Las Vegas Planning Commission Meeting - January 14, 2026
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Vice Chair Cassama.
Present.
Commissioner Schlottman.
Present.
Commissioner Rogan.
Present.
Commissioner DeSalvio.
Commissioner Lebaux.
Present.
You have a quorum.
Thank you.
I call to your attention the information printed in your agenda concerning our actions and the appeal and review process if appropriate.
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Next up is public comment during this portion of the agenda.
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If you wish to be heard, come to the podium and give your name for the record.
This is to voice my opposition for item number 18, which is regarding the proposed changes to 5924 West Lone Mountain Road.
I've lived in this area for approximately for over 30 years.
Whoops, I'm just decided to get really funky here.
Fortunately, the majority of the land in this area has been developed.
But there's a vacant dirt parcel next to this business that I fear they will purchase so that they'll be able to expand.
I now do oppose this.
It started as what appeared to be a family-owned company, but the business has continued to grow and develop beyond what it was zoned for.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the zoning issues be done before the work has happened?
One asks that it be changed from residential to service commercial, another to limited commercial, another two limited material and lumber yard use in a residential area.
Lil Sopratos is located next to this parcel, very close to the parcel.
I live across the street in Rancho Altamere.
Probably shouldn't have said that, but anyway.
They say that they need to bring in materials, but it appears that they have a pile of sand there in the center that they've been driving their vehicles around.
We do not need a construction yard in this area.
And I'm disappointed that the commission is recommending approval to an entity that is obviously not played by the rules.
The property has already been developed into a business.
Is there not a penalty or fine for this?
I ask that you at least deny the zoning one and SUP One requests.
Why would you reward them for not following the law?
Thank you.
Thank you, ma'am.
Anybody else under this item?
Come on down, sir.
Folks, if you're gonna speak on an item, rules for tonight, or please come down as soon as that item is called so we can have an efficient meeting.
Please state your name for the record and let us know what you're referring to.
Kyle McGuire.
Um that's K Y L E M C G U I R E.
Um, this would be for project number 25-0459.
Uh they're applying for a variance to have um child care in the neighborhood.
Um, unfortunately, what's happened is they've moved in, they have a disabled child, and they had uh a license, I believe, to have round the clock care at home for that child.
What they've done is they've parlayed that into a round-the-clock daycare facility where there's school buses that come to the actual house to pick up disabled children.
Um the thing is I have school buses backing up and turning around the corner where that's located, which is on a corner lot.
Um there's parking problems in the neighborhood.
In fact, that's what they're here for to have less parking and continue doing what they're doing.
They don't have adequate parking.
The argument for it is, but there's the site of our house.
That would be a, you know, unfortunately, that side of the house, they have their permanent staff there.
So when their clients show up, they fill up the street, sometimes double parking as it is.
And then at about eight o'clock in the morning, the first of the school buses comes through.
It's a small cul-de-sac street.
Um, it's really not uh the thing to have there.
A daycare is great.
Now I understand that if you have a disabled child in the school bus needs to come pick it up, uh, pick them up at home.
That's totally understandable, but that's one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Not two or three in the morning and three in the afternoon.
Sometimes it takes five, ten minutes to get outside of my house.
I happen to have several of my neighbors here as well who would, you know, love to uh at least speak up on it or at least agree with what we've all talked, and these are what our all our concerns are.
So anyway, thank you for your time.
Is anybody who is on those items you can also speak on your for anyone who is here on those items?
You can speak to your opposition or your support for an item when the item is called.
This is just another opportunity, so you don't have to come down if you don't want to.
You welcome to.
Anybody else wishing to make public comment at this time?
Okay, please come down.
Oh.
Hello.
Uh Steve Pichet, S T E V E P E A C A E.
I'm uh on item number 23.
It's a big uh apartment building that be built in the corner of Alta and Tonopa in the medical district.
And I just don't feel with a bunch of other neighbors, there's enough adequate parking for that high rise, seven stories tall with 154 parking spots.
I think and 154 units.
That's not even one parking spot per unit, and we're afraid they're gonna come into our residential neighborhood across the street and start parking in front of our houses, blocking mailboxes.
And are you gonna be putting parking meters into the residential neighborhood?
That's a question I have.
Is that a possibility?
So should I wait till the agenda comes up and talk to someone about that?
I don't know, but you don't have enough parking spots for sure.
And this is already in a medical district that's very crowded already.
Yeah.
And it's beautiful what they've done there with the streets and the Maryland uh parkway and the lights they've done there is nice stuff, but we're just worried about the overflow coming.
And you're gonna have uh businesses in there too.
Would there be a limit on selling alcohol?
Well, sir, just to let you know, the applicant has asked that this item be held for 30 days.
So this item is not going to be heard tonight.
It's on our agenda.
I understand that, but thank you.
We next item up would have been our housekeeping, so you could have gotten the list of of what's changing.
So you can also always talk to uh the gentleman charge of ward one too, I guess.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Anyone else for public comment comment under this item?
No.
Okay.
With that, I will um close public comment under item four, and we'll move on to item five, uh, which is uh for possible action to approve the final minutes for the planning commission meeting of December 9th, 2025.
May we have a motion to approve the minutes of the planning commission meeting of December 9th, 25.
Chair, I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes of the planning commission meeting of December 9th, 2025.
Thank you.
There is a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
And that motion carries, please post.
Okay.
Uh thank you.
So next is um moving on to our housekeeping items.
Are there any items the commissioners, staff, applicants, or members of the public would like to pull forward for action?
And I do have one, but we can let everybody else um go through their housekeeping items first.
All right, madam chair.
Uh staff has some housekeeping items for you.
Um is for the record.
Uh the applicant is requesting to hold item 12 to the February 10th planning commission meeting.
The applicant is requesting to withdraw without prejudice item 20.
The applicant is requesting to hold item 26 to the February 10th planning commission meeting.
Staff is requesting to hold item 34 to the February 10th planning commission meeting.
Staff is requesting to hold item 36 to the February 10th Planning Commission meeting.
And the applicant is requesting to hold item 23 to the February 10th Planning Commission meeting.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And I would like to have item 10 um brought forward for the public hearing items.
Okay.
Um, so with that, is there anybody who wishes to be heard on any of these items that we just listed.
Okay.
Hearing none, Vice Chair, can you please make a motion on these housekeeping items?
Chair, I'd like to make a motion to hold an abeyance to the February 10th planning commission meeting.
Item 12 to withdraw without prejudice.
Item 20 to hold an abeyance to the February 10th planning commission meeting for item 26 to hold an abeyance to the February 10th planning commission meeting for item 34 to hold an abeyance to the February 10th planning commission meeting for item 36, and to also hold an abeyance to the February 10th planning commission meeting for item 23.
And with that, Chair, I also would ask item 10 be brought forward a public hearing.
Thank you very much.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Please post.
And that motion carries.
Okay.
That's what's next.
Consent items are considered routine by the planning commission may be enacted by one motion.
However, any item may be discussed if a commission member or applicant so desires.
Chair, I'd like to make a motion to approve items seven and eight on the consent agenda.
Thank you.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Please post.
And that motion carries.
And Madam Chair, those items are final action unless appeal to the city clerk in seven days.
Thank you.
Okay, one motion, one vote.
The following are items that may be considered in one motion, one vote.
They are considered routine, non-public and public hearing items with a staff recommendation of approval.
All public hearings and non-public hearings will be opened at one time.
Any person representing an application or a member of the public or a member of the planning commission not in agreement with the conditions and all standard conditions for the application recommended by staff should have should request to have that item removed from this part of the agenda.
So number nine, 25-0471, SUP1, applicant warm massage LLC, owner Charleston Festival Retail LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for proposed massage establishment use with waivers of distance separation requirements from residentially zoned property, an individual care center license for more than 12 children, and a school where 400 feet is required at 6340 West Charleston Boulevard, suite number 130, ward one can.
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
Um and would request uh a motion on our one motion one vote item.
Chair, I'd like to make a motion to approve the items on one motion, one vote.
Thank you.
There's a motion on the floor for agenda item nine.
Yeah, there's a motion on the floor.
Please cast your votes.
Okay, please post.
And that motion carries.
And madam chair, that item will go on to city council on February 18th.
Okay, we are now going to move on to the public hearing portion of the agenda, starting with item number 10.
Um, I hope that the applicant is here.
25-0557, VAR1 applicant Ada Van Homes, Summit Homes of Nevada LLC owner Donald 8 LLC for possible action on land use entitlement project request to reduce the required 50% fee contribution for deferred improvements along Donald Road to 0% as outlined in approved tentative map 25-0027 TMP 1.
Condition of approval number 8 at the northeast corner of Donald Road and Leon Avenue, Ward 6 Bruni.
May I have the staff report, please?
Uh thank you, Madam Chair.
Uh condition of approval number eight from the approved subdivision tentative map required a variance if there was any change to the amount of contribution made by the developer for street improvements.
Since the approval of the tentative map, it has been determined that Donald Road will be constructed to rural standards, and the developer will make contributions based on those standards.
While this would typically be an administrative review and approval per the conditions of approval of the approved tenant of map, a variance has been submitted, which staff supports.
Please note there's been additional documentation of protest after publication.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, sir.
Uh if you could please state your name and spell it for the record, give us your address and tell us about this item.
Yeah.
My name is Jeff Thompson.
Um CC 30 South Jones Boulevard.
Thompson is T H O M S O N on behalf of the clients here representing this item.
So this project was originally entitled on the ALOC COLIS AC.
And we had originally planned to come in and install full off-sites, full hatchery improvements.
Curb got our sidewalk on Leon as well as Donald.
And in going through our review process with staff, um, it was informed to us that the neighbors and staff would like it to be Donald to be rural to keep that rural preservation in that rural area.
So they won't ask us to remove our request to put in full off-sites, curve rudder and sidewalk, and leave it rural.
And not only to just leave the asphalt and now occur, but they asked us to then use the rural standard in the city of Las Vegas, which is to then install a six-foot-wide valley gutter at the edge of the pavement, um, and then DG after that all the way to the right-of-way.
So, because of all this, um, and uh the client within good intent was going to put to both the off sites.
Now we had to build this rural standard as well as do a contribution fee to something that should be remained rural for um a good while from there and out.
So in the original NOFA, it was discussed that this could be come back as a variance to remove this portion due to all of that that has transpired.
And so that's why we're here today.
It is to just we're still gonna pay for the deferrals of the street lights, and there's no want street lights on Leon.
So though those are still being paid for Leon.
Um, but for Donald, because we do not rural standard of the six post valley gutter, and we were gonna put full off sites.
We're asking to remove that deferral fee completely because again, on good intent, we wanted to put it there, and now we're doing this other standard.
Um that should take up our lifetime as well.
Okay, thank you very much.
Um item has been noticed for public hearing.
Is there anyone wishing to be heard on item number 10?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will turn it over back to the commission starting uh for any questions starting with me.
Um, because I do have a question I um and then we'll pass it to the other commissioners, and I may need some follow-up from public works.
Um maybe this is a question for public works.
So for both of you guys, explain to me about the street lights.
So I understand the valley gutters, I understand that that's why you're asking for the deferral fee to be removed.
And you did say you were gonna pay for the street lights on Donald Leon.
On Leon as well as our Cold Sach Street as well.
Okay.
But then wouldn't you normally so then okay?
So then this is a question for public works.
Wouldn't they normally have to also pay a deferral fee for street lights on Donald?
Uh they are not being required to because they are built to the rural standard.
And the rural standard is not streetlights.
Okay.
And so what happens if at some point there is a requirement by the city or a need by the city for street lights to go in on Donald?
They have signed a covenant running with the land which will have the neighborhood install the improvements, the street lights.
So there it was built to rural standards, then if there is a subsequent need to put those street lights in, the homeowners who are purchasing these properties are the ones that are going to bear the burden of paying for that infrastructure.
I am not sure if it's the homeowners or the homeowners or if it's the original builder.
Well, the HOA is the homeowners at the end of the day.
So okay.
All right.
Um else have any questions?
Trinity.
Oh, sorry, uh, Commissioner Salvi.
Thank you, madam chair, through you.
This is exactly the problem I had as the planning commission for that area for five years, too.
We're not gonna put that burden back on the homeowners and get hit with a sit or a lid.
So there was always a contribution that was given in consideration in lieu of so that way if the offsites were required, whether it be street lights, curbs, gutters, whatever, and we hope that doesn't happen in that area.
That's why we live in one six and we love it.
Uh, but should it happen, we don't want to then put it back on those homeowners.
And that's for the reason why I can't support this agenda item that way.
Uh everybody has to contribute.
It's been that way forever and a day, even prior to the current councilwoman, the previous one and the one before that.
We've always made sure that the burdens weren't put back on the homeowners that walked into something and realized now all of a sudden he's requiring something, and then it's on the backs of them.
There was always a contribution done by the developer to make sure that that money was in place.
So if something happened, then it was covered.
We just don't want to get anybody hit with any outside things.
So for that reason, unless it's changed or you agree to contribute to it, I couldn't support the item.
Commissioner Schlottman.
Yes, I I remember for years, I uh there was about a five-year stretch where every developer came in to the city of Las Vegas uh requesting to defer their uh their streets and sidewalks, and and we started seeing some of these areas where sidewalks were having to go in, and it was costing the city, and it got to become this thing to where every developer said, Oh, well, the neighbors don't want it, so we're not gonna do it.
And they used that as the reason to, you know, ask for the deferral and to get us to buy off on this.
And you know, uh, you could ask him for crowd, they brought a ton of these uh to us uh throughout the years, and uh every one of them I denied for years.
And I I said until we start getting until we get a text amendment that says that developers will start paying for the infrastructure on these new new developments, uh that way the developers not just using it as an excuse to not not put it in because the neighbors are saying that, and we're not putting that burden back on those homeowners.
I said I'll I'll never vote for one of these.
Finally, the city brought us a text amendment.
Um, and after that, uh started approving these.
So uh this is uh there's nothing different about this.
Um I'd hate to buy into a community only to find out here in 15 years, I get a 10, 15, 20,000 assessment.
And it could be a 30,000 dollar assessment in the future.
So uh I I gotta go back to my roots of where where this whole thing started, and uh I I can't support something with the deferral.
Anybody else?
Yeah, and that's that's part of the reason I brought this forward because I wanted to have a discussion on this.
So um can we install the full off-site improvements instead so that this isn't an issue?
I'm I'm sorry, can you say that again?
Can we install full off-site improvements?
So let me ask you this.
Do you want to have a vote on this tonight, or do you want to hold this for 30 days and we can discuss it further?
This goes to city council, correct?
If it's denied, you would have the ability to oh it's final action.
Okay, directly.
If it's final action, then let's I guess I don't have a choice.
Let's let's hold it 30 days and let's have those conversations because again the the from the client's point of view and from anyone who's trying to spend money is now we have to build the rural sites, which is more money.
It's not like we're doing nothing, and then pay a fee that's more than having maybe just be builded.
So um and that gives me opportunity to go talk to the client to see if they're just want to pay the deferral fee at that point, or if they want to do build it, and then we can have that conversation maybe at in 30 days, or hopefully we'll let's hold it for 30 days.
Let's maybe have you know reach out to to me and let's talk about it a little bit more, and um, and then we'll we'll be back here in February and hopefully we'll have something resolved.
Okay, chairwoman.
I would I would also encourage them to um speak with uh pull public works into that conversation just to find out what we can do because you know if it's putting in sidewalk or uh putting in some of those improvements, maybe there's still a trail or something, or some of the uh some of that that happens behind that sidewalk, but I don't think we can yeah, that we'll be able to determine that at this meeting.
So I think holding it in advance for 30 days and working with you and public works at the same time would be good.
And it looks like public works wants to add uh a comment.
To be fair to the applicant, he has met with public works a couple times, and we were okay with the condition at first, but I see yes, the homeowners would have to pay for the covenant.
So okay.
Um do me a favor next time talk into the microphone a little bit more because I'm just having a hard time hearing you.
That's what happens when you stand in front of speakers' DACs in your 20s.
Don't do it.
Um yeah, so we just go ahead and work with public works and we'll you've got my number so we can we can have some more conversations about this.
So I'm gonna make a motion at this time to hold this item for 30 days to the next to the February 10th.
February 10th meeting.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast, please post, and that motion carries and thank you very much.
And we'll chat.
Sounds good.
Okay, thanks.
Okay.
Um item number 11, abeyance 25-0096.
Actually, sorry, I'm gonna take one more thing out of order, Mr.
Grohnauer.
I apologize.
Sorry.
But you're all locked and loaded now.
Okay.
Um, I want to call up number 17.
If the home if the applicant is here, it's 25-0502 V A R 1 applicant owner Sheree Tonkin for possible action on a land use entitlement project requests to allow an existing side yard fence, existing rear yard fence, and existing residential accessory structure shed that do not conform to Title 19.06 development standards for heightened setbacks at 5881 Wild Horse Ledge Avenue, Ward 6 Broomy Bruni.
Staff recommends denial.
Can I have the staff report, please?
Madam Chair, this is Josh Nolan with the Department of Community Development for the record.
The requested variances are the result of a code enforcement case for unpermitted structures on the property.
The case remains open pending the results of this variance application.
The applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by constructing the fences and shed without permits, and they do not meet heightened setback requirements under Title 19.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of the requested variance subject to conditions if approved.
Please note additional documents of protest have been received since publication.
Thank you.
Um good evening, ma'am.
I um sorry I did not get a chance to reach out to you in advance of this.
Um I you can put something on the record if you would like to, but my inclination is I want to come and see this, I want to come and see this improvement before we do the full hearing on it.
So I would like to make a motion to continue this to the February hearing.
Would that be okay with you, or would you rather have it presented tonight and have us take a vote on it?
No, that's fine.
Okay.
Yeah, we can move it to February.
Okay, so do me a favor and just give the clerk your contact info, and then you and I can touch base and I'll come out and see the project, and then we'll go from there.
Okay, okay.
Let the homeowner know.
All right, great.
Thank you.
That's why I wanted to call you up first.
Okay, so um, all right.
So with that.
Oh, I'm sorry, uh the clerk would like your name for the record.
Oh, sorry about that.
Jessica Lane with Proficient Patios representing the homeowner, Ms.
Tonkin.
Okay, great.
Thanks, Ms.
Link.
Um, all right.
So I'd like to make a motion to um a bay item 25-0502 VAR one to the February 10th uh planning commission meeting.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Please pose.
Almost Commissioner Lebau.
Oh, okay, please post.
And that carries.
Okay.
Now, item number 11.
Um, abeyance 25-0096.
Applicant owner Searles Osland LLC for possible action of the following land use entitlement project requests at the northeast corner of Searles Avenue and 23rd Street Ward 3 Diaz.
Staff recommends denial on the land use entitlement project 11A abeyance 25-0096 VAR1 to allow a 10-foot rear yard setback where 20 feet is required.
11B, abeyance 25-0096 SDR 1 for proposed one-story 50-unit residential tiny house park with a waiver of perimeter landscape buffer requirements.
May I have the staff report, please?
Uh thank you, Madam Chair.
Uh staff finds that the proposed tiny home park does not support the goals of the master plan for the urban course focus on density and vertical construction.
The applicant is proposing to underdevelop the subject site with prefabricated structures that do not meet Title 19 setback requirements.
In addition, the applicant is also requesting an exception to plant fewer trees and thus contributing to the urban heat island effect.
Thank you very much.
Uh good evening, sir.
If you can please state and spell your name for the record, um, give us your address and tell us about this project.
Good evening, Madam Chair, Commissioners.
My name's Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.
To my left is Gary Gum.
He is the uh proposed developer here for the property.
Uh Gary is a small uh Las Vegas business owner here who's been in real estate development for about 25 years.
And what he's looking to do is something unique on this piece of property.
Um, what I'd like to do is just give you a little bit of background, first of all, the reason why we are here, and then I'd like to talk about the area and then get into probably the main discussion is the elevations that we're proposing on the uh boxable product.
Um first and foremost, um, if you're familiar with this piece of property where it's located, this is an infill piece of property on the Las Vegas East side.
And matter of fact, with the master pl uh master plan of 2050, it talks about this area as a Las Vegas East District as far as development.
One of the things to know about this area in the East Eastern District in Las Vegas, it's under um under uh invested with respect to infrastructure and other investments in this in this area.
One of the things that Gary's here looking to do is to uh come in with a development that's unique that is going to be a big infusion of investment in this area of approximately six million dollars for uh the development that is uh before you today.
Um and also I'm sure you're aware of the background of some of the issues with housing that we have here in southern Nevada and also in the state of Nevada.
Um that issue has been discussed uh many times from the governor's office all the way down to the local level of trying to find attainable housing, trying to find housing that is uh sufficient for the underutilized of housing that we have here in southern Nevada.
When you take a look and you see the news here locally, and then you see the uh studies that are done nationally throughout the United States.
Unfortunately, Southern Nevada Nevada ranks at the bottom as far as affordability for housing.
Um as I mentioned, as I believe with this unique product here, that this helps take a bite into the issue that we all have been discussing for many years with respect to the housing crisis.
So that being said, I'd like to let you focus on this area a little bit more.
Uh, this is about two uh two and a quarter acres of property.
Uh this is 23rd Street, this is Searless Street, and this is Eastern Avenue in this area.
You do have some commercial uses that are located here.
The property is zoned currently for multifamily.
You have some multifamily and commercial uh zoning districts in this area to the north of us, and you have existing multifamily over here to the west, and we have some single family here to the south of us.
Uh one of the things that I want to do, because I think it's gonna be important when we get into the elevations of the uh proposed development here, is give you an idea of the location of what's existing in this area.
So when you take a look at our property, and I want to show you just to the south of us is when you're looking at the property located in this area here, just to the south, these are the location of the homes that I'm showing you currently, what you see to the south of us in the area.
When you take a look in this area here, and these are going to be focused in this area, what we will be across the street, you'll see these are some of the apartment buildings that are existing today.
I believe these have been built somewhere in the 70s, and you can see some of the elevations in this area again as I wanted to focus as we will have some discussions on that.
As you go further up along 23rd Street, and this is in this area here, you'll get a little bit of a better flavor.
This is the corner of our property with some of the existing uh elevations and development in this area.
Again, wanted to show you inside here so you could get a better look on both sides of the elevations of the existing buildings.
As you can see, we there are different elevation colors in here, along with again showing you the interior of the properties that are adjacent to us, or not adjacent but across the street to the west of us.
This next location is going to be further up on the street here.
This is another existing multifamily development.
As you can see in this area here, a little bit uh more updated with respect to the type of elevations that are being proposed or that are existing on the property.
As you look further north of our property, although you won't see it on the map here, but there is an existing multifamily building.
Uh, this is what faces out on Cyrils in the area here.
As you can see, there's outside steps for this apartment complex.
It's a two-story building.
And then when you're looking directly to the north of the property here, this is the side elevation of the existing uh multifamily building.
Then when you take a look over here to the east, adjacent to us are some of the commercial uses.
Um, as I said, is you see the auto zone, there's another auto repair shop in this area, and that's all along eastern that uh separates us from uh eastern um avenue.
And when you take a look at the property again standing here on cereals, this is looking at north.
You can see to the left is the west, uh, east is on your right hand side.
This gives you a picture of what you see standing on the street in this area today.
And what I think is important is as we go through this proposed development, you can see that this is an area that needs some love, some TLC with respect to getting a development to approve it to be approved in this area.
Um, and another reason I want to put on record over the last five years, and if you look in your staff report, what you'll notice is there's been a number of code enforcement issues here.
Uh, what that means is there's been a lot of issues in this area.
There's a lot of homeless encampments that have happened on this property.
Uh, the neighbors in this area have gone to the media.
There's been discussions out there about trying to remove that.
Um, I know Gary's been working with your city uh department on those on these issues.
At times, you see you have the fence here, even though you have the fence are still able to cut through the fence and set up camps in this area.
So, hopefully, when you take a look at this property and what the projects what we're proposing, is better than what you see here today to remove that homeless encampments that actually come up on this property and allow us to make this type of investment that we're looking for.
Next, I want to focus on is just the site plan overall.
Um, the site plan here, again, down here is Searless, which is ingress and egress in this area here.
We have 50, what we'll call casita slash uh uh homes that are being proposed in this area, and as a matter of fact, these are homes that are tiny homes that are manufactured by boxable.
Uh boxable is a manufacturer here in the city of North Las Vegas, uh local develop uh local manufacturer where this type of product is being proposed to be built here.
So, as you can see, in between the green space, you would have 50 individual units that are located on the property here.
These 50 units come out to density about 22.22 units to the acre, which falls well within the R3 zoning on the property that's being proposed.
The next thing I'd like to do is because I know there will be some discussion on the boxable model.
And I handed this out to you because I think it's easy as you go through it, you'd have an understanding of the where we've started and where we're at tonight.
But before I go to the exterior, what I like to do is give you a look on the inside of a mock-up of what one of these things actually looks like on the inside, so you get a better feel of how this is gonna lay out.
It's in the square footage is about a little less than 400 square feet, but this will give you an overall view of the interior of the property here.
All these are going to be studio apartments.
As you can see, you have the studio apartment.
This is a typical design that you see throughout the valley.
I've lived in a studio apartment, and I recognize the floor layout that's uh that you see here.
Um you have some other pictures here, giving you a little bit of a closer look of the uh kitchen area here, and as I'm showing you here, this is the living room and showing you the bedroom and then the bathroom makeup of what would be proposed uh within one of these units.
So that gives you a pretty good idea of the interior of one of these units that we're proposing.
Now, what I have and what I've handed out to you are two different types of documents.
One is uh I'm going to go through fairly quickly the various generations of the uh type of elevations that we're proposing, and then I've also handed out to maybe make it a little bit easier.
Um, I think it's easier, maybe it isn't.
This is a list of the different proposed options that we put together through the various generations so you can understand that what we're looking to do is trying to make a better improvement than what you see here, which is the base model that you see that's before you.
Um so when you take a look when we first started before I got involved, I believe these were the this was the initial submittal in here for the boxable.
Um, as you can see, basically what you're putting in here was a little bit exterior painting, multicolored doors with some units.
Um obviously there's some concerns with the type of elevation that was being proposed here.
So then as I got involved, we kept what I'll call is we came in with version three.
Uh this elevation here, we can see is an added door and window accent trim in this area.
We put a succulent planter and unit number in here for the uh for the unit itself, and we put some modified wood accent panel in this area.
Um so we thought that this would be something that would definitely fit in this area uh with is already existing as I was showing you earlier.
Um, we moved on to another uh model, uh, an elevation, which is elevation number four, version number four.
Um, as you can see here at this time, what we did in listening, so getting some feedback, we added some shutters above the door, uh the excuse me, the metal awning, and then we have shutters here uh by the windows in this area, and we did some upgraded lighting on the building.
Um, then we proceeded to go through version number five, which is a little bit more upscale than what you've seen, obviously from the first version or version number two, is we did an extended roof line in the area here in lieu of the metal awning that we initially had.
Um, and by the way, although you see the white color exterior, we could change the color of these buildings, whatever that is, to suit the area to be more compatible and harmonious.
Version six is now more of that modern color scheme.
Uh personally, I think this is a big difference, uh significant difference from where we were from the initial version of the boxable to where we are here.
What you see with the modern color scheme is modern wood panels that are actually underneath in this area in the in the roof line, and along with some wood accent panels located over here.
We put the different colors on the doors.
We we can now also add the uh numbering to the uh units that you see approved that that we're proposing.
And then finally, the version number seven elevation.
What we've added here is this floating wall, um, as far as an idea with respect to everything else that we're proposing, along with the uh awning, uh excuse me, the roof line that comes out.
So we have different versions of that floating wall that's located there.
So what I'm gonna show you here, which you have is on the last page.
We believe we've made some significant strides from where we initially started with the initial boxable that you see there to a version of what you can see located here on the right of the area here.
And we believe, respectfully, we do believe that the changes that we've made to this boxable is definitely more than compatible and harmonious in this area.
Um we believe that this is gonna be a significant investment.
Um but not only a significant investment, this is gonna clean up an area also that there are problems in this area.
And uh we're here respectfully to listen to your questions and your comments with what we're proposing.
And um, there is, you know, we we love to hear your personal feedback, and that's why I kind of joke around a little bit when I was putting this together.
But I do appreciate you allowing us to hold this several times.
Um it's not easy to hold, but I did want you to understand that over the last several times we're holding, we're trying to figure out a formula to make something work here.
Um and if not, uh, like I said, we'll we'll figure something else out from here.
But uh, in all due respect, I wanted to bring this to you.
Gary's here to answer any questions.
He's put a lot of time into this.
He's a family small family business owner looking to do good here, and this is a significant investment and a risk to take in this area, but uh he's willing to do it, and we're here to answer any questions that you may have tonight.
Uh thank you very much, Mr.
Grownauer.
Um, before I open up for public hearing, just wanted to quickly make a disclosure that I do own shares of boxable.
I do not own anything like a majority of shares of boxable, but just wanted to make sure to disclose that for the record.
Um so if uh this item has been noticed for public hearing, are there any members of the public wishing to be heard on this?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will turn it back over to the commission, uh, starting with Commissioner Schwatman.
Yes, thank you, Chair.
Through you, uh I just I I have quite a few comments here, and I want to start off by saying I appreciate the applicant coming to my office from the very beginning and and his son sitting out in the audience, and then when Bob was brought on and and working with me, trying trying the best to get get this project as close to uh an improvable state as we possibly could.
Um so and and we've made some big strides and changes from from the beginning.
Um but you know, I I do want to say, I mean, we we Mr.
Grownhower, you you showed pictures of the community on all four sides of us.
Um I could show you pictures of the arts district 15 years ago on every side of the bar that I first opened down there and how dilapidated it was.
I could show you how dilapidated um a lot of the places down in um the founders district, and once you get down to Maryland Parkway and like uh Lewis and Bonneville, and I could also show you pictures of what uh KLA and Cameron Fulad uh did to those uh properties where they put millions into them and made them look look like fabulous looking buildings, and they were old and dilapidated like this.
I also want to point out that um city council received a um a presentation from applied analysis a few months ago, and we have a total of three to five years of land left in the city of Las Vegas, buildable land.
Now that could be extended a bit if we still uh continue through this slowdown.
Um maybe that's five to eight years.
Call it 10 years.
Ten years is nothing for this city, and we we have to demand the best of our our products, and we just can't look at old dilapidated departments across the street and say, well, we're building better than them.
We need to build the best that we can, and we need to push the envelope, and we need to make sure that we're doing the best for for our ward.
So uh our ward's been neglected quite a bit in this area.
I approved a apartment complex uh over a year ago, and it went to city council and Olivia didn't like it.
It they were asked to come back to me and and to work with them.
They spent over a year uh working with us to get this project up to a point to where it could be approved.
So that's why I wanted to work with you all a little bit more on this project, and um, and just to know that we we we want to have nice stuff here too.
I know that the the applicant said that he could potentially put more money up and it if it was in ward two.
Well, I'm I'm in ward three.
I I'd like to see more money put into our ward as well, and not just keep getting the same old all thing.
And this is when we had a plain white box at the very beginning.
Saying all that, we've we've made some some big improvements here.
Um, and we we we've put in these shutters and you know, extended the roof line.
I think that was councilwoman's idea to uh that she wanted maybe an overhang, and then the applicants went back and they they found a way to do that.
I I think we're on the right path.
One of the things that, and I'm not gonna say that anybody was deceitful in the way that this was presented to us, but every one of these, and I just got to thinking about this yesterday was every one of these render-ins are presented from the front corner, and it's the same exact elevation.
I I'm pretty sure sure these have the barred air conditioning units that mount to the side of the building, and it would have been good to be able to see a rendering or an elevation that showed that air conditioning unit to see what that looked like as well.
Okay.
I I think that uh some of the things that I was trying to explain as we were going through the design was you know, what could we do to the design to make this pop a little bit better?
I I don't want to see a project that comes in that is almost there, and then in three to five years, the paint, the paint starts to fade, and then you know, the the wood uh starts to deteriorate and uh things of of that nature.
And I'm not saying there's wood, I'm just saying that basically I I see these projects now and then where they come through and then five years later, they they don't look as good.
So I want to make sure that that's not happening.
And then plus I think elevations like being able to comp see the elevations from all sides versus just uh just these uh renderings uh would have been would have been uh really helpful.
I the the landscaping looks great if we're actually doing this landscaping.
I'm not sure if we're doing this landscaping.
I think it was offered to us to do landscaping, but I'm looking at the landscape plan, and we only have two shrubs in the front of each of these units.
So landscape plan was never updated with the intent intentions of what you have and uh your renderings, which you know, the the landscaping looks good around here.
But also what we're looking at this elevation in these rendering, and Mr.
Groenhauer, they're they're 20 feet off of the rendering starts 20 feet off of the the front of that building.
But to give a real good accurate depiction of what's really going on, it looks like the asphalt goes all the way up to about three feet off the front of this building.
So I don't know how we get the how we get the uh the these really nice porches with the steps and then all the additional landscaping in front and things like that.
So I would like to see it tightened up.
I'd I'd like to see it move forward to city council.
I'd like to I I I would like I would make the recommendation that we figure out what we're doing with the landscape plan.
We get that onto the landscape plan so city council can see that, give us uh get elevations before you get to city council so they can understand what that looks like on all four sides.
If you do have that air conditioning unit that's on the side of the building, like show that, and maybe you can have a picture or something that shows what that looks like.
And what I I kept trying to explain without telling you what to do, because I don't want to design your project for you, uh, because I want you to have all the freedom to do do as you please.
One of the things I was thinking was if you took just some sort of perforated metal uh eighth inch steel or whatever it is, and you know, and and come out a couple of feet across the the the air conditioned unit and then back in and bolted that on to the outside.
So therefore it still fits with your boxable.
It doesn't necessarily it doesn't necessarily have to be an expansion of your boxable or your interior square footage, it could be just an architectural piece that's planted on the outside, and and maybe that's just a thousand bucks.
Uh I don't know what it what what it would be.
Um, but I wouldn't think that it would be that expensive.
But that way we're not looking at just that air conditioning unit hanging off the side of the the building, because that would kind of make it more look like a walk-in freezer or like a construction office or something.
So a little bit of screening uh there.
Um I think the front looks good.
Um I like that wood that uh pillar that you have going up to the roof.
I like the wood on the ceiling of the the uh overhang.
Um you know I hope you can uh take these things, update that landscape plan, get us elevation and all those items and before it gets to city council.
I I think you're close.
Um I I just don't think we have the whole plan put together just yet to make me feel comfortable enough.
Okay, yeah.
No, and I appreciate that.
Uh councilman.
Uh the floating wall that we kind of see hanging down there.
That is, as we discussed, it's also a practical item, you know, provide some privacy back there.
There's room to put a couple chairs back there, have a cup of coffee, or they can put their scooter and lock it up.
Um, and so uh we wanted that depth and dimension, and we wanted the pop, but also we you know, if we're gonna build it and attach it to the building, let's make it make sense, make it work for the for the resident there.
These are four rent units, these are meant to be affordable housing.
Um the base the base rent for these units is a thousand dollars a month, that's all your utilities, and that's furnished.
So that's the objective of this plan is to bring these online and be affordable so that people can you know have a nice place to live, and then these are Casita style, they are standalone units, nobody upstairs, downstairs, or connected beside you.
Um so this is such a unique and innovative um type of development for affordable housing.
We just want to help solve that issue, and I think that you know uh we can do that, you know, with your help for sure.
Thank you.
Uh anybody else, Commissioner Lebanon?
Thank you.
Um so I have a couple of concerns um that I just wanted to discuss with you each.
Um, one of them is I'm curious, all of these renderings, you have all of these units um approximately two stairs up.
Um, so you have two steps into the unit.
Is there an option to have those that are ADA accessible on the ground level, or is that required by that type of construction?
Well, there is no, it's not required uh for this type of construction.
These will not be uh these will all be base grade, so the sidewalk will go flow right to the threshold, there won't be steps on any of these.
Of course, we're required you know to have a percentage of the property, but we're doing the entire property so that we don't have steps going into the units.
Uh these will attach directly to a foundation, the boxable unit attaches directly to a foundation.
Um it does none of the plumbing runs underneath the unit like you would see in in a mobile home type property.
So that's what's unique and innovative about boxable.
Um, and so yeah, we hopefully it answered your question.
Uh yes, thank you.
So the other the other comment that I have is kind of in regards to the boxable itself.
I think a lot of times um, you know, developers can get kind of get tied to these innovative um, you know, new materials that are coming out, um, this prefabricated construction, and it isn't always necessarily the best way to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish.
So, one of the things I think that's limiting possibly limiting you on the design aspect of this is that all of the windows are kind of you know vertically situated, there's not a lot of variation in what can be done on that facade.
And so I think maybe taking another look at what you're using for that construction, um, is that really going to hold up in our climate here?
I believe I believe boxable is a SIPS panel construction, so structurally insulated panels.
Correct.
Um, and typically you would have another type of material that gets applied to the outside of that.
And so I don't know whether that's you're planning to use like a stucco on that or a vinyl siding.
Um, but you know, looking at at all the other properties in that area, having something that is easily cleanable, if something gets dented or a hole gets put through it, you're really gonna want to have something that can hold up for you know 50 years to that type of abuse.
So I just I I don't want it to look like all the other properties that are in that area.
I want to make sure that it is, you know, it's going to hold up over time.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Yeah, these units are actually built um to exceed the code, and um they're insul, you know, very high insulation value.
Um, and then because of their that sandwich, that metal with the insulation sandwich between another piece of metal, um, that exterior, which you can paint it, you can add other pieces and foot, you know, designer pieces to it, like we've shown in some of these pictures.
Um, you know, but uh but you don't have to, you know, they're already painted, um, and they're already uh they come from the factory that way, and it's like a gloss almost uh type of thing, so which makes cleanup of them much easier than say a stucco or something brick or something like that, where if somebody was to graffiti them or do something like that.
Um so we liked the materials, it's high quality material, um, and so uh we would uh be happy to paint it, but we want to be careful about how much we kind of glue onto the side of it, you know what I mean.
We don't want to take away from uh you know that durability because it it is a big factor, and the and these are extremely durable commissioner Rogan.
Thank you.
Um I I just want to say when when this first came on, I was absolutely against this, and I think that with meeting with Commissioner Schlottman and through your through your lobbyist here, you've come a long way, and I think that it's it shows, and I I really do appreciate all the efforts that you have.
Um in terms of suggestions.
Um in terms of suggestions, I I think that we're all just kind of stuck on what is this product and what is the durability, because even if we say now as we're reviewing this SDR that hey, this is not in sightly, it's harmonious and compatible, the concern really is what is this gonna look like in five years?
And and part of that is we're not as familiar with this product, but part of it is too is you're you're telling us it's gonna be affordable, you're telling us it's gonna be a rented product.
Well well, what if this product turns out not to be durable?
What is your plan to make sure that this doesn't contribute to growing blight in that area, which is you as you pointed out is very blighted, and and your intent is to bring it up a bit.
But if it doesn't turn out that this product is not what you're you're saying, and and not saying that you're you're not being honest with us, but it just is not.
What what is your plan?
Yeah, so um these units are uh manufactured here in a facility here in North Las Vegas.
Um and you can go take a tour basically any day of the week and go tour it.
It's pretty unique and pretty interesting to see.
These are built with high quality materials.
These are uh, like I said, basically uh metal exteriors that are painted, um, highly durable and beyond you know, most stick and stucco as far as durability goes, this is no question about it.
There is virtually no wood in these units.
Um so this exterior, none of this is wood, none of this is something that would warp or get insect infestation.
The one of the reasons we want to use these modified type uh pieces and these metal pieces on the exterior is to get away from warping and and like you said, uh the paint peeling after a few years, or you know, I mean they're all the same problems that we have with any other building here in Las Vegas, and and we own and manage other apartment communities here in Las Vegas, so we're very familiar with it.
But one of the great things about these units is they are so durable, and so that helps us from a management standpoint to keep costs down, um, and which allows us to be make it more affordable for the for the residents who will reside there.
So uh it's set certainly something that we thought about and when we went and did the tour at the manufacturing facility, we're very impressed with the the type of product that they use here, and I feel very confident that this product will look in five years or ten years or 15 years better than a stick and stucco building.
Absolutely, and I can say that because we've owned and managed these properties.
Our background is rehab and repositioning older communities that are typically stick and stucco.
And so, you know, we're excited about this type of product for the future and the durability factor, especially, you know, on and depending on where you want to put these things, you know, like you it's a good point where you're bringing up, and I understand that because you know we run properties downtown, attorney to knows, and so you know it's it's something that you know we've thought about for sure, and that's why we're not using any kind of wood materials on the exterior that will warp, get infect uh infested by bugs or anything like that.
Chair, can I just have a couple follow-ups?
Sorry.
Thank you.
Um and I appreciate that.
And I I'm just concerned because you know the the base model, which is not what you're proposing, it's just reminiscent of temporary structures.
And I'm thinking of you know the students in overcrowded schools where they come in and and they're stuck in these portable classrooms for years.
And I just don't think that that that meets the quality of um of what we're looking for even in in this area, as is as you pointed out is is very blighted.
So that that's my concern that it doesn't meet the standards for our SDR because it's not the even though the the models that you're proposing are are great, that it's just not the type of development that we want for that area.
Um for suggestions if as you move on to city council, um if you're considering moving on with this, I would I would say take a look at your site plan like others have commented tonight.
I I think that your your project kind of reminds me, and I told your Mr.
Gronauer about this, of the cottage courts where you you can have these smaller homes that are together um and they're surrounded by more landscaping.
Um and uh the way that you structured your your plan to I think to maximize the number of boxables on there is you have it surrounded by parking.
Um and maybe if you could consider a different model where you are putting multiple units together when there's more of that that landscaping that Commissioner Schlottman was talking about and separate separating the parking from being right in front of the boxable units, that that might be something that's more compatible with the neighborhood, and it might be something that's more approachable.
So I think with with those two comments, I I I'm almost there, but I'm I'm not quite there in support of your project tonight.
And again, it just comes down to the hesitation and the the reminiscence that I have that these are are more of a manufactured temporary product, and I'm concerned over the durability of these products over the number of years that even if they're not unsightly tonight, uh you know, when they're built, that they're gonna be in sightly in just a few years.
Those are my comments.
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Um, couple things from me.
Um I think the concept is really interesting, and I do appreciate the movement towards more architectural detail on the elevations.
I'm concerned though, echoing Commissioner Schlottman that the the renderings are really not accurate.
So they look, I I told Mr.
Gronauer that they kind of look like some of the casitos that are out at the built more in Scottsdale, you know, you have the main hotel, and then you have these really pretty sort of casitas out there.
Um but when I look at this, I don't know then echoing Commissioner Rogan how close you really are to the um parking lot.
And for me, a concern is always going to be parking lot cover and doing everything we can to mitigate urban heat island impact, especially in this downtown core.
Um, and so if you have you uh the the latest that I saw had no parking lot trees, the staff report has no parking lot trees, and I I just for something like this, if you're trying to anchor this as the starting point of revitalizing this area and trying to make it look nicer and be a better part of Ward 3 in downtown, then let's do that and let's not just continue to exacerbate the existing heat islands that are down there.
So I I if you know, I mean it would be something that I would want to see uh a condition that you would in fact install um parking area trees so that that would you know help with um help with urban heat island impact, provide you know, sort of it look would look more like a perimeter of trees around the the development itself.
Um, and that would be a key condition that I would want to see on this is that that those trees be installed.
Um the other question I have is you said that it was gonna be a thousand dollars a month with utilities and furnished.
Correct.
Is that always what it was gonna be before you started adding the additional elements to the exterior?
That's correct.
Okay, and so it's still so if we said version seven, the elevations with the floating walls and add in what Commissioner Schlottman said about screening the air conditioners, are they still gonna be a thousand dollars a month?
Well, that's adding about 10% cost to do these improvements to the property.
Um, and you know, basically this is a decision, you know, for the partners on the deal.
You know, I'm I'm not the only one that we have partners on the deal.
Um, but you know, our goal is to keep it as affordable as possible for this neighborhood.
Um, you know, uh and a thousand dollars a month is actually undermarket rent for this location.
So, you know, we're we're really kind of achieving that at best.
If we have to bump rents a hundred dollars, which would be ten percent and ten percent on the project, um, we're still undermarket.
You know, we have a studio and one bedroom commute community not far from here, and we're renting our uh one bedrooms for one thousand one hundred and fifty, and we get people every day looking for those units furnished with all the utilities, it makes sense for people.
Um, you know, so um so yeah, uh if we you know add on expensive items, it's going to affect that rent slightly.
Um, but we're still gonna be maintaining undermarket rents, and and so I'm I'm good.
I'm happy about that.
Um I will also note and add these have front doors as well as backdoors.
So this is something that's really unique and interesting about these units.
They have a front door and a back door.
The residents that live there will have a little back area backyard, so to speak, behind, and if you look at the site plan, you'll see that a lot of the units have a large back area behind the unit.
Um, so if they have pets, which we will be pet friendly at this property, uh, like I said, bicycles or scooters or anything like that, they have some private space behind the unit, you know.
So um, you know, I I really like that.
I like that much better than some of these high density five, six story buildings that are interior hallways that have no patios whatsoever.
You have a neighbor below you, above you, beside you on each side, and behind you on a lot of them.
You may have five people that you share walls with in a studio one bedroom on some of these high-rise developments or mid-rise developments.
We don't have that with this.
This is really unique and innovative about this project.
Um, yes, they're smaller, that's why they're called tiny homes, but that's what allows us also to put a decent amount of units on this and on this piece.
This is 2.25 acres, and our goal is to do this project and make it look super nice because we're not doing this one time.
We want to do multiple projects like this.
Our goal is to have close to a thousand of these units for affordable housing in the Las Vegas Valley.
Okay.
Um since you mentioned the front door and the back door, the other question I had was about security.
And are you going to have any fencing around this?
Are you going to have any type of perimeter security so that people could feel safe going out in their little back area along either of the streets?
Are you going to have on-site security?
What's the plan to make sure that your residents are safe and secure?
The community will be completely walled around.
Well, yeah, so it'll be completely walled around, and then we'll also have you know, of course, you know, the common area lighting, but on top of the common area lighting, we'll also have camera systems, which they'll be able to download an app on their phone, and they'll be able to look at the cameras, uh, any number of the different cameras on site at wherever they're at, whether they be at home or whether at work or whether you know they're on a trip somewhere visiting friends or family.
So it's kind of unique and innovative the way we're doing that.
On-site security is extremely expensive, but we will have an on-site uh uh um team member there that lives on property.
Um so that is always helpful because you know they they have a pride of ownership, they want to live somewhere that's safe, you know, and that's what we want to provide.
Okay, and then my last question for you is are there any local government level or state government level restrictions on even being able to put this type of prefab building on the ground?
You know, like are you do you have any restrictions from the city, the county, or the state on being able to put these prefab items into onto this land?
That's a good question.
And they have been approved for the in the state of Nevada, the boxable units, um, and they have been, you know, I don't know how the exact count, but they have installed several of them here in the Vegas Valley.
Um they've done other projects.
Uh they're approved in California, Arizona, New Mexico, uh, Oklahoma.
Um, Christian Charities did a nice size uh community there with these.
They stacked them on top of each other there in Oklahoma.
Uh well, you're probably familiar a little bit with some of the things I'm talking about.
So um, so yeah, you know, these boxables have been, you know, getting slowly getting their state-by-state approval process.
Okay, but in Nevada they are approved.
If you have no restrictions, you can just go put a boxable down.
That's my understanding.
I mean, obviously, we got a pull per we got to get approvals and permits and everything like that.
Yeah, if this goes through city council, just would want to make sure that that was very clear to our council members as to what if any restrictions might exist?
Yep.
So thank you, Commissioner Pazine.
Oh, Chair, I was just gonna say um, I believe it was Senate Bill 150 in the 2021 legislature where the state of Nevada mandated um every local municipality has to designate an area to allow tiny homes.
Okay.
And was it for tiny homes generally or tiny?
Did that encompass all type of tiny homes, including prefab?
Uh it's pretty lengthy, but it is um tiny homes and prefab is included.
Okay, great.
All right, anybody else?
Just a quick question.
Do these manufactured homes come with a warranty?
And if so, because uh to my fellow commissioners with the concerns of of deterioration over time fading or whatever the case may be.
Does and if it does come with a warranty, does that warranty cover uh the out basically outdoor elements, maybe thrashing it in some way, shape, or form, sunbeat or whatever the case may be, just to give us a little bit of heads up.
Yeah, you say it's a durable product, hope to last five, ten years, but what is the manufacturer willing to give as far as a warranty on these modular homes?
Because I I don't know what the material is made of, but I'm sure any modular section that I've seen on the job site, because I had a job trailer or whatever, it warps, you know, the sun's miserable out here and it fades.
And I'm just wondering if if that warranty applies to this product to give some sense of easement uh to the uh commissioner as far as how long this product would actually substain the elements.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Yeah, these units um are built to exceed 50 years life expectancy.
Um, so they are built to last.
The uh warranties, there are warranties on all of the different components.
Um, one of the pictures that Bob put up, you noticed in the kitchen, those are all full-size appliances.
You know, anything and everything that's inside of there, as well as the air conditioning on the outside and the roof is all gonna be under a warranty.
You know, all of those will be of course from the manufacturer for the most part, boxable as far as the exterior goes and the upkeep of the you know, the paint fading and the UV and things like that.
Um they don't do the roof.
We have to contract with the roofing company to do that separately.
But as far as the panels on the exterior, I don't believe there's any extent of warranty for those.
It would be up to the you know, the the owner or the management company to keep those units up.
These are for rent, you know.
So we need to keep them up and keep them looking nice with the great curb appeal because we count on that to get rentals and keep it full.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Anybody else?
Okay, thanks, Commission, for robust discussion.
Commissioner Schlottman.
Yes, madam chair, through you.
Uh just to wrap up, I I want to say thanks again for working with me, and you you made a lot of progress from from the get-go.
Um, some of the shutters, some of the decorative glass that you have in there.
Um, you know, whenever I was first looking at this rendering number seven, I thought it was like I thought it was almost like storefront glass, it went up like seven feet and it was seven feet wide, and I thought that was a really cool thing until I looked closer and it wasn't, it was just the door in the window.
But you know, uh maybe food for thought uh of something you potentially could add.
So I I I think you're close.
I think you have a a lot of a lot of good things going here.
We definitely made a lot of progress, and and since September of this past year, uh I would like to.
I mean, if you do build another one of these, maybe I and I was just thinking as you were talking about doing another one.
Um, you know, maybe if they were built side by side where one was pushed back four feet, the next one was pulled forward, then you had two back and you know, six or eight unit buildings or something that would get rid of that that boxy looking uh you know, construction container or whatever, it would uh maybe give it a little bit more character, and maybe boxable has ability to raise some of these a little bit higher.
So you could get maybe a little bit of height and a little bit more dimension on it, and I think that would maybe make me feel a little bit more comfortable with some of the things that you're doing across the front.
But uh, you know, I I I want this to go to city council.
Uh don't want to hold it up any further.
Um I don't think I could support it because of some of the things we talked about, but I want to give you that list of recommendations.
You wrote down the list of recommendations.
Um, and I want those things to be heard.
That's why I I would I'm likely gonna recommend denial just because I want you to go back and address it sometimes when we give an approval uh with a list of recommendations, then all people hear is there's an approval.
So uh, you know, look at the look at the the air conditioner on the side, look at maybe uh if that needs to be screened, um, look at your landscaping, update that landscaping plan with what you're wanting to do.
Um, if you're really putting in more landscaping, uh, then show more than uh two plants in front.
I I know that we didn't spend a lot of time on landscaping, so therefore you didn't spend the money on updating your landscape plan.
But uh, I think all of those things are things that you could do right now before you get to city council.
I would update those.
I would get with the uh the council person from the ward, show her all the things that you've uh that you've done, and uh and then see if you can get her buy in.
Yeah, so one second and and um anyways, um this um anyway.
So uh saying all of these things, uh I think those are the things that you would need to do to be able to get get get approval at at City Council if you if you do make it to city council.
So um, anyways, for for those reasons.
Um Commissioner, can I just add one?
Oh, yes, and uh also parking lot trees.
Uh I'm not sure why we didn't put those in.
I do have a comment on that if you don't mind.
Um so uh for me that's an operational issue because I've owned and manage department communities here in Vegas, and we know the reflective heat from the asphalt.
It's just a matter of time with those trees are just problematic.
So what we did working with uh with Jonathan was said we'll put you know all of those trees plus extra in the common area around the the units, you know, where it provides some shade to the entry or shade to the building and things like that.
That was on that's on me.
I'm happy to put them back in.
I'm just going back on my operational experience of running these communities, knowing that those trees are just constantly trying to keep them from dying, you know.
And that's on that would be then operationally on you for management.
But we just passed, we just discussed tree planning, we just discussed urban forestry, and I just am not comfortable with something that just lays bare nothing but black asphalt.
So I I think that that's gonna be a really important again, piece of what happens downtown.
Commissioner Schlottman and I have had multiple conversations where projects have been like the anchor project, and I've said please make sure there's sufficient trees to mitigate heat island to provide walkability, all that stuff.
So all the new trees just went up and down Fremont, you know, those all look beautiful.
So I get it.
Yeah.
Thank you.
All right.
Um due to the testimony heard tonight and the comments made made this evening um on abeyance item 25-0096, 11a abandons 25-0096 VA1, and 11B abandons 25 Destroy 096 SDR1.
Move to approve.
Um I'm sorry, move move for tonight.
Dang it.
Um sorry to get your hopes up.
Move for denial um and and wish you luck uh with getting it a little bit closer.
Thank you, Commissioners, for all of your input and comments, and Commissioner Schlottman.
This is not the last time you're gonna see Gary and myself in your office.
Okay.
So by the time we get the city council, we'll see you probably once or twice more.
So you know how that can be for the applicant's benefit.
This item is final action tonight, unless the clerk and we'll go through the appeal process.
So we'll go ahead, but like I said, we'll see you.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
Okay, item number 13, 25 dash seven.
Okay, sorry about that.
All right, item 13, 25-0377 applicant epic development owner and at 215 LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests on a 4.77 acres located on the north side of Hammer Lane, approximately 360 feet east of Shomborough Road, Ward 4 Allen Palenski.
Staff recommends approval on the land use entitlement project 13A 25-037 GPA1 from PCD Plan Community Development and NMXU neighborhood mixed use center to SC Service Commercial 13B, 25-0377 Z O N1 from U undeveloped PCD Plan Community Development General Plan Designation to C1 Limited Commercial APN 12636101015, 13C 25-0377 B A R 1 to allow 18 parking spaces where 19 are required.
13 D 25-0377 SUP1 for a major amendment to an approved special use permit SUP 78539 for the proposed expansion of an existing mini storage facility use 13E 25-037 VAC1 petition to vacate US government patent easements and a portion of public right-of-way, Hammer Lane 13F 25-0377 SDR1 for a major amendment to an approved site development plan review SDR 78449 for proposed one-story 884 8,845 square foot building addition and covered RV boat parking spaces to an existing 650 unit 107,829 square foot mini storage facility with waivers of the perimeter landscape buffer requirements.
May we have the staff report, please.
Madam Chair, the applicant proposes expanding the existing mini storage facility onto the adjacent undeveloped parcel.
Staff finds the requested general plan amendment and rezoning appropriate and compatible with the existing development and surrounding land uses.
Staff also support the special use permit for mini storage and the associated petition to vacate patent easements at this site.
Due to the site's irregular shape and narrow east side, required parking and landscape buffers cannot be fully accommodated.
Therefore, staff support the variants allowing 18 parking stalls where 19 are required, and the landscape waivers staff recommends approval of all applications subject to conditions.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, sir.
If you could please state and spell your name for the record, give us your address and tell us about the project.
Jeff Thompson with Tenny Engineering 6030 South Jones Boulevard.
Um here with the client.
Yep.
Jason Thompson with Anne at 215 LLC, uh located at 327 East Warm Springs Road in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Um first, just give you a really short overview of what's going on here.
There is a mini storage on the corner of I 215 and Anne.
And that's located here adjacent to us is a uh multifamily project that was just recently built.
To the south of us is a school yard for the elementary school buses where they are parked at night before they're taken to the job during the day, and then located to directly to the east of us is 215.
Um the project subject site that we're talking about is this little odd-shaped triangle piece.
Um that's roughly an acre or so.
And the site plan that we're proposing to do here is to this is the existing storage unit to the to the west.
We have the this is one of the existing buildings.
Um there's not gonna be any additional entrance off of this property.
You're gonna enter off where it was entered before, and we're gonna provide a ramp down to access this additional site, or there'll be one RB building to be located on the west side of the property, and then all these other spaces are just covered parking spaces for larger RVs and trailers to be um to be had.
Um on the very east side of the property is located there's a 30-foot drain easement that we're maintaining and keeping that there.
And then as for landscaping.
We are providing what has been done what we provided before is we have our landscaping uh along Hammer with the trees and bushes every 30 feet, as well as uh along the north side of our property along the trail of um 215.
There'll be um landscaping provided there as well.
Uh we agree with staff's recommendations, and um I heard it answer any questions that the commission has for us at this time.
Thank you very much.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will pass it back to the commission.
I'll see if there's any comments from anybody before Commissioner Cassama.
Uh go ahead.
No, go ahead, Commissioner Salvio.
Uh, my question is for this RV covered parking.
There's not going to be any hookups, right?
I mean, because my concern would be people living in their RVs in these it came up before and turned into a situation, and I just wanted to make sure for the record that there will not be any hookups in any way, shape, or form that it's dry storage.
Yeah, there's no hookups, no one can stay there.
We already have covered parking on the existing parcel next door.
It's the exact same thing that we already have, just more space because we have a waiting list for people to get into that covered parking.
I appreciate that.
I just want to make sure it didn't turn into another form of affordable or obtainable housing.
Thank you.
Anybody else?
Okay, Commissioner Kasama.
Thank you, Chair.
Um, this issue, uh, this agenda item.
I don't have any issues with you right, it's a unique parcel.
I do find it harmonious and compatible right off the 215, not adjacent to any homes.
It's already an extension of an existing uh facility that sees a lot of use.
And so, with that, especially with staff recommending approval, I'm happy to make a motion to approve agenda items 13, and that is 25-037.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Oh, A through F, correct?
A through F.
Okay.
Uh, so there is a motion on the floor.
Please cast your vote, please post, and that motion passes.
And that we'll move on to city council on February 18th.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay, I am going to call up items 14, 15, and 16 simultaneously because it is all the same applicant.
Thought we could have a little bit of uh efficiency here.
So item 14, 25-0459, applicant owner care access NV1 LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests on point one nine acres at 5617 Grand Guinness Court, Ward 6 Bruni.
Um staff recommends denial on the land use entitlement project 14A 25-0459 VAR1 to allow two parking spaces where four are required and 14B 25-0459 SUP1 for proposed individual care group home use.
Item number 15, 25-0460, applicant owner care access NV1 LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests at 5616 Alta Drive Ward 1 Knutson.
Staff recommends denial on the land use entitlement project 15A 25-0460 VAR1 to allow two parking spaces where four are required.
15B 25-0460 SUP1 for proposed individual care group home use.
And then item number 16, applicant uh 25-0462, applicant owner care access NB1 LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests at 2013 Monterey Avenue Ward 3 Diaz.
Staff recommends denial on the land use entitlement project 16A 25-0462 VAR1 to allow three parking spaces where four are required.
16B 25-0462 VAR2 to allow an existing patio cover carport and residential accessory structure storage that does not conform to Title 19.06 development standards for setbacks and separation and 16C 25-0462 SUP1 for proposed individual care group home use.
Madam Chair, this is McKenzie Caldwell Department of CUNY development for the record.
For item 14, due to the subject site's inability to meet minimum parking requirements, staff is unable to support the requested variance in special use permit and therefore recommends denial subject to conditions if approved.
Please note that on the agenda the ward is incorrect and the correct ward is ward six.
Also please note additional documentation of protests have been received since publication.
For item 15, due to the subject site's inability to meet medium minimum parking requirements, staff is unable to support the requested variants and special use permit and therefore recommends denial.
Subject to conditions if approved.
Please note additional documentation of protests have been received since publication.
For item 16, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented in that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing to maintain an existing unpermitted carport in the front yard where a patio cover is not allowed.
Additionally, the subject site is unable to meet the minimum parking requirement for the requesting land use change of individual care group home.
Therefore, staff is unable to support both the requested variances and special use permit and recommends denial subject to conditions if approved.
Please note additional documentation of protests has been received since publication.
Thank you.
Good evening, sir.
If you can please state and spell your name for the record and give us your address.
And what I was thinking was if you had background that was uniform through 14 for 14 through 16, that you could just kind of provide that to us all at once and then speak to each of the projects.
Okay.
Hi, I'm representing care access.
You said you need my address as well.
Yes, please.
It's a 42 25 uh West Twain Avenue, space 120, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89103.
Okay.
Uh go ahead and tell us a little bit about what care access NV1 LLC is and does, and then if you can talk through each of the projects in item 14, 15, and 16, so ward six, ward one, and ward three.
Okay, great.
Um Care Access is um they're based out of uh California, and what they do is they purchase homes um with the intention of allowing the women to um reside there and also um provide daycare for up to 12 children.
Um the unique thing about cares is that they actually help the people that are leasing these homes through the whole process.
They get them, they set up the requirements that the health department might like, might want.
They make sure that the house is safe, they help them through the licensing process.
They have the board of health come out, so the the women that actually come or actually sometimes so far it's been women so far, but if there's a male coming, what they do is they actually guide them through the process to make sure everything is done by code with the standards that are that everyone's looking for.
Um, what we found out um during this process is that there are multiple daycares that even haven't gone through the licensing process yet, nevertheless looking for um the special use permit.
So, what we've decided to do is to make sure that any time we purchase a home or um introduce uh a new client that they're aware, it's a lengthy process.
It's getting your licensing with the the board, making sure that your sanitary facilities are up to par.
So um, and they make sure that these women are uh they vet the women as well.
It's not like you could just come up the street, they have a waiting list, they do their their background checks and make sure that the women that are running these facilities are capable of doing so.
And um the unique thing about them towards the end is that the women after a certain amount of time of renting the properties have the ability to buy that home with um uh any any uh increase in value is split with the uh the seller.
So these women have they're on a road to home ownership while being able to provide a service for the community.
That's the broad of the of the company.
Um we could start we could start the specifics.
Um the one thing that might also uh work across all um of the properties in this hearing is the parking.
I know it's been brought up in the beginning, but because this isn't a a school with set hours, there's no rush or influx of uh parents dropping your kids off all at eight o'clock and all picking them up at three o'clock.
They're dropped off throughout the day.
I'm sorry.
Oh, okay.
It's not your time to speak, sir.
You you can speak when it's public comment, and please refrain from that type of language from the audience if you would please.
Um thank you.
Continue, sir.
Okay, I apologize.
Uh I'm I'm assuming that's the the Grand Guinness one.
We actually have the person that's with Grandisquit actually took a video of the drop-off and pickup process.
Um more than likely, um what what he's seeing is uh on that particular uh we'll talk to Grand Guinness.
The special needs person that he referred to earlier is actually the lady that lives there who runs it, it's her son.
He was in a car accident about three years ago, and he's paralyzed.
So actually, let me back up a little bit.
One broad thing all of the uh properties have in common is that their hours stop usually around six o'clock for the kids themselves.
In a very rare case, maybe a little bit longer because somebody's stuck at work, but they try to keep it to you during the day.
Um, and again, it's usually drop off throughout the day, pick up as you as you're available.
So um specifically on Grand Guinness, a couple of the things that were brought up early is the all-night nurse, or that's actually not for any of the kids because the kids are gone by 5 30, 6 o'clock.
It's actually for the the tenant's son.
He actually, we had to help with the created ADA bathroom because he literally um does he's uh paralyzed.
So the all-night nurses that are there, they it's a corner lot.
If you can look at the if you could zoom in on the site plan, it is a corner lot.
Um the nurse usually parks on the side street while he has his physical therapy, and um that would be if there is a night nurse, it's for um the person at the house.
Uh as far as the parking goes, um this particular lot, the the assistant to the owner is actually the daughter.
So they park in the driveway, which is the two spots.
Um if there was another staff, they would again they would park on the side of the the street.
Um so I I again I don't see the big issue with the parking again.
We'll we'll present the video of the drop-off and pickup.
Um what else is there?
Uh was there?
I think but on that particular one, that was really it.
I'd like to Shannon.
Yeah, I like to bring up Shannon.
She's actually the provider who's um in that particular house.
She can show a video of the pickup and drop-off process, so we can kind of get a little bit more clarity.
The one thing to do to note is that the school bus that were referred to, whether she lived there or not, those school buses aren't her school buses, those are actual school buses.
So she can probably help a little bit better explain the day to day, and I'll let you speak good evening, everybody, everybody.
Sorry, I'm very, very nervous.
Um I don't know if you would just want me to read what I wrote or if you want to ask questions.
Let's show you just the video.
Okay.
Um so here's one of the best drop offs.
Let me turn it this way.
And uh sorry.
Sorry.
And as you're watching your video, um, you could see that there's really no traffic jam to speak of.
It's fairly clear, even uh they were there for a couple of minutes.
There was no backup of um of cars at this point.
And this is the second bus.
And the buses have to stop in front of the house.
They can't stop anywhere else on the street.
They have to be in front of my property to drop off and pick up the children.
That is one of CCSD's rules for transportation.
And again, this is another bus, uh, no crazy traffic jam uh to speak of.
And it goes back to the end of the cul de sac, turns around and leaves.
So that uh that cul de sac uh route that they mentioned earlier would whether it was dropped off in the front or not, you'd have to make that uh that that roundabout.
Okay, and maybe you can you can speak to um the special, you know, the physical therapy for your son.
Yeah, um, so he gets he does get nursing.
The nurses do come Monday, well, seven days a week, um, seven to seven every day.
They park on the side street.
Um he gets uh physical therapy twice a week for 45 minutes.
They park either in front of my house or on the side street as well.
Um no one is I I've told all the parents, I've told all the physical therapists, all the nurses.
I think one time one of the nurses parked in front of someone else's house, um, and I told her not to do that anymore.
Since then, I don't think any of our nurses have um they all the nurses, all the parents, all the physical therapists, anybody who comes to my house is told specifically, they are only allowed to park in front of my house and on the side.
They are not to park in front of any neighbor's house, they're not to block anybody's driveway, and they're not to double park, period.
And I've watched videotape after videotape before coming here, and I have not seen any evidence of them double parking, of them parking in anybody else's spot, of them even parking in front of a house.
Um yeah, I it's it's one of my roles.
And I have a parent here who can who can testify to that.
Okay, I'll do that.
Thank you so much.
All right.
I was I I brought her up just to uh to reiterate because I don't I'm not there on a daily basis, just to show you that the drop-offs for the children are not being not infecting the area, and even the uh the people that do stay longer than just a drop-off for instance the nurses, they there's plenty of areas for them to park without double parking.
So that's that we hopefully uh settled that concern.
And then um, I guess we can go to Alta.
Um Alta would be which is number 14, which is the next one, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, so yeah, you're going over to the one that's yeah, 5616 Alta Drive.
So yeah, if you want to do that.
So um again, it's the same same situation.
It's uh it's a house that's intended for daycare facility use.
All of the the facilities that are required by the uh department of health have been provided.
The house is clean and safe.
Um that particular house is waiting for a provider, so there's nobody currently occupying it, but it would follow the same pretty much standard as uh the other homes where the parents would just drop up the kid and be on their way.
Um the I believe the variants that we're they're asking for is because this is on a wide street.
Uh Alta is considered a wide sheet in that area because it's over 60 uh feet.
But um the two um lanes that are um directly uh adjacent to the sidewalk are actually parking leaves, they're not travel lanes.
And um, this is also uh predominantly residential area.
So if you can look, I don't know if there's got uh the street itself, but you can see that um there's plenty of parking if there is one or two extra staff.
Most of the time, it's the person that lives there, one of the staff, and maybe uh a third person, but they have um a requirement of at least two.
Sometimes there's three people there, but uh we do not uh allow them to take care of more than 12 children at a time, and uh very rarely do they exceed uh seven or eight um at any particular moment.
So uh we're hoping that that all of that into consideration as far as the wide street goes with the parking lane, the fact that it's a strictly residential, mostly residential area, that that should hopefully um take care of some of the concerns of the off-street parking requirement.
I mean, sorry, on street parking requirement.
And then I'm sorry, okay.
No, no, no, go ahead.
And then for uh 2013 Monterey, which is number the next number.
Again, same process that I we that actually provided this year as well.
Um, I don't think there was any, we'll know at the end if there's any objection, but she'll attest to the same process that the previous lady spoke about.
And uh here she is.
Good evening.
I did prepare a statement.
My name is Siobon West.
I reside at 2013 Monterey Avenue.
I'm respectfully requesting approval for a special use permit and parking variants to operate my licensed in-home child care business named Halo Haven LLC at this location.
Professionally, I work as a pediatric special procedures nurse currently serving students within the Clark County School District at the elementary level, pre-K through five.
In addition to my nursing career, I hold a degree in early childhood development and bring over 20 years of experience operating a licensed and home program.
My goal is to meet a critical need within our community by providing safe, high quality, and reliable child care for working families.
Vegas continues to face a shortage of licensed home child care providers and programs like mine play an essential role in supporting working parents and contributing to the overall economic health and livability of our region.
I'm committed to serving families with compassion and flexibility, including those with limited financial resources.
Halo Haven will be fully licensed by the state of Nevada.
The property will undergo all required inspections by the Southern Nevada Health District, and upon approval of special use permits, the state fire marshal.
All licensing documentation detailing operational procedures, curriculum, and emergency preparedness plans have been completed and is pending final approval contingent upon this issuance of the requested permit and variants.
Once licensed, I plan to employ one assistant and care for no more than 12 children at any given time.
All of these children will be under the age of 13.
The majority of enrolled children will be infants through five years old with limited attendance by school-age children when the Clark County School District is not in session.
I will remain in strict compliance with all state of Nevada ratios, including child care regulations and mandated staff.
Halo Haven will operate Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m.
with flexible drop-off and pickup times to accommodate the varied schedules of working families.
To that end, I will implement call ahead coordination and curbside to car seat service.
I'll skip the rest of this.
Oh well, no.
The property includes three cover parking spaces, along with approximately four street parking spaces directly in front of the residence, which will be utilized conservatively.
Thank you for your time, and I'm open to any questions that you may have.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, no, what I was gonna just say is have both your providers come down here.
Because we're gonna you can make a comment, then we'll open it up for public comment.
You said what?
No, she said once you're done with all the providers that come back up and just see sit in the front row and sit in the front.
Yeah, just sit in the front row.
Um, as you can tell from the two other testimonies here, the whole program that cares is is providing is making sure that these daycares are fully licensed through all the processes.
Um as she said, fire department, health department, board of ed.
Um, as you know, you can Google uh home uh daycares and a bunch of them pop up, but how many of them have gone through this process?
So we're we're hoping to create um a model where this is common in all the areas where they do need the additional uh help with the kids.
Uh it's affordable.
And other than the impact or or the positive impact that it has for the people, these providers are also given a safe place to rent to live.
And then um when they come back up with some questions, the the program allows them uh how many years is it?
At the end of it, how many years before you guys can move to purchase a house?
Six.
Okay.
After six years of of lease, they actually can work with the the owners of the house to buy the house.
Oh, two okay, sorry, two years.
That'll be a little bit if there's any questions, they can answer that a little bit better.
They'll give them the option to purchase the house and any equity that's been accrued over that time, they actually split that.
So it's not like they're selling it at market value, they'll sell it at whatever they invested, plus split the market value.
So it's a great program all around.
Um we understand the concerns about the parking and a lot of other places, you'll have an influx of eight and outflux at four.
But because these are uh working parents, some of them work all the different hours, they'll dropped off staggered.
Um, so I'm hoping that uh that would help alleviate some of the parking concerns.
Okay, I think that's it.
Thank you very much.
Um these three items have been noticed for public hearing.
So why don't we go ahead and have everybody who is here to speak on the um item number 14, which is 5617 Grand Guinness Court, come up first.
You will each get two minutes um to speak.
Please try to meet twos or ditto is perfectly fine.
If you spoke at the beginning, um then you know we can wait and see if there's time for additional public comment.
But if anybody's here to speak on 5617 Grand Guinness Court, let's come down.
Then we'll do um Alta Drive, and then we'll do Monterey Avenue.
Good evening.
And just oh do me a favor and just confirm for the record which number you're on.
Okay.
Yeah, my name's David Lee.
I'm a resident at uh 5608 Grand Guinness Court.
So I live several houses down from the 56 uh 17 address.
So yeah, I I do have some concerns.
Now I'm a homeowner and I've lived in this house for 16 years.
It's uh cul-de-sac, okay, and it's a obviously a dead-end street.
So my whole time of living there, my whole time raising my family there, it's been a quiet street because let's face it, everybody that comes down there usually are homeowners or people or uh residents or people that uh are coming to visit, right?
A year or so ago when these other people took over the house, we've had nothing but traffic flowing through there now, okay?
And when they said that there, you know, there people are double parking, people are pulling up at all hours from early in the morning until in the evening, okay.
Uh school buses come through there.
I used to work for CCSD.
I was a special needs driver, retired 12 years.
So I know there's more than one bus that flows flows through there.
So they've been running a daycare since they came in.
I don't know how they were able to get that on.
I don't have anything against these people, but I mean, you know, this is a residential neighborhood.
If you want to do something commercial, you should get a commercial building for that, it seems to me.
Okay.
So I don't want to, you know, uh mentioning words about it.
That's just my feeling on it, and I'm I'm against it.
Okay, so residential neighborhoods been a quiet neighborhood.
Yeah, up until this time.
Okay, thank you for your time.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
Anyone else come on down, please come down and line up so we can just kind of cycle through comments.
So anybody who's here for 15, 14, 15, and 16, come on down to the front row and let's just keep have everybody set up.
May I think my name is Lisa Solby and I live at uh 5604 Grand Guinness.
So I'm a few houses in from this daycare.
And um I oppose what they are requesting for the simple reason that they have been running a daycare out of this home since they moved in.
Um the video that this lady showed you was very nice of the one bus in front, but I can tell you that it does not look like that all the time.
There are people who are double parking.
Um there's a little bottleneck on the corner at times.
Um, so it's not an accurate view of you know what she showed you.
Uh there are buses coming down the cul-de-sac that I hear.
Um, and I would just like to say it to this gentleman from California when you're buying these homes, maybe you should buy a home that will accommodate the needs of what you're purchasing it for instead of moving moving it into a residential area.
I'm living here 23 years.
I live here, I work here, and I had an expectation that I was moving into a residential neighborhood.
And now I have a daycare down the street, and I don't think that's fair to the homeowners that have been here that have worked here that have contributed to this city.
So I oppose for that reason.
Thank you.
Thank you, ma'am.
Anyone else on 14 on Grand Guinness Court?
Okay.
Okay.
Um you came down at the beginning.
I I know I did, and I didn't think I'd need to come back, but unfortunately, like I said, I'm pictures here showing that some of the things.
If you'd like to see them, great.
Yeah, I'll give you a minute.
So if you want to show the pictures, go ahead.
Sure thing.
Well, like I say, there isn't right here.
This is just uh somebody double parked in front of another vehicle.
And then what happens at that point in the morning, that's about the time school buses pull up.
They then take up the center, throw out their guard.
I can't leave my driveway.
I was honked at and screamed at by a bus driver because he was entitled to the whole road.
And clearly he was.
But you know what?
In the real world, there's room to get around.
They're creating a situation that's nothing but hostile.
These are we're looking at four people here in a row.
They're just boom, boom, boom, right down the street, okay, just directly across the street.
This nice gentleman has to park his truck in the front because everyone parts their people and does a U-turn in front of the house.
And if it was a school, it's illegal to make a U-turn in a school zone.
So I mean, all of this stuff plays in, and it's over and over, and it's every day.
I have two children.
They take the bus, they go out to Jones and wait for the bus.
This isn't something that can that, you know.
Oh, but it's they're disabled.
Fine.
If they have a disabled daycare, have it somewhere where it's zoned.
Please don't sit here and strong arm you guys and us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Come on up.
If you're gonna speak, come down to a microphone.
Right here?
Yeah, you're great.
I'm talking about the gentleman.
If you're gonna speak, come down to your microphone.
Yep, just come on line up.
Sure.
My name is Sandra Kinney, K-I-N-N-E.
My address is 724 Anna Capri Street, 89138.
I have two children who attend the daycare in Grand Guinness with Shannon.
The name of the daycare is Minion Ranch.
It is an in-home daycare, it is not a commercial business.
It has been an in-home daycare since she moved there.
It is licensed by whoever licenses daycare and also by the state.
I'm gonna give a couple of quick facts before I go into any more details.
Nevada ranks fourth for the least affordable daycare in the country.
The Children's Advocacy Alliance calls Nevada a daycare desert.
In 2024, the Lindsay Institute at UNLV released a policy brief that found that the Las Vegas metropolitan region is short, more than 46,000 direct care workers, including daycare workers.
This same report from two years ago found that the cost of child care as a percentage of income is already higher in Las Vegas than anywhere else in the country, nearly 20%.
There is a need in this region for daycare facilities, and an in-home daycare is far more nurturing for children.
Children.
That drive at to her daycare adds 45 minutes to my commute.
Minion Ranch is fully licensed.
Shannon and her team have met all the requirements to operate an in-home daycare.
She is also licensed through the state's updated subsidy program, previously known as Urban League.
Shannon's daycare allows for those who have fostered and adopted to have our children in an in-home daycare.
The question is not about whether a daycare can exist here.
It does.
It already does.
It is licensed by the state, and it has at most 12 children.
This park invariance would not change any parking situation on Grand Guinness.
It would simply formalize parking and designate spots specifically for special use.
And as for the gentleman who thinks that he needs to park on the street to keep cars away from his property, he has a three-car driveway and only one car is in the driveway.
He purposely parks on the street so that we all use the cul-de-sac, which we do to turn around.
There are no more than a dozen houses on this cul-de-sac, if that.
There is no traffic.
We do not double park.
The one time that one other parent parked in front of another house, they got chastised.
We all got an email.
We got told we do not double park, and the buses are no different than any other buses because the children are under five.
It's kids in a pre-K program that can't go out to Anne Road or Jones Boulevard.
They are five years old and under.
The families that live on that street are overreacting.
It is not a commercial business.
It is an in-home daycare.
And you can read the reports.
All of those statistics are from the Nevada Current, Channel 8, and the Review Journal.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hello, thank you.
And oh, please state which address you're talking about too.
My name is Todd Solby, S O L B Y.
My wife spoke earlier.
We've lived at 5604 Grand Guinness Court for over 23 years.
10 years with the district.
What this lady just said is whatever.
Um it it is um a very large inconvenience uh for the neighborhood.
We bought into this house, like I said 23 years ago.
Um for that serenity of a cul-de-sac, and now it has become uh a word that I'm not gonna use because you guys don't seem to like those words.
Um however um I I I understand um, but again, it's it's it's a nuisance, it's an ongoing nuisance.
People do double park, so I'm not quite sure what she's talking about.
Um that's really all I gotta say because I won't be nice.
Thank you, sir.
Anyone else on item 14 for Grand Guinness Court?
Good evening.
My name is Robert Surreal.
I live adjacent to the property in question at 5616 Grand Guinness Court.
And yes, that is my truck on the street because we moved in here from California about five years ago, uh, hoping to have a nice quiet serenity area.
I'm a hundred percent disabled Vietnam vet.
I my wife is disabled, my son is disabled.
I have to take care of them in my house, 24-7 myself as a caretaker.
Uh so I don't belittle anybody else from trying to do what they want to do with their property.
However, it is it is an inconvenience for me.
I get a lot of people turning around in my driveway, and the markings are there to view.
Uh and when my truck wasn't there, I would be getting a lot of people parking in front.
So it's my wife, of course, gets aggravated with that because she likes to have peace and quiet, and so do I.
And I'm I'm not the kind of man who's gonna you know approach these folks directly.
Uh however, I would like for this not to continue in my area.
All right, and if it continues, uh things could, you know, just escalate, and a lot of animosity could could prevail with all of us in that cul-de-sac.
And there are people that are not here that own businesses and work out of their house, lawn keepers, whatever, and they've they've mentioned it to me.
The trash man, when he comes around in the morning and the bus is there, he has a hard time picking up the trash.
You know, he has to wait or go somewhere else first to come in and do his business.
So he's voices his concerns to me.
I'm like, hey, this is life in the big city.
So, you know, I I'd appreciate it if you could just uh you know advise these folks that this is not prudent, and uh I agree with the uh comments of my associates that uh I do not agree with this uh proposal.
So I thank you for your time.
Thank you very much, sir, for your engagement.
Okay, anybody else here for 14 for Grand Guinness Court?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing on 14 for item.
Hold on a second.
Uh, for item number 15, which is 5616 Alted Drive.
Is there anybody here for public comment on that item?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public comment on um item number 15, uh, which is the location at 5616 Alted Drive.
Uh is there anyone here for item number 16, which is uh the item located at 2013 Monterey Avenue.
Okay, seeing none, I will close public comment for item number 16.
Um, okay, sir, if you wanted to come back up for rebuttal.
Yes.
Okay, um, after listening to the multiple concerns, uh, I want to get one piece of clarity and then one an alternate solution.
Um they had mentioned it multiple times that if they want to run a commercial uh daycare.
This is actually residential use.
It's in the code, it's in the Board of Health Code.
That's why it's 12 children or below is allowed in the residential district.
So that I don't want this commercial use.
That's the reason that we're licensed as an at-home daycare, specifically underneath uh under 12 children.
So because there's a lot of back and forth about the parking situation, I'd like to offer an alternative, and I spoke to with the provider as well.
Considering that the issue is that all of these cars make that left turn off the main highway, go down to cul-de-sac.
It's a corner lot.
We would be willing to make sure that's a provider and the buses actually drop the kids off on the main road, which is on the corner, and continue straight.
There would be no need for them to turn around, make U-turns.
Uh, if you could bring up a map or a Google, it you could maybe see exactly what I'm talking about.
And uh all the people that do live in that cul-de-sac will probably never see a car going down that road.
That's not somebody that lives in there.
So if we could pull that up, that might help alleviate some of the concerns because I see that the objection is not the kids themselves, it's the parking.
And then uh yeah, this street is this uh corner property is is right to have them dropped off right on that.
What was the name of that street on?
Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't know the street, but if you were to able to pull up a map, I could I it'll help you visually an overhead.
Yes, you could okay.
Okay.
Okay, if you if you zoom in, it's uh Camus Canyon Court.
They can they can actually drop their children right off of that outside corner and continue to uh North Jones Boulevard uh without having and it can come in both directions, come off of North Jones, make the left, and then we would avoid this cul de sac altogether.
Okay.
Um we're gonna have a discussion with public works about that offer.
Anything else you wanted to respond to related to any of the public comment?
No, I and then the other gentleman, the other thing is I the uh the um yet the the disabled person again, it's not uh disabled children that she's taking care of, it's actually her son.
So any reference to disabled people or is actually her son that actually lives at the house.
So the nurses that take care of him, the physical therapy is for the resident himself.
That's all I have.
Okay, all right.
Thank you very much.
Um let me you go ahead and stay up here, sir.
So we're gonna turn this back over to the commission.
We'll just kind of walk through each of the items and ask some.
Well, actually.
I thought I was being super clever doing these all at once.
Maybe I wasn't, but let's just do this.
Let me kind of just walk through everybody on the commission and their items um and see what people have for the different items in the different wards.
So anybody have anything for either 14, 15, or 16, and please just distinguish which one you're talking about.
Ms.
Commissioner Rogan.
Um thank you, Chair.
I mean, I have some general questions with regard to the operations of these and for the applicants and the operators, and they have some questions for staff as well.
So um it's been mentioned that that these properties are already operating as a daycare.
Is it operating as a daycare under state licensure?
And and and what's the maximum number of children you have?
I believe right now it's five, right?
Okay.
Uh Shaban's uh uh monitor's not open yet.
Okay, no, but uh as far as what out the A.
New folks can come up to the microphone.
It's I don't need to have this man act as a proxy.
Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm sorry.
So I am licensed and I have been for and how many how many children now utilize your services?
Um right now I have well there's eight enrolled, um, two are at school.
So there's um six that are usually there.
And and then under the state licensures, there's there's someone mentioned uh staff to child ratio.
Do you do you know what that is?
Yes, um, I can have one to six.
So one to six.
Anything over six, I have to have a an assistant, which I do.
Okay.
So then once you hit seven, two people need to be there.
We need one parking space for you.
You already live there, that's fine, and one parking space for the staff members.
My staff members, my daughter.
She lives there too.
Okay.
Um, and then I guess my question for staff is and looking at the the minimum special use requirements for this.
I mean, we're saying that if it can be on a 6,500 square foot lot, so that's our one.
Our one is 60 feet in width.
And essentially, we're saying that if if you're at seven children, you need four parking spaces.
Am I understanding that correctly?
Um, that's correct, yes.
And they all have to be on the lot, so we're saying at least 36 feet of the front yard of these 65 square 6,500 square foot lots have to be paved for this use in order to meet the minimum special use requirements.
Right.
So through your chair, um each each parking space would be nine feet wide.
So that's 36.
We do in the math.
Yeah.
So you're talking about more than half of the front yard would need to be concrete or pavement in order to meet it.
Per current code, yes.
And then even if you're on a cul-de-sac, and there's ample, and I'm not saying that there is on this cul de sac, folks, I'm just trying to propose a hypothetical.
There's ample on street parking, even under this minimum special use requirement, they're not allowed to do anything in those on street parking spaces.
Correct.
The on the on-site parking would only be counted for what you're providing on your site.
Um what is the the policy justification for not allowing these these home uses for using on street parking for for drop-off and pickup?
Uh just just the the um the standard way we calculate on site parking applies to this use as well.
So um just per our our zoning code, the calculation, the way we calculate our our parking, it it just lends itself to only allowing what is on site.
I I guess that's that's great.
But my my question is why can't we allow them on in residential neighborhoods where there's there may or may not be a lot of traffic depending, but it might be safe to allow children to be dropped off for a daycare.
What's the policy justification for saying that's not something that we want to happen?
Um that's something we can definitely look into.
I know there's been conversations about um the parking requirement for these types of uses in residential neighborhoods, uh, but at this point, again, going by our zoning code, that is the way we calculate our parking.
All right.
And then last question it says that we cannot do this on streets that are greater than 80 feet in width.
Is there a reason why that is?
Uh that is to keep the uh residential character of the these are for group homes.
It's not an individual care facility, meaning it's not a commercial gay care.
So the I think the idea is that you maintain the um residential character of the neighborhood by keeping it on a property or a location where it has less than 60 feet of right-away.
I'm sorry, you're right, 60 feet, not 80.
Yeah.
So on Alta and the Alta property in number 15, it's it's a residential street, it's uh uh collector street, it's 80 feet in width, but it's a residential street, especially at this location.
So why would we say if if Alta were 60 feet in width, it's fine, but if it's 80 feet in width, it's not fine.
Again, I'm I'm I'm assuming it's going through the classifications of the street, right?
80 foot's a collector versus 60 foot residential street.
Um I mean, all we have obviously to go through by is what our you know 1912 070 says at 60 foot.
Um I think that helps me um come to a decision.
Thank you.
Thank you, Commissioner Rogan.
Um Commissioner Salvio.
Thank you, madam chair.
Um let me ask this a couple things to staff.
Number one, it's been stated that uh the applicant has been running, I'll just use 14 for nine.
Has there any been other than now everybody coming out because they got a big red sign in front of their yard?
I'm sure.
Has there ever been in the year that they've admitted that they've been operating as a daycare?
Has code enforcement had to come out there on parking issues, noise issues, any type of issues that you guys are aware of.
Um there are no open court enforcement cases and no recent ones at this time.
Okay.
Second thing that I have for staff, group home, community resident, we got one coming up.
Tell me the difference between the two.
Is one allowed to have more than the other?
So Madam Chair, through you, so a group home is a different type of facility than a community residence.
So the group home allows for a dependent child or adult care.
Um there's the group home, which is seven to twelve.
There's the um family home, which is up to six, and then you have the care facility, which is the over the 12, which is the more commercial site.
Community residence is another type of use that allows for transitional housing for um sober living, things along those natures, which these are not, these are the the group home individual care facilities.
Okay, and I I understand the the position of the residents.
I mean, although it's not considered a commercial operation as stated, right?
Uh it still needs to be harmonious and compatible.
Uh you know, and that's that's kind of like my rub.
There's a place for it, and I'm and I'm saying it's a great thing.
I mean, it's definitely needed today's day and age, you know, everybody's got to work, old parents, everything.
I get it, but it also needs to be, at least in my eyes, regardless if it's item 14, 15, or 16.
And I would hope that uh, you know, instead of putting a cart before the horse, you guys would have, you know, not bought a property, ran it as a business, then came in here and asked for mercy, you know, kind of thing.
I would have liked to have seen it the other way around.
Uh and and just you know, for the neighbors, uh, if it has been a problem, and there's nothing on the record that you guys ever had a problem with it, and sometimes them signs that have popped up in front of people's houses cause a problem.
And I've seen that in the past too.
But again, I I think that this uh product has a place and it needs to be harmonious compatible.
It's kind of where I'm at right now.
Sure, go ahead.
I I totally agree with you as far as the harmonious goes, uh Marty's uh part of it.
Um we specifically so we we already have an approved um uh uh special use for the same exact model.
So uh we use the uh the same uh principles and uh again the harmonious portion of it, it still stays as a residential home, looks like a residential home.
We've there's no crazy um features, maybe a sign on the front door, but it's not uh we don't turn it into a circus.
It's still you'd have to know it's there to actually uh have it stick out.
Um the other portion, the other part is um I wanted to just uh clarify that right now we're in the process of getting an approval for an AMMR, which is basically allowing us to not uh skip to the I4 occupancy group, leave it as an R3, which is a residential, because it is allowed by code.
There's an appendix for that.
It's just that the city hasn't adopted that yet, and we're actually currently working on that.
So um the other thing that you had mentioned that we're running a daycare without license, we are fully licensed and up to six kids.
Um we they there's some leniency there.
So what we're doing is we realizing that this is a good model, and it's starting to get to the point where we might hit that 12 child limit.
So we want to make sure we have all ducts in a row.
Um I think other than Grand Guinness, I think parking is not an issue because again, these parents are not parking there for hours.
They drop their kids off for five minutes and they leave.
The only quote unquote parking would be either the staff or in the case of Grand Guinness, the nurse should take care of her son.
I believe that as you can tell, there hasn't been any code enforcement um objections.
The only objections that I've aware of is what came up today.
And um I I pride myself in being a problem solver.
So I find and I spoke to the provider, and she's willing to talk to the buses and the parents that the kids do get dropped off not directly in front of the house, but adjacent to the house.
I know it's gotta be a public work discussion, but it's still literally within walking distance in there.
And if we need to, uh we're willing to put a concrete uh path directly from that corner to the house, they don't have to go around.
So we're willing to work with the concerns of the community.
Um, but the overall um uh the overall feel is that this is good for the people.
I uh you know, you're gonna have always gonna have somebody that doesn't like something, but in this case, it's more than one somebody.
So I I'm proposing that alternative so that we don't affect them.
And I'm hoping that that would be enough to satisfy this.
Madam, Madam Chair, may I just kind of go back one more time?
Go ahead.
Uh see, and that that's what I'm worried about, just what you just said.
You in order to meet the standard of Title 19, they're talking about pouring another 18-foot of concrete in front of the house, which now takes away from the aesthetics of a harmonious and compatible and a residential look.
Now, to me, if I drove past that, it would look like a house I see along Jones and Alta.
But they took the whole front yard out to be accommodating for whatever business they were running.
And every house up and down Jones right there, isn't all the grass is gone, everything's got solid concrete.
And and I don't think a commercial the residents would want a house that looks like they're entering almost into a commercial cul-de-sac.
You see what I mean?
So that's kind of where the harmonious and compatible thing comes in with me.
Because to meet the standard for what you need, you're making it look commercial.
Well, I don't I don't know that I'll be good by code.
I'm saying I don't know if we'll need that.
What I was alternating if there was a concern, and again, if if you look at the the uh this particular property being on the corner, um it would it could it would a walkway this big, we're not talking, and and from the corner to the to the front yards, maybe 10 feet, and we're talking, even if it was required, it could be favors, it could be rocky.
It doesn't have to be industrial concrete.
We're not gonna take away because the the reseller, the value is keeping it look residential.
And again, there's no guarantee that's even going to be a requirement.
It's just me spitballing, thinking of how I can you know um uh satisfy their concerns and also make sure the child is safe.
And even if they had to walk around it, we're literally on the corner.
It's there's she's gonna send a staff out, they'll guide them.
We don't even need it, but I'm just offering it as you know, a solution just spitballing here.
Commissioner Schlottman.
Yes, yes, madam chair, through you.
Um on the Monterey property, it's in my my ward, and um that one we haven't really received any complaints.
The um there's three spaces in the front.
Um and where four is needed.
Uh I I've filled it if the fourth person parks on the street uh no harm and no foul in this particular neighborhood.
The my bigger issue is the carport that's in the front, the legal park carport.
Um I I've been on this planning commission for 14 years, and I can't remember one uh carport that I've approved, with the exception of if it's a big RE residential states property where it needs a 50-foot setback, and they're looking at doing maybe a 40-foot setback, but this one comes all the way out to about five feet from the property line.
I wouldn't be able to get behind that.
The storage unit in the back, I understand I have no problem with that.
Um I think there was also some talk about limiting this to um uh ch uh children uh underneath the ages 17.
I think you were uh you were open to that uh for this particular uh property here, is that correct?
Uh actually by license by state licensing, it can the children cannot be over 18.
So to be licensed, they can never be over 17.
Okay, so um well uh what would probably end up crafting a motion uh madam chair through you if I could uh and I'm sorry, I'm sorry to bother uh Mrs.
West said she she wouldn't ever except children over the age of 13.
Okay, and and and that's great, but just as this this moves forward, and if you're not uh the operator in five years or whatever, this runs with the land and it doesn't run with you personally, so we just want to make sure that uh that we have a condition uh read into the record that would help protect us from the city standpoint.
I know that there's state regulations, but just I'd feel more comfortable with the city regulation or condition.
So let me have city staff read that into the record and then see if you agree to that Madam Chair, through you um staff would like to read in the condition before making a motion.
The condition will be added to 25-0462-SUP1.
Um 16 C, the condition will read the use shall be limited to day or overnight care of children only.
The individuals being cared for shall be no older than 17 years of age.
For 16B to amend to read a variance is hereby denied to allow zero foot side yard setback where five feet is required for existing patio cover carport, and for 16b to amend to read a variance is hereby denied to allow an existing patio cover carport to encroach into the front yard set back where no such use is allowed.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
Um let me just finish going through commission comments and then we'll uh excuse me.
Uh hold on one second.
Uh and then we'll we'll probably work backwards since you've got conditions that you should put for 16.
Uh sir, quickly.
Yeah, just a quick uh comment on that uh front uh patio cover that you were referring to.
We actually didn't build it, it's been there with the home for multitude of years, it's actually on the assesses record as so, so we didn't we didn't know that it was uh unpermitted.
Okay, and madam chair, through you uh and I I I realize how a lot of times people buy properties, don't realize things are unpermitted and things like that, but as they come up, uh they have to go through the variance process.
And um, I know that there's some other neighbors on your street that have them.
Yours is probably the best looking one out of the the entire street.
Uh but uh uh still uh I I can't approve uh them if they were built uh illegally without it by you or by somebody else.
So understood.
And and you heard the condition is read into the record by planning staff, and and you would be open to adding that condition to item number 16?
Yes, for the under uh 18, oh no more than 17.
Yes, yeah, I uh even if I didn't say yes, it's not like it's not all by license, so we can't do it anyway.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay, Commissioner Kasama, did you have comments?
Uh a lot of my questions were answered through other commissioners, but I did have a question, and honestly, it's it's regarding agenda item 14.
That's 5617 Grand Guinness Court.
You've had this property since February of 2024, and I'm just curious about the request now for a special use permit, right?
And I'm just curious about the request now for special use permit, right?
So are you have you been operating the entire time under seven children, or are you now hoping to expand?
And that is why you're coming for a special use permit.
I just want to make sure I'm having some of those facts straight.
So when I moved into the House, it was the summer, um August of 2024.
Um at that time we had less than less than seven kids.
Um since then, I've been licensed by the state and got all my ducks around.
There no, I understand that.
I just for the purposes of the city.
So the you know, Southern Nevada Health District and the state licensure is different.
I I'm more referring to you would require a special use permit from the city.
So if you had over seven kids.
Um so when I I actually put in a request to the city when I was doing my licensing, because it's one of the things we have to check off on our list.
And I was told I didn't need anything at that point.
And I was applying for a group home care, which was up to 12 kids.
I'm not sure if someone misunderstood what I was saying or I I'm not really sure, but I I did.
I actually have a paper that says that at home that I did apply to the city.
Okay, and that might be then a maybe a follow-up question for staff.
Um is that that's my concern if you have an operating over seven kids without a special use permit?
Um that by our standards, that would be kind of an illegal operation.
So I just want to make sure I'm having the timeline set and you can confirm that you haven't had over seven children.
Uh it's just I do have some concerns, and I I do particularly agenda item 14.
I am concerned if it is truly harmonious and compatible.
Uh Commissioner Lebeau, do you have anything down there?
Okay.
Um, I have some questions.
So, first of all, let's start with the proposal to on item 14.
Uh public works.
Can you talk about that um Camus Canon Canyon Avenue proposal and whether or not that would be appropriate for buses?
And then I have a question for our city attorneys.
Should I yeah, why don't you guys talk about that for a second?
So, Mr.
Radilla, can you talk about there any sort of it it sounds like there's a lot of different moving pieces in terms of regulations, governing bodies for these types of facilities.
Is there anything at the federal level um that you're aware of that restricts permits, mandates?
Like what is what is the top-down regulations and restrictions for these types of facilities.
For the record, John Rodillo assistant city attorney.
For these types of fill facilities, there's no federal preemption related to homes for the disabled under any sort of uh fair housing accommodation.
There's an additional agenda item down the road here that we will address that matter potentially, but for these um just group they're classified as group homes in our code, but they're really private daycare facilities that are licensed by the state up to 12 children.
All right, so the federal guidelines do not apply to these particular houses, these particular uses, however, um there are a gamut of local and state requirements and different regional entities that are gonna govern and oversee these operations.
Yes, there's state licensure, there's health issues requirements, and then a city zoning and land use requirements.
And so again, just kind of turning back to refocus what we need to talk about is the land use and zoning for these properties for our decision tonight and for our advice tonight.
It's not even necessarily the licensing of these facilities, it's just the variances and the parking and the special use permit for proposed care.
Correct, that's the purview of the sport.
The licensing is at the state level, and then I believe there's some sudden amount of health issues requirements as well.
Okay.
And so as these facilities get licensed or don't get licensed, residents that have concerns are going to have to sort of navigate the different systems where they can go and file complaints, correct?
Whether it's parking or health district or state licensure.
Those are all going to be different issues that they're going to have to address.
It's not going to come in.
It's a multi-layered, it would be multi-layered per overview of the of the operations, yes.
Okay.
Public works thoughts.
You're working on some conditions.
Okay.
Would you be amenable to the same conditions related to the age restrictions on children for items 14 and 15, just so we can have some consistency?
Yes, we do.
Okay.
Um what was the other restriction?
What was the other condition in 16?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So okay.
So anybody else from the commission have any comments?
All right.
Seeing none, let's go ahead and oh sorry.
Commissioner Rogan.
We can go forward with 16.
I just have a question on specifically to 15.
So let's go ahead, Commissioner Schlottman, if you want to make your motion on 16.
Yes, uh, Madam Chair, through you on item 1625-0462.
Um move to approve on 16A 25-0462 VAR one.
Um motion to deny 16B.
Um, which is 25-0462 VAR2 for the patio cover.
And then on 16C, uh 25-0462 SUP1 move to approve that particular item.
Um, subject to staff's conditions and the additional condition as readden to the record uh by planning staff about uh the uh the kids being no no older than 17 years of age.
And I think that would cover us.
Okay, so just a quick clarification, Commissioner, on 16B.
You're approving the storage in its entirety.
Yeah, I'm I'm denying 16B in its entirety.
Okay, thank you for that clarification.
All right, so there's a motion on the floor.
Chair, can we take each one individually because we have an approval and the denial?
Can you be a little bit confusing what you're approving or denying?
Wait, each individual subpart to 16?
Yeah, I think it would be easier for the commission to vote.
Sure.
Yeah, okay.
Okay.
So Madam Chair, on item uh 16A, a move to approve, subject to staff's conditions.
Okay, motion on the floor, please cast your vote.
Please post and 16A carries.
Okay, 16 B.
Madam Chair on 16B, a move to deny.
Thank you.
Item 16B.
Motion on the floor, vote for yes is to nigh 16b, please post and that denial carries and 16 C.
And Madam Chair, on item 16C, a move to approve uh on 25-0462 SUP one, subject to the additional condition of uh the uh the kids no longer be in or not to exceed 17 years of age, but written read into the record as the uh plan uh plan and staff read into the record earlier.
Okay, thank you.
There's a motion on the floor, and that passes as well.
All right, so 16 is done.
And those are final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Okay, Commissioner Rogan, your question on 15.
Chair, I think the applicant has a question.
I just had a qu uh one quick question.
On 16B, uh the Commission had mentioned that you had no issues with the shed.
You understood that in the back?
The coffee understood, but I thought you were said you were okay with the attached shed in the rear.
The storage shed.
Madam Chair, I'd I'd like to rescind my vote on uh item 16B, make a motion to rescind that vote.
Okay, there's a motion on the floor to rescind the prior motion on item 16B.
Okay.
Yes, uh Madam Chair on 16B 25-0462 VAR two.
Um let me just open the could the conditions up real quick on uh on two five-0462 VAR two conditions.
Uh number one, a variance is hereby denied uh to allow a zero foot side yard setback where five feet is required for an existing patio cover, and number two, a variance is hereby um denied to allow an existing patio cover to encroach into a front yard setback where uh uh no such use is allowed.
And number two, a variance is here by denied to allow an existing patio cover to encroach into a front yard setback where uh no such use is allowed.
Um so those are the two amended conditions, and you agree to those two amended conditions.
Correct, for the front patio cover.
Yes.
Yes.
And then you agree to all other conditions as written in the record.
Correct.
Um but we uh was referring to the storage structure in the rear.
Yes.
There that is still in here.
Okay.
So um I will make a motion to approve 16B two five 462 VAR2.
With the amended conditions denying the uh patio cover.
Okay.
And uh and subject to all remaining uh uh staff's conditions.
Okay, thank you.
Thanks.
And before you vote, uh Commissioner, I just want to confirm with staff that we that that did take care of approving the um the uh shed.
Okay, got it, okay.
Thank you.
Okay, so the motion on the floor would deny the patio cover and approve the shed.
Is that correct?
Director staff.
Okay, all right.
Commissioner Cassama.
Okay, please post and that motion carries.
And that will still move on to council.
Uh that is final action, sorry, unless it's built a city clerk in 10 days.
Okay.
So now, Commissioner Rogan, item 15.
Thanks.
Before before I make a motion, I just I have a a question and then uh some proposed conditions as well.
So on item agenda item 1525-0460, there's a waiver to ask to begin operations at five o'clock in the morning, which is different than the other two applications.
What is the reason for that?
Um which address is that?
Actually, we uh the provider that was uh requesting that is no longer with us, so we we do not need that any longer.
Okay, so staff can we remove that waiver, please.
That was on uh Madam Chair Three, that was item 15, correct?
Item 15 okay, we'll uh get that language ready right now.
And then um like Commissioner Schlottman, I think this is an appropriate location for this type of use, even though our code says it shouldn't be on an 80-foot right away.
I I think that's fine and it's a waivable condition.
So I'm I'm comfortable with this being um harmonious and compatible, but I do have some conditions because Alta is a busier street than these other residential streets.
Commissioner We're gonna hate to interrupt, but on that waiver of Title 19.12, is that just for the morning hours or the evening hours as well?
I think it was just a need for the morning hours, was it not?
Because the it indicated evening as well, outdoor recreation.
Okay, it would just be removal of the waiver entirely, so they'd be back to the hours of 6 a.m.
to 10 p.m.
That's correct.
Okay, okay.
Thank you, Mr.
Ridilla.
Um as I was saying, I think it's it's appropriate, but it is a busier street.
So in and I I'm not comfortable saying that if we're gonna be allowing these in residential neighborhoods and all these as a residential neighborhoods that people need to pave over their front yard, and as um an another commissioner pointed out, it those look terrible.
So um I'm comfortable with the parking variants, but I want to put a couple conditions on it and um staff is ready to to read those conditions into the record.
So if um if we could just address those two, please, Fred, the initial two, and then I want to make a comment on the third.
Okay, sounds good.
Um through you, madam chair.
So um these added conditions will be for 15B.
Uh staff for the group home shall only park off-site within available street parking and leave any on-site parking available for child pickup and drop-off.
And then all child drop-off shall occur on site within the provided driveway/slash parking spaces.
Do you understand those conditions?
Yes.
And you agree to those?
Yes, we can do that.
All right, and then it might need staff's help with this one because the provider isn't here or the operator isn't here.
Um, I do want to have an opportunity to come back and see how they're doing, and I don't know whether we need to do that administratively or that we need to bring it back before the the final approving body.
But it for an administrative review to just to make sure that there's no issues with the drop-off, there's no danger to the children, there's no issues with neighbors saying that this is um a huge impact to their neighborhood.
Are you comfortable with that?
Yeah, what we can do is um I can send in uh a draft of of any lease that we would sign that would actually have those conditions.
We also in the lease agreement that the provider sign, we also uh talk about it has to be fully licensed, the house operation.
We add those conditions in there.
So what we can do is we can add in uh an amendment to the existing lease for that particular property to include those requirements for anybody, whether it be the next tenant, the tenant after that, so that it's part of that lease going forward.
Yeah.
Understood.
This what I'm talking about really is just for for you to come back before the city, either administratively or in front of us or the city council and make sure that the pickup and drop-off is actually working and it's not causing problems.
Yes, yes.
Are you okay with that condition?
Actually.
So staff, what do you recommend?
Do you want an administrative review or before us?
Um public works, do you want to touch this one?
Through you, Chair, I have a I have a condition for this.
Okay, there shall be an administrative review by the Department of Public Works 60 days after operations commence to ensure function of this of the traffic as it relates to the school pick or the daycare pickup and drop-off plan and the overall operations.
If significant traffic issues arise prior to this date, the city traffic engineer may require a review review sooner than the 60-day period.
Corrections for any non-compliance must be completed by the applicant within 60 days of written notice from the city.
Thank you very much.
Do you agree with that condition?
Yes, yes, I do.
All right.
Okay, with those conditions and with the record being made tonight, I I do believe that you meet the minimum conditions for the special use permit, and I do believe it's harmonious and compatible.
So I'm ready to make a motion on agenda item 15 uh supports A and B project number 25-0460.
It's a motion for approval subject to all conditions and added conditions.
Uh Madam Chair, through you, Commissioner Rogan.
Uh, are we striking condition four or the waiver for the time as well?
Yes.
Okay.
And amended condition.
Thank you.
Right.
So um 15B again, we're striking waiver condition number four in its entirety.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Please post and that motion carries.
Okay.
Okay.
And then finally, 14.
So public works, do you have a condition?
I think Fred may have drafted this one.
I have I have a condition otherwise.
Okay, wait, which condition?
I'm sorry.
On 14.
On the street, on the not turning.
Oh, we're doing we're doing the same the same condition over again that we're done on 15.
This is the one about the uh pickup and drop-off on Camus?
Camoy?
Com as canus.
Okay.
Yeah, that was yours.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um let me read this condition.
Yeah, Josh, let me just make a couple preparatory.
Let me make ask a couple questions real quick.
I should have done that before I asked you.
I just wanted to see if you guys were ready.
In your justification letter, you have um I I guess there's outdoor recreation time that is permitted from like six a.m.
to 10 p.m.
Um but your justification letter uh lists the operation hours from 7 a.m.
to six p.m.
Um would you be willing to have that reduced to 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
for outdoor recreation hours?
Yes.
Okay.
So let's change that from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Um and then since we've had it in 16, let's go ahead and add the condition related to kids' ages as well.
Um I would like in the same administrative review, Josh, for this location.
Add it in.
And you're okay with that?
Yes.
Okay.
And then now, if you would like to do your buses on the adjacent street.
Thank you, Chair.
Um I have a con Josh Edelman for the record.
Uh the condition about parking on Camas Canyon Avenue might read as such if I interpreted uh Mr.
Rogan's correctly.
Staff cars must be parked on Camas Canyon Avenue to allow the bus pickup and drop-off of students in front of the home without interference.
The city traffic engineer at their discretion may require a review at a 60-day period to ensure compliance.
Corrections for any non-compliance must be completed by the applicant within 60 days of written notice from the city.
Is that a correct interpretation of I can read it again?
I'm sorry, are you are you addressing me for item 15 or item 14?
Item 14.
Okay.
That's me.
That's that's word six.
Okay.
Yeah.
I was trying to interpret uh Rogan's guidance on this one.
Okay.
I'm so sorry.
Josh, just read that one more time then.
Uh staff cars must be parked on Camas Canon Canyon Avenue to allow the bus pickup and drop off students in front of the home without interference.
That's what you were saying was you would do bus drop-off and pickup on Camas Canyon so that people were not driving on to Grand Guinness Court.
Is that correct?
I think I think the main concern was uh all the traffic going down the cul de sac.
Right.
So what I was trying to do is for the because the the traffic that goes in and out more often than just a couple hours at a time would be the parents dropping off the school buses.
So what I was suggesting was that the main traffic, uh the the quick traffic, which is the school bus, would be able to drop off on the side street.
And uh this way, because the if it's that was the big concern is the the drop-offs, the parents drop the case of school buses.
They would if they were to drop off directly in front of the house, they have to go down that call of sack, make that turn and come back.
So what I was suggesting was the drop off happened on the corner, and the staff can just meet them and then actually so that the buses and uh continuous traffic just can continue to Jones without uh going down the residential street.
Okay.
So the condition then would say that any pickup and drop off would have to would be required to be on.
Let me just find the street name again.
Umyon avenue.
Correct.
No drop off or pickup would be permitted on Grand Guinness Court.
Correct.
So what what what that would allow for because uh it is the the resident and the daughter, you know, almost 90% of the time.
If there is a staff member, they can pull in front of the of their driveway because they stay there for hours at a time, and it's not going to be that constant traffic.
Right.
That would help alleviate um hopefully most of the concerns of the residents in that area.
Okay.
Um does that make sense, Josh.
Okay.
So Fred, I think we need to read through all of the conditions for 14 again and just get them all.
Okay, madam chair, through you.
Um what we'll do is we'll add the two conditions for planning, and then we'll kick it over to public works to do the drop-off conditions, that correct?
I'm sorry, say that again because there's a bunch of side.
Oh, sorry, yeah.
So we'll add the two conditions for the outdoor outdoor recreation and the the age of the children, and then I'll give it to Josh so he can do the drop-off pickup, correct?
So those three?
All right, right.
So for 14B, we are adding um all outdoor rec all outdoor recreation shall be limited to the hours of uh 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
And then also for 14B, we are adding um the use shall be limited to the day or overnight care of children only.
The individuals being cared for shall be no older than 17 years of age.
Okay.
And then also an administrative review.
I mean, I know we've got that related to the parking, but I just want a broader administrative review for the special use permit, which is gonna be more encompassing than parking.
Okay.
Okay.
Go and I'll come back.
Yeah.
Lots of stuff.
Lots of stuff.
Okay.
Uh so for that for that broader one.
Well, why don't we do this, guys?
Let's let's do this.
Okay.
Why don't you work on all my conditions for 14?
Okay.
Somebody just type them all up, and then let's just I'm gonna I'm gonna trail you, okay, so we can because it's 845.
I know I took up a lot of your time, I'm sorry.
So um I'm gonna trail you.
Staff is gonna get me all the conditions, and then we can take a look at them, and then I'll bring you back up for the vote.
Okay.
Sounds good.
Thank you so much.
All right, fantastic.
So um let's move on to item number 18, 25-0504 public hearing applicant owner McClun Living Trust for possible action of the falling land use entitlement project requests on 2.20 acres at 5924 Westland Mountain Road, APN 125 36402015 Ward 6 Bruni, staff recommends approval on the land use entitlement project 18A 25-0504 GPA 1 from rural density residential to SC service commercial 18B 25-0504 Z O N one from RE residence estates to C1 Limit Commercial 18C 25 0504 SUP1 for proposed building and landscape material lumber yard use 18D 25 0504 SDR for proposed conversion of an existing 2583 square foot single family dwelling to a building and landscape materials yard development with waivers of perimeter landscape buffer requirements.
May we have the staff report, please.
Madam Chair, the applicant is proposed to convert the existing single family dwelling into a building and landscape material slash lumber yard development.
Staff finds the requested general plan amendment and rezoning are appropriate to be located on Lone Mountain Road Street frontage, which is designed to carry a high volume of traffic at high speeds.
Staff supports the requested landscape waiver and exception as they will have minimal negative impact to surrounding properties.
With that, staff recommends approval of all applications subject to conditions.
Please note additional documentation of protest and support have been received.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, good evening, folks.
If you can please we are Mark and Christine McLoon.
We're the owners of 5924 Westlone Mountain and the owners of Living Water Lawn and Garden.
Our last name is spelt MCL O O N E.
And we are landscape and masonry contractors specializing exclusively in the residential market.
And we would like to convert our property to a landscape office and showroom.
Now when I hear the word lumber yard, I think of walking in Home Depot with all the wood everywhere.
What we're proposing is to build a botanical garden and a display garden in our backyard.
So it would be continuous with the front yard.
Our front yard right now is beautifully landscaped.
It looks like a lovely home.
We'll maintain the look of the residents because we um are specifically catering to the residential market.
So we want homeowners to come in and feel like they're in their own home and what the potential could be for their landscape.
Um we will not do any kind of uh heavy machinery or equipment.
No crews will be dispatched there, it will be strictly a showroom and an office where our sales team can bring clients and potential clients to pick out materials to see what it would look like actually installed in their own home.
Our neighbor had mentioned that there was a bunch of dirt and piles of rocks and growth stuff in the backyard.
We've since gotten rid of all of that.
We are operating out of our industrial location.
Thank you very much.
Um this item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard on item 18 that were not heard at the beginning of the hearing?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will turn it back to the commission.
I'll see if any of my fellow commissioners have any comments on this item.
Okay.
Um I have a couple of questions for you.
Um because you mentioned that you weren't going to do you've got 18 C for proposed building and landscape material lumber use.
Um is that going to include the hauling of materials in and out of your backyard?
No.
Okay.
Um, is that going to include having anything like even small bobcats in your backyard?
No.
Okay.
Um then converting the um square foot single family dwelling.
Is that going to just be basically office use or are you planning on adding on to it at all?
We are not adding on strictly office use.
Okay.
Um staff, do we have any conditions on this item other than some of the sort of standard conditions, the two years, building permits, that kind of things.
Uh Madam Chair, uh, we had an addition that was requested to be added for the outdoor storage of heavy equipment.
Okay, and that's a condition to prohibit the outdoor storage of heavy equipment.
Yes, and and I can add that now.
Um, but were you asking about if there's any other conditions currently?
I I just was asking if there were any other conditions, but I would like to add that one.
Okay.
Um, Madam Chair, through you, staff would like to read in an amendment and amended condition prior to making a motion, uh, an added condition prior to making a motion.
The condition will be added to both uh the special use permit and the site development plan review.
So 250504 SUP1 and 250504 SDR 1.
And we'll read as follows.
The outdoor storage of heavy uh the outdoor storage of heavy construction equipment, machinery, and vehicles is prohibited.
On-site parking shall be limited to passenger vehicles with maximum capacity of one ton.
Thank you.
100%.
Okay.
Um with that, then I would like to go ahead and make a motion on 18 uh and 18A through D and its subparts, so that's 25-0504.
Um, before you do that motion, I have a question.
Go ahead.
Um is there a specific uh anything as far as hours of operation?
And days of the week.
Not currently uh through the conditions.
Uh we can review though if Title 1912 may have something for the use itself, but not currently in the conditions.
Can we see if we could put some our conditions on?
May I tell you it's in our justification letter?
It's Monday through Friday, eight A.M.
to four PM.
By appointment only on Saturdays, closed Sundays, closed all major holidays.
And the other question I had is does this require a zone change?
Because my concern is if it does go C one and then all of a sudden they decide to change their model.
That zoning stays with the land and opens up the floodgates to be multiple things.
So how do we how do we pin that down in a condition that because I know once we do a zone sheet?
Are they allowed to operate uh with the special use permit as zoned as the residential instead of changing the zoning to commercial uh Madam Chair through you and uh Commissioner DeSalvio?
So they would need to rezone to do the building and landscape material lumber yard use, and we don't put conditions on that rezoning, so they could proceed with that new zone without proceeding with either the use or the site development plan.
Okay.
And and you said there's no conditioning once the C1.
Okay.
Um I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to although actually if you can add in the condition about the hours as represented in the justification letter.
Uh yes, could we get those hours uh again?
Monday through Friday, eight AM to four p.m.
Saturday by appointment only.
Closed Sundays and all major holidays.
And then for the commission, uh were there particular hours that you wanted to lock in, or does that sound good as I think let's just lock in the hours that they represented or their hours?
Because I think that at least puts some limitations on, you know.
I think that was one of the concerns I I was gathering from Commissioner DiSalvio.
Okay, um so madam chair, through you staff would like to read in a added condition.
This condition will be added to uh 25-0504 SCP one, the special use permit, uh, and would read as far follows.
Um the hours of operation for the building and landscape materials slash lumber use would be limited to 8 a.m.
through four p.m.
on Monday through Friday.
Closed on Sunday and by appointment on Saturday.
Yep.
That'll work.
Yeah.
Okay, so the two conditions are the no heavy materials and then those hours conditions, and you agree to both of those.
Okay.
All right.
So my motion is to approve subject to all conditions, including the amended conditions that were just listed.
Motion on the floor, please cast your vote.
Um please post, and that motion carries.
And those items will move on to city council on February 18th.
Okay, thank you.
Item number 19, 25 dash, you're welcome.
Thank you, folks.
Huh?
Are they ready?
Okay, I'm gonna open up agenda item nineteen, that is twenty-five-0522 VAR1.
I'd like to ask for the staff report.
Madam Chair, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented, and that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing to construct a patio cover that does not meet the corner side yard setback requirement.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of the variance request.
Please note additional documentation of protest and support have been received since publication.
Thank you.
And uh ask the applicant to give you a name for the record and present the item.
Sure.
Jessica Lane with Proficient Patios, uh representing Mr.
Mrs.
Turner.
And basically here to um request a side setback reduction where a 10-foot is required.
So a 10-foot is required on this side due to it being an interior street, where we're asking for a five-foot patio cover has not been built, so we're obviously asking for a setback reduction prior to building.
Uh the colors of the patio cover would be to match the trim color of the house.
HOE has approved already the improvement as well.
And um that's pretty much it.
Just kind of a standard typical uh solid Illuma wood patio cover that we see kind of around.
So this is just kind of an idea of how it's in the back and how kind of wrapping around the side.
That's it.
Thank you.
This item has been noticed for a public hearing.
Is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak on this agenda item?
Seeing none, I will pass along to the other members of the commission.
Is there anyone that we give comment?
Yes, Vice Chair, uh, through you.
I I have reviewed this item and basically it it it does look harmonious and compatible with the uh with with the trim in the house, and it it actually does seem to fit pretty well.
Um it's behind uh behind a fence as well, and I looked at the uh the street views and everything, and I I you actually had a few people that actually sent in letters of support.
So um if I'm not mistaken, yeah, three letters of support.
So uh if there's no other comments on this, I'm ready to make a motion.
Please do.
Okay.
Uh Madam Vice Chair and item 1925-0522 VAR one move to approve, subject to staff's conditions.
And ma'am, you you agree to all staff's conditions have approved?
Yes, Commissioner.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And Madam Vice Chair, that uh item is final action unless approved uh or unless appealed by the to the city clerk in uh ten days.
With that, I'd like to open up agenda item 21.
That is 25-0527 VAR one.
I just asked for a staff report.
I'll read the whole thing.
Uh that is 25-0527 VAR one, applicant owner James R.
McLaren and Nicole N.
Springs McLaren for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow a proposed patio cover that does not conform to Title 19.06 development standards for setbacks and height at 10435 Irish Cliffs Court.
Can I get the staff report, please?
Madam Chair, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented in that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing to construct an RV cover that does not meet Title IX setback and height requirements.
Therefore, staff remains recommends denial the variance request.
Please note additional documentation of support has been received since publication.
Thank you.
And uh at this time the applicant, if you want to give some background.
Uh Rick Montoyo, I'm over in TOA.
Uh the patio cover has not been built.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak on this item?
Seeing none, I pass it along to the rest of the planning commission.
If there's any comments, if there are not, then I'm happy to make a motion at this time.
Great.
Um, I have no issues with this agenda item.
I see it as opponents incompatible.
Appreciate coming before here.
That is 25-0527 VAR1, subject to staff conditions.
Motion passes.
Thank you.
Uh and Madam Vice Chair, that item will be moving forward to city council on uh February 18th, 2025.
Thank you.
All right.
With that, I'd like to open up agenda item 22, and that is 25-0529, VAR 1.
Applicant owner Foothill Southern Baptist Church of Las Vegas, Nevada, for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow a proposed electronic message unit, LED illuminated display.
Freestanding institutional sign within 200 feet of residentially zoned property where such is not allowed at 6405 West Cheyenne Avenue.
Staff, can I get the report, please?
Uh thank you, Madam Vice Chair.
Uh the proposed sign does not meet residential protection standards for illuminated uh display.
It's a it is approximately a hundred feet from residential homes where 200 feet is required.
Therefore, staff's recommend denial.
Please note that additional documentation of protest and support have been received since publication.
Thank you.
The applicant, if you can give your name for the record and present.
Justin Miller from Science Centers, 3700 Pecos McLeod.
Do you have any background on this agenda item that you'd like to provide?
Yes, just the church has an existing sign and they want to update it to a more modern brand new sign with an LED board in it.
Thank you.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Is there anyone in the audience that would like to give comment at this time?
Seeing none, I'll turn it to members of the commission.
Uh Commissioner Schlottman.
Yes, uh, Madam Vice Chair, through you.
Uh question are what what's the hour of operation that you're gonna run this sign?
I think uh there were staff conditions for 7 a.m.
to 9 p.m.
I think let me pull this up if staff gets to it before me, let me know.
Commissioner Schlottman, while you're doing that, Commissioner DiSalvio, did you have other questions or concerns?
Well, he stole the one.
The other one is uh what's the lumens?
I mean, how bright is there something that they're set in the uh standards that it can only be so many lumens, so it's not overpowering, seeing that you're within a hundred feet of a neighborhood.
I don't know the exact lumen count, but by nature they all did dim by about 75 percent at night time and Matt Madam Vice Chair through you to uh answer Commissioner DeSavio's question, it has a maximum of 300 nits.
Um I was gonna recommend that that goes down to 150 nits if it was gonna be going all night long or anything, but I don't see the condition where this has to be shut down at 9 p.m.
Uh so Madam Vice Chair through you.
We could add a condition to this uh stating that the subject sign shall not be illuminated between the hours of 9 p.m.
and 6 a.m.
I'd like that condition.
And you're fine with that condition.
Yeah.
And and you're only advertising for your church.
Yes.
Okay.
Commissioner Rogan.
Thank you, Vice Chair.
Just um, how often do you plan on changing the the content of the sign?
Is it every 90 seconds, everyone?
I don't know what their specific plan is for the church, but usually on other stuff we've done, it's every 10 seconds.
But it again at the shopping center that I normally do, this is a church.
I don't know how many specials are running.
Yeah, um, I mean I'm ambivalent about this.
It's uh it wouldn't be a problem in a church that's more in a commercial neighborhood, but the residential neighborhood, I just it can't support it.
It's large, it could really interfere with the neighbors' enjoyment of their property shining in that front window.
I don't think it's gonna be any more annoyance than the Dutch brothers across the street.
It's giant blue.
What's that?
There's a Dutch brothers right across the street that shines blue like the Luxor.
Yeah.
So I don't know if it's gonna be any more annoyance than that.
Yeah, you're right on the corner though, North Tory Pines.
There's a residential home right across the street.
I I understand.
I understand the comment that you're making, but lights a little bit different than than the drive-thru.
I get it.
But the the I guess brother sign is a good idea.
I understand.
I appreciate it.
I'm just I'm just and the church has already had a sign that's illuminated.
The only difference is it's just the LED button.
Oh, no.
Thanks.
Thanks so much.
Commissioner Schlottman, with that, um do you have any other follow-up or would you like me making it?
All right, with that, um, I'll make a motion to approve with the added staff condition.
And that will be so motion to approve item 25-0529 VAR 1.
Motion carries.
Um and Madam Vice Chair, that is final action unless appeal to the city clerk within 10 days.
Thank you.
Thank you.
With that, I will open up agenda item 23.
That's 25-0530 SDR1.
Applicant.
All right.
Never mind.
We are opening up agenda item 24.
That is 25-0531 VR1.
Applicant Owner Ruben Eugene Hawkins and Donna Decker for possible action on the land use entitlement project request to allow proposed home addition and attach port cochere that do not conform to Title 19.06 development standards for setbacks at 1925 Waldman Avenue.
Staff, can I get the report, please?
Madam Vice Chair, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented in that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing to construct a garage with a port cochere that does not meet Title 19 setback and height requirements.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of the variance requests.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And applicants, can you give your name for the record and give more background?
My name is Mohammed Abutar Bush.
I work with MK Architecture representing Mr.
Rubin.
So start.
You you can go ahead and tell us about the project.
Okay.
Um so we're proposing to do like an uh uh garage and a port de cochere.
There was an existing garage that we we're proposing to demolish and build an uh uh a slightly uh existing car port.
Oh, there was an existing carport that we're demolishing and putting a new garage that's slightly bigger.
And the port decach.
Um, like where the setback for a port of cochers 30 feet, and we're requiring requesting for 28.
And then the garage is supposed to be 50 foot.
We're requesting it at 44 feet.
Um those are the two variances that we're asking for.
We did um like um like the adjacent neighbors, we got the letter for their approval.
And like the elevations, they do match the house with the materials and all.
Like uh we're gonna use the same rock that they have already on the on like some of the the areas where you could see and the same stucco and color trim for that for the roof.
Um yeah, that's pretty much it.
It's just like the port de cashier because of the circulation of the car.
We needed that extra kind of length for the car to fit and like the driveway to work, and like the extra uh uh like five feet in the garage just to kind of like more storage space, essentially.
Okay, thank you.
Um this item has been noticed for a public hearing.
Is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak on this item?
Seeing none, I will close public comment and I will turn over to members of the commission.
Commissioner Rogan.
Thanks.
Um you said that you had approval from your neighbors.
Did you get written approval from them?
Uh yes, we do have a letter.
I think we upload it to the portal also.
Okay, if you could just give it to the clerk so that it's part of the record, please.
Okay, thanks.
Sorry for making a get up.
Thanks.
I I have no problem with this.
Um RE setbacks are the largest in southern Nevada at 50 feet.
So whenever we get minor requests like this for RE that are not so significant, I'm very comfortable with it.
The drawings looked great.
Um, I think it is harmonious and compatible.
You have a great neighborhood there, and uh, the quality of development that I anticipate this will have will match or exceed what exists.
So I'm I'm very comfortable with what um you've proposed.
And I'm ready to make a motion chair unless anyone else has any comments.
Uh please go ahead.
All right.
Um with regard to agenda item 24, project 25-0531 VAR1 and make a motion for approval subject to any conditions.
And you would agree to all the conditions, sir.
Yes, we do.
Thank you.
There's a motion on the floor.
Please cast your vote, please post.
And that motion carries.
And that is final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Item 25, uh 25-0534 SDR1, applicant art house for LLC owner city of Las Vegas for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow a major amendment to a previously approved site development plan review 23-0047 SDR1 to allow a building and site reconfiguration with waivers of Title 19.09 form-based code development standards at the northeast corner of Jefferson Avenue and D Street, Ward 5 Summers Armstrong staff recommends approval.
May we have the staff report, please.
Madam Chair, the applicant seeks to amend the approved site development plan review for the shared west side mixed use project to enlarge the food court building, reconfigure the site, and revise the food court exteriors.
The proposal represents needed multifamily housing and commercial redevelopment within the historic west side.
Staff supports the requested waivers of Title 19 development standards, says they will have minimal negative impact to surrounding properties.
Staff finds the proposal is consistent with the city's master plan goals for the historic west side and is compatible with surrounding land uses.
Therefore, staff recommends approval of the site development plan review subject to conditions.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening, sir.
If you can please state and spell your name for the record, give us your address and tell us about the project.
Hi.
Madam Chair, good evening.
Good evening, Commissioners.
Grant Garcia, uh partner Art House for LLC, uh Chair Development and Share Downtown here tonight to um to go through this, the go through the request.
We've been working with the city closely closely over the last two years and just working to clean up the uh the DDA on some um changes to the plans that we've had that we've been that we have again been working with the city closely on, um agree with all of the staff recommendations.
Um I think there was one uh item.
I don't know if it was taken out uh item number 11.
Uh yeah, madam chair, through you.
Uh the applicants requested to remove strike um condition 11 and and staff concurs with that request.
Um otherwise, happy to help answer any questions and thank you for all your time.
Thank you very much.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard?
Okay, seeing none, uh, I will close public hearing.
I will turn it back over to the commission.
Um this is ward five.
We don't have a ward five commissioner right now.
Anybody have any questions or comments?
Yes, uh, Madam Chair, just uh quick question.
House uh Mr.
Garcia, how's your share project coming along?
When are you gonna open?
Thanks for asking, Commissioner.
Uh we did a presentation to uh city council last week, gave some updates.
We're fully topped off.
Um all the rough plumbing electrical, that's all in.
Sheetrock is going in.
We're doing the uh stucco on the exterior.
Uh we're gonna be opening up the official interest list for leases on February 21st, which runs in conjunction with the Love and Jackson event.
So we're super excited for that.
Hope to see all of you there.
Uh and then we'll be looking to move residents in at the end of May.
Perfect.
Uh Madam Chair, I've I've read through this item.
Um staff is in in support, and it seems like Mr.
Garcia is uh agrees to all you agree to all conditions if if approved.
I do.
Okay.
Madam Chair, I move to approve on uh item 2525-0534 SDR1, subject to staff's conditions.
And and Madam Chair, quickly, I just want to reiterate that we are striking um condition number 11.
And and with strike and condition number 11.
Thank you.
Okay, thank you very much.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Please commissioner Cassana, please post and that motion carries.
Thank you.
And that is final action.
Let's appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Item 27, 25-0543 SUP1 applicant Ariana Carosia Pineda, owner Alan Pineda for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for proposed community residents, including family community residents, and transitional community residents use at 5933 Perfect to View Street Ward 6 Bruni staff recommends approval.
May we have the staff report, please?
Madam Chair, the proposed community residence is compatible with the surrounding residential character and would remain consistent with the scale and architectural character of the neighborhood.
The subject property does not have direct access to the existing nearby community residence as in an and is in a different residential subdivision.
Therefore, staff supports the special use permit request.
Please note additional notes, additional documentation of protests have been received since publication.
Thank you.
Yes, uh, good evening, uh Madam Chair, our commissioners and uh staff, and for everyone from the public that attended today.
My name is Ariane Pineda, applicant for our residential facility group applying for a specialty use permit.
So for those uh people that does not uh that does not know what a residential facility for group is, it is actually basically a home where people come and that becomes their house.
So basically we'll be catering for uh individuals that are elderly, 65 and above, disabled, vulnerable veterans.
So they will basically be moved there because they're no longer safe at home or they don't have any available family members or caregivers that can actually stay in the house.
It's not a commercial uh institutionalized facility.
So I work as a nurse in a hospital, and I wanted to give back to the community.
I've been a nurse for about 16 years, and they always see all early uh that wants to go back home, but since they have like diabetes, hypertension, weakness and things like that, they cannot go home safely because family members are not available 24 hours.
So uh we do have our licensing after this, so I'm actually doing it where I'm getting the permission from the city to actually open up the home to be a residential facility for group.
So once I get that specialties permit, the house will be licensed under the Bureau of Health Care and Quality under the NRS 449, which actually keeps this house as residential.
So we'll basically be providing help with their cooking, laundry, and things like that.
This is non-medical home.
We won't provide any treatments that are medical, nursing, no rehabilitation or anything like that.
So uh I understand uh that some people when they hear like oh, it's gonna be a facility, you know, it's gonna, you know, change the house or the value of the homes and things like that.
But in reality, uh we are not because it's a house.
So we're basically be providing care with their cooking with their laundry and things like that.
There will be no doctors that are going there.
They will continue to see their primary care physicians.
They can go outside with their family members, go shopping, watch movies, and things like that.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
This item has been noticed for public hearing, or there are members of the public wishing to be heard on this item.
Okay, come on down, grab a microphone.
Anyone who wants to speak on this item, come down.
Let me ask you a question real quick, ma'am, while public members of the public are coming down.
Can you just um I'm sorry, Ariana?
Um, don't let that no come back up.
I've got a question for you, real quick before they start talking.
Uh this is for folks 65 and over only, correct?
Yes, madam chair.
Okay.
65 uh each uh only and uh you know possibly like disabled and things like that.
So uh when I was looking it up and studying it, actually, uh, if I just you know can respectfully mention that uh elderly that are 65 and above, specially with disabilities are actually protected by the Fair Housing Act and American with Disabilities Act that uh distancing, which is like the 660 feet, uh, you know, it should not be limiting people that needs to have housing.
Okay.
And so yes, so 65 and over is what your limited residents are, and this is not a halfway house.
No, madam chair, it's gonna be uh a residential facility for groups only.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
Okay, folks, come on down.
Everybody grab a microphone so you can just state your name and your address and two minutes on the clock for everybody.
And ma'am, you can step aside so somebody else from the public can grab that microphone.
Thank you.
Everybody always has a trouble with my name and spelling, so I'm gonna spell it for you.
Perfect.
All of it.
Terry Lee.
T-E-R-R-Y-L-E-A, all one word.
I have no middle name.
Last name's Hankins, H A N K I N S.
And I live at 5916 Perfect View Street.
And I've been there since they laid the first slab.
25 years.
Uh, it's a quiet elderly community.
And also the other four fingers, perfect view streets, very little.
It only goes so far.
We've got four fingers on that.
And the majority in Perfect View area are all elderly.
We might have two little kids in the middle or third finger.
Um, but the school is very close.
Lade middle school is extremely close.
As a matter of fact, if you knew you stand in the corner of the backyard of this house, uh, you can see the actual playing field and the actual school.
We have heavy traffic in there because of that.
And we also have cars with parents that come in there and park so that they can be on the side streets so that their children can walk the little short distance to their vehicles and not have to enter into the school zone.
So we have that in the mornings, and we have that in the certainly in the in the afternoon.
Not only that, but across the street from this residence, there is a Mexican family, and they have a large amount of family in this home.
There are five vehicles and sometimes six to this house.
But by the time everybody comes home and on weekends, you're doing good if you could get down Perfect View Street into that cul de sac.
You also have across the street directly from the Mexican family house.
And so they are on the street except for the boat.
I think ma'am, if you could wrap up.
Okay.
It's just very, very difficult.
Okay.
And finding a place to park, and it's uh this is going to bring in it's just just no room.
All right, thank you.
I am Dr.
Always, A L W E S.
I live at 5904 Perfect View, which is just about third or four houses from this location.
Like she said, there is so much traffic on that street.
Uh they come down the street pretty fast to avoid the school zones, and they make a really sharp turn at the cul-de-sac.
The cul-de-sac is two car garage homes with four vehicle families in three different buildings.
So that cul-de-sac has got RVs, motorcycles, trucks, and cars.
As far as she said the age restriction on that, I would like to know that that would be uh enforced because this is almost a retirement neighborhood.
The other thing is it says family community residents and transitional community residents.
That indicates to me a lot of people.
Community isn't just one or two people.
I'd like to know what the limit is on that uh building, what the limit is going to be for this program.
And I thank you for your time.
Thank you very much, ma'am.
Next, go ahead, please.
Um Sandra Adams, S-A-N-D-R-A, A D A M S.
I live at 5001 Tropical Cliff Avenue at the corner of Perfect View.
And my main concern there, we had uh one of our neighbors to previously get ill, and the ambulance had to come in.
When you come in there, you can't turn around or go out.
The ambulance had to pick the gentleman up and had to back out, you know, of the street.
And my thing is with you got elderly people that cannot go home.
This is uh dangerous, it could be life uh threatening to some people in case we do have to call an ambulance for them or whatever.
Like I said, it is so congested there with people with boats that are in their driveways, they have to park their cars on the street.
We have people that have their RVs in their driveways, so they have to park their cars on the street.
It's a busy tight spot.
You cannot even go up in the culture and just turn around.
You have to turn up in somebody's driveway, and that can that can cause problems.
And my main concern is for elderly people.
I don't think in that little corner there, it's safe as far as uh transportation as far as getting them in and out of there in case of an emergency.
I think it's dangerous.
Thank you.
All right, thank you, ma'am.
Beth Cushinson, Bob Thero There are a tropical new court.
I'm down the street from them.
I'm not gonna repeat what everybody said, but I totally oppose any commercial uh in our single resident area.
It will bring a property value down.
There's not uh enough parking space.
Um, I don't feel safe when you have people come in and out in a commercial area, and I'm afraid if we call anybody do anything, it's gonna take forever.
For example, we had a bandit car park there.
We call city, it took two months to move that abandoned vehicle.
Not only one vehicle, it's been several vehicles vehicles, and there's like an RV park there, nobody's doing anything, even though we're allowed 72 hours.
So anything happens over there, I feel like City's not gonna do anything.
So thank you.
Thank you very much, ma'am.
Go ahead.
My name is Linda Marvin.
I live at 5916 Perfect View Street.
Umderly people need a place to go.
And I've been a part of having a person in a in a place like that.
But this is a residential area.
There are children, a couple of little boys down at the cul-de-sac that play basketball there all the time.
My question to these to the owner of this is what happens, they've got a two-car garage, and they've got maybe six elderly people there, and six cars pull up to see their parents at the same time.
Where are these cars going?
There's no place for them to go.
Um, if this passes and it's zoned for this, what's to say that these people say, well, this is not being profitable, and we're gonna sell the house, and now that house is structured for maybe the next person to buy it and turn it into a halfway house.
So it's a residential area.
It's perfect, it was a perfect view street, and we'd like to keep it that way.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you very much.
Anyone else?
Um, which is to be heard on this item.
Okay, seeing none, I will close public comment.
I'll call the applicant back up.
Um did you have anything you wanted to say in response to public comment?
Uh yes, madam chair.
Uh, and I'm thankful for the residents to bring it up.
And I understand that when there's something new in the community, it raises concerns.
And I agree with that.
So if I can just show this map of the home.
So this is uh the home that we are applying for a specialty use permit.
So we would have an on-site parking.
Uh so when I did my pre-application, they actually only require two uh parking spaces.
And actually, with this plan, you'll have those two parking spaces, and it's good, it's still gonna be ADA compliant if there's an ambulance that's pulled over, and I would have ample of space here.
So, with here, I will show you on how our operations are gonna be.
So, more sorry.
So, morning care will be provided from this time to this time.
They will be doing their puzzles and things like that, and this is all gonna be quiet inside the house.
They will, of course, have their lunch and rest period from uh from 12 to 2 p.m.
And then afternoon programs and visits will only run from 2 to 5, dinner and quiet time from 5 to 8.
So we will be staffed based on the licensing after this.
If I get the permission from the city, we'll have one caregiver out to six residents, and I understand uh the concerns of how you know what if all these family members come up.
So under the HCQC and NRS 449 residential facility for groups, uh, can be licensed uh from seven to ten people at the same time before you need to be like a commercial, big assisted living facility.
Again, this is the house.
It's not an institution.
So basically, this is like me having my parents in the house, and since the family member is not available, then they'll be the one cooking for them, doing the laundry and things like that.
They won't be providing wound care, you know, no IV antibiotics or anything like that.
This is basically gonna be a home for our vulnerable uh veterans, elderly, and disabled individuals.
And again, as on my plan here on my justification letter, anything that's outside visitor hours will require administrator approval, and we will probably uh we will probably more low traffic than what they're already talking about in the community.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you very much.
Um, any members of the commission which make any comments on this item?
Um okay.
Um, Mr.
Rodilla, can you just now can you talk about what we were what I mixed up the two items on?
John Radilla, Assistant City Attorney, just to give you a little bit of history.
Back in 2008, the United States District Court of Nevada overruled all of the state of Nevada and Clark County restrictions on this type of use, which required extensive rewriting of the city code and and the county code, as Jeff could probably speak to.
Basically, residential facilities for disabled are governed by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Federal Rehabilitation Act in 1973, which largely permit up to 10 residents in a residential facility in in a residential zoning to be treated as a residence as if they were somewhat like family members.
There are abilities to limit um with distance separation only under certain criteria.
If the building is to be used, we modify to make it inconsistent with the neighborhood scale and architectural character.
If the number of community residences on a street were create sort of an institutional atmosphere where you have home after home, or the community residents would not comply with certain conditional use, like life safety licensure by the state in the tenants would be a direct threat to others.
Thank you very much for that, Mr.
Radilla.
Um let me ask you, Ms.
Paneda, a couple things.
Um how many people are you expecting to be in this home?
So we are expecting, Madam Chair, to license it for seven to ten uh individuals.
Okay.
And it's only going to be for residents 65 and over, correct?
Yes, madam chair, it's going to be licensed under the Bureau of Healthcare and Quality.
Okay.
And can we put staff?
Can we put a condition that has that same age restriction like we were doing for 14, 15, and 16, but instead of younger than, older than Madam Chair, through you, staff would like to read in an added condition prior to making a motion.
This condition would be added to 25-0543-SUP1.
And we'll read as follows: the use shall be limited to individuals 65 years of age and older.
Okay.
And then can we also just do an administrative review on this six months after operations commence?
Or something, just so we can sort of check in three-year chair, I can read that condition in.
I'm sorry, Josh.
The new condition shall read there shall be an administrative review by the Department of Public Works 60 days after operations commence to ensure function of the site as it relates to the daycare pickup and drop-off plan.
Never mind.
Not daycare.
It is not daycare as it relates to the pickup and drop-off plan of the overall operations.
If significant traffic issues arise prior to this day, the city engineer may require a review sooner than the 60-day period corrections for any non-compliance may must be completed by the applicant within 60 days of written notice from the city.
Okay.
And then Mr.
Rodilla, is it appropriate to put a cap of 10 residents on?
Is that permitted under FHA?
Yes.
Okay.
Are you willing to agree to a condition that you will never that you will not have more than 10 residents?
Yes, I have said my chair because that's going to be my license for.
Okay.
All right.
Just wanted to kind of put all that on.
Think you.
Okay.
So those will be the three conditions on that, and you would agree to all those conditions.
Yes, I do agree, Madam Chair.
Okay.
Do we need to just read them all in, Mr.
Floyd, or do you think we're holding a second?
Let me just do the conditions first.
Yeah, I think as far as the conditions, you read the two in and yours uh was was clear, I think for the as long as the clerk has those, then yes, we're good to go.
Okay.
Commissioner Salvio, you had a question.
Yeah, thank you, madam chair.
Uh, just for clarification for me, so those conditions are basically based on this applicant.
Should this applicant for some reason down the line change the business model, sell it off to somebody else?
Would it then revert back to becoming something that I hope it wouldn't, which would be some transitional housing or some type?
Uh this yeah, so the well, so this runs with the special use permit.
Um and so that'll be with the land, not with the applicant.
So someone else could come in and they would still be subject to those conditions.
Can I just add on, uh, Madam Chair?
So for our sedential facility work groups, it's actually governed by the state.
So every single year we have 30 licensed and every single month, we actually have a visit from the state to ensure that everyone, all the residents are safe and living with dignity.
Okay, thank you for that additional information.
Uh assistant city attorney Radilla down here.
Um the community residence, uh land use classification actually limits it from five to ten residents.
So the actual um permission she's getting from the city, it limits it to 10 maximum.
So it doesn't necessarily have to be a condition.
She'd be in violation of her land use entitlements.
But to Commissioner DiSalvio's point, I'm just trying to make sure that I just was trying to put some limits on that run with the SUP.
But if you're saying that the definition of the definite if you're saying that community residents as defined in this application is limited to no more than 10 at any time, then that is also can that's also like it doesn't need to be reconditioned to be built in suspenders kind of.
Yes.
Okay.
So then I guess the only conditions we need are 65 and over, and um administrative review Madam Clerk.
You got that.
Okay.
All right, got it.
All right.
Nobody has anything else.
I'll go ahead and make a motion on this.
Um motion to approve, subject to all conditions and the new conditions that we read in, and you are in agreement with those conditions.
Yes, madam chair.
Great.
Thank you so much.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your vote.
Uh that motion carries.
And that will move on to city council on February 18th.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
Item 28, 25 0551.
Applicant owner, Clark County School District for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests on the west side of Shomber Road, south of West Sky Canyon Park Drive, Ward 6 Bruni, staff recommends approval on the land use entitlement project.
May um 20 28A, 25 0551, SDR 1 for proposed two-story 114,995 square foot primary school, and 28 B 25-0551, MSP 1 for proposed signage in conjunction with the public institution school.
May we have the staff report, please?
Madam Chair, the applicant has proposed a new two-story elementary school within the Sky Canyon Master Plan community on a site classified as school on the Sky Canyon Master Land Use Plan.
Uh 63 classrooms are proposed, including future plan portables.
Staff finds the proposed development compatible with surrounding development.
Staff also finds the proposed master sign plan, provides unified site, a unified sign design for the school, is compatible with adjacent residential development and conforms to residential protection standards.
Therefore, staff recommends approval of both applications, subject to conditions.
Please note additional documents of protest and support have been received since publication.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, gentlemen.
If you could please state and spell your names for the record, uh give us your address and tell us about the project.
Good evening, Chairwoman, Planning Commissioners.
Chris Dingle, 1180 Military Tribute.
I'm with the Clark County School District.
This is an application for a new elementary school on Schomberg and Sky Canyon Park.
I want to turn it over to the architect.
He's going to give a brief presentation, and then I'll be able to answer any questions you may have.
John Lopeman, 8985 Southeastern Avenue.
Subject sites on uh Shomba Road.
Uh it also backs up to Sheep Mountain.
We do not have access to Sheep Mountain, so all of our access to the site is on Chamber.
So we have a bus loop at the north end, and then we have uh parent and teacher staff access off of Schomber that kind of works its way around.
There's a parent drop-off that uh we work quite a bit with staff to uh come up with this plan.
There's a couple of uh routes to go through here on the south side here.
Uh there's the exit for the parents, um, which wraps kind of wraps around the parking lot there.
Uh this is uh 850 students.
Um it's very similar in architectural style to the uh Hancock Elementary School that was built um it was completed this year uh in the city of Las Vegas.
Um courtyard, two buildings, courtyard, courtyard uh is uh shaded by the the south building.
And uh there's shade structures throughout the site.
Uh the playground is uh partially hardcourt and partially artif it's artificial turf at this time.
Uh there's a lot of slope to this site.
Um so there are some retaining walls.
So low end of the site is along Shomber, high end of the site is back by uh Sheep Mountain.
So we have uh kind of grabbing retaining here, so this is a little higher than it is right now in the play the play field area, and it's a little lower down here.
Uh this is the kindergarten area back here.
Uh so the site slopes down, flattens out, and then we retain on this edge.
Happy to answer any other questions.
Thank you very much.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard?
Seeing none, I'll close public hearing.
I will pass it back to the commission.
Anybody have any item um issues, questions on this item?
Okay, I just have one question.
If you can just kind of talk to me about um what you've got set up in terms of shade and urban canopy um at this campus.
The um grab the landscape plan here.
So this is the landscape plan.
We're uh we've got uh tree line uh along Chamber.
We have uh trees along the north edge over here where the uh playground is and uh ball field or turf area.
Uh there are multiple shade structures throughout.
So the play equipment is covered by a 50 by 60 shade structure, the kindergarten play equipment is covered by a 40 by 30 shade structure, and then there are uh one, two, three, four, thirty by thirty shade structures throughout the the playground.
Uh the school district for security reasons doesn't put trees in the parking in the central part of the parking lot.
It's their standard.
Uh they block views for cam their security cameras.
Okay, thank you very much.
Um that was I just kind of wanted you to do the walkthrough on that.
I'm really excited that we're getting another school up in ward six as we continue to grow.
It's so important that we have you know, our schools grow with us.
Um, and so it'll be nice to be able to open up a new facility.
When is it supposed to when do you break ground?
What school year would you start?
We're actually gonna start grading uh in a couple months.
Um the grading's out to bid.
Uh the school will be completed in June of 27.
Okay, fantastic.
Thank you guys so much.
Uh, thanks for the work.
Um, and with that, I will Madam Chair.
Yes, Madam Chair, through you.
We have an adjusted condition that we agreed to before the commission tonight.
Uh please adjust condition six to read as follows.
Dedicated right turn lane on Shomber Road for the main entrance to the school prior to issuance of off-site permits for the site.
Construct the right turn lane concurrent with off site on site development.
And this is the same as it was before, just rewritten for language and clarity.
Okay, thank you very much.
Um, so I want to make a motion to approve item number 28, subject to all conditions, including the amended condition.
Do you agree to all conditions?
Yes.
Great, thank you so much.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your vote.
Please post.
That motion carries.
Thanks, guys, for bringing a new school up to ward six.
Thank you.
And that will move on to city council on February 18th.
Item 29, 25 0552 SUP1, applicant owner, LV Arts District Owner LLC for positive.
Oh thank you.
Sorry.
Okay, I am so sorry, sir.
I'm gonna hold 29 for a second because I've got to go back to 14.
And I kept asking Mr.
Floyd to remind me.
So please come back up for 14.
And then I just get going really fast, and okay.
So where we are is on 14.
I am going to make a motion to approve this.
I know there are some challenges, but I do think it's um it will be harmonious and compatible um with some conditions and administrative review.
Um again, because this is an SUP, these conditions are going to run with the land essentially, so that things can't change um necessarily.
Sorry, carry on.
That's okay.
Okay, are we getting the conditions to read in in one comprehensive thing?
Okay.
Um so but but before we post the motion, I just want to have staff read in the conditions that we have crafted for your application.
Okay.
So madam chair, uh Seth Floyd for the record.
So we have we will be adding four conditions, and I'll have staff read them, but just to summarize what they are.
They are the I'll call it the circulation or on-site loading condition that we had on item 15.
Uh, there is an age uh condition that was on the other two as well, uh 15 and 16.
There will be an hours of operation on the outdoor recreation uh component, and then why can I never and the administrative review?
I'm sorry, the administrative review.
So uh Fred, if you'll read in the planning ones, and then I'll have Josh read in the circulation one or the loading and unloading one.
Uh sure thing.
Um so 14B, all recreation.
I'll order all outdoor recreation shall be limited to the hours of 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Uh staff for the group home shall only park uh off site within the available street parking and leave any on-site parking available for child pickup and drop-off.
All child drop-offs shall occur on site within the provided driveway and parking space.
And then we have the administrative review, which is all child drop-off shall occur uh on site within the provided driveway parking spaces.
There shall be an administrative review by the Department of Public Works 60 days after operations commence to ensure function of the site as it relates to the daycare pickup and drop-off plan for the overall daycare operations.
If significant traffic issues arrive prior to this date, the city traffic engineer may require a review sooner than the 60-day period.
Corrections for any non-compliance must be completed by the applicant within 60 days of written notice from the city, and the last condition is the age one.
Um give me one second, please.
Uh childs on site shall be uh 17 year years of old 17 years of age or younger.
Thank you.
Okay.
And you agreed all those conditions.
Actually, I think that's incorrect.
Um the driveway drop-off is actually on the ALTA property.
No, no, no, we're adding that to this one as well.
Oh, so okay, so it's an additional, so we're not we're not gonna mess with the bus.
Okay.
We're gonna just condition it like we did for the Ulta.
Okay, which is that's because that's what it reads in the code is that it's gotcha, gotcha.
Okay.
Okay, so there's no drop off on the adjacent street.
On the what?
On the adjacent street on the adjacent street.
Okay, all right now you can't drop off.
You can have staff and visitors park on that adjacent street, which is probably be a good neighborly thing to do.
Okay, but drop off must be on site, which is the driveway.
Okay, understood.
Okay.
Okay.
Yes, I agree.
Okay, all right.
Um, I guess that's it.
So with so you greet all those conditions.
I do, yes.
Okay.
Uh, and all the conditions previously put into the staff report.
Correct, yes.
Okay, so with that, um, and subject to all conditions, I'll make a motion to review item number to approve.
Item number 14, 25-0459, and its subparts 14A and 14B.
And there's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Oh, please post.
And that item uh passes.
Okay.
And that will move on to city council on February 18th.
Um, thank you, Madam Chair.
I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for your patience.
Um, okay, item 29, 25 0552, SUP1, applicant owner, L V Arts, District Owner LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for proposed alcohol on-premise full use for an improved multifamily residential development at 123 West Imperial Avenue Ward 3 Diaz.
Staff recommends approval.
May we have the staff report, please.
Madam Chair, the proposed alcohol on-premise use is located within a mixed-use development in the gateway district and is consistent with the city's master plan goals for downtown redevelopment.
Therefore, staff finds the proposed use can be conducted in a harmonious and compatible manner and existing surrounding uses and recommends approval of the special use permit subject to conditions.
Please note the incorrect plans were included in the agenda.
The recorrect plans for the project are located within your supplemental packet.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening, sir.
Yes, madam chair.
My name is William Stoddard.
I'm an attorney with the firm of Hulbright, Stotterd Warnick and Albright.
Our address is 801 South Rancho Drive, suite D4.
I'm here representing the applicant.
We agree with all of the staff recommendations and conditions.
Um what this really is is a um prerequisite to our full liquor license application.
And um it's simply for the purpose of adding an additional amenity to the new Miles apartment complex being constructed on the south end of the arts district in the center of Las Vegas.
The purpose is to simply add a self dispensing alcoholic beverage room on the third floor of the apartment complex for the residents, which is controlled pretty strictly by the uh licensing division of the city of Las Vegas.
And uh the purpose of it is simply to provide uh an opportunity for the residents in the the adult residents in the apartment complex to be able to um be able to get alcoholic beverages on site.
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
Okay, thank you, sir.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard on this item?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will pass it back to the commission.
Does anyone have any questions or comments on this item?
Okay, seeing none, I'll pass it to Commissioner Schlottman.
Yes, uh Chairwoman, uh no comments.
This is actually what we want to see down in the arts district, so I'm ready to make a motion.
Please do.
On item number 29, 25 dash or proper two SUP1 move to approve, subject to staff's conditions, and you agree to all the conditions if approved.
Yes.
All right, thank you.
Thank you.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Please Commissioner Schlottman.
Please post.
And that motion carries.
And that is final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Item 30, 25 0558 SDR1, applicant owner 711 F LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project.
Request for a proposed two-story six unit multifamily residential development with waivers of Title 19.09 form-based co-development standards at 711 F Street, Ward 5 Summers Armstrong staff recommends approval.
May we have the staff report, please.
Madam Chair, the applicant has proposed a two-story six-unit multifamily residential development.
The proposed rep the proposal represents needed multifamily housing within the historic west side.
Staff supports the requested waivers and exception of Title 19 development standards as they will have minimal negative impact to surrounding properties.
Staff finds the proposal consistent with the city's master plan goals for the historic west side and compatible with surrounding land uses.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, sir.
Michael Livingston, um, architect and on the agent for the owner.
My address 2851 Huba Heights Drive 89128.
Okay, great.
And if you can tell us about the project, please.
Um it's um the the project is uh located in the historic west side.
Uh right next to it's a difficult tight site right next door to um uh I-15, which runs through uh I-16, I for I-15, which runs very close to the site, and you can see from the photograph here that the site basically backs up into this sort of um into this difficult lot.
Um there are six units which have uh two bedrooms each.
Uh it's constructed for rental uh and to go basically through HUD program.
Uh the it's a durable construction made out of uh concrete block and uh with a metal roof.
Um the challenge of the site is the fact that down here the site drops off down to S Street, and we have to have the slab as being all level, so the access is coming in from the 20-foot right-of-way.
So that forms part of the conditions that we're and waivers that we're asking for.
Uh we don't have any objections to the uh the waivers.
Um we're quite prepared to go ahead with everything that's been listed, which amounts to um from the planning report uh staff report.
Uh I think it's 24 conditions.
We don't have any objection to uh any of those.
Um that's kind of basically uh the project.
Uh I mean it's it's aimed for um you know four families, and there is a backyard in every house.
So uh and each uh property is accessible.
Uh so it means that the whoever you know rents these places can um put the dog or the baby out there in the backyard, and uh good solution.
Uh we meet the requirements for putting in trash, um, and I'm in um contact with republic services.
Um there's no problem there.
We're asking for a waiver on the parking.
Uh but other than that, all access comes in from the right-of-way.
Uh and we have this sort of peculiar space on the south side, which uh is owned actually by the city of Las Vegas.
Uh it's a 20-foot right-of-way and utility, so all of our water and sewer will actually drop into the existing services which are along there going east.
Um, and that's that's the project.
Okay, thank you very much, sir.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will pass it back to the commission.
Do any commissioners have any questions or comments on this item?
Okay, uh, Commissioner Schottman.
Madam Chair, I I don't have any comments on this.
I I reviewed this and uh staff was recommending approval.
I agree with staff, and I'm ready to make a motion.
Okay, please do.
On item 325-055A SGR1 move to approve, subject to staff's conditions.
Thank you.
There is a motion on the floor.
Please cast your votes.
Commissioner DiSalvio.
Please post.
And that motion carries.
And that is final action.
Let's appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Item 31 25-0564, V A R1 applicant owner.
You're welcome.
CMR Ramirez Gonzalez for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow an existing seven-foot-tall front yard where front yard wall where five feet with a two-foot solid base is the maximum allowed at 4324 L.
Common Avenue, Ward 3DS, staff recommends denial.
May we have the staff report, please.
Uh Madam Chair, staff finds that the requested variance to be a self-imposed hardship as no evidence of a unique or extraordinary or extraordinary circumstance has been presented to warrant the granting of a variance.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of the request.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, folks.
If you could please state and spell your name for the record, give us uh, I guess your address and tell us about the project.
Good evening.
My name is Yomara Ramirez, and my address is 4324 El Calon Avenue here in Vegas, 89102.
Well, um uh we purchase is this is my first home.
We purchased this home in October.
So whenever we move, uh we notice that uh it was a section A in front of us, and we notice as well that there is a lot of concentration of homeless.
And for my understanding, and my neighbor says to me that that house before we purchase was embed for a lot of homeless.
They pretty much rebuild the whole house and they put concrete walls.
But for some reason, the homeless they think the house is still empty, and they try to get in twice.
We have to call the police.
Uh the retaining wall, the system retaining wall is very low, so anybody can just jump on in.
I have two two dogs, two service dogs, and they're well training, thanks, Scott.
But obviously, uh they be embarking on the homeless whenever they try to uh approach or get in, or one of them, two of them, they just pretty much bring all the stuff in front of my house and blocking my driveway.
And both uh few issues as well that the gates, they're not obviously uh working well, and anybody can just open it.
So uh one of them they try in the middle of the night, my dog uh start barking, and you know, he's very protective.
So my main concern is uh obviously I'm afraid for my safety that somebody can just jump in or something.
So my idea was just put a fence around the property.
So I was playing with the design, and I submit the design.
Also, I talk with my neighbors and ask them, and they gave me his signatures, and I have uh the signatures here with me, but a lot of my neighbors, and they say we have no problems.
The my house is a corner, so and obviously uh I cannot block any visibility.
So I try to do the design uh that not blocking any visibility for turn, but as well, like I say, I just need be safe in my home house.
And well, it's pretty much that that's my main concern.
My safety, my dogs.
I don't want they can bite somebody or somebody, you know, people they just poisoned him because they're just crazy people.
I love my dogs.
And well, me and uh I have a friend who is an architect, he helped me out with uh the design and the measurements and all that.
So we submit everything here, and hopefully you can help me uh with that, and if that's being approved, or what you are your suggestion because like I say is my first house here, and I never is my first time here.
I never been in all this uh trauma.
So I'm new in all this.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard on this item?
Seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will pass it back to the commission.
Anyone other than Commissioner Schlottman have any comments or questions on this one?
Okay, Commissioner Schautmann.
Yes, uh, Madam Chair.
I I reviewed this item, and I I didn't have any big issue with it because I mean it it you can still see through.
The the biggest problem that I had is I didn't want it to be misunderstood in the future to where you could have a seven-foot-tall uh solid wall, and uh what we have is the columns going up, and uh I I can care less that we have columns going to seven feet, but I don't want somebody getting confused and taking this as they could build a solid wall.
So I had staff create a condition, and I'd like to have staff read that into the record.
Sure, madam chair, through you.
So the condition will read the subject wall shall be in conformance with the site and site plan and elevations date stamp 1122 25.
So basically that means that it will uh we're proven what you showed us on on your your your drawings and nothing else.
Okay, you agree to that, and you agree to all other staff conditions if approved.
Yes.
Okay, which is getting permits and things like that.
Okay.
All right, Madam Chair, ready to make a motion.
Please do.
Item 3125-0564 VAR 1 move to approve, subject to staff's conditions and the added condition as read into the record by planning.
There is a motion on the floor, please cast your vote, please post.
And that motion carries.
Thank you so much.
And that is final action, let's feel the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Item 32, 25-0592, applicant owner D F A L C for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests, generally located on the east and west side of Harvey Munford Street, in between Washington Avenue and Bonanza Road, Ward 5 Summers Armstrong.
Staff recommends denial on the land use entitlement project 32A 25-0592 VAR1 to allow a 60-foot lot width where 100 feet is the minimum required.32 acres on APN 13928303005, 32B 25-0592 V A R2 to allow an 80-foot lot width where 100 feet is required, 0.38 acres on APN 139 28304003, and 32 C 25-0592 Z O N1 from RE residence estates and C1 limited commercial to C2 General Commercial.
May we have the staff report, please.
Madam Chair, staff finds the proposed rezoning from RE residence estates and C1 limited commercial to C2 general commercial to be inappropriate and consistent with the adjacent single family dwellings.
Additionally, no event evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented to warrant the requested variances to allow narrower lot widths than what is required in the C2 General Commercial Zoning District.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of all the requested land use entitlements.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, gentlemen.
Thanks for sticking around.
And you guys are quite the night owls.
Please uh go ahead and state your name, spell them for the record, give us your address and tell us about this project.
Lloyd Benson, uh my address is 7140 Doe Avenue, A9117.
Mac McKnight 431 from Maria Mist Las Vegas, Nevada.
So this property is DFA property.
Ahern Reynolds used to be there.
We sold out, he sold to United Rentals last uh two or three years ago.
And this property um over the years, he's been there for 50 years.
Uh over the years, he's bought different properties and assembled about 65, 70 acres over there over the years.
It's all over the board as far as zoning is is concerned.
And we're just trying to get everything zoned.
Uh uh C2 for future development in the near future, hopefully.
Uh, and this is part of that.
Uh and that's why I'm here.
Okay, thank you very much.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard?
Seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will pass it back to the commission.
Anyone have any comments or questions?
Commissioner Schlottman.
Yes, uh, madam chair, through you.
I uh we've reviewed this item before.
It we found this to be uh appropriate in the past.
It's still appropriate today.
Um if you look at the overhead uh or the TVs, you'll see that it's surrounded by by C2, C1, T4, T5.
Um, and you know, this is uh some of these things that they're asking for doesn't have the lot width, and uh and and so on and so forth.
But that's just until you know they get it rezoned, then they can re remap the whole thing.
They can't remap properties that that aren't zoned uh the same.
And the REM lots that are in there, uh none of them protested, and it was told to me that uh that none of them have reached out and we're we're upset they've got I actually have letters of support from the from the so this is appropriate.
It it there's gonna be a great development that comes in here at some point.
This uh isn't isn't gonna be residential, is surrounded by commercial, and hopefully uh we'll see a good exciting project come through.
For sure.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Um, you said you had letters of support.
Did you want to submit those into the record?
I submitted them to the city council last year.
Okay.
On some other properties, so they they have them.
Fantastic.
Thank you.
Okay.
Madam Chair, um, on item number 32.
Ready to make a motion.
Uh please do.
That's item 25 0592 uh 32A, 32B, and 32C.
Move to approve, subject to uh staff's conditions, and you agreed to staff conditions.
Thank you.
There's a motion on the floor, please catch your vote, please post, and that carries.
And though that item we'll move on to city council on February 18th.
Thanks, gentlemen.
Okay, and uh final public hearing item 33 25 0595 SUP1.
Applicant uh uh Aaron Nagash, owner Shri Ganesha Inc.
for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed six thousand nine hundred and seventeen square foot alcohol on premise full use at 700 Fremont Street Suite A, Ward 3 Diaz staff recommends approval.
May we have the staff report, please.
Um thank you, madam chair.
The request is to increase the square footage allowed to serve alcohol in an on-sale capacity within the existing establishment.
Staff staff finds the existing establishment remains harmonious and compatible with the existing development in the area, and staff is recommending approval.
Please note an additional documentation of protest has been received since publication.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, sir.
Um if you want to go ahead and see it and spell your name for the record, give us your address and tell us about the project.
Aaron McDash, Aaron.
Now it is.
Oh, Aaron Nagash, A R R O N E G A S H.
5408 Dilly Circle A9031.
Um I'm looking for the special use permit for on premise full use alcohol at 700 Fremont Street, Unit A.
Uh we already got it approved last um commission meeting, but the square footage was incorrect, so we look to get it corrected tonight.
Um it's called Limelight Social Club.
We do uh daytime cigar rooftop lounge, and then at night we uh have a nightclub with hookah, and throughout the whole entire day, we're a full service restaurant with to go available.
Okay, thank you very much.
This item has been noticed for public hearing.
Are there any members of the public wishing to be heard?
Okay, seeing none, I will close public hearing.
I will pass it back to the commission.
Anybody?
Uh Commissioner Schlottman.
Yes, through you, chair chairwoman.
Um house year improvements coming along.
You you pretty getting pretty close to opening.
Yes, we actually opened on uh New Year's Eve with a special uh special use uh event um one.
So we opened in and we already got approval for the upstairs.
Well, we didn't have the square footage for the downstairs.
So we've been running simply just the uh rooftop since New Year's, and it's been going pretty smooth.
We just want to get that downstairs because it's been pretty chilly these past few weeks.
Absolutely.
I walked that building a couple times, and uh anyways, congrats on your space and and uh let's see about getting you open.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
All right, madam chair, reading to make a motion.
Please do.
Uh item 3325-0595 SUP1 move to approve, subject to staff's conditions, and you agree to all staff's conditions, sir.
Yes.
Thank you.
The motion on the floor, please cast your votes, please post, and that motion carries.
Uh that is final action unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Okay, thanks.
All right, item 35, 25-0593, DIR1, applicant owner, city of Las Vegas for possible action on a request for the election of the 2026 planning commission officers.
Staff has no recommendation.
Um so at this time, I would like to make a motion or nomination and a motion on my nomination for chair for next year.
Um, and I would like to nominate Serena Kasama.
Um, it is tradition that the chair passes um to the vice chair.
Um, and I think that Serena will do a fabulous job.
Um got a little preview tonight.
So I'm very excited to make a motion to um appoint Serena as the chair of the planning commission for 2026.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
Please post.
Great.
And that carries congratulations, madam chair.
Um, and then we need to make a motion for vice chair.
Um at this time, I would like to nominate um Commissioner Schlottman to be our vice chair.
I just want to say how much I appreciate all of his mentorship and support um during this year when I was chair.
Um, I was sort of like the rare bird where I didn't pass through vice chair, and so I could not have done it without all of his tag teaming and all of his help.
So I would like to make a motion to have um Trinity provide that same uh support to Chair Kasama next year, and um that's my motion.
Motion on the floor, please cast your votes and please post.
And that carries.
And because those were public hearings, those are final action.
Let's appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Great.
Congratulations, Chair and Vice Chair.
All right, uh, Madam Chair.
Yes, sir.
Quickly before we move into citizens' participation.
I have a quick amendment to item number 22.
Um we inadvertently left out a condition of approval uh for this item.
I did speak to the um the applicant Justin Miller verbally on the phone, and he concurs with this added condition.
So we would like to add the following condition to item 22.
Um and it reads as follows.
An administrative required review is conducted, it shall be conducted one year from the date of final inspection for the sign.
Thank you.
Okay.
Um process question for the city attorney for 22.
Do we just need to rescind the motion and then redo the motion?
Correct.
Okay.
So for item 22, I believe uh Commissioner Schlottman made the motion if you wanted to just remake the motion on 22 and add that condition in.
Oh, wait, do we have to make a motion?
Oh, he's coming.
All right, I'm on item 22 uh 25-0529 V A R 1, re-assend the previous motion.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your votes.
And please post in the motion to rescind carries.
And through through you, Madam Chair, could I have staff read that into the record again?
Sure thing through you, madam chair.
So 22 has a total of two added staff conditions.
Uh the first condition that was added by staff was the subject sign shall not be illuminated between the hours of 9 p.m.
and 6 a.m.
And this follow-up condition is um a condition of approval.
I'm sorry.
An administrative required review shall be conducted one year from the date of final inspection for the sign.
Okay, thank you.
On item 22, 252529 VIOR1, uh move to approve, subject to staff's conditions and the two addict conditions as read into the record by Mr.
Solis.
Thank you.
There's a motion on the floor, please cast your vote, please post.
And that motion carries.
And those items are for that item, excuse me, is final action unless appeal to city clerk in 10 days.
Okay.
And then finally, citizens participation.
Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the planning commission.
No subject may be acted upon by the planning commission unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.
If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record.
The amount of discussion on any single subject, as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed, may be limited.
Do I see anybody for citizens' participation?
Uh I will just say um thanks guys for a fantastic year serving as chair.
Um everybody has been so fantastic.
I really appreciated all of the help from staff, all of the support from my awesome fellow commissioners, and um, yeah, so this is the last time I get to to do this.
So uh we are adjourned.
Las Vegas Planning Commission Meeting – January 14, 2026
The Las Vegas Planning Commission met on January 14, 2026, starting at approximately 6:00 PM and concluding after 9:00 PM. The meeting included public comments, housekeeping, consent items, and 20 public hearing items covering variances, special use permits, site development plans, and zoning changes. Key decisions included approvals for a tiny‑home park denial, three group home/daycare facilities with conditions, and a new elementary school. The commission also elected its 2026 officers.
Consent Calendar
- Items 7 & 8: Approved as routine. (Final action unless appealed within 7 days.)
- Item 9 (One Motion, One Vote): Approved – massage establishment with waivers at 6340 W. Charleston Blvd. (Proceeds to City Council on Feb. 18.)
Public Comments & Testimony
- Item 18 (5924 W. Lone Mountain Road): A resident of 30 years opposed the proposed zoning changes and SUP for a construction yard, stating the business had already expanded beyond its zoning and that the applicant had not followed rules.
- Item 14 (5617 Grand Guinness Court): Kyle McGuire (neighbor) opposed the daycare variance, citing school buses, double parking, and traffic on the cul‑de‑sac. He noted the facility had been operating without proper permits.
- Item 23 (Alta & Tonopa – apartment building): Steve Pichet opposed the 154‑unit, 7‑story project due to insufficient parking (154 spots for 154 units) and fear of overflow into residential streets. The item was held 30 days.
- Item 14 (continued): Additional neighbors (David Lee, Lisa Solby, Todd Solby, Robert Surreal) opposed the daycare, citing traffic, noise, and safety concerns. A parent (Sandra Kinney) and the provider (Shannon) spoke in support, presenting a video of drop‑offs and arguing the facility provides needed childcare.
- Item 27 (5933 Perfect View Street): Several neighbors (Terry Lee, Dr. Alwes, Sandra Adams, Beth Cushinson, Linda Marvin) opposed the residential facility for elderly, citing traffic congestion, parking issues, and emergency access concerns. The applicant (Ariane Pineda) explained the facility would house 7–10 elderly/disabled residents and operate like a private home.
Discussion Items
- Item 10 (25‑0557 VAR1 – Donald Road variance): Applicant requested a variance to reduce the required fee contribution for deferred street improvements from 50% to 0% because the road will be built to rural standards. Commissioners DeSalvio and Schlottman opposed putting the burden on future homeowners. The item was held 30 days to February 10, 2026, for further discussion with the applicant and Public Works.
- Item 11 (25‑0096 – Tiny house park): Applicant proposed a 50‑unit tiny‑home park on 2.25 acres at Searles Ave. & 23rd St. Staff recommended denial citing inconsistency with the master plan (underdevelopment) and insufficient trees. The applicant presented seven elevation versions to improve aesthetics. After extensive debate about durability, landscaping, parking, and air‑conditioner screening, the commission voted to deny. Commissioner Schlottman noted he could not support due to landscaping and design concerns but encouraged the applicant to address issues before City Council. Motion to deny carried.
- Items 14, 15, 16 (Group home/daycare facilities): Three separate applications for in‑home childcare (up to 12 children) with parking variances. Staff recommended denial for all due to parking shortages. Public testimony on Item 14 (Grand Guinness Court) was sharply divided. After discussion, the commission approved each with conditions:
- Item 14 (25‑0459): Approved with conditions limiting outdoor recreation to 8 a.m.–5 p.m., requiring staff to park off‑site, all drop‑offs on‑site, an administrative review by Public Works within 60 days of operation, and children limited to age 17 or younger.
- Item 15 (25‑0460 – Alta Drive): Approved with similar conditions plus removal of the waiver for 5 a.m. operation; administrative review in 60 days.
- Item 16 (25‑0462 – Monterey Avenue): Approved for the SUP and parking variance; denied the variance for the existing carport (patio cover) in the front yard; approved the storage shed variance. Children limited to age 17 or younger.
- Item 18 (25‑0504 – Lone Mountain landscape yard): Applicant proposed converting a home to a landscape materials showroom (no heavy equipment). Staff recommended approval. Public comment from the resident who spoke earlier. The commission approved with conditions prohibiting outdoor storage of heavy equipment and limiting hours to 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Mon.–Fri., Saturday by appointment, closed Sunday.
- Item 22 (25‑0529 – Church sign variance): Approved with added conditions: sign illumination only 6 a.m.–9 p.m., and an administrative review one year after final inspection.
- Item 27 (25‑0543 – Residential facility for elderly): Approved with conditions limiting residents to age 65+, an administrative review 60 days after operation, and a maximum of 10 residents (per land use definition).
- Item 28 (25‑0551 – New elementary school): Approved with adjusted condition for right‑turn lane on Shomber Road. School to open by June 2027.
- Item 29 (25‑0552 – Alcohol on‑premise at apartment complex): Approved for a self‑dispensing alcohol room for residents only.
- Item 30 (25‑0558 – Six‑unit multifamily): Approved with waivers.
- Item 31 (25‑0564 – Front yard wall variance): Approved with condition that the wall conform to submitted plans (columns only, not solid).
- Item 32 (25‑0592 – Rezoning and lot width variances): Approved; applicant had letters of support from adjacent property owners.
- Item 33 (25‑0595 – Alcohol on‑premise at Limelight Social Club): Approved to correct square footage.
Key Outcomes
- Held/Continued: Items 10, 12, 23, 26, 34, 36 were held to February 10, 2026. Item 20 was withdrawn without prejudice. Item 17 was continued to February 10.
- Denied: Item 11 (tiny house park) – final action; Item 16B (carport variance) – part of Item 16.
- Approved: Items 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 (with partial denial), 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. Most approvals are final action within 10 days unless appealed to the city clerk; some go to City Council on February 18, 2026.
- Officer Elections: Serena Kasama elected Chair, Commissioner Schlottman elected Vice Chair for 2026.
Note: The meeting transcript indicates the meeting was properly noticed and recorded. The agenda and minutes were not available for cross‑reference.
Meeting Transcript
Good evening, everyone. We are ready to begin. This planning commission meeting is called to order. This meeting has been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the open meeting law. These proceedings are being video recorded and can be viewed live on City of Las Vegas TV on Cox Cable Channel 2. You can also watch the meeting live online and access other city content by visiting Las Vegas Nevada dot gov backslash connect. The proceedings will be rebroadcast on City of Las Vegas TV the Saturday after the meeting at ten AM Monday at midnight and the following Tuesday at six PM. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Vice Chair Cassama. Present. Commissioner Schlottman. Present. Commissioner Rogan. Present. Commissioner DeSalvio. Commissioner Lebaux. Present. You have a quorum. Thank you. I call to your attention the information printed in your agenda concerning our actions and the appeal and review process if appropriate. Please read this carefully, and if you have any questions, staff is available. Also, the second page of the agenda contains our rules of conduct. Next up is public comment during this portion of the agenda. Comments must be limited to matters on the agenda for action. If you wish to be heard, come to the podium and give your name for the record. This is to voice my opposition for item number 18, which is regarding the proposed changes to 5924 West Lone Mountain Road. I've lived in this area for approximately for over 30 years. Whoops, I'm just decided to get really funky here. Fortunately, the majority of the land in this area has been developed. But there's a vacant dirt parcel next to this business that I fear they will purchase so that they'll be able to expand. I now do oppose this. It started as what appeared to be a family-owned company, but the business has continued to grow and develop beyond what it was zoned for. Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the zoning issues be done before the work has happened? One asks that it be changed from residential to service commercial, another to limited commercial, another two limited material and lumber yard use in a residential area. Lil Sopratos is located next to this parcel, very close to the parcel. I live across the street in Rancho Altamere. Probably shouldn't have said that, but anyway. They say that they need to bring in materials, but it appears that they have a pile of sand there in the center that they've been driving their vehicles around. We do not need a construction yard in this area. And I'm disappointed that the commission is recommending approval to an entity that is obviously not played by the rules. The property has already been developed into a business. Is there not a penalty or fine for this? I ask that you at least deny the zoning one and SUP One requests. Why would you reward them for not following the law? Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Anybody else under this item? Come on down, sir. Folks, if you're gonna speak on an item, rules for tonight, or please come down as soon as that item is called so we can have an efficient meeting. Please state your name for the record and let us know what you're referring to.
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