We'll call the historic preservation commission meeting to order.

Um we'll start with roll call.

Now it's official, I gaveled okay.

Chair Laramie here, Vice Chair Levine.

He's supposed to be in the phone.

Oh, thank you.

Commissioner Stodle.

Commissioner Hodgkiss.

Commissioner Serface?

Here.

Commissioner Cosgrove?

Here.

Commissioner Palacios.

Commissioner Moody?

Here.

Commissioner Purdue.

Here.

Commissioner Grimmer.

Commissioner Harper?

Here.

Commissioner Crant?

Here.

Commissioner Gillespie?

Here.

Thank you.

We do have a quorum.

Great.

Thank you.

Our second item is an announcement regarding compliance with open meeting law.

Are we in compliance?

Yes, we are in compliance.

Great.

Thank you.

Our third item is public comment.

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

If you wish to be heard, please come forward and give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited.

Is there anybody here wishing to speak during public comment?

Seeing no one, we will move on to item four, chair's announcement relative to the historic preservation commission.

I have no announcements today.

Item five is for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of December 10th, 2025.

Do we have a motion or any comments on the minutes?

Move to approve as it stands sold off for the record.

Commissioner Harper for the record.

In the minutes, there's uh one section that where I've asked a question about a cantilever option.

And in the and in the minutes, yeah.

It says canal level rather than cantilever.

I just want to make sure that that's corrected.

In the in the minutes?

Yep.

Um the section related to the mob museum design.

Yep.

Thank you.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Any other comments before we proceed with the motion?

Without a uh change, uh uh amend my motion to accept the change.

Okay, great.

So we have a motion to approve with the um changes to the minutes as noted.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

That motion passes with the chair voting in favor.

Item six, 26-0017-HPC 1.

Report by staff from the Department of Community Development regarding the City of Las Vegas 2050 master plan as it relates to historic preservation sustainability practices.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

Marco Vallada, City of Las Vegas Department of Community Development for the record.

I believe we got a uh presentation here for you today, but I'm going to discuss uh the 2050 master plan and uh some of the sustainability practices that uh we have been employing and that some of the things that will be happening over the upcoming months that are relevant with respect to historic preservation and this commission in particular.

So just as a brief reminder, the master plan is our policy document that establishes uh the long-term growth for the for the city uh over the next uh 25 years.

Uh the the zoning portion of it is is separate.

That is contained under Title 19, and as you are familiar with, of course, uh Title 19 has a specific uh set of regulations for historic preservation and an overlay that is specific for uh for certain parts of the city as well as landmarks and other parts of uh the uh the community that were historic preservation is and so designated have gone through you and uh um Dr.

Crant for uh for a review and approval.

Um so that is a requirement of uh Nevada revised statutes, chapter 278.

Uh, we have to have an element that is specific to historic preservation, uh, and then an inventory of all the properties that uh that are within the city that have made their way onto the the list uh in some form or another.

Uh we also provide information about the efforts to uh to encourage historic preservation and uh some of the things that uh this commission does.

The goal, of course, is to preserve and reuse historic sites and structures within the city.

Uh and we are uh we have a number of key actions that we want to try to uh adhere to specifically find ways that we can uh prioritize and educate uh the public on the value of preservation and counterbalance redevelopment with preservation efforts.

They don't necessarily have to be at odds with each other.

Um and I would also throw in other parts of the master plan as well, uh doing so in a way that is uh uh sustainable given that we have a unique uh geographic um uh conditions and an environment that is specific to uh you know southern Nevada, where we want to make sure that we're uh taking advantage of renewable energy and uh conserving water and conserving resources, that that kind of thing.

So we're the city itself, though.

We have had um a really good robust track record uh for more than 20 years now.

Uh we have uh we have done a lot of sustainable things, and you can see evidence of it throughout uh the community, but really this is something that's been in our DNA.

Uh we have um uh uh LEED certified public buildings, uh City Hall right across the way is uh is our flagship building uh that's been legal certified since 2012, and we have a number of others that complement that as well.

A number of fire stations, uh we have the mob museum, of course, um, and then another uh a number of other facilities that have uh employed a lot of energy efficiency measures.

We have six megawatts of solar throughout the city, uh we've have EV charging stations at our uh a lot of our public facilities, we have single stream recycling here and other uh other facilities.

So, really, we have tried our our best to ensure that.

And not only that, we have um ensured that the community as a whole is also been sustainable.

As we developed that 2050 master plan, we went through a certification process for LEED, uh, it's called the lead for cities, and uh we were able to assess a lot of metrics for sustainability and historic preservation happened to be one of those.

We also took it a step further to make sure that we are a net zero city, so pretty much every single building and facility, our street lights, our wastewater treatment load is served by renewable energy in one form or another.

Uh, some of that is solar, but a portion of that is also hydropower that we get from uh Hoover Dam, as well as uh you know uh coming up here in uh later on this year.

We have investigated uh getting additional hydropower resources from Parker and Davis dams.

So the intersection of historic preservation sustainability.

Uh, a few things to note just kind of at the top.

Um, within Title 19, there are procedures that this commission has specifically for renewable energy systems within historic districts.

Uh those those procedures are um are adhered to, and you may have seen uh it within neighborhoods like John S.

Park, solar systems.

You know, again, it we want to maintain the historic uh integrity of the properties and the buildings that are within those neighborhoods, but there are means and there are procedures that are in place uh for homeowners who want to install uh PV system just so long as that it's uh you know it meets some very basic minimum standards.

Similarly, we have water conservation standards uh that SNWA, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and um the Nevada legislature have put forth that we also try our best to uh to adhere to as well.

And this has gotten a lot of press, especially over the last year.

Um turf conversions, uh most of that is applicable to commercial properties and civic uh properties, but uh a lot of our homeowners throughout the throughout the region, of course, have taken advantage of the water smart landscaping program, which means that they have converted their their yards, their turf grass to uh zeroscaping or some other form of desert landscaping.

So it is something to be aware of.

Uh these things are done, of course, because the drought and the conditions that we have along the Colorado River Basin, but we want to make sure that we try to reduce uh our consumptive use overall so that uh our allocation remains uh stable uh despite some of the negotiations that are going on at the federal level.

Uh recently we adopted a uh an urban forestry management plan, and this is applicable to mostly to city facilities and city assets, but there is a crossover for the um you know for private space as well.

We want to try to increase our overall tree canopy.

That's something that our 2050 master plan speaks of uh quite a bit.

You know, we have an urban heat island effect that is a that impacts downtown Las Vegas, East Las Vegas uh the most, um, but at the same time, you know, one of the ways we can help try to combat that is to increase canopy coverage by planting trees.

And trees are definitely some one of those things that could be uh considered um special, uh well preserved, you know, worthy of preservation.

Um we have uh there is a tree in northern Nevada right outside the gate of University of Nevada Reno that is uh dedicated uh um for the uh civil war soldiers who uh who fought and died that were from Nevada.

That is an example of a tree that that the City of Areno sought to preserve and make uh note of, and that's listed in the uh in SHIPO's register of historic landmarks uh statewide.

Similarly, you could do the same thing for for public trees or other or other objects that are similarly uh of value.

But the idea here is that in especially in the older parts of town, in the neighborhoods that are historic, you know, you have a lot of good canopy cover, and you and uh through this urban forestry management plan, we're trying to find ways to keep those older trees that have a lot of good shade alive and make sure that um property owners uh keep them up and make sure make sure we don't lose that canopy uh despite uh despite their age and some of the conditions like heat or uh or the drought uh from killing them.

Uh we do have a tree baked program that's going on right now.

I threw this in.

It is specific to wards one, three, and five, the the East Las Vegas downtown uh West Las Vegas Charleston corridor.

Um if you are interested and you live within these areas, uh you can you can certainly sign up for that, and you can get a free tree to plant uh for residential properties within uh within these zip codes and census tracks that you kind of see uh on this on this fire.

And if there's any any information you'd like, uh I can certainly address that in uh in the comments afterwards.

Um with respect to the built environment itself, you know, one of the tools that uh arguably is um at our disposal for for sustainability purposes is the reuse of buildings, and we have a lot of great examples of that.

Um, but but certainly, you know, that that is one of the things that we could do more to try to encourage the the reuse throughout uh throughout southern Nevada.

You know, we have you know the the Mob Museum, the Neon Museum, Huntridge, uh a lot of the buildings within the arts district.

Uh we have seen going from one use to another, and that of course means a lot of rest of restoration, a lot of improvements to the interiors, while at the same time trying to make sure that we have that we preserve the external character of those uh of those buildings and facilities while they transition from one use to another.

We don't have a lot of good examples of strictly you know commercial to residential, as you might find in other cities in the across the United States.

Um there are some there have been some efforts that have been out there to try to uh to try to do that.

Um an example in northern Nevada are a lot of the casinos in downtown Reno have converted uh from hotel from hotel casinos to uh to residential in some form, whether that's apartments or condos.

Uh there are some um there are some good examples there.

Um we have uh certainly seen some unique ones in other parts of the state, uh in Minden, Nevada, the flower mill uh in uh in Minden has converted to a distillery.

Um, you know, and a lot of the automotive uses that you see uh that were along uh the main street commerce street corridor uh just to the south of us have you know turned into restaurants and made a really lively and inviting environment.

And arguably this is one of those of those activities that this commission and the city of Las Vegas can do to help ensure a sustainable built environment.

And then finally, uh, what goes hand in hand is that counterbalance of new development with uh with the existing environment, making sure that we don't have buildings that uh that come down as a result of uh pressures from uh from economic pressures and the just the desire to build to build new.

So uh we have been working on a transit oriented development ordinance.

We do have an upcoming workshop that uh that discusses this, and it's really focused on the urban core uh and along our major arterial corridors like Charleston Boulevard, where you find a lot of our older or older building stock.

Uh this goes hand in hand with with new development as as a tool, and there are some there are some incentives that are available through the redevelopment agency.

There's been some recent state legislation that could help facilitate some of this, not only for getting new construction, but for rehabilitation of existing properties.

And transit oriented development really what it is is you know developing you know those those residential and commercial mixed uses within a close proximity, close walking distance of a transit stop.

If we have a major transit project uh that gets uh constructed along a corridor like Charleston Boulevard or Maryland Parkway, we might see more of that uh new development occur.

And our land use elements uh really does talk about transit oriented development.

It's one of those things that we are trying to ensure um happens as part of our growth strategy.

You know, we have to start building up instead of building out, and we are at our limits now.

So our general plan really does focus in on these corridors that RTC identified.

Um, Charleston, Eastern, Maryland Parkway, Nellis.

We're starting to see the evidence of that transit system uh go under construction right now.

Um Boulder Highway is under construction in Henderson, Charleston Boulevard is under an alternatives analysis right now, and then Maryland Parkway, you probably see the most evidence of that.

We have a BRT stop right in front of this building here on Bonneville in front of the transit center, and around each of these uh transit stops or transit stations in whatever form it is, whether it's bus or epitransit or light rail, we'd like to see more intensity, more development go in and you reutilize some of those existing parking areas that that vacant space uh that could be better utilized, and then if there are those existing buildings that are there, those opportunities to create something new from the existing building stock, you know, there you have an excellent opportunity for adaptive reuse.

So some of the things that are coming up just uh just to give you an idea, you know, and the I mentioned the transit-oriented development uh zoning overlay and some parking standards to go along with that.

We do have a workshop coming up in February uh to talk about those two items in particular.

Uh, we are also working on uh some more robust tree and landscaping standards to go kind of hand in hand with uh the TOD efforts.

We do have uh an attainable housing uh incentive package that we're working on uh that is specific uh uh that specifically implements assembly bill 540 from this last legislative session.

Um we feel that that kind of uh dovetails with uh the residential opportunities, and you know, we don't really distinguish between new construction or rehabilitations.

They they could be applied to both, um, but those you know, we help we can help offset the construction of new housing or rehabilitation of existing housing as long as it meets affordability uh metrics.

Uh we do have an upcoming um uh infill uh residential and uh commercial zoning infill effort that's been going on.

Uh uh one text amendment we're considering uh would help bring our zoning code into conformance with assembly bill 241, which requires residential uses to be permitted in commercial and mixed zoning districts.

Um and then finally, uh there's been a lot of effort by uh by the city on updating uh zoning standards for uh form-based code and the arts district is one of those locations where that would take place.

And finally, uh we do have a sustainability action plan.

It's not yet agendized, but uh coming soon.

Uh we will talk more about our sustainability efforts and what the city is doing and what residents and developers can do to help make the Las Vegas a sustainable place for the future.

Um, and with that, if there's any questions, I'd be more than willing to answer them.

Thank you.

I'll open it up to commissioners for questions or comments questions.

Thank you very much for a very straightforward and uh detailed uh detailed report.

Uh in reading the report over the last week, uh the uh historic preservation is is referenced throughout the report, including a specific chapter that that deals with that.

Is it part of the process?

Are there updated progress reports on the uh uh on the master plan uh every year, every two years?

How does that work?

Yeah.

Uh Commissioner, to the uh chair to you we provide an update on our metrics every year.

Uh that usually falls right around September or so uh based on how we collect data and when that falls.

Uh we've done four of those reports, and they can be found online at uh masterplan.vegas uh and we take a look at all of the master plans outcomes uh and with respect to uh historic preservation, we look at specifically how many new structures or or historic historic preservation efforts have taken place over the last year and whether or not there have been new districts that have been added.

Um I do talk with uh Dr.

C Brant um when we when we do that uh when we do that report and uh we kind of measure over time just how many uh how many efforts have taken place over the past uh the past couple uh years to see that cumulative increase in historic preservation.

So in the uh in the three or four, I think it's four pages that's listed under uh 1D historic preservation, really lists the outcome.

I think almost outcome or goals that uh uh the plan was at least one local historic district per one thousand one hundred thousand.

Will is that been updated in any of your reports?

Uh if we go on what you say Vegas dot master or what was it?

Yes, sir, it's master plan dot Vegas.

Okay.

Yeah.

And yeah, on that outcome in particular, that one uh hasn't hasn't really moved in the it would equate to about six historic districts.

So if there are efforts to bring in a new neighborhood, uh that would that would go towards it.

But right now, I mean it's it's more or less state the course.

In the downtown, again, uh historic preservation or history is mentioned throughout the report.

One of the places in downtown Las Vegas, and it says uh that uh it history continues to attract visitors who are looking for historic and authentic Las Vegas uh uh experience.

Um there's a movement right movement, maybe too strong, but there is a movement uh to preserve the Vegas VIX sign, which is is falling apart.

I mean it's uh been the the owners have been cited several times.

Is that where would that fall under your jurisdiction, so to speak, to uh to to check that, or is that something that that comes in under Dr.

C.

Brent's office?

Yeah, uh again, Mark of a lot of for the record, uh, through the chair to you uh for uh something like uh uh a sign or something like that, that typically go through the the process that we have outlined in Title 19.

So if there's uh a desire for that to be designated, we'd have um a meeting with the property owners and and uh an application for something that would eventually make its way to this commission.

Yeah, I think it's more than a sign.

I mean it's an iconic part of the since the since the 40s.

Um couple other quick questions.

Uh the urban forestry is is that where is that plan?

Is that online now?

Great.

Okay, I'll I'll I'll I'll find it.

Um the the other challenge is that and and I see it as as an opportunity in the report, it talks about the historic John S.

Park neighborhood, and I'll be a little dramatic, not prohibiting uh development uh uh along Las Vegas Boulevard.

Um and there is there work that's being done on that part of the the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard, where right now there's a buffer between uh Las Vegas Boulevard.

Well, there's a all those are commercial, but between the end of the commercial and John is park, because John is park is one of our our more uh important uh uh historic districts.

They all are, but this one is uh got a lot of our attention.

I just worried that that the buffer zone will push right up against and so will the people that own those homes will be looking at the back of uh 30 story buildings.

Uh which by the way, uh I remember our our mayor Goodman saying Las Vegas will never become a city until we have high rises like they have in Manhattan.

I I don't think that's part of your redevelopment plan.

I think you mentioned we have to go up uh up.

Is there uh a limit on up?

I mean, I obviously there is, but I mean, is in under the master plan that we're not gonna have 30, 40 story buildings.

Yeah, sure.

Um again, Marco Velata for the record.

So uh the idea behind redevelopment is making sure that it's context sensitive, and I believe both the form-based code and the transit oriented development overlay that we're proposing, it would restrict the amount of height.

We're not envisioning you know, major skyscrapers throughout the entire city of Las Vegas.

I mean, we're talking more or less human scale.

So I think what we have essentially proposed map matches or aligns of foreign-based code in many respects with respect to to building height.

So the at the very most and the most intense that you would see is uh no more than um seven stories on average.

Um we're trying to get more or less three to five stories uh that in those major arterial corridors, so we're not creating a a canyon effect.

Downtown itself might be a little bit different, but we're talking about the the core where you see most of the existing development.

That's I think where our T6 UG T6 UC districts are, which allows for probably the most intense and largest uses in terms of um bulk and mass and height.

So around John S.

Park, you know, I didn't we we haven't rezoned there just yet.

Uh there's certainly a um that there's going to be that long-term effort to make uh the form-based code uh fit in there, but we're we're trying to get for something along a a smaller scale that's not causing uh a tremendous amount of impact to the surrounding neighborhoods.

And that would be true for many of our arterial corridors where you have those existing established neighborhoods.

We don't want to have skyscrapers next to single family residential.

Last question has to do with your report, and it's very important part of our uh as a matter of fact, I think at our next meeting, we're gonna have a uh a very documented uh detailed report on Thule Springs Park.

And and there's part of it in the master plan, there's a whole area that deals with uh with Thule Springs, although it seems to deal more with the residential area that surrounds that, which over the years has become a hodgepodge of in and out and and different w can you focus on what the the uh study, what the master plan deals with as far as the park itself, uh and how the residential thing may change that to some degree.

Marco Vellata for the record, so we we have um many years ago, I want to say right around 2007, 2008 time frame, we we have a s um a plan specifically for the park itself that was adopted, and I think it was done with this with this commission.

Um the 2050 master plan does speak to um those part those recreation open spaces in the the suburbs in the northwest.

Uh we one of our strategies to try to get you know the plan implemented is been doing special area plans, uh the Thule Springs area, which is adjacent to the Floyd Line Park at sp at Thule Springs.

We haven't done the one for that yet, but we just did one for Kyle Canyon, which is immediately to the west, uh, and then goes all the way up to the Kyle Canyon interchange and then west to our to our city limits and our boundaries.

And really the focus there was to try to ensure that we have smarter single family residential development that suburban, but is also um you know context sensitive in terms of its density and transitions.

Um so uh near the park, you know, I think what you you have there is what you're gonna continue to get.

It's the large lot um ranch estates.

I mean, not a lot of that is really going to change and the few parcels that are out there that are BLM that may be sold at auction for residential development, they're gonna be pretty much matching up with the existing character.

you know context sensitive in terms of its density and transitions um so uh near the park you know I think what you you have there is what you're gonna continue to get it's the large lot um ranch estates I mean not a lot of that is really going to change and the few parcels that are out there that are BLM that may be sold at auction for residential development they're gonna be pretty much matching up with the existing character and I think you know Silverstone the the neighborhoods you know that comprise Sunstone I mean there you won't see too much more of that existing pressure on the park itself uh that would I would say you know spoil what you see my question is is is it part of the plan to take some of the park area that now and and turn it in residential area because if you look at a map it goes this way it goes that way with the residential area was just sort of sold by previous city okay I'm not aware of that part of it okay thank you very much I really appreciate your your your comment um are there any other comments or questions I do have some myself but we'll make sure other commissioners okay um I also just have a couple questions um going back to your presentation and you discussed kind of the initiative for increasing the urban um canopy the tree canopy within um the downtown area I'm curious with how that has how successful that's been with some of the redevelopment and adaptive reuse projects going through just kind of qualitatively with the development that I see and coming in around my area it seems like the landscape requirements are usually what gets asked to be removed or kind of um you know not met with a variance um and so it seems to be particularly challenging for developers to meet those requirements so I'm I'm curious if that is kind of a widespread issue um you know beyond just my own personal experience and what are some kind of solutions or how are we trying to work with developers to get both and in those types of projects work of lotta for the record and I'm sure uh as as you may be familiar with there are kind of two sides of of what we try to do uh with respect to tree planting so the lot of the arterial streets the public rights away that we have we're working with our urban forester to ensure that we're meeting the the zoning standards whether that's form based code or in downtown or Title 19 uh for areas outside of that planting trees and the streetscapes when we do a major project so Main Street as an example when we did that you know we made sure that we had a tree line street and that canopy is improving we've done that with many of the streets throughout downtown and getting away from that a little bit uh yeah we we have the opportunity to make tree plantings uh within the public right away we do that we've done that throughout the historic west side we've done that through um some other capital projects that have either been funded through RTC or through the city or some other means um Maryland Parkway being one of them you know we've got that going on right now as far as private property and developers that are trying to you know build something and then they ask for a where a waiver of standards uh that is something that are um that I mentioned kind of at the towards the end you know that's an upcoming text amendment that we're trying to work at with respect to landscaping standards and we uh we do have the guidance now from the urban forestry management plan on maybe what to do on one strategy that we're considering might be a fee in lieu of situation where if there is a request for a uh a waiver of standards for trees and landscaping uh instead of you know not having any trees get planted at all there's a fee that's a that's put in place instead that is something that Clark County currently has done there are a lot of other cities outside of Nevada that have similar mechanism that's in place that meets legal standards that might be one of those ways to get trees planted where they go and then from those proceeds we can use that in a special fund to get trees planted in the public realm in geographic areas where they're needed the most like East Las Vegas or downtown.

Okay.

Thank you for expanding on that and then um another question related to the TOD corridors that you're looking at you know you cited obviously Sahara, Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Boulevard, Charleston I know that we've talked very little on this commission just about you know those corridors also having um you know potential historic properties on them that could be eligible for the historic register.

I don't think that we have a lot of resource surveys out there related to those particular corridors.

Have you, you know, included are there other resources that you're using, I guess, to incorporate kind of that preservation knowledge into those efforts, or is that something you know that we should consider prioritizing on our commission, you know, moving a resource survey forward for you in those efforts.

Certainly.

Um Marco Vallada for the record.

Uh Charleston and East Las Vegas are two of those locations where something like that has made sense.

And they uh coincidentally kind of ran in tandem with our um our special area planning efforts when they were active uh during the time.

So having um kind of an idea of what the historic resources are out there, we can make better use of the you know that in the planning efforts.

Um, you know, if there's a push maybe to you know ensure that particular locations have a historic designation, you know, that's something that we would have to follow up on as part of implementation of that special area plan.

I mean, but the fact is that we have them going kind of at the same time for specific areas, mostly as a result of uh uh a major transportation project.

You know, that helps us at least know that there's a resource there and that we should be doing something to help ensure preservation of that um when the time is right.

Okay.

Um and then lastly, you didn't touch on this in your presentation, but in the plan when I was reviewing it, the master plan, I noticed mention of um kind of a action or strategy to study and consider the adoption of a demolition by neglect ordinance.

Um and I'm thinking particularly, you know, how that maybe could have helped with our downtown motels that were getting ready to lose.

Has there been any study or kind of progress on that action?

Um chair, uh uh Marco Vallada for the record.

Uh at this time, I I think maybe only uh just preliminary discussions.

I'm not sure maybe if uh Dr.

Siebrant has done anything, but I mean that is just an enumeration of a strategy that could be taken by the city to ensure that something like that doesn't, you know, if we we don't want to lose a property by neglect of the property owner, that could be uh something that could be done to help preserve a building.

It's a strategy that's been used in other cities, some better than others.

Uh it's not always successful, but uh if you have something like that that could help try to avoid those situations where you have a historic resource or you have a historic property from just you know just getting left and and then knocked down or or burned down or whatever.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

Thank you so much for your presentation today.

Thank you.

Oh, we have an additional comment.

Uh Commissioner Cosgrove.

I am the chair of the Sunrise Manor Town Advisory Board.

And when we get developers that come in and ask for waivers on landscaping, usually what they tell us is they're worried about the unhoused population, cutting up the drip lines and camping under the trees.

And so sometimes we've been able to negotiate with them and they put up desert adapted plants that don't necessarily need as many drip lines.

But I think you're having kind of two things that are coming into conflict with each other that oftentimes we don't think they're in conflict with each other.

Yes.

Commissioner Harper, uh, for the record.

Uh I feel like I recall there being a city of Las Vegas report on heritage trees uh maybe about a decade ago.

Is there plans to update or there has that been updated?

Thanks.

Commissioner through the chair to you uh Mark of the Lotta for the record.

We um we have had any update on that.

That is a recommendation as a part of the urban forestry management plan to have a heritage trees and then actually even provide for something that's a little bit more significant if in the case that there is some type of a historic resource that's attached to a tree itself, if that were to ever happen.

Great.

Well, I think that is all of our questions and comments.

Thank you again.

We appreciate your time.

Thank you.

Okay, moving on to item 7, 26-0018-HPC 1 discussion for possible action regarding approval of funding up to the amount of $8,000 for members of the commission to attend the July 22nd through July 26th 2026 National Alliance of Preservation Commissions 2026 forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Discussion for possible action regarding approval of funding up to the amount of $8,000 for members of the Commission to attend the July 22nd through July 26th 2026 National Alliance of Preservation Commissions 2026 Forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr.

Crant.

C brand for the record.

So Teresa did send out several emails asking for interest from any commissioners to attend this year's National Alliance of Preservation Commission's Forum.

I understand everybody's busy and not able to attend these, but uh myself and Teresa would be attending and representing the city.

And in order to do to attend, we need the amount.

It's going to be up to 8,000.

We'll probably be less than that.

And this I did confirm with SHIPO last week that this is a reimbursement grant as well with SHIPO.

So it'll be fully paid with whatever it is that we do pay out.

Great.

Any questions or comments from the commission?

Just a quick comment just told on for the record since uh looks like Staff is the only one going.

Uh puts more of a burden on you and to come back with a report what's going on.

So if you can gather any handouts, any brochures or anything that uh uh that that we can uh uh study so uh the burden just doesn't come on you writing a 27 report on that, but it would just uh uh the more information we can get uh that you think would be applicable to this commission and this community that would be great.

Thank you.

Uh Commissioner Moody with a quick question.

I may be wrong.

Uh by the way, this is for Commissioner C Brandt.

Um in the past, haven't we considered the Pass Forward Conference at the same time?

So um C Brent for the record, um, those are held at different uh different dates.

So in the fall.

Um this one is annually, um, and then the other one is um every other year.

Oh so we will you know send out the information with enough notice so everybody can look at their calendars to see if they can you know attend future conferences.

Perfect.

Thank you.

One last question that uh uh is more of a comment and an opportunity.

Maybe this is not the right place to put it, but uh bringing a uh there have been several Zoom presentations on historic preservation commissions and and how to approve them and relate to different particular topics.

Uh we used to have about every five years, we would bring a group in from the national uh and they would train us, so to speak.

Is there any opportunity that you see that would be uh helpful in the next year or so along those lines?

Crent for the record.

So you're talking about the camp training?

Yes.

Um, yes, and that was part of the discussion that I had with Shippo at our last uh conference call.

And yes, we we can bring in that training.

Um there is uh probably most likely going to be some training that uh will be held for a camp um session up in um Carson City, but they would I believe make it um available by Zoom.

That one that's in conversation so that everybody can actually attend.

Also talking about um if there would be grant money in order for any of the commissioners that wanted to attend in person, could always um also do that.

Um as soon as we have that information, we'll of course send it out.

If the the this commission would like to bring in um and um hire the the camp trainers for a specific session, we can absolutely ask them about that.

But I would need to know what the um most pressing issues that this commission thinks that they should um be more um aware of, or if there's something that you know we need to give a refresher course on.

Um happy to you know take your suggestions.

Thank you.

Great.

If there's no other questions or comments, I'd look for a motion on this item.

Motion to approve.

Great.

We have a motion to approve.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

That specifically is 260018-HPC 1.

Okay, and that motion passes with the chair voting in favor.

Um moving on to agenda item number eight, a report by community development department regarding director's updates.

Thank you, madam chair, Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh, just a couple of updates for the commission.

One and and probably just a reminder, uh, but I was as I was walking back from City Hall with Commissioner Surface.

I realized that I probably need to confirm that this is going to be the permanent meeting room for the Historic Preservation Commission.

I know there was some confusion because we were uh deciding whether we were gonna be in here, but this this committee will be meeting in here uh for the foreseeable future.

So welcome to your permanent home, your forever home.

Um the second update is that uh as many of you know, I have taken on an expanded role with the city of Las Vegas, and with that has come some additional duties, which unfortunately means I need to take a back seat to some of my prior duties, and one of those is the Historic Preservation Commission.

So uh today I'd like to, and you've seen him before, but I want to introduce you to Michael Cunningham.

Mike, if you want to stand up and give a wave.

Um, you're in luck because a lot of the issues that you all deal with have building permit and building code questions.

And in fact, Diane works with Mike's team.

Mike is a deputy director in community development.

He's also, and I think this is what's most important for you all.

He is our building official.

So, all of those questions about how building codes apply to older buildings, uh, what we can do with adaptive reuse, energy code, uh, all of those other demo permits, all of those things Mike is responsible for.

So I actually think you're gonna be getting a different and possibly higher level of service from Mike stepping into this role.

So, starting in the next meeting, Mike will be sitting in this seat, and he will be Diane's uh other point of contact on staff and yours as well.

I'm still here, still available.

I just won't be attending every historic preservation commission meeting.

So I wanted to give you that update.

Okay, thank you, Director Floyd, echoing um our past chair's comments.

You will be missed, and welcome, Mike.

We look forward to working with you.

Um, item number nine to receive a report by the community development department regarding our project update list.

Uh Crint for the record.

So for our updates, the old Mormon Fort uh National Register uh update.

It was approved at the last state board meeting on um Friday, and so it has been now shipped to the keeper of the register in DC.

They do have 45 days to review, and as long as there are no um changes requested, that the update will be officially added to the national register.

And you know, we thank the commission for providing the funding to do this update.

It was really important.

There are many comments from the state board members that echoed that as well.

Um I don't know if anybody else was able to to join the the meeting, um, but um it was it was good comments all around.

Uh the Floyd Land Park Historical Report is uh Commissioner Stodal did say that we will hear that at our next meeting in February.

She did finish it a little bit sooner than anticipated.

We were originally going to be in March, but have it done in February.

Um Teresa did send it out to everybody to do your final read.

Um, you need to make sure you download it by February 3rd because that link does expire.

So make sure that you download that, uh, read the report, and then from that report, we are going to um take the information and reprint the information signs out there that have been completely faded by the sun.

And um we'll also be um the our parks department is able to use it as well to update their um narratives for their docents that that give tours out there.

Um, so the mayor's urban design symposium.

This is Mike Howe's um initiative, so I'll let him go ahead and talk about it.

Thank you, Diane.

Uh, real quickly, Michael Howe, planning planning project manager with Department of Community Development.

Uh, just a real quick plug.

So tomorrow we have our 2026 Mayor's Urban Design Symposium.

This year's theme is education design.

Uh, we're gonna go into three different scales, but the session kicks off at 10 a.m.

with the honorable mayor Berkeley opening the session.

Our first uh panel discussion will be from the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District.

I have the chief operating officer and the principal from Malibu High School going over kind of a case study of their redevelopment of their junior high high school campus.

That's followed by the second session at 115, pedagogy to practice covering how we teach design and how that relates to the performance of the classroom.

Uh with that, I have William Sullivan and Kevin Daly.

I'm sorry, James O'Connor and Amy Yurko.

Um, those are the architects giving that session.

And then the third session at 245, it's designed for success, looks at the larger campus performance.

So we have William Sullivan, a professor from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, and Kevin Daly.

Again, to a spouse, we get some of the best speakers in the country.

They're all fellows, be it landscape architects or architects.

One of the highlights during lunch, we have students get a chance to sit down and talk face to face with some of these practicing uh designers.

And again, I Eric Strain, our partner in this, has always gotten some of the best speakers.

These are internationally known designers.

And overall, looking very forward to it.

And it's open, it's free.

Biggest challenge, get there, find parking.

There's meter parking across from Historic Mystery School.

But again, starts at 10, runs all day.

Thank you, Mike.

Yeah, again, it is free to attend.

I mean, Commissioner Cusgrove, maybe some of your students would be interested, um, or other students you know, if you want to pass it on to the other professors, that would be great.

And yeah, Fifth Street School.

Um, hopefully, you know, somebody some of you might be able to attend.

I immediately saw the word pedagogy and went, oh, this is for educators.

Great.

Uh so other than that, we do have our historic preservation month uh award nominations uh coming up.

Uh those are due February 25th.

So make sure if you have somebody that uh either an organization, an individual, um, yeah, anybody that is uh eligible on our list to uh be nominated, make sure you get those to get those to us by uh February 25th so that we can have everything ready for votes and our May Historic Preservation Month.

And then lastly, uh just wanted to send out this reminder, and Nathan, thank you for sending this.

Uh the Red Rock Canyon winter gathering.

Uh, this again is a free event over at uh Red Rock Canyon, and be able to um participate and also observe uh several indigenous uh peoples and the the cultures and initiatives that go with um whatever it is that they're gonna be doing.

Um they have some workshops, they have dancing, they have singing, and a lot of um social interaction.

So I'm happy to answer any questions if there are any.

A quick one.

Um the the nominations, I thought we're due the 15th.

Is that uh when will we vote on the nominations?

So when we get the nominations by the 25th, we will vote them.

We were doing March or April, April.

So we'll vote on them in April, and then May they will be awarded.

In April.

No, they will April is um when we this commission will vote on them.

Okay, because once we have them by February 25th, we can send them out and the commissioners can review them and then um vote in April, and then we have the award ceremony in May.

Right, but they're due no later than February 25th.

Correct.

Great, thank you.

Um, Commissioner Laramie, I also just had a suggestion um with the report that we received earlier.

I was just thinking that when the um annual report of for the city master plan does come out.

Perhaps you can just integrate that year's metrics on historic preservation into your project update report for us.

So I don't I don't know what month the annual reports come out, but just incorporating the preservation um related metrics into your report, I think would be helpful for us.

So I always give that updated information to Marco.

I'm I'm not clear on what you're asking me.

I know that Marco gets it, but we don't hear it.

Okay, and so bringing it to the commission either through this format, like just your regular update when it's appropriate, or it could be its own agenda item.

I just thought it could fit into this format well.

Okay, absolutely.

And I did fail to mention that the Red Rock um uh winter gathering is on Valentine's Day, February 14th.

Anything else?

One last opportunity.

I think that uh the Centennial Commission uh has approved with with your work and work of Jeffrey Carlson, uh, an update on the historic preservation, excuse me, the city of Las Vegas' historic milestones uh uh that will go on the city's uh website.

I think it would be helpful for this commission to rear to understand that piece of work that the city has done and approved.

There's a great element of historic preservation to have all the facts correct and so forth.

So I don't know if somebody from the centennial commission or something, well, the executive director, so to speak.

Well, Stephen for the record, yes, of course.

Uh that was always our plan, but we were waiting until that we have the product so that we can display it and we can show everybody um what we have done for both the I mean the grant summaries.

I know that's not really um involved with this group, but you know, something that we can show you, and then we are we have updated the timeline soon as we have that all done.

Absolutely, um that will be a next update.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um moving on to item number 10, 26 0019-hpc one.

Report by the community development department regarding historic and archaeological resources in local media.

Um, this is generally just a list we get of different media coverage on preservation related items from the past month or so.

Do we have any questions or comments on any of the links shared with us?

No, okay.

We will move on to our discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

Comments made during this portion of the agenda by individual members shall refer solely to proposals for future agenda items, and any discussion shall be limited to whether or not such proposed items are within the purview of the commission, and or whether such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

No discussion regarding the substance of any such proposed topic shall occur, and no action shall be taken.

Do we have um any items for future agendas from fellow commissioners?

Uh just uh uh one of the things that that this commission, and I think Dr.

Seabrand, you mentioned it at the uh the last meeting of the uh Board of History uh Museums and History.

There were several comments about the last nomination that uh uh this com this commission funded, very positive uh about the renominations.

I'm wondering if there are others that our next step on updating an existing national register nomination uh and or the next uh uh survey.

Uh I think the gentleman from the uh master plan talked about East Charleston and the communities on the South Side of East Charleston below Huntry is a possible option to to look at uh as at some point there will be a uh high speed bus route from 215 all the way down to eastern, and so maybe we can get ahead of the curve and see if there's something there that we could provide information uh information to them.

So yeah, I I'm just very I think this commission and you should be very proud of the renominations.

The uh uh several members of the board called me and were just gonna become the model for I think the rest of the state, the details and the uh uh the research that was done.

So thank you.

Um Commissioner Laramie, I'd also like to suggest um I had a chance to talk with our new um, I guess, director of historic preservation.

I'm not quite sure what your title is about some interesting nuances to the building code and how it relates to historic preservation.

Um, so I'd like to suggest having a conversation and kind of informative um you know, presentation, if you will, to the commission, so we can all learn a little bit more about that.

Um, and then just reiterating some conversation from earlier today on discussing possible training through camp and what some topics for that training might be of interest for our commissioners.

Do we have any other members of the commission wishing to speak now?

Okay, we will move on to item number 12, citizens' participation.

Um public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the commission.

No subject may be acted upon by the commission unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, please come forward and 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 we have anybody um wishing to speak as a member of the public during this time?

Seeing no one, that will adjourn our meeting for today.