

It was to create opportunities for herself and her family and her friends to show up and serve our community.

She believed from the beginning that it takes just one person to make the difference, to make a meaningful difference in the life of others.

So I'm myself and all of TJOP, we're really grateful to serve together with all of you.

Thank you.

I don't know.

We're twinning today.

I have another.

I did not have that number.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

And I told you that started in Mark 3.

I'm glad you guys have more space to do this.

Happy holidays.

Thank you, Elsman.

Appreciate it.

Okay, are we all in?

Thorough.

Okay.

Agenda item number eight.

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.

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.

We will set the time limit at two minutes.

Lovely Mayor, lovely mayor, beloved Mayor Shelley.

How are you doing today?

Well, thank you.

I'm glad to hear that in the fantastic, fabulous council.

My name is Eric Melchizedek Christ Nimrod.

You can find the Ethiopian King Nimrod in Genesis the 10th chapter, the sixth to the twelfth verse, being congratulated as a mighty hunter because he saved the human race from the animals that came off the ark and turned wild.

Oh and we're attacking the human race.

So you'll read in the Bible where it says Nemrod the mighty hunter before the Lord, meaning in the presence of the Lord.

And he built eight cities for the people to live in to protect them from the wild beast.

I like that guy.

To support public education activities and programs, was one, three, and five.

And also agenda number 28 national fitness campaign, National Innovation Zone Program, because you need educated mind and a fit body to be able to do the mission that you're given from the divine.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Nimrod.

Is there anybody else wishing to speak?

Is this for anything on the agenda?

It has to be on the agenda, but it's anything on the agenda.

Do you have a you look puzzled?

I do.

Can I help you?

We don't have something.

We don't have something on the agenda.

Is there a time that we'll be able to speak at the end?

At the end of the at the end of the agenda, there'll be public comment, and you could say anything you want.

Thank you.

All right.

Hi, my name is Michelle Baker.

I'm community manager for the Lakes Association.

I'm uh speaking on reference to item 43.

This is the general plan amendment for the Colita group.

Um I didn't receive one of these.

This is just a happenstance.

Every type of notification that's come to me has been by word of mouth by someone else.

I've reached out to homeowners that reside within the area in proximity who should be notified.

They all have confirmed they've received no notification.

I'd like this to be started over in as far as notifying people when they're asking for a variance.

You're talking about single-story homes, two-story homes.

We're talking about ownership.

You're trying to squeeze in a variance for more and a condensed residency, apartment living, and um a community that's already, you know, having that much more in an area, which they say that they're gonna have a traffic study.

I was invited, I was at the last meeting or hearing, they said they were gonna notify everybody about neighborhood meetings.

I didn't hear anything.

I was also promised by the people who are part of that group that they would notify me.

I received no information other than somebody else reaching out to me asking me if I knew anything.

So I would like to be properly notified.

Thank you so much.

And uh, Mr.

City Attorney, what is um what is the procedure when it comes to notifying?

Uh thank you, Barry Jeff Dorkheck, City Attorney.

As you know, there's some postcards involved with a distance generally of a thousand feet.

We will get to that item when we get to 43, and the uh leadership of community development has some answers for that particular complaint.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Um, would you care to address the council?

Yes, ma'am, and good morning.

My name is Daniel Hall.

I live on Beaver Creek Court across the street from the Kalita project, the proposed Kalita project.

Uh I have a lot of things to say in a short period of time, so I'll just hit these high points.

You know, the first of all, high density apartments in the lakes that was built 40 years ago, uh, is a veritable ant hill of overcrowding that is the neighborhood was not designed for, nor is it capable of supporting.

Uh, number two, the council will have to approve a change in density from what it is actually right now.

Um, there's uh in in this project, there will be over a thousand cars added to a one square block area.

1,000 to 1,500 cars.

This area cannot support that.

These streets are 25 to 35 mile per hour, single-lane roads.

They're not designed for that kind of traffic.

There was no traffic study done.

Uh what about MJ Christensen elementary school?

Has anybody looked at can they support the influx of pupils?

There's kids walking to school, there's people riding bikes, there's pedestrians.

Uh the significant increase in danger is going to be significant.

So for all those reasons and more, you know, I don't think, you know, you know, before you tear down a multimillion dollar facility, which is a perfectly good facility, before you cut down hundreds of beautiful mature trees that's on that property, thousands of mature shrubs and bushes, before you tear down a pre-K daycare center, standalone daycare center, a million-dollar facility in and of itself, before you tear all that stuff down, why don't we look at trying to use that property for what it was in originally intended?

Before you tear down a pre-K daycare center, standalone daycare center.

A million dollar facility in and of itself.

Before you tear all that stuff down, why don't we look at trying to use that property for what was in originally intended?

I'm sure Mayor, you have a lot of these companies on speed dial, where you could pick up the phone and call them, you know, Rob Roy a switch or Meta or Microsoft, all these companies that come into our city.

There's data centers being built everywhere.

This property could be used in some capacity.

And finally, procedurally, I would like to echo what uh Michelle said.

There was not proper notification.

And finally, with all due respect to Councilwoman Kelly, she's appointed three months ago.

She was not elected by the citizens.

There should be uh a better amount of time rather than in the middle of the week, eight days before Christmas to bring this before the city council for approval.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Is there anybody else that wishes to uh address the council?

In that case, we will move to agenda item number nine for possible action.

Any items from the 930 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.

Madam Mayor, I have one item at 63A through 63B.

25-0466 VAR1 and SUP1.

This is a public hearing.

Applicant is rhythm roast, owner BJH property LLC on.97 acres at 2747 North Rainbow Boulevard.

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

That'll be my motion.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Shall we vote on the motion?

Post.

Post.

Who's uh has oh motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item number 10 for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the November 19th, 2025 regular city council meeting.

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

Move to approve the minutes.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item 11.

Items number 11 through 31 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?

Seeing none, mayor pro tem, may I have a motion for the consent agenda items 11 through 31?

Move to approve the consent agenda.

Shall we vote?

Please post.

Motion carries.

Item 32 regarding the fair market value of the city of Las Vegas owned real property located at 6211 Vegas Valley Drive in anticipation of the sale of the real property.

Item 33.

Discussion for possible action to approve a letter of intent between the City of Las Vegas and Patriot Housing LV LLC for the sale of City of Las Vegas owned real property located at 6211 Vegas Valley Drive for $8,959.

Item 34, R-89-2025.

Discussion for possible action to approve a resolution of the Las Vegas City Council pursuant to NRS 268.063, finding that it is in the best interest of the public to sell City of Las Vegas owned real estate located at 6211 Vegas Valley Drive for less than fair market value to Patriot Housing LV LLC.

These items are in Clark County.

Item 32 is a public hearing, which I now declare open.

Ms.

Boyce.

Yes.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Teresa Boyce, Real Estate Manager.

And we're opening this hearing for the fair market value of the city-owned real property located at 621.

6211 Vegas Valley Drive, which is appraised for $8,960,000.

Thank you so much.

Yes, I'd like to introduce Bob Gronauer.

He'll do this presentation.

Thank you so much.

Good morning, Mr.

Grunauer.

Okay, thank you.

Good morning.

Uh your Honor members of the Council.

My name is Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.

Um it's my honor to be before you on these three matters on behalf of my client, uh Patriot Housing with fixed uh development.

Um fairly quickly here.

Uh this process started with uh the mayor uh kicking it off with the city manager with Mike Jansen.

We met several uh months ago to look at several properties throughout the city that can be disposed of as one of your assets to get to the goal of providing veteran housing.

We work very closely with Teresa and other members of your staff, and that's why we're here today.

To give you a little bit of background, uh, as you can see on the overhead here, this is a property that's approximately 31 acres.

Uh it's currently a part of your solar farm.

This is owned by the city.

The property is actually located in Clark County.

Uh part of this proposal of what we're trying to work with with the city is to develop a portion of this property, as you can see up in the upper left-hand corner of the map here, which would be in the northwest portion of the property, where we would take down approximately 14.7 acres of property for this proposed development.

The little kicker here is we got to go through entitlements in this in in Clark County.

Uh, I want to thank Commissioner Tick Sigurd.

Um, he has already allowed us to start that process to go through those entitlements, and I know that he's had conversations with members of the council and mayor Berkeley on this.

So we will we have already commenced that process.

Uh we are probably gonna be somewhere about up to four to six months to go through that uh entitlement process in Clark County.

Uh and during that time, we will be negotiating the DDA with your city attorney's office that we're already turning pages with your with your uh city representatives.

Uh that being said, on behalf of my client, this has been something that he's been looking to do as a legacy project.

Uh as you know, Nevada, Southern Nevada, or this country, we have a veterans housing issue outside of a housing crisis.

And I I appreciate along with my client giving us this opportunity to do something special here in southern Nevada to address that goal where that need is is to address for the veteran housing.

So I look forward to coming back up here in the near future as we continue these steps, and I'm here to answer any other questions that you might have.

I before we do that, is there anyone else wishing to speak on this item?

Seeing none, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Francis, please take all the time you want.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh I just want to say this project is really encouraging, and I'm glad to see things like this materializing for us in Southern Nevada.

And I want to welcome any future projects that you have in Ward 4.

Uh, we love our veterans in Ward 4.

We even have the the state's veterans memorial moving into ward four.

So if you can find a plot of land, I don't think you're gonna find one as large uh of parcel, but uh I I welcome I welcome more housing for veterans in my area too.

Thank you.

And yes, please, Miss Rooney.

Thank you.

I think this is a great project because I think it's a great project.

Can you just for the public or just so it's on record, just provide a brief overview of how many units of housing and some of the amenities if you can, just so the public watching knows what a great project this is.

Yeah, we'll be providing a wraparound services uh for the uh veterans with uh senior uh excuse me with the veteran housing component uh to to be able to reside on the property itself.

Uh currently, and I'm in the number changes as we go through, but it's approximately 348 total units of uh that would be constructed.

108 of them were will be for supportive housing and 240 will be for affordable apartment units for the veterans.

Thank you, Teresa.

Anyone else wishing to speak in that case?

Um no action is required on item 32.

Uh we will need a motion on item 34 before 33.

Is there a motion on item 34?

Um, Councilman Knudsen.

I'm gonna move to approve item 34.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Um, agenda item 33.

I need a motion.

And with appreciation, Miss Boyce and to your clients.

Mr.

Grown Hour, thank you very much.

And I'll move to approve.

Item 33.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Uh, please thank your client.

We're very, very excited about this project and look forward to its completion.

Thank you.

Very welcome.

We'll now move on to item 35.

Agenda item 35, boards and commissions.

Discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee Aaron Jimenez to the Board of Civil Service Trustees.

The Board of Civil Service Trustees is comprised of five members appointed by the City Council for a four-year term.

Members are limited to two full terms, and there are no requirements to fill in unexpired portion of a term.

Greg Clemens was appointed in 2018 and has resigned from the board.

Mr.

Jimenez qualifies, has the recommendation of the human resources director, and wishes to be appointed to the board.

Is there a motion, Councilman Canutson?

I will move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 36.

Discussion for possible action regarding the reappointment of Bob Stodal and Craig Palacios to the Historic Preservation Commission.

The historic preservation commission is comprised of members filling 10 different categories.

Terms are for four years with no limit to the number of terms that may be served.

Mr.

Stodal has served on the board since 1998, and Mr.

Palacios has served since 2020.

Both are eligible for reappointment, have the recommendation of the community development director, and wish to continue serving.

Post.

I think motion carries.

For a second.

Agenda item 37, new bills.

Items 37 through 40, bills 2025-41, 2025-42, 2025-43, and 2025-44 will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday, January 5, 2026.

City Attorney, would you please read the new bills?

Yes, ma'am.

Bill number 2025-41 and ordinance to amend LVMC's section 6.4.155 and 6.69.10 to update the definitions of the business license categories transportation network company and reflexology, respectively, to align with state law and provide for other related matters.

Bill number 2025-42, an ordinance to amend LBMC section 6.2.150 to clarify the requirement that separate licenses or permits are needed for each assumed or fictitious business name utilized by a business and provide for other related matters.

Bill number 2025-43, an ordinance to update the description of certain city ward boundaries, wards 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to reflect precinct number adjustments by the Clark County Election Department and to provide for other related matters.

Bill number 2025-44, an ordinance to the of the City Council of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, authorizing the issuance of its City Las Vegas, Nevada various purpose revenue bonds, series 2026 A, tax exempt, and City of Las Vegas, Nevada, various purpose revenue bonds series 2026 B taxable for the purpose of financing building projects in the combined maximum principal amount of 90 million dollars, providing the forum terms and conditions of the bonds and the security therefore and other details in connection there with providing other matters related there too and providing the effective date hereof.

Thank you very much.

Agenda item 41.

Items 41A and 41B are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine and are 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.

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

Item number 42.

Hi, I'm Kimberly Taylor.

Good morning.

I'm just here representing the applicant Las Vegas Cow Canyon Covenant Group.

I thank you so much.

Item 42, 25 0091.

Applicant, Las Vegas Coyo Canyon Covenant Group, Owner, Alpine Village LLC on the following land use entitlement project request on 1.46 acres at the northwest corner of Kyle Canyon Road and Alpine Ridge Way.

Ward 6, Miss Bruni.

Item 42A, 25 0091-GPA1 from PCD Plan Community Development to SC Service Commercial.

42B 25-0091-CON1 from U undeveloped zone.

PCD Plan Community Development General Plan Designation to C1 Limited Commercial.

Item 42C 25 Dash 0091 SDR1 for a proposed one-story 4300 square foot dental office, 2500 square foot restaurant with drive-thru and 1300 square feet of general retail development.

Item 43 applicant Khalida residential LLC owner ZF office NV Trust et al.

on a land use entitlement project requests from TOD2 Transit Oriented Development Low to TOC Transit Oriented Corridor High on 28.07 acres at the southeast corner of Sahara Avenue and Crystal Waterway Ward 2 Ms.

Kelly.

Item 43 44 25 0425 applicant ACG design owner Oak Brook Realty and Investments 2 LLC on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.56 acres at 307 and 319 South Main Street CM Commercial Industrial and C2 General Commercial Zone Ward 3.

Ms.

Diaz note the owner has amended at Planning Commission from Oak Brook Realty and Investments 2 LLC to Alleycat LLC and for 25-0425-ZON1.

The APN was amended from 139-34-210-003 to 139-34-210-004.

Item 44A, 25-0425 zone one from CM Commercial Industrial to C2, General Commercial.

Item 44B, 25-02, 0425 SUP1 for a proposed 10,626 square foot alcohol on premise full use with a 14,375 square foot outdoor patio area.

Item 44C 25 Dare 0425 dash SUP2 for a proposed night club use with an outdoor patio area.

For a proposed two-story 10,000 626 square foot nightclub development with a 14,375 square foot outdoor patio area.

Item 45, 25 Dare 0441-SUP1.

Applicant, Gazelle Sedino, owner, Mershop Rainbow Boulevard LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed financial institution.

Specifuse with waivers to allow a 1,117 square foot site area dedicated to the use where 1,500 square feet is the minimum required and an 80-foot distance separation from residentially owned property where 200 feet is required at 1725 South Rainbow Boulevard Suite 19.

C1 Limited Commercial Zone Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson.

46, 25 dash 0505 dash RQR1.

Applicant Lamar Central Outdoor LLC owner, Rainbow Plaza Enterprises LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a required review of an approved variance for an existing 55 foot tall 14 foot by 48 foot off-premise sign located within 200 feet of a residential zone at 2201 North Rainbow Boulevard C One Limited Commercial Zone.

Applicant Lamar.

Central Outdoor LLC owner, uh Joseph E.

Papa and Maria Sereno Papa, revocable trust on a land use permit for an existing 50 foot tall 14 foot by 48 foot off-premise sign on 0.37 acres at 3101 West Sahara Avenue, C1 Limited Commercial Zone, Ward 3, Ms.

Diaz.

Item 48, 250507-RQR1.

Applicant Lamar Central Outdoor LLC owner.

Jones 95 2015 Holdings LLC et L on a land use entitlement project request for a require required review of an approved special use permit for a 65-foot tall 14-foot by 48 foot off-premise sign on 1.11 acres at a 120 North Jones Boulevard.

Recordation of a map subdividing this site, whichever may occur first on 2.18 acres on the south side of Fremont Street, approximately 400 feet south, 405 feet southeast of Charleston Boulevard, C2, General Commercial Zone Ward 3, Ms.

Diaz, Item 50, 25 0516-DIR 1, applicant owner, SCH East Landco LLC on a required review of a 24-month development report as required by Section 9.01 of the Sandstone Development Agreement, generally located at the southwest corner of North Sky Canyon Drive and Moccison Road.

The Planning Commission recommends approval of items 22 through 25.

Staff recommends approval of all items.

Items 42 through 49 are public hearings, which I now declare open.

Would anybody care to address the city council?

Madam Mayor.

Is it appropriate?

Do I ask now to remove something from the consent agenda?

Um Mr.

City Attorney, I believe this is the time.

From the consent agenda, we've completed item 41.

Are you asking about one motion, one vote?

Yes, I am.

I'm sorry, I misspoke.

Yeah, this this would be the time.

Um mayor, I don't know offhand what the script calls for if you're going to take the public comment first, or if you'd like to take councilwoman's comments.

It's your prerogative.

Um, a councilwoman, why don't you go ahead and do what you're gonna do and then we'll do public comment.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Um, I'd like to remove item 43 from the one motion, one vote.

No.

I thank you very much.

Is there anybody that wishes to speak on any of these items?

Uh that was item 43 was my request to have it postponed.

I would like to see it postponed until we're going to be able to do 30 to 60 days until everyone.

Excuse me, sir.

In the in the motion I make, we'll pull it off the agenda.

So you'll have a time to speak at that point.

No, I was just reiterating.

Thank you for doing that, and we appreciate the opportunity to get more community involvement.

Thank you very much.

Is there anyone else wishing to be heard?

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

Mayor Pro 10, may I have a motion for the one motion, one vote items.

Madam Mayor, before I make the motion, I have a condition that I'm going to ask to read into the record for item number 45, and I'll ask for the applicant to accept that condition if possible.

And Mr.

Lowenstein for item number 45, if you could please.

Thank you.

Through you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem.

Uh, on the special use permit, the added condition would read as follows.

The approval of this special use permit shall be limited to check caching only, no loan, comma, cash advance, comma, or deferred deposit service may be provided in connection with this use.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Lowenstein.

And uh for the applicant, I apologize for the late notice of this.

I appreciate the willingness to work on this if if you're okay with that condition.

Yes, Madam Mayor, Stephanie Grown, our 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here on behalf of the applicant, and we're in agreements with that condition.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

We'll entertain a motion at this time.

With that, I'm gonna move to approve items 42 through 50, with the exception of 43, which we'll pull up for a separate hearing.

And the condition that was stated into the record on item number 45.

Okay.

Shall we vote?

Please post.

Motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

We will now hear item number 43.

Please state your name for the record.

Mr.

Gardner, real quick for the for the folks that are here for item 43.

We're we're hearing it now.

So this is probably where you'd want to stay and listen.

Sorry.

Again, good morning, your honor members of the council.

My name is Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.

I'm here representing the applicant in this matter, Kalita Residential Development.

Um I'll go give you a little bit of a background, and then I'd like to address a couple of comments that the uh neighbors and uh community manager mentioned, because I think I could hopefully clear up some of their questions.

First of all, what I want to show you here on the overhead here is the city court building.

Uh, you may be very familiar with this.

This is off of just south of Sahara, as I'm showing you here.

And this is Durango, which is further down here on the east of the property, just across the street is Canyon Gate Golf Course.

Uh, this was a commercial building office building that was approved many, many years ago by the city of Las Vegas.

Um, as you may know, it's been sitting vacant for many years.

Uh it's been hard to find an end user on this property.

This is approximately that you see in yellow is about 28 acres of property.

Uh the property is currently zoned C1.

It is in your transit um or uh oriented uh development, which means TOD two, which allows for mixed use developments.

What we're asking for is to put it in the uh TOC 1 category to still allow us to come in with a multi uh excuse me with a mixed use development.

It's just the difference is is it would allow us to build up to 40 units to the acre on this property versus 30 units to the acre.

Um your staff is recommending approval.

Your planning commission reviewed this and heard the opposition who spoke, and it also recommended unanimous approval.

A little bit of background on this.

As you know, as you go through a general plan amendment in the city of Las Vegas, you're required to do a neighborhood meeting.

Uh we had a neighborhood meeting at the Sahara Library.

We had about 15, 12 to 15 people who showed up, plus uh staff member uh from your planning department.

Uh we had a good meeting with the neighbors in that meeting with the neighbors mentioned is there were some traffic concerns about circulation for future development and some of your other typical development issues that come up as far as timing what what what you're proposing to do, tearing down the buildings, etc.

etc.

So, long story short is what we told the neighbors that this general plan amendment is a first step of a long longer process of what we're gonna go through.

So we did go through the dates for the planning commission hearing and the city council hearing, which is scheduled for today.

Uh, there's a notification, I'm sure your staff will confirm that it's went out to the neighbors.

But here is now where I think the confusion has happened.

Is this property located right here?

Subsequently to our neighborhood meeting, and our meeting with the neighbors, uh, there was a proposed developer on this property that had another vol that had a voluntary neighborhood meeting.

And I think what has happened is the neighbors, some of these neighbors have confused our development with this proposed development here.

Now I don't know that for a fact, but I'm trying to use common sense here is they're working with us on a project located here, and we told the neighbors we will come and have another neighborhood meeting as we come through with our plans when they're finalized.

What I didn't anticipate when we were at the neighborhood meeting, and it's anybody's right that this property owner here was locked into a contract with the proposed developer looking to do something similar.

And they had a neighborhood meeting, and I think that's where that confusion has arisen as far as because we did get an email from the community manager uh who's who's here, and one of my associates explained that we didn't represent this property, and this property was separate from what we are proposing today.

So I believe there's a little bit of confusion there.

I could be wrong, but I'm just trying to use common sense and listening to the comments in the email correspondence that we previously had, a clarifying that we don't represent this property.

And a matter of fact, I do know that they're probably not gonna be moving forward on this property because our firm was also hired.

I was hired to do some due diligence work for the lenders, and they were told that they're not gonna be moving forward at this point.

Okay.

So I do know that as far as what's happening on this property.

So getting back to this property of where we are representing Kalita, we are looking to put in a mixed use development uh commercial along the front edge.

Uh we're gonna have some restaurants, some retail, looking at maybe a boutique hotel, something to that extent.

We are still doing that due diligence.

Kalita does mixed use developments.

Uh they have one down off of Paradise on their other Ainsley project, uh, where I'm gonna say there's a tacos and beer where the old Ruth Chris used to be in that shopping center.

They own that, that's their mixed use development with Ainsley behind there.

Looking to do two separate projects for multifamily in this area.

We talked to the neighbors.

We do know that there's a concern about access here on Lake East Drive in this area here.

They know we do know that there are some landscaping buffering concerns that they're going to have.

We took that in consideration.

We said as we come through with our drawings later on, we will have those discussions and is noted that we will be addressing those issues in our design.

So that being said, this is on the one motion, one vote.

Typically, when an item's on one motion, one vote is a fairly straightforward item.

It should be.

Uh, your staff has recommended approval and the planning commission unanimously recommended approval, and I could answer any other questions that you might have.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report at this time?

Yes, good morning, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh, Mayor, the proposed general plan designation is consistent with the objectives of transit oriented development and linear core linear corridor oriented mixed use development would be appropriate in this location as allowed under the proposed TOC one or transit-oriented corridor high land use designation.

The TOC one designation is appropriate for this location because the intent of that designation is to sensitively transition to adjacent neighborhoods, and the subject site is a budding residential neighborhoods to the north, south, and west, and as such, staff is recommending approval.

Thank you.

All right.

And uh uh I I'm not sure you're the appropriate person to ask, but we've had two of our fellow citizens say they did not receive notice.

Do you know anything about that?

Did notice in fact go out?

And what is the requirements for notice?

Uh yes, Mayor Seth Lloyd for the record.

So I did speak with uh Miss Baker, who was one of those uh folks who had some concerns about the notice.

Uh, we looked through uh a few of the addresses that she identified as not having gotten notice, and our records show that notice did go uh to those locations.

We also notified, I believe, seven associations, uh, but we did meet our obligations under state law for this property.

Now, if what Mr.

Groenau are saying is accurate, that they're confusing this with another project.

Uh, that may be true.

There is another project that uh has at least uh started looking at that other site, and obviously they're they're totally separate projects.

So on this one, I believe we have met the proper notice requirement.

All right.

At this time, I'll entertain the motion.

Um, Ms.

Kelly.

May I ask uh Mr.

Floyd another question?

Thank you.

Of course.

Um would you um for the public record talk about the um notifications to HOAs?

I understand it's voluntary, it needs to be registered.

So if you could address that for me.

Yeah, thank you, Councilwoman Sethloy for the record.

So we notify um, and by the way, let me just clarify a couple of other things.

Under state law, we're required to notify up to 750 feet.

We do a thousand feet.

Uh, we do all of the record property owners within that thousand feet, and then any association that touches that boundary of 1,000 feet.

However, we can only notify associations that are registered with the city, not all of them are.

And another thing that sometimes happens is they might be registered, but their address is out of date, and all we have in our records is whatever the last known address is.

I don't know if that's what uh happened here.

Uh, but state law actually does not require that specific notification to the associations.

We do that again to go above and beyond and make sure everybody is made aware.

Okay, thank you for that.

Uh may I just continue a couple other clarification questions?

Yes, Madam Mayor, thank you.

Um I know that when I came on in September, one of the things that um I was concerned about is I had a uh I was gonna miss the first meeting in October.

And so I um uh asked the developer who who agreed uh to obey that to the next uh meeting, which was done um and I'm speaking specifically uh both on the the planning commission side and then also on the um city council meeting side or was it just on the planning commission when we obeyed it?

It was the planning commission.

Okay.

Um and then the planning commission uh meetings are held in the evening after work hours, correct?

Just clarifying, okay.

And um and this is a change from as it states on the agenda item from T D 2, TOD2 to TOD 1.

Will you explain for the record what that difference is, please?

Yes, I think it's already it's already zoned TOD2.

So the zoning is actually uh C1.

This the general plan designation is as you stated, it's currently TOD2, transit-oriented development, which has a permitted density of 30 units per acre.

Uh the requested change to TOC1, uh and and this is reflected in the staff report, so I'm just referring back to that is 40 units uh per acre.

So they're asking to go to essentially be allowed to go from 30 units per acre to 40.

And then when we do, there was a a concern that has been raised by some of the constituents about traffic.

Um we the city handles traffic uh studies after um I I want to make I'm trying to be um clear about this so I don't misstate the but um in the process that traffic study is not done until there's there's preliminary approval of the development based on the outcome of the traffic study, correct?

Uh for the record, Seth Floyd, yes.

So well, so a couple of things.

Yes, the traffic study would be done as part of a site development review.

That's a typical condition of a site development review.

This is not a site development review, it's just the general plan amendment.

So we we're a little premature for a traffic impact analysis until we know what is actually going to go uh into the site.

And I'm Lucian may be able to address that in a little more detail, but that's the the gist of how we deal with the traffic impact analysis.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Sure, Lucian Pyatt for the record.

When that site development review does come in, uh we do a preliminary review of traffic, so we compare existing traffic or what it would have generated as it sits today compared to what it will be in the future on the proposed plan.

But as Seth said, there's no site development review for you today to look at, so we have not analyzed any of the traffic yet.

Thank you, Lucian.

Um and then uh Mr.

Floyd, if you can for me, um what's the rest of the process if this were to be approved today?

And and if you could highlight if there what opportunity in that process, if any uh if move forward exists for uh homeowners and constituents to weigh in.

Yeah, thank you, Councilwoman Seth Floyd for the record.

So uh assuming they proceed with development after they get this approval, then the next step would be that site development review, uh and they would be starting that process fresh.

They would be coming to us for a pre-application conference, uh, and then there would be another publicly noticed meeting that would have to go through planning commission.

We always encourage applicants uh to do neighborhood meetings.

It's not required as part of an SDR, but uh often they will do those.

So there would be at least one more opportunity, more than likely two, because it would probably go from planning commission to city council.

Uh but we've not seen those plans yet, so I don't have a timeline, but that's how the typical process would work.

So there would be further opportunity for neighborhood in involvement once they actually come in with their site development review.

Thank you.

And Mr.

Grona, or um, would your would the developer be uh um open to committing to uh at least another neighborhood meeting?

Uh yes, councilwoman, I I mentioned it at our neighborhood meeting.

Uh that's typical protocol from our firm.

That's what we do to keep the communications.

A matter of fact, uh we told them we were gonna do it.

I'm putting it on record.

I'm agreeing with you.

You're gonna see me more than once between now and by the time we have a neighborhood meeting there.

So we're we already planned on doing it.

I and plus I know a few of the neighbors there personally, our kids went to school together, so I'm definitely having a neighborhood meeting, even if I did or didn't.

So I'm definitely having a neighborhood meeting, even if I did or didn't, I know them well, or I know them.

Well, I I um and you have a reputation, Mr.

Gronauer, of being um an honest broker in your representations of your clients.

So I I feel confident that that you will do what you say you're gonna do.

Um that's a very very important to me.

Um Madam Mayor, yes, ma'am.

Um, in terms of the public hearing, is there an opportunity for the uh constituents who were here prior to address the council at this time?

Uh yes, if that is your desire.

Yes, that is my preference, please.

So if they if they would like to address the council at this time, um that would be I would appreciate that.

Thank you.

Please come forward and state your name.

Uh good morning, all my name is Sheldon Bolgats.

Thanks for hearing us here.

Um can I ask that same drawing go up for just a moment that uh the other gentleman had the site plan?

You may need to be uh the the from Mr.

Gronauer behind you because it gets reflected we have oh is it up there?

Oh great, sorry about that.

We're good.

So if if I may uh Mr.

Gronauer, I'd said there may be some confusion.

I think first what is was a little surprising to us is we've had two meetings about two major developments there.

This unit is I understand of 800, and then in the remaining nine acres, another 350 units.

So we're thinking all of a sudden we're gonna have 1200 apartments in our community there.

The other thing is so traffic was one concern.

The other side of it is you can't build 1200 units unless you go up.

And previously the height requirement didn't allow for taller than two-story homes or office buildings there.

So the other concern is what are they gonna build?

How tall will it be?

For me, just personally, if you look at this drawing and you see this, uh you probably can't see my finger here, but the the intersection there at Lake Sahara Drive and Lake East, if it's a T intersection, and um here.

Oh, they can see it here.

So if you see where my finger is, we own this property here.

Uh we have a CPA firm there, and uh at any rate, and then next to us is another property, and then there's a a school and it's got a 15 mile an hour school zone there.

So the only question is is Citibank on this corner was going to remain.

So this development meant everybody who lived in this development, which is unrelated to the one we're speaking of right now, would have to come in on this road and egress from this road.

So we were looking at as community, you know, and then we have a home in the lakes as well, but as looking at the community that everybody has to come in off of Lake South, in and out of this development, and unless on this development, if you're gonna go commercial on Sahara and residential in the remainder, they've got to come in on Crystal Cove or Lake East Drive.

And these are both one-lane roads going in both directions.

So that's at least for my point, a business owner and residential owner there, is to say this is pretty scary just because of the amount of traffic coming in.

On the next intersection at Charleston, there's Queensridge.

So there's no way to go through there.

So all of the traffic that comes off of comes out of these properties.

Again, it is just supposition, and I guess it would be my question is if these developers invest massive money with attorneys getting approval, then come back and you have a traffic study that says it can't work.

What happens?

That that's my question to these gentlemen and the council.

Mr.

Floyd, would you care to answer that?

Uh sure, mayor.

I think there may have been a couple of questions in there.

Um I'll try to get both of them.

One was on the height question.

So the property is currently zoned C1, which does not have a story or foot height limitation.

The only limitation is residential adjacency.

So there's in other words, there's a three-to-one slope if you're adjacent to residential.

Uh so I I haven't done the analysis to know exactly what that would be, but there is no height restriction here.

Um and we've gone back and looked at the original rezoning and cannot find any condition of a height.

Um so that's the answer, I think, on the height question.

The second question of what happens if you get all the way to the finish line and the traffic impact analysis doesn't work.

The short answer is it has to work, they have to make it work, or they can't do the development as they've proposed it without modifying traffic on the site or doing the upgrades that would be required to accommodate that traffic.

So in my experience, it it probably wouldn't get all the way to the end, and then they can't do it.

There would be some discussion once the uh traffic analysis is done and some modifications would be made to the site or to the surrounding areas.

Does that answer your question?

I'm not sure, but uh I I guess because the other thing is when he says no height restrictions is we own commercial property there, we applied to put a third story on and we were denied in saying is the lakes community cannot have more than two stories.

So when we're done with public comment, I'm gonna ask Mr.

Grunauer to come back and answer that question.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

And Mayor Seth Floyd for the argument, I would add, I mean, if there is a private restriction, we wouldn't necessarily have a record of that because we look at our code.

So I mean, I guess it is possible there is a CCNR uh or deed restriction that would restrict or address height in some way.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

And if I may, Madam Mayor, to the point about the traffic study, sir, the um I did want it the um because there's other developments that are happening and more too and certainly throughout the city, and the traffic study um is uh highly regarded uh whether the the uh as it's explained to me, and I I'm sure Mr.

Floyd will uh weigh in if I uh misstate it, but because the traffic study is a significant investment of resources, um the process has been established where there's a preliminary approval.

I could be using the wrong word, but preliminary approval uh before the traffic study is conducted.

Uh it's not done uh upfront.

Um so that traffic study um would be looking at um the issues that you raised and and we would make sure uh because I can one of the things that the council is able to do is add conditions onto that traffic study to make sure it's as thorough as it needs to be and not um uh more narrowly focused.

The other thing is uh part of my uh learning in this in this uh real time role has been that the the the in my time here um the the land that is not in the yellow that was uh that the uh interested developer had a voluntary neighborhood meeting.

They have not started the process.

And so what that essentially means is the last person in bears the responsibility for uh uh addressing issues in their traffic studies.

So for in this example, um Mr.

Gronauer's client Khalida uh uh assuming it gets assuming it gets approved and preliminary and everything, they would do a traffic study, and then um and we'd make decisions based on that traffic study.

And there may be uh conditions that the developer has to address in terms of egress, uh ingress or egress, and and um and that you know that maybe you know it'll be it'll be looking at the um ways in which people get to the various aspects of the site, and then um whoever if there's a development after that in the future for that that space that is not in the highlighted yellow, and that would then also require traffic study.

But that traffic study would have to include now the uh the fully uh that would have to consider the yellow site is fully developed.

And and they would that would that developer would then bear um the responsibility of addressing anything in their traffic study, which includes the full development of the site.

So I don't know if that's helpful.

Uh Mr.

Floyd, if you want to uh correct anything I've said, I'd appreciate that.

Lucian Pyot for the record for the most part, um so all the items that come before you that have traffic generating items, we do a preliminary review, and we do a very conservative estimate.

So we'll take, say, for this development, all the traffic they generate.

In this case, what we would actually uh consider what was already previously approved and what that traffic would have generated and make a comparison, so it's more of an apples apples comparison.

But in general, uh we would yeah, we would have all the numbers, all the traffic generated and show it going to every street.

So it's a very conservative estimate.

And in that estimate, so that's kind of in the parallel where um speaking about the application coming in, that's where we would determine okay.

Do these roads have capacity?

So when we when we provide information, is do the roads have capacity from uh uh ADT trip, so annual daily traffic, and we also provide what is the peak hour.

So during the peak hour, how many trips are um projected to be generated?

So in the preliminary stage, we would be able to determine if the roads don't have capacity at all, and that's where we'd have to they'd have to make some adjustment if we found out in the preliminary stages of their application that they didn't have capacity.

Okay, thank you.

And when you say ocean, when you use the word very conservative, what's your what we can you explain what that means?

Sure.

In a normal traffic study, you know, you what they'll do is they'll take all the traffic that's generated from a development and distribute it to each adjacent road.

So they do different percentages.

You know, they may have 50% to one road, 25% to another, 25% to another.

But when we present uh entitlement applications, we put 100% of the traffic generated on every road.

And so that's why when I speak of very conservative.

Uh, we're essentially if there's three roads, we're like projecting 300% of the actual traffic they're gonna generate.

And then another way of saying that is you're more generous, if you will, into uh regarding the amount of traffic because of assigning a hundred percent to every every road.

Yeah, that's that's correct.

Okay.

Generative conservative, um, kind of the same thing in this case.

In that case, okay.

And and Ms.

Kelly, I'm going to uh uh allow uh Ms.

Palensky to ask a question.

Thank you.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Um, and generally we all as council people try to stay to our own ward, but I do have a little bit of insight having worked with Kalita in the past in Ward 4, and I just have a question for uh the uh applicant here.

When I've worked with Khalida in the plat past, and the project in Ward 4 didn't materialize because it was on BLM property, and BLM is notoriously cumbersome and difficult to work with, and the Khleita folks chose to walk away, and now I have a what I would consider a less desirable developer developing on the land.

But uh the project in my ward was a luxury development.

And I want to ask of these units, what rents will you get per unit?

Because at least when I was working with Kleida, it was exceedingly high, like something that I couldn't afford myself.

Yeah, some very good question.

Uh, this is going to be somewhere around their Ainsley uh product, which you just approved for Queens Ridge about a month or two ago when I stood up here.

This is a high-end, it's it's probably gonna mimic the 3500 to 5,000 dollar range.

I think average rents are about 2500 in that area.

Now, again, we're still we collect is still doing their performers, but that product that is being proposed, one of the two um multifamily buildings will be there in the and even if it's your allegiance product, allegian product, you're probably I think the combined income for the uh renter is about 150,000 somewhere around there.

So it's it's it's a high-end luxury.

That's what they build, that's what they sell.

Not sell that that's that's what they rent.

Okay, thank you so much.

Um we'll hear from our next citizen.

Thank you again.

Would you state your name for the record again?

My name is Daniel Hall, and I'm a resident of Baitliff Creeks Court in the lakes next door to the proposed project.

My only comment is on the regarding the traffic study.

Um and I understand you all have your ways of doing things, but to me it's putting the cart before the horse.

You're approving a project and then trying to figure out how to make the traffic work.

We know it's gonna be 800 apartments right now, because it's 28 acres.

We were told at the neighborhood meeting, 20 acres will be built on at 40 units per acre.

We so we're looking at 800 units.

Um you know, now you're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, trying to figure out how we're gonna make traffic work for these new residents.

800 people in a small one square block area, as I've stated before, these are small streets, 25 mile per hour speed limit on Crystal Water.

How do you make that work?

Is my question.

And then to uh to Mr.

Gronauer's points about his descriptions of what's going to be built.

It to me it's very vague.

It can be this, it can be that, we don't know.

We're gonna figure it out, we'll tell you later.

It might be this rent, it might be that.

To me, that's not the way to come before our neighborhood or this council.

And you know, figure out what you want to do and then tell us what it is, so that we can be more definite about what we're gonna be having in our neighborhood as far as quality and construction and architecture and all those things.

And then on a bigger point, uh, you know, as far as uh, you know, this acreage being used for housing.

My personal feeling is why are why do we keep building high density apartments for people rent?

Why aren't we building, why can't we use this for single family homes?

Something where young people can invest in, create equity, gain ownership, build for the future, instead of just throwing money out the window for rent.

So thank you for your time.

Thank you.

And again, state your name for the record.

Michelle Baker, community manager for the Lakes Association.

And first I want to extend gratitude to Councilwoman Kelly.

Thank you for asking the additional questions, and thank you for permitting us that additional time to come up here and thank you for also pointing that out.

We know that they do have a quality product, but then there are some that aren't as as good as what she'd expect or anticipate in that neighborhood.

Um, I do have emails.

Uh actually, you're on them.

Is this uh I have Marissa Furman?

Is it Bob?

Are you Bob?

Okay, yeah.

So those emails about notifications I have not received.

So I would just ask that I be informed.

I'll do what I have to do on my responsibility of making sure that the Lakes Association is properly registered.

If that's why we didn't receive notification, um the community understands that it would be a great idea to develop this property, this land, this parcel that's been sitting there for so long.

That's not the problem.

The issue is height and um an amendment for um density.

It's a lot to shove in.

You know, if you're a high end and you're quality, you don't make those units smaller or higher.

You know, make it make it fit into that association into that community.

That would make sense.

But I don't want to take up any more of your time.

But I I appreciate all of you.

Thank you, Speaker.

Thank you so much.

Um, Mr.

Grunauer, before we vote, and we will vote.

Um, can you address the height issue?

Yes, as uh one gentleman mentioned is uh your code requires or allows us to build up to a certain height.

Uh and as um Mr.

Floyd has mentioned, is there are CC and Rs on the property.

Um so whatever the C C and Rs, if there are certain requirements, we comply with that.

That's a private separate agreement.

Uh so if that is in fact whatever those requirements are, they will be addressed as we go through the design process to finalize.

Okay, thank you.

Um Ms.

Kelly, I will entertain the motion.

Thank you.

Um I do feel that that in this instance the proper procedure was followed.

I I've done quite a bit of investigating into that.

Um, and I think the record reflects um and and what I've tried to establish today is the careful consideration.

Um as Mr.

Floyd points out, there's going to be there are further options or further opportunities, rather.

Uh this will have to go to planning commission uh again.

This um uh Mr.

Gronauer has committed to uh another neighborhood meeting, and um to the you know, if it if it comes back to city council, um, you know, I will uh make sure that um it's it's not on a on a single motion um one motion, one voter on a consent agenda.

Um so uh with that um I will move to approve uh item 43.

Thank you so much.

Shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

Thank you, Mr.

Grunauer.

Agenda item 51.

Grunauer agenda item 51 25 dash 0071-VAR1 appeal item variance applicant Yelane A.

Freeman uh Freiman Arius owner Goer for LLC for possible action on an appeal of the denial by the Planning Commission Pardon me on a land use entitlement project request to allow existing residential home additions that do not conform to Title 19.06 development standards for setbacks on 0.17 acres at 3520 Mira Mar Drive, single family residential zone, ward five, Miss Summers Armstrong, the Planning Commission and staff recommend denial.

This is a public hearing, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes.

All right, would you care to tell us about your project?

Hi, good morning.

Um my name is Yelene Freeman, and I hear would you get a little closer to the mic?

I am here to appeal to the Shown on I'm here to apologize.

I maybe I don't make the season in the um in the bus, but I would like to um the opportunity to make the right thing right now.

I I just get uh the conclusion.

Of course.

Um I'm sorry, my English is okay.

My Spanish isn't very well good either, so don't worry.

Thank you.

Did you want to say something my name is Yacel Gonzalez?

Uh we used to bought the property two years ago.

We bought it in the 80s, we didn't find the auto until very few months ago.

Daddy has someone permitted spaces.

We did uh a big mistake or do short term rentals.

We were uh reached by court enforcement, and then we just cleared that out.

And we was trying to get those unpermitted spaces permitted.

Our final intent is just to not do it anymore.

If you want any commitment from uh from us, do you guys we are ready to it in a way we we you like to it?

We just want the chance to make the right decision for the city for the neighbors.

I thank you so much.

May I have a staff report?

Yes, Madam Mayor Peter Lowenstein for the record.

Uh no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented in that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by constructing home additions without permit that do not meet Title 19 setback requirements.

In view of the absence of any of these hardships imposed by the seats of fiscal characteristics is concluded the applicant's hardship is preferential in nature, therefore outside the realm of the NRS Chapter 278 for granting of variants.

And just a point of clarification, we still have open uh license compliance in regards to the short-term rental, as well as um uh there are conditions on here if approved that uh appropriate building permits be obtained.

And so I just want to have that clarity on the record.

Thank you.

Okay, all right.

Is there anybody else that wishes to be heard on this issue?

And is there anything we could uh suggest to the applicant to make this uh uh acceptable to the council?

I could uh could you respond, Mr.

Lowenstein?

Sorry, Madam Mayor, can you repeat the question?

Absolutely.

Is there anything we could advise the applicant to do that would make what they're doing appropriate and acceptable to the council uh obviously our paramount concern is life safety, so bill building permits for any construction would be um the most appropriate as far as uh conducting short-term rental use.

That's a separate thing that we'd have to look at as far as the number of bedrooms and all that.

If it fails to meet the conditional use requirement, that activity would have to cease altogether.

Um other than long-term rental being month-to-month rental or longer.

Uh that is something that's the priority of um uh prerogative of the owner.

Um so with that, I it's really at the discretion of the council as far as which direction you want to go, and then we can um adjust accordingly.

All right, thank you so much.

Um, since there is no one that wishes to be heard on this item, I'll close the public hearing.

And are there any questions or comments from the council?

Okay.

Would you care to make a motion, Miss Armstrong?

Thank you, madam mayor, and thank you so much for coming in yesterday to speak with us about your project.

Um, as I expressed to you when you came in, um, have some real concerns about um the uh condition of the property.

Um, even if you uh came into compliance with the addition, um, there's been conversation at the planning commission that the house has basically been used as a short-term rental for the last three um owners, and that the interior of the house has been modified.

That's not before us, but what is before us is the uh the addition, which um is not in compliance.

And um, I think I'm going to follow the recommendation of the planning commission and staff and recommend denial.

All right.

Shall we vote?

Please post motion passes.

I would suggest that you figure out what you're gonna do, and then if you wish to come back.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Agenda item 51 52.

Agenda item 52.

24-0513-VAR1 abeyance item, variants, applicant, Santos, Aguilar, owner, Layani, Gonzalez, Aura Wheels.

Thank you.

She's been helping me, but I'm not a very good uh, I guess, pupil for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow existing detached residential accessory structures, carports, and storage buildings that do not comply with Title 19.06 development standards for setbacks, separation size, location, and aesthetic compatibility, and to allow a front yard fence that does not conform with Title 19.06 front yard wall and fence development standards on 0.14 acres at 2104 Santa Rita Drive.

R1 single family residential zone, ward three, Miss Diaz.

The Planning Commission recommends approval, staff recommends denial.

Uh, this is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes.

My name is Santos Aguilar, and I'm representing uh Leani Gonzalez.

And um this is the proposed project right here that they had built prior to knowledge that they were not compliant with uh with building codes, and we did go through and uh thanking Mrs.

Diaz also for uh for um some guidance.

We uh we have made some changes on a um uh on a diagram here that that I would like to show you that this uh is going to be uh the fencing in the front with the removal of the privacy screen so that it's just pickets in the front.

And it also has some compatibility to the uh existing residents so that it doesn't look uh too far out of place as far as uh everything that they've built.

They have built it for storage of their vehicles because the area is a little rough and they get their cars broken into, so they'd like to bring them into their yard so that doesn't happen anymore, and they just you know they're they're tired of losing a lot of their belongings in the vehicles.

So the fencing has been put in without the um without the privacy fence in front.

Um here's another photo of the same uh different angle for that uh for that particular property, and also trying to comply with some of the uh the building uh materials that they've used to comply with the existing property that's a front shot of the uh picture of the uh the the home and this being the uh one of the patio covers and an overhead view of view from the inside with the materials compatibility to the uh to the structure and more pictures of the uh design.

They're willing to do whatever changes they need to have done to be able to comply and uh hopefully they'll uh they'll get your approval.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, madam mayor, Peter Longsteam for the record uh from the actions to the planning commission and accepted by the applicant.

The request is now limited to two storage buildings and the fencing in the front yard.

No evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstances has been presented in that the applicant has created self-imposed hardship by installing decorative detached carports and residential accessory structures from the subject site without permits that do not comply with current Title 19 setbacks, building separation, size, location, and aesthetic compatibility requirements in addition to a fence that does not meet the front yard fence development standards.

Therefore, staff recommends denial of the variance.

Thank you.

Okay.

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

Seeing none, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions or comments from the council members?

Okay.

Is there a motion, Councilwoman Diaz?

Before the motion, Madam Mayor, I have a few questions for staff.

Um thank you, Mr.

Um.

I was like, I'm like Santos is not your last name.

So I want to make sure I was being respectful.

Mr.

Aguilar, um, I know our staff hadn't really received any of the renderings or could basically educate me if your new set of renderings are satisfying the setbacks, you know, to the adjacent property.

Um I am sympathetic because I I know that a lot of these houses don't have garages and the ha the sun and the heat gets pretty intense, and so I understand the dynamic of wanting to keep some of your vehicles under shade.

Um, but I'm not sure if the new rendition that you're putting before us today for consideration of keeping and it would be um upgrading the shade the shade structure, especially the one the big one.

Not sure if it's meeting setback requirements um per our code, and so trying to figure out Mr.

Lawrence or Mr.

Floyd if you have any ideas of um conditioning.

I I don't I don't like I'm gonna be honest, I don't like both.

I feel like the entirety of the home, the visibility of the home is basically taken away because you have two.

Uh I'm amenable to approving one of those shade structures and then eliminating the other.

Okay.

Um and since you've met me on the uh another concern of mine was the mesh that was with the fencing, and you can't see into the property.

And so that for me also I don't like that.

So, but I'm trying to figure out how do I let you move forward with properly permitting now a shade structure to the home.

But how could we go about doing that uh planning team?

I'm gonna kind of lean on your brains over there.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

So the at the planning commission, the applicant agreed to conditions that stated that they were not seeking the car ports in the front.

Um what I have from the conditions and from planning commission now is for two storage buildings, uh, including their not being aesthetically compatible as well as the fence.

The fence as represented now is to take off the perforated metal component and just leave the wrought iron, which still begs the question of the height variance for the the fence itself.

Metal may have more of the visibility, but it still has a height um deviation.

So if you were approving the car port, you'd have to amend the conditions to allow for it where planning commission was already at the point where they denied both of the front car ports as well as um no those the only component is that they removed all the car ports from their uh when they made their motion.

And so the storage structures in on the rest of the property um and the percentage coverage and things like that all still stands.

I guess what I'm seeking some clarity from you all is how would we uh if I if I were to move forward and allow one of the car ports um then does our public and safety department ensure that everything that is submitted to build this new one is to code and and to the to the safety of of both their home and the one that's most adjacent to them.

So through you, madam mayor, yes, councilwoman, they would have to submit for building permits the the all of the life safety and fire safety components will be reviewed as part of that process.

Okay, um so I am going to stick with everything that planning allowed from planning, um modifying then now um them to keep a carport structure, but they have to come through the prop proper licensing and um uh building permit processes to have the structure verified that it is something that is going to you know withstand the test of time and is not encroaching on the adjacent property ownership.

Can I ask which of the two?

The one that's to the right, not the one, not the smaller one.

So the larger one is what is referenced as carport B.

Um so as part of your motion, if you seek to approve it, we would have to amend conditions.

I think it's two four and six to reflect um a variance is hereby approved versus the language that says hereby is denied.

So just two four and six, we would have to amend those conditions.

Okay.

And then also um back to the fence question.

Mr.

Aguilar, there is still an outstanding matter on the fence where it um is beyond the height that is permitted.

Um is your client willing to bring it down within compliance of the city code?

Yes.

Okay.

And then is that an additional?

So how do I articulate that?

Do you want to articulate my my uh motion, Mr.

Loenstein?

And then I just say we move that.

Right.

Let's go ahead and get it all in there.

There you madam mayor.

So that would also affect uh existing condition number 11.

Um so if I go down the list of what would be amended, uh conditions number two, four, and six would at the beginning of the conditions read now a variance is hereby approved versus what it reads as of a variance is hereby denied, uh, reflecting the approval and then condition number 11 would be similar in that a variance is hereby denied versus saying approved, since we are now uh eliminating the height variance component.

And um that would be all of the conditions unless you have any other uh city attorney.

Is that enough for my motion?

Can I just say what Mr.

Lowenstein on the record is?

Is my motion and uh you agree to okay?

All of these conditions.

All right, that's my motion, madam mayor.

It's very clear to me.

I'm glad it is to you.

Okay, we please vote.

Post motion carries.

Good luck.

Thank you so much.

You're very welcome.

Agenda items 53 through 53b.

53 25-0326 abeyance item on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.38 acres at 1328 waste West Lake Mead Boulevard 53A, 25-0326-ZON1, abeyance item from R2, medium low density residential to C1 limited commercial, 53B, 25-0326-sDR1 abeyance item for a proposed one-story 3500 square foot church, a house of worship development with a waiver of perimeter landscape buffer requirements.

The applicant owner is Holy Cross Missionary Baptist Church Inc.

The planning commission and staff recommend approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 5, Miss Summers Armstrong, and our public hearings, which I now declare open, is the applicant present.

Good morning.

Landon Chris Dopperson, 2885 East Quail Avenue, 89120 here representing the owners.

Um the project is a 3500 square foot church with a 1,575 square foot sanctuary.

The church is a uh a traditional Baptist church design.

And we uh was we obeyed the project to work with staff to work on the uh item of taking access off of Lexington, which is a residential street and moving it to Lake Mead, which is a commercial because it is being zoned commercial.

So we've done that.

That redesign has been turned in.

I believe it's in your book, it is a blue, I think is what the staff told me it would be.

But anyway, we've taken that access off of Lake Mead.

We still meet all the requirements of code.

We've increased some of the landscaping uh as the concern for Heat Island.

Um as you can see, it's it's uh significantly more dense in the landscaping, especially the trees.

And we have a rendering no longer applies, but it's kind of the concept that you see for what the project really will be.

With that, I'm here to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone else that wishes to be heard on this item?

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

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

In that case, I'll entertain a motion.

Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Christofferson and ma'am for your revised drawings, making sure that we only have egress from Lake Mead.

I still wish that you all would have considered doing some affordable housing there, but I understand that the desires to have a church and you all are meeting what we need as far as this type of a development is concerned, and my motion would be for approval.

All right, please vote.

Motion carries.

Congratulations.

Best of luck.

This item is being trailed to be heard after item 58.

Agenda item 55.

25 0106 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.49 acres at the southeast corner of Rancho Drive and Ricky Road.

55A, 25 dash 0106-GPA1 from GC General Commercial to L1R Light Industrial and Research 55B, 250106-ZON1 from C2 General Commercial to CM Commercial Industrial 55C, 250106-SDR1 for a proposed two-story 3,000 square foot contractor's plant, shop and storage yard development with a waiver of perimeter landscape buffer requirements.

The planning commission failed to obtain a supermajority vote.

We just tan them onto denial on 25 0106-GPA1.

The Planning Commission recommends re approval on 25 0106-0N1 and 25-0106-SDR1.

Staff recommends denial of 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?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Would you state your name and would you tell us about your project?

Certainly.

My name is Christine Kramer.

I'm here on behalf of the applicant, 8418 West Farm Road, Las Vegas, Nevada.

This applicant brings forward to the council the best in what small business does to build our community.

This is a previously undeveloped piece of land that was brought into the city in 1964, and no development has taken place on it, therefore, no sewer, no other improvements.

When you look at uh the land in this area uh to the rear, uh there's storage uh by a separate applicant and uh some high-intensity use with um auto repair uh businesses uh and a DOD's uh across the street.

Uh what this project uh brings further to the community is intensive landscaping that does not exist there previously.

Uh that when we look at the current condition of the property, it's rather blighted.

Um again, this property has never been developed before.

Uh these are pictures from just last night.

Uh it the fences have been knocked down.

Uh the unhoused have been living there at different periods of time.

And uh my applicants uh live in the community.

Uh they're small business owners.

Uh they've held a contractor's license for the last 14 years.

They've raised their families here.

Their commitment is to uh creating jobs, and the impact to the immediate community is uh rather small.

Uh, that this is where they'll be storing their goods.

They won't be uh mixing any concrete, any chemicals.

This is where their work trucks uh will be.

And most importantly, thinking about the holidays, and that this is a gift to the community overall in Ward 5 that our applicants have put all of their savings on the line.

This is blood, sweat, and tears.

Heavy labor, back breaking labor of masonry concrete.

And the applicants have worked with the city for the past year to better understand what they knew to properly develop this.

They're putting in a heavy investment of their time, heart, resources in a community where they raise their family.

And I would like you to meet Ilsa, a woman, small business owner in our community, so that she can tell you a little bit about how much this project means to her and her family and her commitment to Ward 5.

Would you state your name for the record?

Good afternoon.

My name is Elzanaya, 5611 Dimmick Avenue.

We've been married for 25 years.

We have three kids from raised and graduate here in Las Vegas.

We have had a lot of great opportunities for me, my husband and my kids.

Now I think it's time for us to give back to our community, create jobs, work with War 5, and we live in the area, so we were looking for a place for a small business, and we uh find that place that we we like, which is still close to our house.

And then by looking around the area, I feel that it was something that will fit for our business.

And uh we like to do the right thing, so we use our savings for this project.

So please consider it.

Thank you so much.

And oh please go ahead, Major Maver.

Uh and uh in response to the um we could not control uh the level of attendance that was at the planning meeting, uh, that we did receive a majority, however, the level of attendance at that planning meeting is why it was effectively a denial.

And that we'd like to acknowledge that the staff report recommends denial.

However, we have counter arguments uh to those uh including uh the staff gives the reason for denial with that is inconsistent with the surrounding zoning.

However, the proposed CM zoning is directly compatible with the adjacent property to the east, which is already zoned CM.

Uh another uh item cited by staff was this traffic uh function conflict on the expressway.

Rancho is an expressway, and that it would generate heavy truck traffic and cause conflicts delays uh for high volume traffic.

Again, uh this is a construction type of work.

Those work trucks would be moving out at the beginning of the day, coming in at the end of the day.

The employees themselves generally go and meet at the work site where the work is performed.

So we're not bringing in a number of employees, we are creating jobs.

We are creating good entry-level jobs that are needed in the Las Vegas community, but those employees would not be on this site.

Uh the third, uh, which we're very passionate about with this project is that staff sites and negative aesthetic impact.

However, the building design and its facade.

Uh this is much okay.

There we go.

This is much more positive.

It yeah, it's a blank building, but this is a positive aesthetic impact as compared to uh what we have right now.

Like nothing else is going to be built on this location.

Uh the owners are furthermore committed to that their first step of the construction project would be to create the eight-foot wall, which would shield public view from any of their construction materials.

And being long-term business owners and long-term contractors in the community, their business only works sufficiently if they're keeping a tidy workspace.

And then finally, the landscape waiver request cited by staff is a reason for denial of the project.

The site maintains a 15-foot landscape buffer along Rancho Drive, which is an expressway.

The waivers are limited to the north, reduced 10 feet, and the property lines on the east and south reduced to zero foot.

The project also exceeds the required parking providing 10 spaces where six are required, which can be argued as a trade-off for the landscape reduction.

We also need to note that this project exists within NARA, and that uh the NARA group, if the council's familiar with them in preserving the rural nature of the neighborhood.

They met they are in approval of the project.

We have received no negative comment from them.

And in fact, uh NARA should be excited that unlike the other businesses in the area which have not provided landscaping, this project does.

And with that, uh thank you again for listening to our project.

I we're happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report at this time?

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Seth Floyd for the record.

Mayor, the proposed contractors plant, shop, and storage yard development is not compatible with the surrounding commercial uses along Rancho and does not align with the city's vision for this corridor.

If approved, the request to general plan amendment and rezoning could introduce industrial uses into a predominantly commercial area and the associated site development plan review includes waivers and exceptions that reduce required landscaping and tree canopy, exacerbating urban heat island island concerns.

Staff therefore recommends denial of all requests subject to conditions on the site development plan review if approved.

Thank you.

Is there anyone else that wishes to address the council on this item?

Seeing none, I will close the public hearing.

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

Is there a motion?

Before I make a motion, uh I would like to ask staff if we can add another condition if it would be possible.

Um one of the things that we discussed yesterday was the growth of your company and uh the possibility, you know.

Although you tell me that your employees will not be parking on site.

Correct.

Um I have to think about what could happen in the future.

So let me just back up a couple of beats.

Um I'm really concerned about, and I'm getting cards from neighbors who are in the community who are concerned about the um encroachment of commercial and CM activities right adjacent to their uh residential properties.

I was not here when this trend began.

Um I think the only one thing that is in your favor is that you have CM directly to the east of you.

Um and so I didn't approve that.

It was done before me.

The things that are on Ricky, except for one were already in play, right?

Um the thing that I ask you to do, which you complied with, is no egress from RICI into your site.

That's only at an emergency crash gate.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

Okay.

Um also live in an older RE neighborhood, is that when businesses come into our community and they grow, they don't have parking for their employees.

And you only have a few parking, I think you have seven parking spots, which is under the request.

So I'm gonna ask staff if we can ask that they be posted no parking signs to the north of their property on the north side that no one can park on the side.

Is that allowable?

Through you, Madam Mayor, for clarification.

Uh are you seeking no parking along Ricky Road?

Correct.

Okay, I I'll draft something.

In addition to that, you want no ingress or egress from Ricky Road, just an emergency crash gate.

Correct, only egress for the business from rancho, because that would be appropriate, because that is as you described, it's a road, but it's actually a freeway, three lanes, fast moving.

Um, and again, you know, I'm I'm glad that you want to do business in Ward 5.

Um, I'm sad for the neighbors in the neighborhood because um these types of businesses, um, although they are needed is going to it has an effect on the community and for the future, right?

We don't want people to move and leave our communities, um, but I'm super concerned about the number of businesses that have decided that you know it's the thing to do, but again, I didn't start this trend.

Um, and what you're doing and what you propose to do is sort of in compliance with what has already been allowed.

Um, and so with those two um uh conditions, um I would uh propose um approval of this.

Thank you so much.

Uh do you agree with the conditions?

Yes, we agree with the conditions.

Um thank you, Miss Summers Armstrong.

Shall we vote?

One moment, I'm working on the conditions.

I beg your pardon.

One moment, Madam Mayor.

I'm working on the added conditions of approval.

Well, how long will that take?

Would you care to share the conditions with us before we vote?

Sure thing.

All right.

Um the added conditions uh first shall read uh there shall be no ingress or egress on Ricky Road.

The applicant shall only have an emergency grass gate provided.

Second condition would read there shall be no parking along Ricky Road adjacent to the subject site.

Okay.

Is that what you had in mind, Ms.

Summers Armstrong?

Exactly.

Thank you so much, staff.

I always throw wrenches and I appreciate y'all catch well.

Thank you.

All right.

Shall we vote?

Please post motion passes.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Agenda item 56.

56.

25-0364 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.14 acres on the east side of 13th Street, approximately 100 feet south of Mesquite Drive, R3 medium density residential zone.

Uh 56A, 25-0364, uh dash VAR1 to allow two parking spaces where 13 are required.

56B, 25-0364-SDR1 for a proposed two-story, seven-unit multifamily residential development with waivers of the perimeter landscape buffer requirements.

The applicant owner is Herrell Plumbing and Heating.

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.

Madam Mayor, yes, I am.

Would you care to tell us about your project?

Sure.

My name is Tal Herrell, H A R E L.

I'm the owner.

I'm also the developer.

And I'm requesting approval of a variance and a site development review for a MADA 7-unit multifamily home on a small 6,000 square foot parcel on 13th Street.

This project redevelops a lot that has been vacant since 2018.

It brings new housing, reduces heat island impact, and supports the very walkable, vibrant urban environment the city says it wants in this part of Las Vegas.

The staff reports acknowledges that this neighborhood and proximity of downtown is exactly where the city encourages high density and reduced parking.

Your own adopted plans call for reducing surface parking and improving walkability.

Our project executes that directive exactly.

The primary obstacle is parking.

On a parcel that is only about 50 feet wide, the physical constraints make full Title 19 parking literally impossible.

The ADA van stall alone consumes most of the parcels with.

If we complied with parking requirements, there would be no room left for a building.

This is the textbook definition of a physical hardship under NRS statutes and Las Vegas municipal codes.

This hardship is not self-created.

Even so, we're minimizing car use.

We are providing bike parking, pedestrian access, and a design that can encourage walkability.

Public works confirms the traffic impact is extremely, extremely small.

Three cars in the peak hour or about one car every 20 minutes.

Yet the variance is recommended for denial, even though the project checks every one of those policy boxes.

This building is compatible with the neighborhood.

Staff agrees the architecture meets Title 19 standards.

The materials are appropriate and the height is consistent with surrounding one and two-story homes.

While there is a request for waiver of the landscaping buffer with the project is approved.

If the project is approved, we have will provide 20 additional trees where only 12 are required, which supports the city's goal to combat the heat island effect by significantly improving the shade canopy on all sides of the property.

This project brings seven new homes, seven places where families can live, work, and be part of our community without adding congestion or a burden to the neighborhood.

I'm requesting this variance and these waivers allow the site to be productive again.

Without them, this parcel will remain undeveloped and definitely.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Harrell.

May I have a staff report?

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

Uh, Mayor Staff finds the variants of parking standards and waivers of perimeter landscaping to be self-imposed, resulting in a development that's not harmonious and compatible with the surrounding area.

Staff is therefore recommending denial of the requested variants and the site development review.

Thank you.

Is there anyone else that wishes to be heard on this item?

Yes, sir.

Would you state your name for the record?

Tim Shaw, SHAW at 2713 Colanthi and a resident of Las Vegas since 1954.

I have a lot listed right down the street, and this is what we used to call Bonanza Heights.

Um it's not looking too good with the old fourplexes.

I took a look at this architecture, and it has got a wow pop to it.

This would encourage other people to get in this bonanza heights area, buy some of these old homes up, demolish them and put something that's modern that would start a trend.

So I gotta tell you, as a resident of the area, and I've sold quite a bit of land in downtown Las Vegas.

This needs to be done.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Shaw.

Is there anybody else wishing to be heard?

Please state your name for the record.

Yes, uh, Bruce Cowan.

Um I own um two properties on North 13th, uh, two on North 14th, three on North 15th, and generally about 75 units in the downtown area in uh Summers Armstrong's ward and council councilwoman Diaz's um ward.

I am 100% in favor of this.

I like to take the old properties, restore them, make them beautiful, put murals on them.

Um my average rent in that area is a is a little less than a thousand dollars a month.

You want affordable housing, we can make it happen.

He's building new stuff.

His his starting rents are 1,300 a month, is what he's proposing.

This is right near a bus stop.

There is no problem with parking.

Um there's a lot of empty spots uh on the street.

It's in a cul-de-sac area.

Uh, it's much better to do fill-instead of just if it's not filled in with beautiful buildings like what he's proposing.

Then you're gonna have areas that are going to be where the homeless decide to have encampments.

So, what he's proposing is low-income housing.

I hear a lot of people that talk about low-income housing as a priority.

We can make it happen by by having small developments and by restoring older properties.

I don't know if you've seen his other items that he uh buildings that he's put together, but he's done a duplex right next to the freeway that's beautiful.

He put a uh three small houses, three three cottages that are beautiful.

They're modern architecture.

Again, I like to restore the old ones, put hot paint jobs in it, and and make it interesting.

But I I think we have room for an collective type environment.

Also, I think the city needs revenue.

And you know, to the I would say that this area is an underperforming area from a revenue standpoint.

I know the city wants more money for programs.

This is the way to get more revenue.

And I think that what he's proposing is is is solid.

Um again, there isn't a parking issue.

If if you don't allow the people to park on the street, we we want residents to be able to park in the street.

If not, then there's gonna be an issue with the homeless putting in uh dilapidated campers or or old vans or or tents and things like that.

And and if we don't do the land the fill-in of the properties, then we're gonna have homeless encampments, which have a lot of environmental problems, drug use, um, people doing you know, defecating, urinating, but but also drug sales, drug purchases, all kinds of illegal activities that are definitely not good for the neighborhood.

We want safe, positive streets.

We want safe, positive um developments, and and I think he's proposing everything that we we need and everything that the city needs.

So I hope that you'll vote unanimously in favor.

Thank you so much.

Yes, please come forward.

Please state your name for the record.

Yes, many of you have a chance ready.

I've been a residence here in Vegas for about 30 years.

And when I first came here, I I definitely approved this project.

When I first moved here, there was a lot of affordable housing.

Since that time, as a lender in Vegas for the same 30 years, rates are higher and price are really high.

So it's there's a full issue in Vegas.

And Mr.

Trail is building something very affordable for low-income housing where people actually rent it and it's brand new and feel good about themselves, which breeds higher morale into the neighborhood.

And I think that'd be a great win for Vegas.

I mean, you know, it'd be nice to have lucky to have all the parking spaces there, but in other areas, you go to the back east.

Everybody parks in the street, and that's maybe a slide down thing, but realistically it isn't because for what he's building and the newness of the properties where you can rent something that nice for that little, it's gonna be a win for Vegas.

It's gonna help bring out the whole community also.

So I approve this.

Thank you, Mr.

Grady.

Thank you.

Please state your name for the record.

My name is Jesse Gomez.

Um good morning.

Um I'm at 358 North 13th Street.

I'm here in behalf of the the owner.

We feel that the project is compatible and harmonious.

We and the with the neighborhood, and we feel that it's appropriate.

We are in support of the project and want to see this approved.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Gomez.

Would you state your name for the record?

Hello, Jacob Taylor here.

How are you doing today?

Good, thanks.

I represent the seller at 203 North 13th Street, and you know, like previous people before me have said, uh, we are in support of this project.

It is adding some much needed um affordable housing in the area.

Uh Tal does a fantastic job at uh building these um units here and get making them affordable for everyone in the area.

Again, I don't think there's gonna be a parking issue.

It's on the edge of a cul-de-sac, and uh the cul-de-sac isn't even really used right now for parking as it is.

I doubt it's gonna add many more cars to the area, maybe you know, another five to ten cars max.

Um yeah, I'm in full support of the project, and I hope you guys voted in unanimously unanimously.

Thank you, Mr.

Taylor.

Thank you.

Yes, please come forward.

Would you state your name for the record?

Good morning, everybody.

My name is William Hubert.

I own some property in the area of Palm Laurel and 15th Street.

I've known the gentleman next to me for a few years, and he's built a few uh new buildings which enhance the value of the neighborhood and uh improved the neighborhood.

Um I am all in favor of his endeavors.

I support what he's planned on doing.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Seeing none, I will entertain a motion.

Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um thank you so much for coming in.

Uh we had a meeting last week about this project, and I expressed to you my concerns about lack of parking.

Um, this is seven units.

Um, even if we had half of the units with a parking spot, we would need three or four.

Um, and I asked you about that last week, and your concern was having to re um re um do your design and possibly lose units to um get parking.

Um I'm really concerned about the lack of parking.

I'm concerned about the lack of parking because it's like kicking the can down the street.

The cul-de-sac at the end, as we discussed, your tenants would not be able to park there.

Is that correct?

That is not true.

The there's there's on-street parking that they can park on the street, like I said, it's a dead-end cul-de-sac.

I've brought some pictures.

We did a two-week uh traffic study, and there was no parking.

There was not there was no vehicles, as you can see.

These are some of the photos.

We did them during the day, during at night, during on a weekend.

There's no parking there.

Um there's no issues as far as we as a developer for the parking.

During our discussion, I thought that we had discussed it that land belonged to the state of Nevada and that there was no parking allowed there.

You cannot access underneath the freeway because it's a dead-end cul-de-sac and there's the bonanza trail, so you cannot park underneath the freeway, and even if there was access, correct.

The parking underneath the freeway is uh there's an agreement between the uh the uh Buddhist temple that's on 14th Street.

But according to these streets and these pictures, there's no access to the underneath the freeway, because again, it's there's a fence and then it's a bonanza trail.

Okay.

Um this is really tough for me because I know that we need housing.

Um, but I think that we're gonna end up with a problem with parking.

Uh we know that you are near Maryland Parkway and that there's a bus there, but we have seen in many other neighborhoods that parking ends up being an issue.

Um and I'm really concerned about it, and I'm you have an empty lot on that street, a couple of them that are gonna be developed.

So if they add seven or eight units, it's just gonna be a um a snowball effect of not having enough parking.

Um this is Councilwall, can I ask a question?

Um go ahead, councilwoman.

Thank you.

Um so in the cul-de-sac that you have pictures that you did the study on about how many vehicles would be available to be parked there.

You can park a minimum of 20 vehicles, and there's no other development on that street.

This would be the last lot.

Uh any other develop there is an empty lot on the corner of Mesquite and 13th, but that's entrance, egress and e-grass would be off of Maryland Park.

But on this particular street, we can get a minimum of 20, no problem.

And so that it's not entirely the cul-de-sact, you're also counting what's street parking before it curves, correct?

Correct.

Okay, so that would give 20 20 spots that are currently not being used, it would activate an area that needs so much activation.

Um councilwoman, with all due respect, this area needs so much investment and so much love, and if we do not turn that tide around, I feel that we're not gonna get um the help from the development community in making this a better area of of the city.

I drive it constantly, I see how many of the I I can see and speak to the encampments that the for the speakers that came in support of this project speak to.

I've I've voted for things with not enough parking, and I think it's a better thing to have a parking problem and eventually address the state to see if we can have some kind of a convening to figure out if we can place parking and activate the space, the dead space underneath the overpass, because it is an issue for us.

What do we do with dead space that's not being activated?

But I rather have missing middle housing developments go up than us say you don't have the parking, we're not gonna work on this issue.

So I think it's it's a give and take, and I think that in this situation, knowing that there is ample parking for seven units, knowing that remember remind me the count.

Um there's X many like one bedroom and so we have out of the seven units three of them are two bedroom, the rest are all single studio bed one bedroom, and uh we are providing uh ADA comp uh parking.

We're provide two parking spots, one is ADA and the other one's a uh regular parking.

So for for sure are only gonna be occupied by one unit of uh a family, whether that's a couple or a a person living there with it being set up like a studio, and the other one may be the same thing.

I mean, to it's hard to have a vehicle um these days, and my hope is that it provides housing in close proximity to the downtown area to where people can walk or bike to work, and that way they don't have to um hassle with the cost of a vehicle and insurance, etc.

So I I would be very optimistic in saying that this can be a really positive um development in an area that sorely needs a yes, uh Mr.

Knudsen.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just had a quick question uh for maybe Mr.

Floyd or Mr.

You're paying attention, right?

Just kidding.

Uh just a quick question.

On on this, on I'm assuming this is a city street that we're talking about.

Okay, I'm I think I'm kind of familiar with it.

In the on the city street with housing nearby, the parking is available, like the city allows for people to park on the street if they live in that area, just to ask the question.

Um just to clarify, it is a public uh you know, parking is allowed on public streets on all streets.

There are some restrictions.

So if it's not an applicant's vehicle, they can't park within five feet of a driveway cut.

So for example, if people are parking in the street and their car is uh you know, they don't own the property in front of the of the driveway.

Uh technically our parking enforcement could find them for being too close to someone else's driveway.

But the reason why you know parking can't be counted for the purposes of the applications because in theory uh the city could always take away public parking too.

Thank you.

And I think I'm asking that just because I know there's a parking study or a recommendation coming out of the department, and I I hope this gets included too, because when I visit friends in other cities, like it's it's very clear when they're living in townhomes or condos, they they tell me like look for on street parking because that's all there is.

So I just I just I kind of I think Councilman Diaz, you said it well, and just wanted to make sure that's true here too.

Okay, Miss Armstrong.

So I just want to thank my uh colleagues for their input.

Uh I was going to say that this is difficult for me because I like us to plan for what we know is going to happen.

And we know that we're going to end up with a parking problem.

And we know that at some point we can kick this can, but eventually we're gonna have to deal with the the real issue of how do we deal with uh in field development, how we deal with parking, um, at what point are we going to reach a place where um it's a real problem, and I think is probably gonna happen faster than we um like.

If you go out into the neighborhood, you will see that um even though there's a um a uh bus stop on Maryland Parkway, there is not a sidewalk on either side of the street at oh boy, what is this street?

Um uh misquite going up to uh Maryland Parkway.

Um there's no sidewalk, it's dirt on both sides.

So um I think this has challenges.

Um I'm concerned about it, and um I care.

I know everyone knows that I care about housing.

It's it's top of mind for me.

But there's always unintended consequences when we um when we skirt against rules.

We have our standards for a reason because I think our staff understands by our own rules that these things are important.

Um so at some point we're gonna have to deal with this.

Um I for today, um, and I hate doing this, I will kick the can down the road.

I think it's probably gonna bite me in the butt later, but for today, um, I will kick the can down the road and um uh vote for approval.

I think this is beautiful architecture.

I think it's gonna be bring something uh lovely to the community.

Um, but the people down the road are going to have to deal with, and we are this issue, and we should probably start talking about it like yesterday.

So my motion today is uh to approve the project.

Thank you for um bringing something beautiful, and um I I hope this works out.

Please vote post.

Can I say one thing?

Oh, wait, uh now at this moment.

After you take that.

Oh, okay.

Um uh motion passes.

Congratulations.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Thank you.

Our pleasure.

Mr.

Knutson.

It's just a request, and based on the comments of the councilwoman, um, Mr.

Floyd in that parking study that we're doing.

Can we can we incorporate like these kinds of uh topics?

Because I think they're they're very relevant.

I just don't know how to address them, and maybe in your parking study we can start to think about how we address the can.

Yes, Mayor Partin will do that.

Uh our parking study includes uh commercial and multifamily, so this would be included.

Thank you so much and best of luck.

Thank you.

Agenda item 57.

25-0365 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.48 acres on the southwest corner, Charleston Boulevard and Strong Drive, PR professional office and parking zone.

57A, 25-0365-VAR one to allow a proposed medical office building that does not conform to the Title 19.08 development standards for setbacks and residential adjacency.

57B, 25-0365-SDR1 for a proposed one-story, 3,574 square foot medical office development with waivers of building orientation and perimeter landscape buffer requirements.

These are in Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson in our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Uh yes, I uh my name is Can you please state your name and tell us about your project?

Oh, yes.

Uh my name is Carrie Shea, I'm the architect with ACG representing the applicant.

Um, and what we're presenting today is um is a single-story office use building um located on Charleston and Strong.

Um, it isn't with the medical corridor.

We've um worked closely with staff in order to comply with the medical corridor requirements for the building.

So it so we've made we've actually relocated the access to the property to Strong Drive in order to enhance the landscape and provide the adequate landscape depth along Charleston to facilitate pedestrian access along this corridor.

So I think that you know, even though we have asked for some waivers, which I believe are technical in nature because the foundation of the building is within the setback, um, but we wanted to provide some additional architectural detail to the building.

Um and the awnings do encroach into the setback, so we're asked asking for a few waivers for that.

Um the the um landscape uh request to reduce uh landscape on the west side of the property is only due to the trash trash enclosure, which um we wanted to we set back uh in order for it to work uh one foot to the property line.

Um other than that, um I think it's uh you know it's it fits nicely within the area and um it's compatible.

So if you have any additional questions, um please let me know.

We will, I'm sure.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, madam mayor, Peter Lonesing for the record.

Plans for the proposed development have been revised to provide access from Strong Drive, place the building at the corner and bring parking to the rear and sides.

However, the building fails to meet setback, trash enclosure separation, parking and landscape buffer standards indicating that the design is not harmonious and compatible with the adjacent development.

Therefore, staff is recommended denial of the project.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

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

If not, I will close the meeting or the hearing, I should say.

Does um uh are there any questions or comments from city council members?

No, okay.

Uh is there a motion, Councilman Knutson.

Thank you, Mayor.

I hate vacant lots, and this neighborhood has looked at this vacant lot for over 10 years.

So I ask your client to please move quickly, and with that, I'll approve 57A and B.

All right.

Shall we vote?

Please post.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

Best of luck.

Thanks so much.

Agenda item 58.

25-0376- on the following land use entitlement project requests on 31.72 acres on the northwest corner of log cabin way and alpine ridgeway.

58A, 25-0376-GPA1 from PCD Plan Community Development till to ML Medium Low Density Residential.

58B, 25-0376-ZON1 from U undeveloped, uh PCD, Plan Community Development, General Plan Designation to R-C L single Family Compact Lot.

58C, 25-0376-VAR1 to allow private gated streets that do not conform uh to Title 19.04, complete street standards 58D, 25-0376-VAC1.

Petition to vacate U.S.

government patent easements, easements and portions of public right of way, Larry McBird Street and Rustin Road, 58E 25-0376-TMP1 Creston for a proposed three 232 lot single family residential subdivision.

The applicant is KB Homes of Nevada Inc.

et al.

The owner is Kyle Ridge, LLC et al.

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

Staff recommends approval on 25-0376 GPA 1 in zone one.

Staff recommends denial on 25-0376 VAR 1, VAC1, and TMP one.

These are in Ward 6, Ms.

Bruni, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, good morning, Your Honor, members of the Council, Bob Gronaur, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.

I'm here representing KB Home, and to my left is my partner, Jennifer Lazovich, who's here representing Tri-Point Homes, which is on the next matter that you're going to hear that you trailed.

And so the reason why she's here is because she's uh part of this application, and then also she's here to critique my presentation before you today.

So that's why she's here.

So that being said, as I mentioned, as I'm representing KB, she's representing Tri-Point.

Uh what's before you is uh highlighted here is about over 30 acres of vacant property.

Uh essentially, this is in the Cal Canyon area uh up in the northwest.

This is one of the hottest development areas over the last couple of years because it's vacant land and there's available land for development.

Uh actually, Jennifer and I started this a few years ago with Kyle Kyle Canyon Gateway.

Um this was about five years ago with the development that started all this residential development that you see on this plan here.

Uh projects have been approved for KB Home, Tri-Point, and Richmond American, and this is the development that you see that located there.

Within the last year, earlier this year, you as a council approved the Kyle Canyon uh plan or overlay in this area.

Um, property is located in this area, which is orange, which allows for medium density.

Uh, as your staff has mentioned, we are coming in with a general plan amendment and a zone change that is in compliance with the plan that's been uh proposed in this area.

Actually, the overall entitlements that we're asking for are less dense than what we could build in this area.

Next thing that I want to show you here is this is the makeup of all the developments that are existing under construction or coming through the entitlement process.

And this is where Tri-Point comes in with respect to the application that we have.

So, what you have here is in the light blue area.

This is the 30 acres of development uh that KB is looking to build.

They're gonna build in phase one, phase two, phase three.

As a matter of fact, they're gonna build a similar development, which is located right here that was just recently approved within the last couple of years, and this development and located in this area here.

The product segmentation for this uh for this property is similar to the two that I've shown you.

Um, as you know, one of the big issues and concerns is when you build development, you want to make sure you have product segmentation.

That means you have different entry levels of development for home building.

You have entry level, move up, et cetera, as you as you go up the ladder.

So one of the things that we have here is Tri-Point, and this is why Jennifer's here.

They were approved with a lower density development than what we are coming in with.

The concern that Tri-Point has, if anything, they don't want us to come in with a lower or similar product of what they have because what happens then we we will compete against each other instead of having different demographics that you would otherwise have for product segmentation.

So it makes sense when you think about it, and you want to make sure you have a variety of housing instead of just one type of housing for everybody.

So the vacation that we're asking for is in this area here.

So currently, TriPoint has been approved for an application for entitlements, as I showed you.

In their entitlements, the Larry McBride um right of way is shown on their plans.

Their application that if this application is approved, is asking to remove that condition to improve Larry McBride.

We're working together on the joint uh joint development agreement where we are working on the drainage in this area.

By doing so, KB and Tri-Point are looking to vacate Larry McBride in this area, and as you can see by all the green in this area will continue to be a trail.

Now, this trail is somewhat unique because Councilwoman Bruni, since she's been in office, she wanted to make sure that not one, we have a lot of green space up here, and number two, we have a lot of connectivity.

This here, by approving our vacation today, and then subsequently approving Jennifer's application for Larry McBride, will allow that continuity to have that access throughout the developments or the developments that you see on the on the plan here.

So we we believe that it's in the best interest not only for from a development standpoint for both builders, but for the city, to allow this to happen.

And the other thing that I wanted to show you is because this is like the amenity plans.

A lot of these developments, because you come in with RCL zoning, does not require you to have open space.

So one of the things that Councilwoman Bruni and the developers have been doing in their subdivisions, as you can see by the green spaces, is coming in with not just green space, but programmed amenities uh throughout the community that you see in here.

As a matter of fact, I'll get into our site plan.

And we're providing obviously about 80,000 square feet plus of open space in park areas, as you see, located in trail in this area here.

And that's more than what the code would require us to do in this area.

So one of the things we've been doing is we sat down with Councilwoman Bruni, is ensuring, like all the other developments, is putting in a variety of types of amenities for the residents in this area.

So in this area here, we have some dog parks, we have some playground top lot areas in here.

We have some shade structures and some other amenities here.

And then down in the third park in this area, we just added a uh volleyball court in working with the councilwoman, some green space for dog park in totlots, the playground area in that area.

So the only reason why I'm pointing that out to you is these things as we come through this process, there is at least collaboration between the city and the developers in putting together, although this is not a master plan community, but is as close as one that you can get with the trails, the open space and the amenities that has been designed over the last couple of years.

So that being said, you know, I got Jennifer here.

I don't know if she needs to add anything else.

Hopefully, I did a good enough job for her so she doesn't speak on the next item.

And that being said, I'd ask you to approve the applications that we have before you on these items, and I'm here to answer any questions that you might have.

Thank you so much.

Uh, may I have a staff report, please?

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

Mayor, the proposed general plan amendment and rezoning are compatible with the designations and densities of the adjacent parcels and conform with the Kyle Canyon Area Plan and Las Vegas 2050 master plan.

Therefore, staff recommends approval of the requested general plan amendment rezoning.

Uh conversely, no unique or extraordinary circumstances have been presented to warrant the requested variants of complete street standards to allow substreets and no sidewalks for portions of the substreets.

And as such, staff is recommending denial of the requested variants and associated petition to vacate and tentative map.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

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

Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.

Um there any questions or comments from members of the council.

Seeing none, I will entertain the motion, Councilwoman Bruni.

Okay, can I uh uh I guess just ask legal.

Can I I know I will approve each item, but can I go ahead and just approve make a motion to approve 58 and then move into 54?

Or do we it's separate, yeah, within it.

Okay, all right.

So I want to thank uh KB Holmes and Tripoint for working with her office to um uh really uh expand the open space and the amenities and the diversification of amenities across the different communities because I think overall it does create that master plan effect.

So thank you for working with our office.

And with that, I'm happy to approve item 58, 25076 A through E.

I thank you so much.

Shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

We'll now move back to item 54.

And even though you did a remarkable job representing her, we'll let her speak now.

Exactly.

She's gonna speak anyway, so item 54, 25 dash 04 uh 36, abeyance item on the following land use entitlement project request located on the north side of log cabin way, approximately 630 feet west of Alpine Ridgeway, R-SL residential small odd zone 54A, 25-0436-ROC1 abeyance item on an approved tentative map to remove Larry McBird Street from condition of approval number 10, 21.20 acres.

A 54B, 25-0436-ROC2 abeyance item of an approved tentative map to remove Larry McBird Street from condition of approval number 10, 10.63 acres.

The applicant is Tri Point Homes of Nevada Inc.

And the owner is KLB by three LLC.

Staff recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 6, Miss Bruni, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, good afternoon, Jennifer Lazovich, 1980 Festival Plaza at Drive here tonight or here today, representing Tri-Point.

Uh the only comment I would have from my partner is he did all the talking, and I'm used to that, so I will try to keep it short on my side.

Uh my comments are really technical in nature.

I want to thank Lucian, Seth, and Peter.

Uh, because we are in this interesting situation where uh part of uh of Tri-Point's trail development is contingent upon KB, our adjacent neighbor, getting some things done.

We wanted to make sure that if timing is maybe we're a little bit ahead, we have some flexibility to keep going.

And so I worked with public works and planning, and I would ask that two conditions be amended.

The first is um 25-0436-ROC1.

Um condition number two should be deleted and replaced with the following.

Approval of variants 25-0 uh 0376-VAR1.

Petition to vacate 25-0376-VAC1 and tentative map 25-0376-TMP1 shall be required if approved.

Conformance to the conditions of approval for 25-0376-VAC1 is required.

If it is to record prior to or concurrent with the final map for 25-0065-TMP1.

And then for review of condition number two, um, again, we would ask that condition number two be deleted and replaced with the following.

Petition to vacate 25-0376-VAC1, and tentative map 25-0376-TMP1 shall be required if approved.

Conformance to the conditions of approval for 25-0376-VAC1 is required.

If it is to record prior to or concurrent with the final map for 24-0254-TMP1.

I will just say, Madam Mayor, uh, there's a lot that goes into reading.

All of the things you have to read.

I mean all the numbers, all the names.

That sympathizes with I do that very much.

So thank you very much to staff for working with us on those revised conditions that allows a little bit of flexibility, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Peter Lowenstein for the record.

The vacation of Larry McBride Street and Rustin Road for a Paseo and Trail system that provides open space and recreation opportunities for their area residents, supports the goals of the Kyle Canyon Area Plan, which tries for neighborhood connectivity and linear parks.

Therefore, staff is reckoning approval of the request.

Uh, and staff concurs with what Ms.

Lazovich has read into the record for the amendments to ROC1 and ROC2.

Thank you so much.

Um, is there anybody that wishes to be heard on this item?

If uh seeing none, I will close the public meeting.

Um did you understand what Mr.

Loenstein just said?

I did.

All right, and are you okay with that?

Yes, we are okay.

Thank you.

Um any questions or comments from the council.

Seeing none, I will entertain a motion at this time, Councilwoman Bruy.

Thank you, and I want to again commend uh and thank uh tripoint for supporting the work to emphasize trail connectivity.

And with that, I will make a motion to approve item 54 25-0436 A and B with the revised conditions which have already been read into the record.

All right, shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

Thank you very much.

Happiest of holidays to all of you and see you next year.

Happy holidays.

Okay, agenda item 59.

25-0417-SDR1 site development plan review.

Applicant owner, CK Investments LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed one-story 6200 square foot dental office with waivers of town center development standards at 6630 Grand Montecito Parkway, TC, Town Center Zone, MC-TC, Montecito-town Center, special use, a special land use designation, ward for Ms.

Alan Palenski.

The planning uh commission recommends approval, staff recommends denial.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, madam.

Would you care to state your name and tell us about your project?

My name's Roberto Pierre 2140 East Pebble Road, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Um we're proposing a 6200 square foot dentist office.

So in field development of pre-existing development.

It's gonna it will be the last piece to come in.

It's for this area here.

Some of the waivers that we're requesting are for the town center standards.

Um we feel that for previous building or existing buildings, we meet the same standards that have been previously approved.

For example, one of the waivers is for less glazing along the street frontage.

Um the building right next to ours currently has less than 70 percent as well.

Um the design is to stand out and be an attraction to the area.

And with that, I'll answer any questions.

I thank you so much.

May I have a staff report?

Yes, Madam Mayor, Peter Lowlandstein for the record.

The pad site development as proposed requires numerous waivers of town center and development standards that are self-imposed as such that development will not be compatible with the area, and staff therefore has recommended an IO of the site development plan for you.

Thank you.

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

If not, I will close the public meeting.

Um are there any questions or comments from council members?

Okay, in that case, um, is there a motion?

Councilwoman Polenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I am going to stay consistent with our very thoughtful planning commission and make a motion to approve item number 59.

Welcome to Ward 4, maybe.

Okay, shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item 60.

25-0418 on the following land entitlement project requests.

60A, 25-0418-VAR1 to allow a straight a street name change on an existing name street alignment and a 23-character street name, Sky View Ridge Parkway, where 20 characters is the maximum allowed.

60B, 25-0418-SNC 1 from Centennial Parkway, west of Sheep Mountain Parkway to Skyview Ridge Parkway.

60C 25-0418-SNC2 from Tropical Park Parkway west of Sheep Mountain Parkway to Sky Outlook Parkway.

The applicant owner is Canyon Walk LLC.

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

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 4, Miss Alan Polenski, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, uh good afternoon, uh Mayor, uh members of the council.

It's my honor to say good afternoon since I started my morning by saying good morning to you.

Now it's officially afternoon.

I'm here representing the Olympia development team.

Um you're very familiar with uh Mr.

Goet, Mr.

Insulako, and Chris Armstrong.

Chris would like to be here today, but he's out there on the property building homes.

Uh since they finally closed, they got their bond thanks to uh you and Councilman uh Polinski working on that bond a week or so ago.

So they're moving along with development, and as I reminded you about a month ago, this is a two billion dollar master plan community that's being built out in the northwest, which is known as Sky Summit.

As you can see on the aerial here, I should I'm showing you highlighting the 505 acres.

Uh this is a centennial alignment.

This is the 215 tropical is down here, and then we have the Sheet Mountain Parkway, which is going to be separating Sky Hills along with Sky Summit.

Um, what we are asking for is to change names, uh street name from uh Centennial and Tropical to the street names that are proposed on your uh on your agenda.

And the reason is is as you're familiar with any type of master plan community, they like to have their own theme and brand, which is no not unusual if you drive through Summerlin, you drive through Southern Highlands or other master plan communities where they actually do make those name changes.

So what's unique about this and different than others is once when you would be crossing over Sheet Mountain Parkway, we're looking to make that change to the street in this area on Centennial, which will dead in into the disposal area, and the same thing on Tropical.

Uh, what is key is that we have your fire department.

Um we've worked with them from a public safety standpoint, and they're fine with that.

Uh your planning commission did recommend unanimous approval, and I'd ask you to follow your staff uh planning planning commission's decision.

I thank you so much.

Is there a staff report?

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Uh Seth Floyd for the record.

Mayor staff finds both street name change requests as well as the request to allow a street name change to exceed 20 characters where such is not allowed to be preferential in nature, as both named street alignments are able to connect and continue westward as planned by the master plan of streets and highways, and therefore staff recommends denial of the requested variance and both street name changes.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

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

Seeing no one, we will close the public meeting.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

I see none.

So is there in that case?

Is there a motion?

Councilwoman Polenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

In conjunction with our planning commission, the director of community development's uh guidance along with the city manager's guidance, who said Polenski don't screw this up, and the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.

I'd like to move to approve item number 60A, B, and C collectively.

Okay.

Shall we vote?

Please post.

Motion carries.

Thank you very much, and I want to wish you happy holidays and a happy new year.

I will sh for sure hopefully see you next year.

We'll look forward to that.

Agenda item 61.

25-0435-VAR1 variants.

Applicant Taco Escobar, owner, uh Bohr Hirsch LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow a proposed projecting sign that does not conform to Title 19 development standards for maximum sign area and maximum projection from the building elevation on 0.52 acres at 509 Fremont Street, TCUC T6 Urban Core Zone Ward 3, Ms.

Diaz Planning Commission recommends approval, staff recommends denial, councilwoman uh Kelly.

Is there a disclosure that you would like to make?

Yes, madam mayor.

Thank you.

Out of an abundance of caution and transparency, I wanted to disclose that this item's applicant is the husband of one of my three special assistants.

My special assistant has not been involved with this item in any way.

And with this disclosure, I will be voting on the item.

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Hi, my name is Troy Trabo.

I work for Unique Signs.

We're will be building that sign.

All right.

And would you tell us about your project?

It's um uh the sign of signs for Tacos Escobar at 509 fremont.

They've been open for a few months now.

Um the sign we are proposing is called a spectacular sign.

It fits the location and what is in use in that area.

It does not stick out any farther than the neighboring signs and not nearly as tall as the immediate neighbor.

It is a very good looking sign that will help attract visitors to the business.

I'm asking for approval from the council, as did the planning commission.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report?

Yes, Madam Mayor Peter Lonesame for the record.

The proposed projecting sign does not meet the standards set by Title 19.

Staff finds the applicant has created self-imposed hardship by proposing a sign exceeding the maximum allowed projection for the building and sign area, and therefore staff is recommending denial.

Um, just so uh you're aware, additional steps.

This will go to the downtown design review committee for the aesthetic component once um this issue is resolved.

Thank you.

I thank you so much.

Um is there anyone else wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing none, I will close the public hearing.

Um there are any questions or comments from the council.

Okay.

Is there a motion?

Councilwoman Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh, this being on Fremont Street and um really having a lot of different unique signage and uh things to look at on Fremont Street East.

I I don't see that this would stick out like a sore thumb.

So I'm gonna go ahead and follow Planning Commission's recommendation for approval and uh move that we approve agenda item 61.

Okay, shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

Thank you so much and happy holidays.

Thank you very much.

Happy holidays to you.

Agenda item 62.

25-0461-GPA 1 general plan amendment to applicant owner city of Las Vegas for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to amend and incorporate a supplemental heat mitigation urban forestry management plan as part of the conservation element to the City of Las Vegas 2050 master plan consistent with section 11 of ordinance 6788.

All wards are affected.

The planning commission and staff both recommend approval.

The applicant is the city of Las Vegas.

Hello, gentlemen.

What do you have to say for yourselves?

Good morning, Madam Mayor, members of City Council, Marco Villadas, City of Las Vegas Department of Community Development for the record.

I'm here with uh with Brad, our urban forester.

Yeah, Brad Dossar, Urban Forester for the City of Las Vegas.

And today we're here to present the city's urban forestry management plan.

This is something that we've been working on with our consultant Davy Resource Group over the past year and change really to tackle a number of uh a number of things related to Assembly Bill 96.

It actually started that with Councilwoman Bernie before she uh before she became councilwoman in her role as the uh executive director for the Gwynn Center.

Um the the trajectory of this started there with an interim committee of the legislature that got a recommendation for a bill to incorporate heat mitigation into master plans.

It didn't make it through uh the 2023 legislative session all the way.

Uh it was vetoed by government Governor Lombardo, but it did make its way back through in 2025 in the 2025 session as Assembly Bill 96, and uh this is one of the steps we're taking to comply with that law.

So I wanted to start here first with this uh this map again.

We've been looking at and we have acknowledged that the urban heat island effect is really one of the things that is impacting urban Las Vegas, downtown and the immediately adjacent neighborhoods, in particular the Charleston area, West Las Vegas, uh, and East Las Vegas, uh right around uh right around downtown uh for a number of different reasons.

And when you overlay demographics, socioeconomics, the people, the residents that live there, and you combine that with the sheet the the shading and the tree canopy coverage.

Uh the city of Las Vegas is impacted more by the urban heat island effect than other communities in the Las Vegas Valley.

But as a whole, it impacts us, and we're look taking steps to mitigate that.

And the heat mitigation plan that we have in front of you that uh this urban forestry management plan has recommendations and steps that we can take to address that and plant more trees as a part of our overarching 2050 master plan.

The goals within that were to plant 60,000 trees over the next 25 years.

Uh, we followed that with a resolution to really uh get into some specifics, and one one of the things that came out of that was get get down to the details, figure out what we need to do to get that 60,000 trees and increase our overall canopy coverage, increase our shading, and target the neighborhoods that need them the most.

And then with Assembly Bill 96, uh, that heat mitigation plan needs to include things like shade structures, urban tree canopies with preference for native trees and a drought tolerant species, and that's something that we're specifically looking at because of the impact on water.

Uh might seem a little counterintuitive, you know, to have trees and plants and vegetation going on at the same time when you have a drought, what trees are the best, what's going to provide the most benefit to our uh to our community.

So this plan provides that framework.

Um we'll go through it that just at a very high level.

Uh where what we have here now existing, what do we want, and how do we get there, as well as the inventory, which is the other component that was a part of this plan.

And I'll turn things over to Brad.

Yeah, thank you.

Um so yeah, the initial step that we needed to take was finding out kind of where we stand with our tree with the trees we own and the trees we're taken care of to start with.

So with the urban forestry management plan came an inventory, and so to give you guys some context, a traditional tree inventory that a lot of people, a lot of communities do, is they send people out like me, they send Arborist people out, and and we walk around and we inventory.

We look at the trees, we kind of get a general size range, a general condition, and we make an assessment about the trees, and it's kind of a snapshot in time of what we own.

And so the city of Las Vegas did their last inventory in 2013.

And then this last one that we did was in 2024, so nearly a decade later.

Um as you can imagine.

Well, maybe you can't imagine, but trees are uh a very unique asset that the that the city owns and maintains in that they change.

So when we install a stoplight, kind of looks the same 10 years later.

But trees change rapidly, and so we have to understand that that asset is just needs to be managed differently.

We have to understand as it goes.

And so with this inventory, um we didn't do a traditional inventory.

We didn't send a bunch of people out to take relative measurements of trees and relative assessments.

Um we did something unique and and kind of innovative, um, which is great for the city.

And so we did a smart tree inventory, and essentially what they did, uh Davia Resource Group is they took a Google car and they drove it up and down every city street, they drove it, they drove it through all of our parks, and it has all these cameras, and so uh with LIDAR, and that's not important, they scanned all of our trees, and so we have on the internet digital twins of all of our trees.

So we have 3D models of what's going on, and so as an initial scan, that is very cool.

But what makes it so important and so um I mean, I think what's gonna be so helpful to us is that we're gonna continue to scan.

So instead of taking another break and doing an inventory in another decade and not really capturing or knowing all that change, we're gonna scan again uh every other year.

So we're gonna start to develop this story of our trees.

We're gonna see which species are being successful, we're gonna see which species are failing.

And so there's all this great information and data that's captured, um, and it's gonna allow us to more successfully build the canopy that I that I think our citizens want and make good choices because it can be very, very expensive to plant trees and fail.

So it it's the labor to put the tree in, it's the water that we understand as a like a resource that we need to be careful with, and then it's also the time, like you know, if we're planting something then coming back and doing it in five years, we've lost the time, we've lost the benefits the trees provide to our community.

So I think this whole uh inventory project that we're setting out on, not just the initial one, but kind of the continued scans give us a good opportunity to do a really good job for the community.

Yeah, and one of the important things about this inventory is we find find out our existing conditions.

We noticed that we have a 17% decrease over the last uh last five or six years in our existing canopy.

Uh our overall canopy coverage is in the single digits, it's a uh sits at about six percent, uh depending on how you on how you where you're looking at varies neighborhood to neighborhood.

Um, but we have plenty of opportunities to improve upon that and really try to get more publicly planted trees in our municipal parks and in our right-of-ways, as well as as part of conditions of development that uh you approve for each of uh each of the planting cases that come forward.

Uh and you can see in the distribution here that uh that it's really uh across the board, you know, some of that tree loss, it's it's a result of uh more or less disease, it could be just age of the tree, condition of the tree, poor management, and that's the thing that we're trying to uh to overcome here.

The other important thing is uh species diversity.

Okay.

Um, let me try to explain what we're looking at here.

So um within the city, the city owns and manages 40,000 trees.

Um what species diversity, what this graph is trying to tell us is which individual species of trees comprise the urban forest.

So we're saying, you know, the urban forest is made up of Turkish pine and velvet ash and shoestring acacia, and it's giving us these relative percentages of these trees.

So why would that be important?

As a tree manager of a large population of trees, um, and other communities kind of ascribe to this, is there's a five, 10, 15 rule, right?

So we don't want our inventory of trees to be made up of more than five percent of any one species.

And so if you look at this top line, Turkish pine makes up almost 15%.

Um ash is double that too.

So what happens is this makes it makes our tree population vulnerable to loss.

So I guess mayor, if I can ask you a question.

So do you do you know a tree species?

No.

No, you want to pass it on to someone else?

No.

Okay.

He said no.

Is that the right answer?

No.

So I no.

I guess my question is that if we had a tree that that we thought was really a valuable tree, it performed well, it was drought tolerant, it was heat tolerant, it created all this canopy.

And so you have this favorite tree, and so we start planting these trees, and they're successful, and developers think these trees are good trees, and they're planting them.

And so we all think that we're doing this really good thing by planting this one tree that that we understand is performing well.

Individually, that's not an issue.

You know, everyone's doing kind of the right thing at the right time, but in aggregate, altogether, we've kind of set ourselves up for loss.

Like pine has been a good tree, but now we have so many that these trees live in this constantly changing environment.

Like uh it's a very dynamic situation, temperatures change, we we have water issues, you know, we're removing turf.

And even if everything stayed static, you know, it just you don't know what's gonna come along, pest diseases, all these things.

So we having like owning this huge collection of trees, have to really be aware of that.

And so we've got to kind of pick our head up and look and say, okay, we've kind of overinvested in this spot, and this leaves us really vulnerable to losing something valuable to the community, like both financially valuable and just in our parks and everything.

So that's kind of the the diversity component of it, and and we're addressing it with the way we're looking at plantings that we're doing within the city that we're in control of.

But it's important also for you guys with making planning decisions, understanding that all these little decisions kind of come can snowball into something different.

Um I could go for a while.

So, as part of this process, we did consult with uh the community to make sure that we're on the on the right page, and now that we have the inventory results, uh we use UNLV and their public policy institute to survey the communities, and of course, there is support for increasing the tree canopy and planting them uh both in in public settings and on private property, uh, as well as a willingness to participate uh with certain programs that are being offered by SNWA and by the city, which I'll touch on in just a second.

There is an understanding that we are in a drought, um, and that that conflict is acknowledged, but uh it's the right tree for the right in the right place, and we do have species that can do both.

They can provide that canopy coverage to help reduce heat as well as uh be very water efficient.

So, how do we get there?

The the plan details a number of different recommendations uh that we will follow up on.

I mean, some of them uh come down to parks and recreation and Brad and his team on how we manage individual uh individual locations and individual tree species, continuing to collect data, uh working on building up that inventory, uh looking at ways to educate and engage residents, as well as looking at our uh our codes in terms of what we require of residential and commercial property owners.

Uh so there is a preferred species list that we'll continue to fine-tune.

We do have now a list of training uh and standard operating procedures for RAD, uh tree planting and priority locations, uh, as well as uh an outreach program, as well as uh continued partnerships.

And uh we we have been approached a number of times.

We have another one that's uh that's coming right up uh on grant opportunities to plant trees in different uh at different parks.

Um we have a uh uh tree uh planting grant that uh that um we're we're launching now that uh that I'll show in the on the next slide.

But for each of these, we were given an assessment of how easy or hard this would be, what how much it would cost, and how easy or hard it would be to implement.

And some of the policy level things we're gonna come back to you on uh as part of a future text amendment to Title 19 and Title 13, those uh some of those codes have been decades old, and in Title 13's case, I don't think it had been updated since the 1950s or so.

Uh so there are things that uh that can be fixed.

And again, as part of that effort, uh a couple of council meetings ago, uh we we did uh uh launch our uh tree bait, our free tree that's available for residents in wards one, three, and five.

This is a USDA planning grant uh for community forestry.

Uh information on that is available at Los Vegas Nevada.gov slash trees.

And uh you can reach out to myself, Rachel, or Brad.

Uh we will help get people signed up if you're a single family property owner in these in these uh these areas, we can get a tree planted uh from our uh from our tree uh species list and par three who's contracted to do this will come out and uh and get that done.

That's gonna be available for the next couple years uh through the term of the grant.

And with that, if there's any other questions, we have a subject matter expert here, and we would be more than willing to uh answer them for you.

Thank you.

I appreciate it, and I've learned a lot from your presentation, so thank you so much.

It's not only important because of the extraordinary heat in the summer, but it'll also beautify the community.

And I'm just delighted with what we're doing.

Um, is there anyone else wishing to be heard?

In that case, I'll close the public hearing.

Any questions from the council?

Mayor Pro Teb.

Thank you, Mayor.

I great job in the presentation.

Chinese pistachio is the tree that I would pick.

That's what I was looking for.

Thank you.

Now I better study up on tree species for heaven's sakes.

Next time.

My question is is in Ward 1, it looks like we have a at least a higher percentage of the canopy with only sec only seconded by or right behind ward two.

So ward one, a lot of the trees are more mature, especially in the downtown core.

I mean they're gigantic.

And in my neighborhood, I can see where they're all catching the same disease.

I have a tree in my front yard that caught the same disease, is like 10 other trees in the neighborhood.

Is there a portion of our plan that can kind of focus in on neighborhoods saying you're gonna have to take out your tree at some point, and here's how we're gonna work through this because our just in my ward, I can see the tree canopy declining dramatically.

Mark Marco Vallada for the record.

Uh, I'll I'll let Brad answer in part as well.

But uh as part of that tax amendment, uh, one of the things, and I think one of the things that city council isn't able to do is um uh look at disease uh and things that are a part of the the um whether it's on private property or public property, if there's something that is causing a uh a loss of trees as a result of disease or pests, uh that's something that we can control, and that would be a code enforcement function, of course, but uh it's something that um we had it been recommended as part of the plan, and that's something that we would we're looking at putting in.

I'm not asking for code enforcement to come to my house.

I mean sure, but I don't know what to do with my dead dying tree.

Is there is there like a communication strategy for neighborhoods because a private homeowners, me for example, doesn't know exactly what to look for in a in a dying tree, and I don't know what to do with it when I have it.

And I'm I'm guessing I know for a fact all of my neighborhoods kind of feel the same way.

Yeah, so uh with the urban forestry management plan, we did launch a website on the city, like an urban forestry page, and so it's kind of immature at this point, and we're using it to kind of broadcast the free tree program, but it's also gonna have I think in the future, like our species list and some recommendations, and we could incorporate any amount of information.

Um like I said, it's kind of young, but I think there's opportunities to share that kind of thing with the public and and help support the canopy.

So that would be a request, and as we move forward and developing with these fantastic ideas is how do we communicate individually to residences about what to look for in a diseased or dying tree and then what steps they should take as I'm I I'm using myself as an example, I don't know.

So how we communicate to private residences, I think will have a huge impact on the overall tree canopy.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Is there anybody else that wishes?

Yes.

Oh councilwoman.

I just want to say thank you.

I'm Brad, you know me.

This is my jam.

I went out on a tour of the uh of the garden, the tree garden, and I told him when I really retire, all I want is a water hose.

I just want to go out there and water trees because this is my jam.

Um and I have to um uh agree with the my colleague.

Um I have ash trees and they're dying off, right?

And so I want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing, but this is so very important, and to use the technology, the Google to do the canopy, what a way for us to not only capture what we have now, to see how the things that we're going to plant are going to perform, and to be able to measure like is our canopy effort actually working, and these are the things when I met you at the uh tree canopy um meetings.

This was a big deal, right?

We're planting, but can we measure the effect?

Um, and I think that's really important.

Um, I'm looking forward to having you uh in our neighborhood talking to people about adding trees.

Um, I think it's super super important, and people are really aware of it now.

Um, I'm a uh again a really really big fan, and my tree choice would be a lace bark elm, because I am a Cali girl, and it peels like a sycamore tree, and it's very uh reminiscent of my childhood.

Um, but just wonderful job.

I'm so proud.

This is a really important thing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um yeah, just I guess then in response to the like with the nursery.

I don't I felt like I was going really long on the diversity thing, but the nursery is the kind of thing that allows us to the nursery project that we have in the city.

We have a nursery where we have like roughly 2500 trees growing at any one time, and it's supporting all of our planting projects and supporting our diversity goals.

Um, and I would invite any of you guys to come out and see it.

It's really incredible.

It's it's I think foundational and so important to what we're doing.

Um so thank you for bringing that up.

Thank you so much.

Um, Miss Kelly.

Yes, thank you.

I want to um uh echo again.

I I I too have ash trees, would like to know what as you see them not being as healthy as they used to be.

It would be nice if we had some resources that took advantage of the fact that we have an urban forester, which I think has got to be the one of the coolest jobs ever.

Um I also want to commend you on the thoroughness of the work, the technology that you're using, and the fact that we're gonna have this information as well as other things available uh and accessible to the public.

I do have a question about the tree goal of uh 60,000 trees.

I'm curious why why we don't include trees that are planted by developers.

Or maybe we do, and I'm wrong.

Marco Vallada for the record that it is inclusive of of that as well, but we're we've been counting on the ones that we have planted in the right of way.

Um we have the ability to track all of it, and as part of this uh this plan and with the 2050 plan, we did take a look at uh land cover, and we have shading analysis as well.

That's how we came up with some of those uh initial numbers and figures and projections on what could we reasonably get to over 30 year period.

Okay, terrific, because I know that uh I'm trying to do my part at keeping um the developers to the tree expectations thing and and regulations and uh that we have.

So thank you very much for that.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, Mr.

Dassler, and this is more for I guess our planning development, community development folks, even for us.

Um, you made a really interesting observation, and you got really passionate on your soapbox for a little bit about diversifying the tree species in our tree ecosystem so that we can guarantee um longevity and health for the trees.

And I didn't know this, so when you spoke it, I was like, oh my goodness, like there's a lot of times, you know, when um I'm gonna speak for us, we're we're meeting with folks who want to develop things in our areas in our wards.

And number one, I say don't bring me any palm trees because I'm not a fan of the palm.

So I can tell you which trees I don't really want to see.

Um, but then I don't have a list of trees that would be compatible and harmonious for that ecosystem.

So, do we do something where we vet and we're checking in and we're identifying how many trees we have of what and what would be the best recommendation?

Because I know that we refer them to the draw out tolerant list, but if all everyone's putting the same kind of tree, it sounds like we're setting ourselves up for failure.

So I just kind of wanted to be educated if we do go to that granular level of advising them how they diversify their tree selections.

Yeah, thank you, Councilwoman Seth Floyd for the record.

I I'll I'll defer to Brad on part of that, but to answer your question about what we're doing uh with new developments.

This has been coming up a lot over the last probably year or so at Planning Commission, uh, where we started with we were just requiring developers to adhere to the uh species, the drought tolerant species list.

Uh, what we've learned through going through this process is we we may need to take a look at the the diversity requirements because I think if you see proposals come through now, as long as it's on the list, we as staff are saying, well, okay, that's fine, it's on the list, and that's what we're looking to see.

Uh, and so that's something Brad and I have talked about, and that maybe a follow-up implementation step from this plan is to look at how we can require diversity, especially in you know, we're we're almost done with the huge developments, the those have almost all been entitled now.

So we're looking more at uh diversifying on a smaller project by project basis.

Uh please make sure you brief us and follow up and make us informed as to what is conducive and appropriate.

Like desert pines development is one that we should make sure that you know we have a sound offering of trees on moving forward, and that one we haven't even gotten to that point.

But wanted to keep that top of mind because I know I push to get more trees and landscaping in Ward 3 developments, but it'd be nice to make sure that we're making the best and highest use of those decisions.

Councilman, I should clear Peter just reminded me.

I was referring to the private development projects that we're seeing, uh the larger ones with our own street trees.

We have, and maybe these guys can talk about a prescribe diversity requirements in those.

So we've already done that part of it.

So anytime we're leading a project, then we do that internally.

Yeah, so I I review all those projects, so I kind of have that in my mind to do that.

Um but to the development side, it is challenging.

Like I like I know how important it is, but it's also uh as important as it's equally challenging because it has a lot to do with species availability, like from commercial nurseries and things like this.

And so that's what makes our nursery project kind of so unique is we're developing trees that maybe aren't commercially available, things that maybe you know, we have so many different opportunities to plant that we can plant 80 different species of trees.

Um and there's a risk aspect to it where we're you know making educated decisions and putting things out there, but obviously, like um people who are developing commercial properties are less risk tolerant in that way, and so there's yeah, it's gonna be a challenging thing to tackle, but it is something to keep in mind.

Another point I just wanted to kind of raise is that sometimes those disease trees the MPT spoke about or not water trees that basically are you know they kill from not watering.

Um they become casualties to windstorms.

Anytime we have significant wind, um, which in Vegas I didn't think we were the windy city compared to Chicago, but we're pretty windy city.

And um, when I'm driving through after the aftermath of a windstorm, I see many down trees, and some of them are on residential and commercial developments.

I know we as a city replace our trees, but what I want to, I guess, kind of leave in the hands of our code enforcement is to make sure that we stay on top of those other developments to replace the lost trees so that we don't lose the canopy every time we have that kind of um significant weather event in our valley.

And my favorite species is Paulo Verde, which didn't make it on here.

Oh very nice.

I gotta get a favorite species.

I will entertain a motion, Mayor Pro Tim.

If you agree to not call code enforcement on my dying treaty, then I would move to approve.

And thank you very much.

Post motion carries.

Thank you guys very, very much.

All right, thank you.

Wonderful presentation.

Item six item 63 have been held in abeyance until the January 21st meeting.

Item 64, 25-0469-VAR1 variants.

Applicant Martha Gabriela Romero Cisneros, owner, construction group, Inc.

for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow 19 parking spaces where 41 spaces are required on 0.44 acres at 2187, North Decatur Boulevard Suite 110, C One Limited Commercial Zone, Ward 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Planning Commission recommends approval, staff recommends denial.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, uh, Mayor Berkeley.

My name is Jose Rivas representing the Robinson uh 10931 Preston Trails Avenue, Las Vegas.

Now would you please tell us about your project?

So when we decided to open up the salon, we looked at several properties in the areas uh in the vicinity, and we contacted when we found this property.

We contacted our accountant to call the city and find out what the requirements were.

And we were communicated back that we needed 18 spaces for the location, which we then said, well, that's fine.

We we have 19 spaces in the area.

And then we went again ahead and signed the lease, and uh when all the other licenses were approved, we found out that uh we it was 18 spaces, but just for the salon, not uh for the two additional um lease spaces that are available uh since then the liquor store has taken additional space, and you have a lot of um the their traffic comes in and goes every you know five five minutes or so.

Uh we feel that there's a lot of a lot of parking in the neighborhood, um, and a lot of the clients that have been coming in since we opened our local people that we have a lot of walk-ins as well.

And we don't believe that uh the that there is a problem with with parking.

We haven't seen any problem with parking.

There's additional parking on the adjacent streets as well and across the streets as well.

There's a lot of ample parking lot for uh additional um parking.

So we would like to request the city for approval to open up uh the six stations that we require to be able to do uh good business with the community.

Uh the place has cleaned up a lot since we've moved in, and uh a lot of the people that were sleeping in the area are now vacated.

So I think it's it's been a good thing for the city, it's gonna be a good thing for the community if this is approved.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff uh um a report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor Peter Lowensing for the record, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstances related to the physical characteristics of the property has been presented to warrant the requested parking variants.

Uh as such, the hardship is self-imposed, as well as indicates the use is too intense for the subject site, and therefore staff is recommended in IO.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh this is a public hearing.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Are there questions or comments from the council?

Yes, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um it is exciting that we have a small business that wants to expand uh in this uh location.

Uh but we just had a similar item um about a month or so ago uh on the opposite side of this uh location on Stacy, where we had the last one in of a of a um a business where their uh neighbors took all the parking and they wanted to bring in their own parking, uh want to expand and exceeded would have exceeded the available parking.

This location is the same thing.

You're the last one in your uh required parking uh is 41, and um it's just doesn't have enough room for you to have six stations.

Um I know that there is uh street parking over on Eugene, but that is only on one side of the street, and then we start to encroach into a um into a residential neighborhood.

Um might I ask if you have done any type of a parking study of your own.

Have you done any measurements of parking on your own?

Um, because I I just feel like I have to be um even handed with you as I was with the um the applicant that came just down the street from you.

Um we've asked uh all the customers that are coming in how they're getting in, and we've just not have seen a problem with parking, uh even people having to have parked uh outside of the parking lot to come in.

Uh there is ample park space across the street that they can lot has been there for forever.

Um I don't know how long it's gonna take to get built as well, but uh we have not done a um beta for a uh for a study to do that.

Uh we have not seen the need for that.

Um like I said, a lot of our customers are from the local community.

There is a lot of walking traffic, and uh we just feel that that that the parking is not gonna be a problem.

Okay, anyone else have any questions?

Okay, Madam Mayor, if I may, how many current stations do you have?

Three.

Three.

So you're you would be doubling the amount of stations.

And I know that usually on any typical you know, week there's when I go see my hair lady that I've been going to forever, um, there's limited parking offerings in her um area too, but I've never seen it super slammed only when there are special holidays when everyone wants to get in and have their so it's very certain loads, and so I don't know if you can speak to in your current experience if if you know that yes, your peak, you know, peak days are holidays or a few days out of a holiday.

Well this is the the peak of the of the uh of the holiday for us, and it has not really changed as far as the parking is concerned.

Now the liquor store people come in and go very fast.

So uh we have a very good communication with the owner of the liquor store next door to us, and says that you know you're does not have a problem with any of the people parking in front as well.

So very good neighbors.

And then do you you do your gals usually book their appointments or not gals.

That's very um discriminative.

Um your hair stylists do they book their clients in advance, or do you know who's coming and going?

And then is it for an hour, a couple of hours?

The majority of the appointments are are uh uh are appointment-based, uh, but very few uh walk-ins that we take in uh and in many cases because they don't want to wait.

Uh they'll set up an appointment, and so we try to schedule them accordingly.

Um there's uh haircuts, uh those are usually you know, 15 minutes or less.

Uh nails are usually maybe 30 minutes or 45 minutes or so.

Um, but everything's by most of it is for by appointment only.

All right, I'll still defer to what my colleague thinks is best for her ward, but I do see a little bit of a difference between this one and the prior ask because it was vehicle um intensive and not appointment driven or people um being there to be worked on.

Uh those are usually you know 15 minutes or less uh mails are usually maybe 30 minutes or 45 minutes or so um but everything's by mostly it's for my appointment only all right i'll still defer to what my colleague thinks is best for her ward but I do see a little bit of a difference between this one and the prior ask because it was vehicle um intensive and not appointment driven or people um being there to be worked on so I think that that is a completely different scenario but again I'll leave it in the councilwoman's hands thank you and I will entertain the mote oh I'm sorry Miss Bruni yeah I just wanted to um also share uh I completely appreciate your commitment to being consistent I think that's important but I in my mind I was also thinking that the last use that we discussed was um very intense and I think they were trying to like store you know cars overnight or there was a potential right because it was auto body auto mechanic and I think this is a very different use so just wanted to share what you see here in this diagram here is this is probably a busy air a busy time busy day yeah there's usually a lot of empty spaces if you drive by during the day you can you can see um madam mayor uh yes ma'am may I ask um our plannings folks uh can we um approve with a one year review uh to see if we have any issues with um parking if we have any complaints from the parking from the neighbors or uh if code enforcement observes um any uh you know increase and an unreasonable increase uh with people there's a sidewalk on the south side but the north side is is dirt um if we could just have a a one year review through you madam mayor yes that is possible um with a variance once you issue it you're you're you would then have to go through a revocation process after um the required review if there were substantial issues to warrant it to be removed um so yes you can um do you want it to be an administrative required review or one before public hearing and um yeah that's all I really need to know to craft a condition thank you uh Mr.

Lowenstein I think administrative would be fine um and we just you know maybe six month one year have uh a code enforcement or parking go out and just take a look and make sure that we're not having any untoward issues um but I I love the idea of of having a salon this type of a use in the community um and the colors are beautiful too it looks beautiful so do you agree to that condition of being reviewed a year from now sure yes okay um in that case madam mayor I move for approval madam mayor I'll add the uh with the condition add a condition uh it would read as an administrative required review shall be conducted one year from the date of permanent license issuance okay please vote post motion carries congratulations and happy holidays happy holidays to you all agenda item 65 25 dash zero five zero eight dash rqr1 required review applicant Lamar Central Outdoor LLC owner RHDH properties LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a required review of an approved special use permit for an existing 40 foot tall 14 foot by 48 foot off premise sign on 0.46 acres at 1600 North Rancho Drive C2 General Commercial Zone Ward 5 Ms.

Summers Armstrong staff recommends approval this is a public hearing that I now declare open is the applicant present uh yes I'm Scott Nafsker with Lamar outdoor advertising 1863 Helm Drive we accept all of staff's conditions the sign has been here for about 30 years and uh with no incident well recently we spent about a hundred thousand dollars for safety upgrades and there doesn't seem to be any issues from staff so we would ask for your approval.

Thank you so much any additional comments staff yes mayor I said fully for the record although there have been changes in the surrounding area the corner commercial site remains suitable for an off premise sign the off premise sign is in conformance with the approved special use permit U-0314-94 and therefore staffs recommending approval with conditions requiring a five year review thank you all right and you agree with the conditions of course all right um is there anyone else did I say that already no is there anyone else wishing to be heard seeing no one we will close the public hearing um are there any questions or comments from the council Madam Mayor I just want to say thank you for coming in and talk to me about it.

And I've also been assured that this will not become a LED sign uh that will uh won't have any effect on the surrounding uh existing uh residential uh houses, so I move for approval.

Please vote post.

Motion passes.

Happy holidays.

Thank you, you do.

Okay.

Agenda item 66.

Reports and presentations.

Report by Dr.

Reese Oswald, uh, Region II superintendent on the current educational operations in the schools within the Clark County School District in the City of Las Vegas.

This impacts all wards.

Uh, Dr.

Malich.

Yes, Madam Mayor, City Council members, Dr.

Tammy Mallich, Director of Youth Development and Social Initiatives for the Record.

The quarterly report for quarter three is submitted in accordance with NRS 388 G.630 and CCSD Regulation 2130.

Here to report on student achievement and star rating data disaggregated by municipality is super region superintendent for region two, Dr.

Reese Oswald.

With that, I'll turn it over to him.

Thank you so much.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Mayor Berkeley and City Council members.

My name is Reese Oswalt, and I'm the Region II superintendent for the Clark Kenny School District.

In regards to compliance status on October 30th, 2025, the compliance monitor reported that the district has completed the process improvement plan shared with the Board of Trustees related to the district's ability to provide accurate, complete, and timely information necessary for the development and implementation of school plans of operation.

This afternoon, I'll be reviewing disaggregated data that was presented to the Board of Trustees during the third calendar year quarter of 2025.

Topics include student achievement and Nevada School Performance Framework.

I'm pleased to report, as you all know, that data is being provided by Ward for the first time, and I'm working closely with the Assessment Accountability Research and School Improvement Division, also known as RC, to ensure that that information continues to be available to each of you.

I appreciate your request for that information, knowing that the intent is to more strategically utilize resources in order to better support our schools.

I'm also thankful to our RC division for making it happen.

In relation to student achievement, in English language arts, student achievement, elementary students have shown a steady three-year trend of improvement.

Middle school English language art students have shown an improvement of 5.1% and are showing signs of closing gaps.

And lastly, high school English language art students showed a 3.3% increase.

In relation to mathematic student achievement, elementary students have shown a steady three-year trend of improvement.

Middle school mathematics students have shown a 3.8% increase, and high school mathematics students have increased 2.1%.

In relation to science student achievement, elementary students have made a 4.6 percent improvement.

Grade 8 students demonstrated a 4.4 percent increase, and high school students showed a 3.6 percent increase.

Moving on from student achievement to the Nevada School Performance Framework ratings.

We've seen an increase of 11.9 percent of schools scoring three stars or higher, and nearly all schools improving upon their index scores.

Now, as we conclude our data review, I'm proud to transition into some celebrations of our schools.

Griffith Elementary School, primary autism teacher, Paris Roberts was chosen as an A-plus educator.

Rex Bell Elementary School is celebrating a gain of 49 percent with kindergarten students on the recent winter measure of academic progress assessments.

Global Community High School is celebrating a 7% chronic absenteism rate, which is a significant improvement from previous years.

Vegas Verdes Elementary School is in partnership with the local trade union Encore and Operation Warm, allowing each student to be fitted and receive a new pair of shoes and a winter coat.

And last but not least, Central Technical Training Academy student Evelyn Serrano Hernandez attended the National Student Leadership Academy in Washington, D.C., where she met various government officials and represented our district.

Thank you for this opportunity, and now I'll take any questions.

Thank you so much.

Do any members of the council have any questions?

Seeing none, we thank you so much for the report.

This is a report only, so no action is required.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Have a very happy holiday.

Agenda item 67, setting 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 litter abatements.

Well do.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Citizen participation, and I know there are people that are waiting patiently for this.

Citizens' 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 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 is allowed, may be limited.

It's going to be limited to two minutes a person.

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

Would you please state your name for the record and welcome?

Good afternoon.

I am Becky Miller, M-I-L-E-R.

I'm the president of the Las Vegas Arts District Neighborhood Association.

Welcome.

Thank you.

And sorry this meeting's taking so long.

We, the community in the arts district in the gateway district, wish to bring to the attention of the council formally, so it goes on record that there is a concern over the parking fee increases and also the reduction of free parking in the arts district.

Since we had decided to come to this meeting, I have actually spoken with Dina Babski and Maria Tamayo Soto and also with Councilwoman Diaz's representative.

We have some ideas and uh chance to set up a meeting, a community meeting.

And so I really greatly appreciate this willingness of the city to work with the residents and the businesses of the arts district.

And we hope that our five-point plan that is in a change.org petition is a jumping off point for the discussions to continue and solutions that can benefit both the city and also our residents and our businesses.

Thank you.

Have wonderful holidays.

Thank you.

And thank you so much for your patience.

I know you've been sitting here for quite a while.

Oh, yes, I do this often as the president, so it's fine.

Well, thank you so much, and we look forward to working with you on this issue.

Thanks.

You're very welcome.

Agenda item 69, council emerging issues, discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas or wards.

Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

No discussion regarding the substance of any proposed topic shall occur.

No action shall be taken.

Do any members of the council have any uh topics that they would like to bring forward under this item?

Seeing none, we will move to the next item, which is truly one of my favorites.

Agenda item 70.

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.

Um and now why don't we start with Miss Summers Armstrong?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

We have had a busy month as always.

Uh on the um 7th of December, we were with uh Pastor Tees and uh L V MPD at the uh Liberty Baptist Church Christmas tree giveaway.

Um I got to hold and snuggle a baby, uh, get snowed on and take a really interesting picture with my husband and Dr.

Tees.

We had a lot of fun.

I said he's my distant cousin.

Um so we had a wonderful time, and uh they gave away um upwards of 500 Christmas trees to folks in the community.

Happy to support them and um have just thank you, uh Liberty Baptists.

On December 12th, we uh were with uh Mayor and uh Councilwoman Diaz and staff at the Tony High Shea Day at Strongstart Academy Elementary School.

It was a beautiful event.

The new facility is amazing.

Got to meet uh staff and uh I'm just excited for that uh for that facility and the good work that they do.

Thank you, Dr.

Malich.

Uh on December 12th, also went to the Pro Bono Luncheon Awards with legal aid of Southern Nevada.

Got to see some of my uh legal uh community folks uh there and uh other elected officials.

Um it's just wonderful to see that we have legal uh professionals who are giving of their time to the community free of charge to help people navigate the legal system.

It was beautiful.

On the 13th, which I believe was last Saturday, I'm losing count of the days.

They had a beautiful event in Ward 5 at the at the mob museum, had a holiday party.

Everybody was dressed in their uh mob regalia.

It looked like a speakeasy.

Food was great, company was great, and um thank you, SEIU, for inviting me.

On the 14th, I hung out with the mayor for hours, it seemed.

Uh, we started off the day with the menorah lighting on um Fremont Street, and then we uh had the uh the dancing dreidel were there as well.

Uh it was beautiful, and then we transitioned to the tree lighting uh also on Fremont Street.

And uh it was just nice to hang out with you, Mayor.

It was a beautiful both events were lovely, and it's great to see this kind of activity happening on Fremont Street.

Uh on the 15th, um, I joined some of my colleagues and uh some folks from the state of Nevada, our lieutenant governor and representatives from the governor's office, as well as uh the owner of Walker Furniture and his family hosted home for the holidays.

Uh if you didn't have a tissue, you probably should have.

Um, they showed a wonderful video of some of the families locally that they have supported with furniture uh for uh folks who really really needed it.

We had a beautiful rendition of Christmas Carols uh from the Opportunity Village Choir.

Um, and it's just wonderful to see that the family is consistently giving back into our community, and I'm really uh excited about having Walker Furniture also in Word 5.

So, upcoming events, Bolden Area Um Holiday Toy Drive, the 20th, which is this Saturday.

Uh, if you've got a toy that you'd like to give, please use the QR code and contact the folks to give away, um, give something uh into the community.

Uh, December 22nd through January 2nd, we have winter break camps hosted by our Parks and Recs.

Folks, please don't leave your babies at home while uh the winter break is happening.

We've got some wonderful activities through Parks and Rec, keep them safe, active, and engaged, uh, and they also have snacks.

Uh Lorenzi Park always is having community green ball classes.

Please come out, bring your kids to learn how to play, hit the ball, have fun, make friends.

Uh, and finally, um, want to say uh we've had uh some meaningful events that we have celebrated in ward five.

We are so excited to serve this community.

I'm really proud of my team, Nora, Julius, and Aura.

They've done a great job staying engaged all the way through the end of the year, and they remain available to help our community at 702-229-5443.

Subscribe to our newsletter so you can find out what is going on in Ward 5.

And I'd just like to say happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, happy new year, um, and stay safe on the roads.

Amen.

Miss U Alan Polenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

On Tuesday, December 9th, I had the opportunity to help with the final stages of the police memorial playground installation.

I'm grateful to our Parks and Recs Department for their hard work and dedication and making this playground reopening possible.

Their efforts have helped create a safe, welcoming space for families and children to enjoy.

With that, please join us for our playground's official reopening celebration this Friday the 19th at 3:30 p.m.

We look forward to celebrating together and hope to see everyone there.

Next up on Saturday, December 13th.

We had a fantastic morning attending our household hazardous waste collection event with Republic Services in Sun City Summerlin.

Thank you to the 326 cars that participated, helping to ensure hazardous materials were disposed of safely and responsibly.

Thank you to everyone involved in the event.

It was a raving success.

On Monday, December 15th, I had the honor of attending a Christmas assembly at Walter Long Elementary School.

I was invited to participate by the Robert and Sandy Ellis Charitable Foundation.

The foundation focuses on addressing fundamental needs for students, and at this assembly, every child was given a brand new set of shoes and a Christmas toy.

Thanks to Bobby for letting me participate in this special event.

He does great work throughout our community.

Next up, we have eight days before Christmas, and we have eight children who are missing from our community.

If you have any information that could help, please contact LV MPD Missing Person Detail at 7022 828, 311.

And finally, you can stay up to date with what's going on in our community, what's happening with events in Ward 4 by following me on Instagram, X, Facebook, all the things.

We are also here to help on the phones, the old fashioned way at 702-229-2524.

We are here to assist you in any way needed.

Thanks.

Thank you so much, Councilwoman.

Councilman.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

This is National Drunk and Drug Driving Prevention Month.

During National Drunk and Drug Driving Prevention Month, we highlight the rise in impaired driving incidents during the holiday season and the importance of planning ahead for a sober ride.

It's crucial to remember that alcohol, cannabis, and even some prescription medication can impair judgment and reaction time.

We all play a role in prevention by speaking up when someone is unfit to drive.

And happy holidays to everyone.

It's been a fantastic year, and I'm grateful to be here with all of you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Miss Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Let's see, we've been a little busy as we ramp up towards the holidays.

So on December 4th, alongside NHSSN, we were able to celebrate the addition of 60 affordable apartment units for seniors in Ward 3.

They're called the Golden Rule.

And we're there for the ribbon cutting ceremony.

And I just want to thank Michelle Merced, who's the director at NHSSN and all of the other community members that came out to show their support and dedication to ensure that we continue to offer dignified and affordable living spaces to seniors in our community.

That same day, there was a multicultural reception hosted by the Korean American Chamber of Commerce at the Strat, and I joined forces with Commissioner Sagerbloom for this event.

And it was a delightful event in which many people from different backgrounds came together and they were offering us free rides on the roller coaster that night, and I was like, I'll pass.

I got my fill just going up the 108 uh levels to this area, the observation deck, but I I skipped out on the roller coaster ride.

Uh Saturdays, December 6th, we had Santa in the circle at Baker Park.

Santa in the Circle has been a long-standing community event that our downtown neighbors look forward to every year.

Kat Carr and Erica Martinez hosted this beautiful, amazing event filled with dance and musical performances, train rides for our kids, and of course the ever so popular cookie exchange from the neighbors who bake their own goodies and bring them to share.

And I just want to thank everyone for coming out on a beautiful and unusually warm December morning.

On December 8th, UNLV School of Landscape Architecture students presented their visions of what could be the future of Huntridge Circle Park.

And so I was very impressed by what our youth are thinking we can do to uplift a gem that I know a lot of people treasure in the community.

We're looking to be a public-private partnership to where they're helping to support us in many different ways as we talk about how to best activate this park in our community.

December 12th.

On December 13th, we had the Ward 3 Christmas Posada.

Thank you to everyone who attended this year's Posada this past Saturday out of East Las Vegas Community Center.

It was a tremendous success.

We had over a thousand toys distributed to the kiddos that attended, and more than 2,000 folks who were in attendance.

We're just so incredibly grateful to the partners to our sponsors and partners who made this possible.

On December 4th, this is, I guess, a little out of order, but um I was able to presence the Win Cork graduation, and I love this because I always see the remarkable journey that the women that take part of this program go through.

It's usually over two years.

And they we get to celebrate their new chapter in their lives.

And we get to also congratulate the hard work of every single component of the program that makes sure that these women coming out of the program are going to be the best versions of themselves moving forward.

It was awesome to see past Chief Judge Cynthia Leon come back into the MuniCourt for this.

And also think a big thank you to Chief Judge Kelly Giordani, who is an amazing person who is keeping this program going strong because I know that it definitely makes a difference in everyone's lives.

It's a food and toy distribution event.

So if you know of folks in need, needing toys, needing food, send them our way.

It's tomorrow, it's Saturday.

I'm thinking it's already tomorrow, but it's Saturday.

Um, and we're in need of volunteers.

So if you have some time and would like to contribute some time, 10 a.m.

to 3:30 at East Las Vegas Community Center, 250 Northeastern.

And parking is limited, so please consider carpooling if there's several of you that know each other and want to come on down to help us.

Just another plug that on Saturday, December 20th from noon to 2, we will have a program for free out of our Carolyn Goodman Plaza.

You park at 500 South Main.

Um, it's gonna be an awesome Vegas City children's choir presentation.

So don't miss it.

Um, I know that every single time I hear Christmas Caroline, it gets me in the mood for the holidays.

Uh, next, just save the date for um the night we met by Crystal Ramirez, Thursday, January 8th at 11 a.m.

at our Las Vegas Civic Center, 525 South Main.

Um, and this is just um a bold new distinctive new sculpture.

It's the installation of the new sculpture by this artist, and we're gonna unveil it.

So we just want to have everyone here to celebrate that momentous occasion that's been a work in progress.

Again, just wanting to refresh everyone and remind that we have the neighborhood partners fund up to 10,000.

We can provide assistance to our neighborhood groups and ideas for projects include cultural and community events like block parties, community workshops, newsletters to inform your neighbors about upcoming issues uh or important issues and upcoming events, um, cleanups, murals, materials to clean up graffiti, and any other sustainability project that you may have at the top of mind.

So don't miss this opportunity to earn up to 10,000 in um matching grant funds.

And last but not least, uh free tree.

If you live in the city of Las Vegas and you have are in the zip code 89101-89102-104, 106-107 and 110, you may qualify for free tree, and it's part of our overall program that Brad and uh Marco presented on earlier in the meeting.

And that's it.

I wish everyone happy holidays, and I would be remiss if if I didn't publicly congratulate my parents who just celebrated 52 years of love and their wedding anniversary.

So, congratulations to them.

Ah, lovely.

Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you.

Happy holidays to everyone, happy Hanukkah.

Thank you to the dancing draidles who joined us this morning and kicked off our long meeting with fun and good cheer.

Please be safe on the roads as you make your way to holiday parties or out and about to finish your last minute shopping.

We started this holiday month of December by cleaning our Centennial Hills Park.

Thanks to Get Outdoors Nevada, we appreciate your continued partnership and thank you to our volunteers, including almost a dozen young people.

The following week, we held our annual cowboy Christmas at Floyland Park.

The event gets bigger and better every year.

Thank you to the almost 100 classic car owners and 50 vendors who came out and celebrated with us.

Last week, Team Bruni was pleased to attend the groundbreaking for Rebecca Place, a new 30 home community for first-time buyers.

This project marks marks the launch of Clark County's Welcome Home Community Land Trust, which is well positioned to become a national model.

We're proud to partner with the county on this milestone for attainable sustainable housing.

Last weekend we were pleased to collaborate with the Escaramusa Charra Colires de Nevada to host our third annual Navidad con Coliras.

Almost 2,000 neighbors came out to enjoy an afternoon of horse riding events and a celebration of our cultural traditions.

With the holidays, we'll be slowing down and spending some time with our families.

But we'll be back ready to work hard on January the 1st.

We'll see you on Thursday, January the 8th from 9 to 11 a.m.

for our monthly bocaditos with Bruni at our Centennial Hills YMCA satellite office.

Please note that even though we are slowing down for the holidays next week, our team will be monitoring our phones and emails during this holiday period.

So if there is a concern or something you want to talk to us about, please do reach out.

You can call us or email us at ward six at Los Vegas Nevada.gov or call us at 702 229 5463.

Happy holidays.

Thank you so much.

And um finish finishing us off for the year, uh Councilwoman Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I was absolutely honored and thrilled to attend a Boy Scout event with Troop 407.

This these young men, young, well, these boys all received their Eagle Scout new rank at the same time, which was only the only it was only the second time in Boy Scout history that that's ever been done.

First time in Nevada and here for the first time in the city of Las Vegas.

So very proud of those boys and their scout master who she was she's just fabulous.

We also have a couple of upcoming events first in Ward 2.

We're going out into the community to bring the City of Las Vegas representation to Ward 2 and closer to where citizens live.

And we um hope to connect with residents and listen to concerns and share important dates.

I mean important updates.

And our first uh time will be uh on Thursday, January 22nd from 9 to 11 at the Veterans Memorial Community Center.

Uh the second event is our regular breakfast buzz, which we skipped in December, but that is Saturday the 31st from 9 to 10 a.m.

And I encourage uh constituents who have not been to come join us for a hot breakfast and an update.

We also um have uh winter break camp at the Veterans Memorial Community Center and uh looking forward to um uh visiting with constituents over the holidays.

Um, but at the our holidays can bring extra stress to us, and so we have some tips in the newsletter about uh dealing with holiday stress.

Um, I encourage all of us when we have time off to use it to genuinely rest and and recharge to make the season more man of manageable, meaningful, and joyful.

And if you have any issues or inquiries in Ward 2, uh, just like the rest of the wards, we can be reached uh via as as uh Councilwoman Alan Palenski says, the old fashioned way via telephone, um, or you can email us and we will have someone in the office every day through the holidays uh or monitoring the phone lines as well.

Thank you very much.

And thank you.

As we approach the holiday season, the city of Las Vegas wishes everybody, no matter what holiday you are celebrating, a very happy, joyous holiday season and a joyous new year.

We want everyone to enjoy but please stay safe.

And with that, this meeting is adjourned.