Las Vegas Planning Commission Meeting - June 30, 2026
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Please step uh please stand for the pledge deliverance of America and to do one nation called Madam Clerk.
Would you please call the roll?
Vice Chair Schlottman.
Present.
Commissioner Kasama.
Excused.
Commissioner Taylor.
Present.
Commissioner Rogan.
Present.
Commissioner DeSalvio.
Present.
Commissioner Lebeau.
Present.
Commissioner Walters.
Thank you, Chair.
You have a quorum.
Thank you.
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Seeing none, I'll move on.
Uh may we have a motion to approve the minutes of the plan commission meeting of May 12th, 2026.
Um, yes, I would like to make a motion to approve the minutes of the planning commission meeting of May 12th, 2026.
Thank you.
Motion is on the floor, please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
Thank you.
That motion carries.
Uh let's move on to the housekeeping items.
Are there any items commissioner staff, applicants or members of the public would like to pull forward for action?
Good evening, Vice Chair.
This is Steve Swanton with Community Development Senior Planner.
And we do have a few housekeeping items tonight.
The applicant is requesting to hold item 19, 26-0162 VAR1.
It abeyance to the July 14th planning commission meeting.
Staff request to hold item 21.
26-0173 VAR1 in abeyance to the uh August 11th Planning Commission meeting due to a notification issue.
And staff request to hold item 34, 26-0217 TXT1 in abeyance to the July 14th planning commission meeting.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Uh does anyone wish to be heard on these items?
Please come forward.
State your name and address for the record.
Good evening, Mr.
Chair, Commissioners.
My name is Tony Celeste.
Address 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here on behalf of um the applicant for item number 26.
We'd like to um obey that for 30 days until the July 14th hearing, and that would be for 26 ABNC.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Uh seeing no one else, uh Commissioner Taylor, can we get a motion?
Um yes, I would like to make a motion um to uh hold item 19 in abeyance to the July 14th, 2026 Planning Commission to um hold item number 21.
That's 260173 V A R 1.
Hold that in abeyance to the August 11th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting um to hold item 34 26-0217 TXT 1 in abeyance until the July 14th, 2026 planning commission meeting, and to hold sorry it's being out of order, hold item 26 A through C in abeyance until the July 14th, 2026 planning commission meeting.
All right.
Commissioner Walters.
Thank you.
And that motion carries.
Moving on to consent agenda items.
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 applicant so desires.
Commissioner Taylor, may I have a motion for the uh for approval on the consent items seven and eight?
Yes, I would like to make a motion to approve um consent items number seven and eight.
And that'll be eight A and 8B.
8A and AB.
Thank you.
Motions on the floor, please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
All right, that motion carries.
And those items are final action tonight and let's appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
The following items are item or items that may be considered in one motion, one vote.
They're considered routine, non-public and public hearing items with staff recommendation of approval.
All public hearing and non-public hearing hearings will be opened at one time.
Any person representing an application or member of the public or member of the planning commission not in agreement with the conditions and all standard conditions for the application recommended by staff should request to have that item removed from this part of the agenda.
Item number nine, abeyance 26-0099 SUP1.
Applicant Christian Yurby, owner of CCN Centennial LLC for possible action on land use entitlement project requests for proposed beer wine cooler on still on sale establishment use with a waiver of a distance separation requirements from a child care facility license for 12 or more.
Number 11 is 2600 or 0226 VAC 1.
Applicant owner GSI Osablanca Las Vegas owner for possible action on land use entitlement project requests for a petition to vacate a portion of the right-of-way generally located on the west side of Osoblanca Road, approximately 1106 feet south of Elkhorn Road, Ward 4.
Does anybody want to uh wish to be heard on any of these items?
Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.
Any planning commissioners seeing none?
Commissioner Taylor, may I have a motion on uh for the one motion one vote?
Um I would like to make a motion to approve the items under one motion one vote, um, including um item nine um 26-0099 SUP1, item 10 26052 VAC 1, item 11 26026 VAC 1, item 12, oops, and that's it.
Thank you.
Motion is on the floor.
Please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Hi.
And that motion carries.
And items nine and ten or final action tonight, and let's appeal the city clerk in 10 days and item 11.
We'll move on to city council on July 15th.
Thank you.
Moving on to public hearing items, uh, starting with item number 12, abeyance 26-004A, applicant owner, umbra holdings LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests at the southeast corner of Harrison Avenue and H Street, Ward 5.
Staff recommends denial.
12A is abeyance 26008 VAR1 to allow vehicles to back out onto right-of-way, Harrison Avenue where such is not allowed.
12B is abeyance 2600A SCR1 for a proposed three-story six-unit multifamily residential development with waivers of title 19.09, form-based code uh development standards, and 12 C abeyance 26-0048 TMP residence at uh Harrison for a proposed six-unit condominium uh uh subdivision.
Can we get the staff report please?
Mr.
Vice Chair's uh staff finds the proposed development would not be compatible and harmonious with the surrounding area as evidenced by the request for variance and multiple waivers.
Development could be redesigned to fully accommodate parking facilities on site.
Staff therefore recommends denial of all requested entitlements subject to conditions if approved.
Thank you.
All right, is the applicant here on this particular property?
Seeing no applicant, uh this uh I'm gonna open this up uh for a public uh discussion.
Anyone from the public wanting to be heard, please come forward.
Seeing none, commissioner walters.
Hi, yes.
We have been in communication with this applicant who faced some hardship uh throughout the process, planning process and per email today requesting uh a third abeyance to the July 4th planning commission meeting.
Okay.
So I can make a motion if anyone else has anything to say.
Yes, please make a motion.
Okay, I um move to obey item 12 that abeyance 260048 to the July 14th planning commission meeting.
Thank you.
Motion is on the floor, please cast your vote.
And Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
That motion carries.
All right, I'm gonna take uh a couple of items out of order.
We're gonna move to director's business.
We're gonna start with number 32, which is 26-0176, applicant owner city of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency for possible action on the following land use entitlement project request on 1350.23 acres, generally bounded by Owens Avenue to the north, Nellis Boulevard to the east, Charleston Boulevard to the south, and 21st Street to the west, ward three.
Staff recommends approval.
32A is 260176 DIR1 for a review of the plan for the redevelopment of area three as a redevelopment area.
32B is 260176 GPA 1 to establish redevelopment area 3.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Straight to you.
Okay.
Good evening.
Uh Tracy Reich, redevelopment manager uh in the Office of Economic and Urban Development for the record.
About one year ago, uh, we came forward to you to present a proposed boundary for a blight study to explore the creation of a new redevelopment area.
Tonight that was the first step in creating that area.
Tonight we're here to present the results of that blight study and present the uh redevelopment plan, which is the next step in moving for approval on that.
And at the end of this, after our presentation tonight, we would uh love for you to consider the uh approval of those two items so that we can move forward to to the next steps.
And tonight I'm going to change that over to turn it over to Alex Strausser, who's gonna give us the actual presentation.
All right, thank you.
Thank you.
Uh good evening, Alex Strasser, City of Las Vegas Department of Economic and Urban Development for the record.
As Tracy mentioned, we've been working on this project for quite a quite a while, and we're really excited to be here tonight to show you our findings.
Um before I get started, I wanted to give a shout out to Sierra Webb and Rich Adkins who had helped me out with this uh uh the process for this project.
So back in 2020, the city adopted the City of Las Vegas 2050 master plan, and one of the key um components of this plan divided the city into 16 different sub-areas.
The intention was that over time each of these different sub-areas, based on their different needs and demographics, would have an individualized uh neighborhood plan associated with it.
The first one was East Las Vegas, uh highlighted with the circle.
And so then in June 2023, the city adopted the Nuestro Futuro East Las Vegas Special Area Plan.
This plan looked at transforming aging commercial centers into vibrant walkable mixed-use hubs.
The plan looked at helping to support existing businesses and its residents and improve public transit and housing opportunities as well as economic opportunities.
But one of the takeaways was that the Nuestro Futuro Plan uh specifically recommended evaluating East Las Vegas for a new redevelopment area.
The city of Las Vegas already has two redevelopment areas.
The first one is our downtown core, commonly known as redevelopment area one.
This was adopted in 1986.
Our second area is gonna be to the west, which is the redevelopment area two, consisting of Charleston Boulevard, Sahara Avenue, Decatur Boulevard, commercial corridors, as well as Meadows Mall.
Over time, we can do different amendments to expand the redevelopment area as applicable or to extend the timeline.
The typical uh timeline is 30 years.
Uh so this has been extended once for redevelopment area one.
Back in August, we took before you a preliminary plan where we came before you with the area in blue to further evaluate the suitability for the new redevelopment area.
This area was carefully considered based on city staff and management.
It was considered by the Citizens Advisory Committee, who specifically went out and toured the streets, as well as looking at the land use of the 2050 master plan to see the overlap.
So just to put this into size scale and perspective, this is how the RDA3 would compare to redevelopment area one and two.
So why a new redevelopment area?
Well, a redevelopment area helps to eliminate blight, it helps strengthen the neighborhoods, it creates opportunities for private reinvestment, allows for infrastructure upgrades, as well as allows for coordination with development.
But more specifically, a new redevelopment area, the dollars generated would stay within that neighborhood.
After the evaluation, the preliminary plan, we had to go forward with a blight study.
And this is a physical assessment of each property within East Las Vegas based on their physical conditions.
And when we were out on the streets from November to February, we determined that 64% of the properties in this area showed visible signs of deterioration or needing of repairs.
Specifically, the Blight study noticed that 80% of the buildings were built before 1999.
Most of these have outdated building structure building systems.
Crowded spaces making it difficult for pedestrians and motorists.
One of the key components of the 2050 master plan, notice that East Las Vegas disproportionately deals with the urban heat island effect due to a lack of shade and tree canopy coverage.
Traffic hazards as a result of the streets being over streets being accommodating for different users than originally intended.
And unsafe right-aways and alleyways just overcrowded and dealing with access issues for emergency vehicles and affecting air quality.
Lastly, the depreciating values make it difficult for property owners to continue to pay for reinvestment into the community into their property, but also to make necessary upgrades.
For instance, 81 acres of vacant land is within East Las Vegas, and this can be a nesting ground for homeless or legal dumping.
The first and probably most common one is the visual improvement program.
This would help property owners reinvest into their into their property, making necessary exterior improvements.
So this can vary from landscaping, a fresh coat of paint, new windows.
So we have a couple different examples below, with the top being the before and the bottom being the after.
This recently got improved from 25,000 up to 50,000 rebate for the applicant.
Two of our newest incentives, we have the tenant improvement incentive.
This would focus on retail users and can vary based on the square footage of their unit.
This would help cover 10% of the eligible interior and exterior costs.
A lot of businesses in the arts district have used this lately.
This would cover necessary security improvements, such as improved lighting, cameras, and fencing covering $5,000.
Multifamily residential renovation would help property owners for apartment buildings and other high-density residential properties with a minimum of five years five units covering interior and exterior unit upgrades.
And lastly, we have development coordination.
So if anybody's familiar with Tom Burkart, uh his team with development services helps provide additional guidance moving through the city's building permit process and working with uh local utility companies to get the project uh completed as efficiently as possible.
So the redevelopment plan and the redevelopment agency have eight goals.
Um ultimately these goals come together to improve the overall quality of life and condition of the neighborhood for all users.
And these same kind of principles are found within the 2050 master plan as well as the New Aestro Futuro Plan or Special Area Plan.
Uh these principles look to create infill redevelopment focused uh strategies that maximize land use efficiency, creating greater density, and improving the neighborhoods.
So below is an example from a major development proposal we have for the area that's going forward that's already been approved uh for desert pines.
Just touching on the NRS requirements of a redevelopment plan.
Uh it touches on a couple of different aspects, but we're required to talk about open space landscaping light, uh height limitations and size of the building, number of dwelling units, public uses, and the method of financing the plan.
We've done quite a bit of outreach for this redevelopment plan area.
Uh, this has been featured in the ward three email newsletter featuring 13,000 uh recipients.
This has been noticed in the review journal already, and we'll continue to be noticeed in the review journal going forward.
Uh we've had three neighborhood meetings already.
Well, we have had two.
We have a third one forthcoming uh next week on Wednesday.
But um, between the two meetings, we've had roughly a hundred uh residents show up to come find out about the plan and to have their questions answered, in addition to probably three dozen phone calls.
Uh with that, we are asking for your approval of the blight study and the redevelopment plan, and to move forward to city council.
Uh, with that, we'd be happy to answer any questions.
Thank you.
This was notice as public hearing.
Anyone wanting to be heard, please come forward.
Seeing none, I'll close the public here and turn it over to plan and commission.
Uh, yes, Commissioner Taylor.
Um, thank you very much for the presentation.
I just wanted to make sure that um I just want to confirm something.
So, in looking at blight and looking at you know how you could alleviate some of the blight in this area.
One of the things that you identified as an issue was lack of landscaping, lack of trees, and that that was also something that was significantly contributing to the urban heat island impact in this area.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
Okay, thank you very much.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Um, yes, Commissioner Rogan.
I mean, I've had an opportunity to look at this study, and I think that I'm surprised that this area already hasn't been included in a redevelopment area.
It's very blighted.
I don't think anyone can really dispute that.
Um, and looking at the redevelopment plan, I think it's it's appropriate, and I think we should recommend approval.
Thank you.
I uh I'm on the CAC, so I was able to see this uh redevelopment area and actually go out and drag some of the neighborhoods and help formulate some of the areas where this uh redevelopment area is going.
Uh one of the things that I was concerned about when we had the Nuestro Futuro plan four years ago or whenever it was, is it it would get written, put on a shelf, and you know, and I've constantly asked for planning staff and public works and everybody to kind of give us presentations and stuff, and and and staff really has, and staff's really stepped up, and and I'm really happy that this uh this uh plan's coming together and look forward to this moving forward.
I do have one question about redevelopment areas that they sunset after 30 years, but I I was noticing uh on the overhead, RDA one was established in 1986, and then some in 1995 and different areas.
When we add a new area, does that increase the total time frame of that RD RDA?
Not necessarily, but you can uh extend the 30 years to for another 15 years, and so that's what happened with RDA one.
It sunsets in 2045.
Okay, and does that allow the the base, the base uh tax rate to stay at where it was when it was originally doesn't reset.
Okay.
All right.
Looking for maybe some one question, Chair.
So are you gonna be able to use all of the money that's generated in the different redevelopment areas in redevelopment three is one pot of money, or solely are you using what's earned in redevelopment area three?
We have to use the funds that are generated in each redevelopment area in that redevelopment area.
So the funds generated in RD RDA three will be what we use there.
There we could maybe start a little bit there and then reimburse back and forth.
But I'm and I'm looking at my attorney going, maybe not, but uh Commissioner Rogan, one of the things that we looked at when the uh Tracy and uh Strausser and all everybody else from the RDA come and asked us should we do an expansion to one of our existing RDAs or should we do a new one?
And I Sam Cherry and I sit on the board and Ryan Doherty and I I was very vocal about this.
It should be its own redevelopment area because I was concerned that we would take money out of this and put it into another project that's you know bigger or better and downtown, or that those funds would you know start getting exchanged.
I want every dollar that got generated from this neighborhood to get reinvested back in this neighborhood.
So if there's no other comments, uh I'd like a motion.
Commissioner Rogan.
Uh make a motion that the proposed redevelopment area three meets the definition of blighted area under state statute and recommend approval of the redevelopment plan.
That's 32A and 32B.
All right, thank you.
Motion is on the floor.
Please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
And that motion carries.
And those items will move on to city council on July 15th.
Thank you for your presentation today.
Thank you.
Moving on to item number 31, 260172 GPA1, applicant on our city of Las Vegas for possible action on land use entitlement project request to amend and incorporate a supplemental heat mitigation, drinking water coal and spaces building practices plan as part of the con conservation element to the city of Las Vegas 2050 master plan consistent with section 11 of ordinance 6788 all board.
Staff recommends approval.
Good evening.
Can we get a staff report?
Good evening, uh Mr.
Chair, Commissioners, Marco Velata, City of Las Vegas Department of Community Development for the record.
Uh tonight's item covers a general plan of amendment to the 2050 master plan uh covering a supplemental heat mitigation plan, and that will fulfill the requirements of assembly bill 96 of the 2025 legislative session.
Uh in December of 2025, the Planning Commission did approve one part of that assembly bill.
Uh that's the urban forestry management plan.
Um, and there are there are a number of components that have some overlap between uh the two, but uh we took these in uh in a couple different orders.
There are a lot of issues in the 2050 plan that have um that that know no jurisdictional boundaries and like traffic, air quality, and um a number of those other issues, uh heat's one of them.
And unlike the others, uh we could consider this a classic wicked problem.
It's complicated, it might seem like there's practice practically no um no solutions at up front.
Um it might not seem to have a clear-cut resolution.
Um, but that said, um, you know, this amendment will try to help answer some of that.
You know, when I was growing up, I went to Valley High School, you know, in the middle of the summer, we we would be in the middle of the heat.
You know, this has an impact on things like athletics.
Think about people who are working outside in cons in the construction industry.
This is something that legislation in recent legislative sessions has attempted to deal with.
You and it's not just here in southern Nevada, it's it's happening across the country, you know.
And if you've been watching the the World Cup over the last week, you've noticed that there's hydration breaks in between the in between the halves.
Uh many of the stadiums are encountering this in the middle of uh in the middle of a major sporting event.
You know, you go out for a walk, oftentimes at night, you know, you you can find yourself walking in temperatures that are still above 100 degrees uh even at 9 p.m.
or 10 p.m.
And really, you know, right now is it's 110 degrees outside as I speak.
Uh you know, heat is considered to be one of the deadliest natural disasters um at whatever scale it's being measured at, whether that's local, that's regional or global.
Um as we noted in the 2050 master plans hazard goal, southern Nevada has been on this ongoing warming trend for both daytime and nighttime uh temperatures since the 1970s, and Las Vegas and Reno are the top two metro areas experiencing these warming trends.
If we look back over the last couple decades decades in particular, where we've seen a lot of that growth and urban expansion with a lot of new concrete, glass, uh rooftops that are that have been added.
We've been setting a number of heat related records in the last few years in particular, we've been breaking new ones.
Summer 2024 is particularly noticeable when we hit 120 degrees, only to be eclipsed by the earlier warming trends that we had this year.
It's particularly noticeable in neighborhoods that we're just talked about, East Las Vegas.
The center of the valley, you know, immediately around downtown Las Vegas, around the strip.
You know, we have that convergence of the urban heat island effect with other socioeconomic and demographic factors that are impacting these particular neighborhoods particularly hard.
And heat, you know, you can see the public health toll with it.
You know, in East Las Vegas, you we saw uh a particular uptick in uh in deaths and uh heat related emergencies with more than 500 heat deaths and 3,500 ER visits attributable to heat in 2024 alone.
Um the most recent projections that we have from Desert Research Institute, which has been really on par with leading in in terms of some of the the research recently on the urban heat island effect.
Um they have they have told us that we can anticipate 20 more days per year above 105 degrees in terms of a daytime high by 2035 and another month to 45 days by 2050.
So an extended summer uh that that's creeping into uh that's creeping into our springtime and our fall time seasons.
So it's important to underscore that uh everyone is exposed, but the experience isn't necessarily equal for everyone, especially in a neighborhood like East Las Vegas.
Um heat's a chronic stressor, and it can be an acute shock.
It can happen.
We we have a little bit of forecasting that goes into it, but it can have some cascading effects and compounding crises.
Like if you have a brownout, if NV Energy loses a substation, that could lead to uh widespread loss for people who have air conditioning systems.
If an RTC transit vehicle breaks down in the middle of the day, or if there's a broken AC unit and a poorly insulated home, that can lead to other in-home public health effects.
Uh the heat is vulnerable for those that are that are most bourbon, and of course, the homeless population are the ones that seek resources.
The people that live in homes typically do not.
So with assembly bill 96 from the last session, you know, we were directed and we lobbied to bring heat to the forefront because heat really doesn't have a home right now.
Um we've been going uh going over this with our other counterparts uh in our neighboring jurisdictions over the last couple of years, and it culminated in this call to action to look at shading, cool building practices, drinking water, and um and ultimately that urban forestry management plan was the first step for us.
And this does uh help address what we are going to do over the next couple couple years.
To summarize uh for you the heat mitigation goal, um, it's important to note that there's been a lot of that engagement that's been going on.
Um there's been recent heat summits, there's been uh a DRI-led study on the usage of cooling centers, uh, tabletop exercises with local governments and service providers.
Um we're all owning this.
Uh, and ultimately that come what it comes down to is we need to have uh local action and regional action happening simultaneously.
So having uh a response for our own jurisdiction is is necessary as well as coordination with a wide range of other public entities and private stakeholders as well, whether that's the utilities like NV Energy, whether that's transit providers like RTC, whether it's the faith-based community that provides cooling resources or opens up their doors for for the uh those that need it.
Uh, all across the board, we need to have this this response.
With respect to uh basic needs, from a health perspective, drinking water for cooling must be publicly accessible.
And we took a look across the city at where we have where we have drinking water available.
We um our building code and our facilities do require water fountains uh based on building types, but there are other measures and operational policies that can be introduced to ensure access for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users.
Another recommendation coming out of this is uh having an interactive an interactive map to direct people to where uh you can access things like drinking water.
During that same inventory, uh there was a recognition that we had gaps in public spaces that provide shading, and although they do exist, um we you know we do need to have cooling spaces and activated to access that gap in for certain areas of the city, uh especially those immediately around downtown.
Uh currently there are limited days, times, and locations a cooling center is offered during extreme heat events with the homeless resource center or the courtyard being one of them.
That's the single location right now that's operational 247 365.
Uh we know that cooling centers are being used routinely and are a hub for community support, but awareness is a barrier, uh, whether that's from a lingu uh from a multilingual standpoint uh or just the communication standpoint, uh social media, uh those who have it, those who do not.
Uh bottom line is that we need to have a coordinated response and a regional um uh operational protocol uh for uh that's developed to expand access to cooling centers.
They're a valuable resource worthy of investment in planning, and the plan does discuss uh that we could benefit from improved signage messaging, cross-agency communication, uh expanded hours, and that uh that coordination.
Cool building practices are also recommended.
You know, over long term investing in cooling infrastructure and developing urban design standards to mitigate the herbine island effect is going to be necessary.
Um we have the building stock that is aging, um, but there are many features that need to be considered in in terms of resident the residential and the commercial space, uh, whether that's constructing or renovating buildings to reduce hardscapes, doing energy efficiency improvements, uh adding measures like insulation, passive cooling, upgraded HVAC equipment.
Uh there are resources that are up that are available, whether that's uh CPACE program through the through the commercial side, the Nevada Clean Energy Fund.
Uh there have been resources for things like heat pumps, uh you name it across the board over the years.
Some of that has been recently cut back, but this does drive home the point that these are things that need to be done with respect to uh building architecture.
And then other public space improvements.
I mean, what what else are we missing?
If you look at other cities and communities across the country, uh there have been innovative approaches to to finding ways to shade different locations.
Uh, there is the conventional trees and and landscaping that we talk about in the urban forestry management plan.
But there are going to be opportunities like like we see here locally at uh downtown Summerlin at the Las Vegas Premium Outlets in Scottsdale, Sky Song, having other places that are shit that are shading existing asphalt and concrete landscapes uh to really drive home the effect.
In Scottsdale, Arizona, we see Albertsons and and Fry's, uh, you know, major regional grocery stores that have fabric covers covering the parking lot.
We have solar covered parking at many of our fire stations and community centers.
Doing these types of things uh help help address the the issue that's that's going on.
But it's going to take that long term, that long-term approach in terms of how do we mitigate and how do we adapt to this changing environment that we live in?
And with that, if there are any questions, ask uh for consideration on uh amending the general plan for this uh this heat mitigation network.
Thank you, Marco.
Uh this was no discussion public hearing.
Anyone wanting to be heard, please come forward, state your name and address for the record, seeing none, I'm close to public care and turn this over to the planning commission for discussion and possible action.
Start with the Commissioner Taylor.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr.
Vallada, and thanks for your continued work on these really important issues for our community.
Um that you and I've been working together for a really long time, and I just have so much respect for the work that you put into the sort of conservation elements and you know the sort of environment, not environmental in the writ large space for um to make our our city great.
Um you know that this is a really important issue to me too, so I just want to ask you a couple questions.
Um the first one is just can you a couple things sort of more broadly on urban heat impacts?
Um like can you tell us that if you know the difference between like what's the differential for temps in the shade versus in the sun?
Is it like 10 degrees, 20 degrees?
Yep, Marco Vellata for the record.
Uh so again, it's going to depend on on your context, but it can be as much as 10 degrees, plus or minus, depending on where you're at.
Uh the desert research institute, Ariel Channard, who uh heads up the heat lab there.
Um, you know, we've been speaking about this quite a bit.
Uh she is certainly an expert in in this realm.
You know, having a tree is going to have a cooling effect depending on what type of tree it is, and that's gonna, and that's gonna vary um within that within that range.
You might have more in some cases, and if you have even more trees and more canopy immediately adjacent to it, you're gonna have a greater a greater cooling effect.
Okay.
And then the urban heat island impact, does that also have um detrimental impacts on Lake Mead and the evaporation rate and the you know drought conditions that we've been dealing with?
Uh Mark of Lotta for the record.
Uh anecdotally, uh, I think that the answer is gonna be yes.
There's going to be that um evaporation that's happening.
If you uh look in terms of the total loss off of Lake Mead, and more probably more importantly, right now, Lake Powell.
Um, you're you're losing, but you're also in the geographic context of things.
I mean, this is there's other things that are going into effect as well, the topography, the latitude uh that makes the you know that loss of water in the Colorado River system happen as well.
I mean, it it is happening for sure, uh, and it's gonna happen at different rates for different locations in the basin.
Okay, and then if you can just indulge me.
Um, so just let's talk a little bit more about landscaping in general, and you know, you talked about sort of a local and a regional effort.
So is there regional coordination on landscaping requirements, looking at the frequency of requested landscape waivers and the frequency of those being granted?
Are you working across all the Clark County jurisdictions to sort of analyze that and figure out some solutions for possibly educating decision makers on how much of an impact that makes, you know, and and really working towards trying to, because we talked about that with the urban forestry, uh, really working towards mitigating the either the request for waivers and the grants of waivers, is that something that you guys are all you individually working on and then your peers across the different jurisdictions working on?
Yeah.
Uh Marco Velata for the record.
So we have had um leading up to this point uh post uh passage and approval of assembly bill 96, uh working group with City of Henderson, Clark County and North Las Vegas on all of these elements and talking about what are some of the things that are overlaps.
Um our approach is gonna be a little bit different between the jurisdictions for things like landscaping and and trees.
I mean, the county's a lot larger and it has a lot of different um procedural aspects to it.
We are still in agreement though that landscaping requirements need to be improved in general from an urban forestry management um standpoint.
They have adopted, for example, a fee and lieu of um policy as part of their Title 30.
That's something that as had mentioned in the December hearing on the urban forestry management plan.
We're looking at as far as implementation of that plan next in terms of addressing things like variances and uh uh waivers, exceptions, that uh that type of thing.
That's something that we're still working on.
We hope to have that for your consideration at a future meeting.
Um, but yes, there has been that collaboration, it's not gonna be one to one, but there is that recognition anyway on you know, cooling spaces, on um cooling centers, cooling building practices, drinking water, on what we can do, and then I think we're all kind of coming around or coming to the conclusion of a regional approach is gonna be necessary for some of these things for sure.
Okay, and then just one final one, if I may.
Um, I you know I talk all the time about landscaping and trees and the importance of trees, but you mentioned building stock.
And you know, from my experience at the state, I know there's a lot of work at the IBC level to try to come up with better efficiency in buildings through development of codes.
And so can you just speak a little bit to what maybe the city is doing for the next iteration or how the city is involved, either on its own with IBC and energy efficiency codes, or in coordination with other jurisdictions in the state and the state itself, to make sure that we have the most comprehensive codes to ensure efficiency, and especially because you mentioned the fact that heat impacts everybody differently.
We know very well that like the energy burden on lower income folks, it really makes makes a difference in terms of how well they can do with energy bills.
And so if you can maybe just talk about how yourself at the city or again, regionally and statewide, how you're working towards driving um better efficiency in our buildings and bringing forward the most energy efficient codes that we can have to help that um to help that work.
Yeah.
Marco Vellata for the record.
Um, like our building officials are uh we can say though that you know the newer building stock that has been built under the most recent codes that have been adopted, uh the IECC and the IBC, you know, that that has helped in terms of their their energy efficiency.
There are also stretch codes that are out there, green codes.
Some of the home builders have their own products that uh that certainly speak to their in-home energy efficiency efforts that really do, you know, their thing.
But that's you know, that that's newer building stock.
I think the the main issue that we're trying to deal with is the existing building stock it that's in the center of the of the valley where we know that there's the urban heat island in fact having the greatest impact to it.
Um we need to have uh particular attention on retrofits there on the commercial side, you know, buildings um, you know, they're subject now to the evaporative cooling moratorium.
Um, you know, there has been a lot of innovation in that because of that policy that's that that's been adopted.
So multifamilies starting to look a lot a lot different.
I mean, any new infill and redevelopment that that takes place, you know, that's gonna be on you know under that under that guise, and we certainly have to take into account uh any additional code changes that might come into effect, whether that's on the residential or the commercial side, uh, how we make sure that we're accomplishing the urban heat side of things.
That being said, we do have recommendations in the plan that can touch on some other things that we could explore as a city.
Okay, thank you so much, Mr.
Vallada.
Thank you, Chair.
Anyone else?
Seeing none, um, I will be looking for a motion on item number 31.
Commissioner Hiller.
I would be happy to make an eye motion on item 31.
Um, I would like to make a motion to approve um item 3126-0172 GPA one, um, general plan amendment um for um amending and incorporating a supplemental heat mitigation plan as part of the conservation element to the 2050 master plan.
All right, motions on the floor for approval.
Please cast your vote and Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
That motion carries.
And that will move on to city council on July 15th.
Thank you.
Going back to item 13 of bands 26 0051, applicants over state contract and development LLC, owner AD and NILLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requested 2167 North Decatur Boulevard Ward 5.
13A is advanced 26 0051 VAR1 to allow proposed commercial development that does not conform to Title 19 development standards for on-site minimum parking requirements, and 13B is advanced 26-0051 SDR1 for the proposed conversion of an existing 3,224 square foot motor vehicle sales or parts and sales development and to convenient store with fuel pumps and parking lot reconfiguration with waivers and Title 19.8 perimeter landscape buffer requirements.
May we get the staff report, please.
Mr.
Chairman Nicole Edoes for the record, staff finds that the lack of sufficient on-site parking may lead to on-site vehicular circulation conflicts and the lack of landscape materials may only will only contribute to the heat island effect, which is in direct direct conflict with the 2050 master plan.
Therefore, staff is recommending denial of both the variants and the site development plan review.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So applicant here this evening, please come forward.
If I could have you state your name and address for the record and give us a brief uh presentation, yes.
Uh Tony Gillerson, um 2595 Chandler Suite 4, uh 89120.
Uh yes, so what we're doing is we're converting the existing um, it was an auto parts uh store into a uh convenience store that houses a um like an ice cream uh buffet and um also was gonna have uh four pumps, and we're also um thinking about putting uh two chart stations on it.
Uh we've had several reviews um with planning and um we tried to do as much as we could with the landscape and everything that we could to get the approval.
Okay, thank you very much.
This was no discuss of public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come down.
Seeing none, I'm gonna close public here and turn this over to planning commission for further uh discussion.
Commissioner Walters.
Hi, thank you for being here today.
Um I just want to ask about the fuel pumps.
We had discussed last time that they were sort of contributing to an over design of the space here, which was causing some of these variances.
Was there consideration to remove those as we discuss?
After meeting with the uh councilwoman Summit Summers Armstrong, um she was uh she liked the plan, so we were gonna keep it as uh as the plan is and not revise it.
So can you describe some of the um additional landscaping efforts that you made from the uh from the prior application?
Yes, it's still we didn't revise the landscape, it's still the same, but if you can go to that plan L, it's the second second page, and you can see the do I need to open it up or yeah.
If you have a copy, go ahead and lay it up there.
We'll go on up to the overhead.
All right, perfect.
All right, there, okay.
Yeah, so um you can see we have all the landscape that's going around.
So in the back of this convenience door is actually um you have residential.
So what we have is we have uh trees and landscape that's on the back of the perimeter and going along the site, the sides also, and then up front on Decatur Boulevard, we put as much trees that's around the bus the bus shelter, and also on uh each island uh when you come into the parking lot.
Is that five five trees?
Um there's a total so we have six trees.
Um and what's their consideration for the ability for delivery drivers and others to be able to turn around or back out on this space as we discussed that.
Um so we're going to this is not gonna be open 24 hours.
Um the it's gonna be between seven to ten, and so all of the loading would be done in the morning.
Okay, um, if anyone else has uh have comments at this time, I'd be welcome to take them, but I um Yes, Commissioner Walters, if you can give us a couple couple minutes.
Uh Commissioner Taylor.
Um thank you, Commissioner Walters.
Um, I I just have a couple follow-up questions.
Okay, especially given what we just talked about with urban heat mitigation, urban island, urban heat island mitigation.
Um is that a shade canopy over your full fuel pumps?
It is.
Okay.
Um you are keeping the fuel pumps, right?
Correct.
Okay, and then those are parking spots.
These are parking spots, yes.
Okay, and you have no um parking lot islands that will have trees to provide additional shade on that asphalt, correct?
No, we will not just the trees on the the two uh islands here.
Okay, and you have six trees where 25 are required.
So you have less than a third of the required landscaping.
25 trees.
Yep, that's what the staff report says is required.
Okay.
Um I understand you've got a at least you've got a shade canopy, but I why can you not put more trees over by where the bus is on decatur?
Because that will help with both shade for people waiting for the bus and you know mitigate some of the additional asphalt that surrounds it.
Okay.
Because I'm I'm looking at this and I'm trying to, it looks like the true there's no trees actually in that space.
Correct?
Right, that is correct.
Okay.
So I just I I think that this needs work.
Um because again, we just talked about Urban Heat Island.
We've talked about trees, we've talked about landscape waivers, and that they are problematic.
This is an area that is part of high heat in urban heat island mapping, and so absent um some type of commitment that you will continue to work on these trees.
I just don't think I can support this because you've got the landscape waiver in here.
I know it's not my ward, but I just want to make sure that that's that you you know know that there's issues.
Thank you.
Thank you, Commissioner Will.
Yeah, so I have a couple of questions for you about egress on the site.
Um it just seems really tight from a few standpoints.
Number one, um, it looks like both of your egress points are 12 feet wide, which means there's one-way access both um in and out of the site on either side.
Is that correct?
That's correct.
Okay.
So in relation to that, um, I'm really challenged that you're when you have a fuel tanker that comes in and needs to fill those underground fuel tanks, that you're gonna be blocking um a majority of your parking spaces um along the south side of that property.
And because you can only come in uh and exit one direction, it's probably gonna cause a huge roadblock, and people are gonna try and go out the opposite direction.
Um so from a safety factor, I just think that's problematic.
Um and then the second point is um there's currently no car shown uh on the east side of the fuel pump that is closest to uh Decatur Boulevard.
And so I'm curious if you've um been able to are you able to give us a dimension on how much space would be left uh if there's a car using that fuel pump.
You mean right here on this yeah, correct?
So I I don't believe that another vehicle would be able to um get through that area if someone is using that fuel pump.
So if someone's here, they can go.
Yeah, they wouldn't be able to go around.
I can get that dimension for the So I believe it's a minimum that you would need, you know, 12 feet for a one-way access, but again, you're pushing in doing that, you're pushing all of your vehicular traffic towards the front of the convenience store and forcing everyone to go that one direction, um, which is also going to cause congestion with pedestrians walking through that that front of house area as well.
So I'm just I'm a little challenged to want to approve this um as it's drawn for those reasons.
Okay.
Thank you.
Anyone else seeing on Commissioner Walters?
Uh, where would you like to go from here?
Yes, at this time I would like to make a motion to deny okay.
There's a motion for denial of it.
That's uh motion deny 13A and B.
Yeah, thank you.
All right, motions on the floor for denial, yes votes to uh for denial.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
And that motion carries.
Mr.
Chairman, that item will move forward to city council on July 15th, 2026.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Moving on to item 14, abandoned 26-0116 SDR1, applicant owner, Zipperberg Towers 1 for possible action on land use entitlement project requests or a proposed seven-story 71 U unit mixed use development with 1,800 square feet of commercial space with waivers to Title 19.09 Ford-based code development standards at 1801.
Fremont Street Ward 3.
May we get the staff report, please.
Mr.
Chair, the proposed development is consistent with vision 2045 downtown master plan goals for this location in the Fremont East District, which calls for additional multifamily housing, including live work and MISR midrise workforce housing.
Given the irregular shape of the lot, staff supports the requested waivers and exceptions.
Staff recommends approval of the site development plan review.
Subject to conditions.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening.
If we could get your name and address for the record.
2140 Pebble Road.
Okay.
On behalf of the client.
How are you guys doing, Your Honors?
1801 East Tremont Street.
It's a triangle.
What's your name?
My name is Barack Silberberg.
Thank you.
Go ahead with your presentation.
Property consists of 0.38 of an acre, which is 15,500.
I believe it's uh within a T4 zoning.
Uh therefore we'd like to build uh seven-unit building, uh, which would substantiate as far as parking 32 and uh 71 units with the 1400 square foot retail space as well okay.
Thank you.
All right, anything else that you wanted to add?
Uh no, in addition, we just want to thank staff for working with us and for the recommendation of approval.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
We would like to improve the community and uh make it uh so well inviting.
That's what we'd like to do.
Perfect make it home.
Thank you so much.
This was noticed as a public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward.
Seeing none, I'm close to the public hearing.
Turn this over to Plan Commission for discussion of possible action.
This is within my ward.
I also live in the notification area, but I'm no not affected any greater or lesser than anyone else, so I will be voting on this matter.
Um I know this property pretty well.
I pass by it every morning and every evening, and uh I know that there's been uh you know uh it's a place where people like to camp out, and uh you know, there's sometimes RVs popping up on there, and there's one that just recently caught on fire, and so it uh the schools right on the side of it.
Uh not a lot of traffic on on sunrise, uh not a lot of pedestrian activity on sunrise.
Most of the pedestrian activity is on Fremont Street.
Um it would be a cool property if it actually gets built.
I hope you you you actually can build this.
Um we we there's not enough right-of-way for uh the street trees on sunrise, but there are uh plenty of uh trees going in along Fremont Street.
Um so I I have no other questions.
Staff's recommending approval, and uh if anybody has any comments or has a motion or anything.
Okay, seeing none.
Um item number two.
Okay.
Um I'll go ahead and make a motion on item 14 abeyance 26-0116 SDR.
Um, I'll make a motion to uh follow staff's recommendation for approval.
Thank you.
Motion is on the floor, please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
All right.
And that motion carries.
And Mr.
Chairman, that item will move forward to city council on July 15th, 2026.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Hope to see it come forward.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Moving on to item number 1526-0013, applicant owner 231, MLK Investment LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests at 2333 North Martin Luther King Boulevard, uh Ward 5.
15A is 26-0013 V A R 1 to allow 15 parking spaces where 20 are required.
15B is 26-0013 SUP1 for proposed motor vehicle parts cells installation and repair.
Uh 15C is 26 0013 SDR 1 for proposed one-story 2921 square foot auto repair garage development and parking lot reconfiguration with waiver of Title 19.08 development standards to allow bay doors to face the right-of-way, where such is not allowed.
May we get the staff report, please.
Mr.
Chairman, staff finds the proposed use to be too intense for the subject site as evidenced by the requested parking variants waiver to allow service bay doors to face the right-of-way, and exception to allow zero parking lot trees where six are required.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of the variants, special use permit, and site development plan review.
Thank you.
Thank you.
As an applicant here today.
Please come forward, state your name and address for the record.
Excuse me, Dennis Lara, 7901, South Island.
Um this is uh representing Mr.
Eric Pena.
Um this is a um a tire repair shop to clarify, and a window tint uh repair or uh service.
Okay, and uh this is uh uh the operational characteristics of this is a tire service that is uh limited to repair patching, balancing, and replacement of uh of tires.
And the window tint service is a quiet and clean installation uh service, and it's all indoors.
Um as far as the community benefit to this, it says it's uh it this uh this uses provides a practical and needed neighborhood service for residents and uh commuters along the Martin Luther King or MLK uh corridor without uh introducing impacts commonly associated with uh automotive businesses.
Um this is uh appropriate for the commercial zoning, and also it's it's uh it's low impact and compatible with the surrounding area.
It's a low impact uh um business and designed to operate entirely indoors with no outdoor use.
So the denial I I don't see why it would be denied, it's needed in this area.
This uh tire repair shop and window tent.
So I uh request approval if we need to uh uh add the trees uh then in the front.
We can we can do that, but as far as uh that uh corner, it's pretty uh desolate.
There's nowhere else to get your tire repair and uh to get your windows tinted.
So we recommend approval.
All right, thank you.
This was no decisive public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward.
Seeing none of them closed the public hearing, turn it over to planning commission for discussion possible action starting with Commissioner Walters.
Sir, if you want to stay up front.
Hi, thank you.
Yeah, hi, thanks for being here today.
Um, I did reach out with um, and I hadn't heard back from anybody, so I just want to ask a couple of questions here.
One, can you speak a little bit on the number of business license enforcement cases?
Seems to be several, including um uh uh unlicensed tire shop and food trucks occurring at the frequently.
Okay, um this was uh this was done prior to um my involvement, and uh uh this is um something that uh um I'm not familiar with the number of them.
Uh I did speak.
Uh I'm familiar with the code enforcement.
They addressed the front doors um facing uh MLK.
Um that's that's the only way you can uh face them, it's to MLK.
You can't face them either or there's no space.
Um the front, the doors face that way.
Yeah, they're not put in legally, but they can they can be uh uh retrofitted and getting uh um a uh an engineer to approve them.
There's no structural there, but they can be approved and it can be uh it can be permitted.
But yes, it was it was done on permitted, and it can it can be permitted, and it only can only face it can only face uh MLK.
There's no other place to face.
When you pull in, you pull right in and the work is done inside.
What's your other question?
As far as uh all the violations, uh I'm not familiar with the violations, just the code enforcement issue on the doors, and that's it.
Okay, I appreciate that.
I'm looking at a list of uh code enforcement cases, numerous ones over the last few years, including for unlicensed uh tire shops and food trucks and others, including when this permit uh or when this request was made, um, and there was also again the food truck uh in an unpermitted area of the property.
And so I just know that there have been a lot of code enforcement cases uh since this owner took over, and I'm just not sure what kind of guarantee we would have that um, you know the the plan we enact and put forward would actually be followed in this property, and I wanted to act a little bit about that.
So I have other questions though.
Um is about the landscaping on the property.
I did not see any uh landscaping plan for this property, and I think without one, you know, I I would not be inclined to approve this plan.
Do you have any sort of guidance on landscaping for this property?
Uh sure we can add trees along MLK if that's if that's uh uh if that would suffice, and also as far as the food truck uh uh the the guaranteed um well the only thing you can guarantee is taxes and death, but uh as far as guaranteeing uh that there will be license uh um that will be one of the requirements that uh that that uh the owner will have to comply with to rent out uh to make sure that uh whoever's renting these food trucks are properly licensed.
Um as far as myself and the owner um in the city of Las Vegas, uh I suppose when it's rented, court enforcement uh like in any other place that throughout the valley, uh there that's their job to to make sure they're licensed and they can get shut down if they're not licensed.
Okay, I um but we can definitely add the trees.
We can we can add the trees all along MLK.
Uh I would speak with the with the owners, and then they can up.
They want it open, so they could uh they will absolutely comply with trees if that's what's needed, uh, or an island uh with trees on it uh uh along with this next to the spandrel.
Okay, but uh one minute.
Uh Commissioner Walters, it looks like we may have some other questions if uh I may go to another commissioner.
Commissioner Taylor.
Um thank you, Chair.
Uh yeah, I would echo Commissioner Walters' concern about the landscaping again.
You've heard me say Urban Heat Island a bunch of times tonight, and this is a really hot area in terms of heat mapping and to just approve this without any type of um landscaping when it is um required.
I can't get behind that either.
Floyd if it's approved tonight is Mr.
Floyd not here could be Mr.
Chair not here Mr.
Chairman for you this we'll move on to city council I do want to make a note though um adding trees along Martin Luther King would impact the parking spaces and that could actually increase their variance request and so if they are looking to um add parking lot trees or trees along Martin Luther King I would recommend uh an abeyance and bring it back to planning commission before moving to city council thank you I that would be my Commissioner Walters that would be my humble suggestion is that this gets obeyed so that you I know you want to get it open but um it doesn't sound like you you it sounds like you may not have votes tonight so you know let's um maybe that makes more sense to just obey it work with staff work with Commissioner Walters and the councilwoman's office to try to get appropriate landscaping in here to help the issues that we talked about the other question I have is just the building itself are there plans because we did look at some examples in the redevelopment proposal related to blight and I'm not saying that this building is blighted but I do see some lettering that is missing and that could probably use some improvement to help um improve the aesthetics of that corner so it if I was making the motion that would be my motion would be to obey but it's not my ward so I'm just suggesting that the conditions are are well the founded as far as the uh the the the room that they do have in parking they do have enough uh when they pack the uh when they park forward uh facing MLK uh they have enough room to uh give an additional three or five feet uh of landscaping before the parking uh behind uh sidewalk back a sidewalk uh they can do five feet and add the trees right there and landscaping right there as far as uh the building uh yeah they can repaint it they can put up all the lettering and so with conditions that would be good with conditions and then that way can move forward with the conditions okay I I think that um miss edos um's concerns about making sure that you're not increasing the intensity of your variances are well founded so um I really think an abundance of caution and for the best interest of the project your client and the harmonious nature of this project for the neighborhood I think it again my humble opinion is the best the best course of action is an abeyance and then you can really work through everything and we'll see you in in July that's what I would what I think would be the best thing to do but again it's not my ward thank you chair commissioner walters yes thank you I um I agree with commissioner taylor thank you for the comment um it we could I I'm ready to make a motion for a abeyance for this project um because at this time I think I am also unable to to really approve approve uh this project as so if there are no other comments then I move to obey um to obey hello yeah yes I'm move to abeyance for item 1526 0013 and 15a 15b and 15 c to the july 14th uh commission movement give me give me one moment just for a uh technical question that I need addressed all right uh so commissioner walters was there was there an abeyance uh a motion for abeyance to the July 14th meeting okay abeyance motion for abeyance is on the floor to july 14th please cast your vote
All right.
Uh so Commissioner Walters, was there was there an abance uh a motion for advance to the July 14th meeting?
Okay, a bands motion for abeyance is on the floor to July 14th.
Please cast your vote.
Aye.
All right, and that motion carries that will be abade until July 14th.
I would suggest you get with Commissioner Walters and staff and try to get those things worked out to make sure that we don't have any issues before you come back.
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you.
All right, moving on to item 16, 26-0059.
Applicant Murphy USA owner Charleston Corner LLC for possible action following land use entitlement project requested 2035.
Use Charleston Boulevard Ward 3.
Staff recommends to now 16A is 260059 SUP1 for proposed alcohol off-premise beer one use.
16B is 26-0059 SDR1 for proposed one-story 2824 square foot convenience store development with fuel pumps with waivers to Total 1909 form-based code development standards.
May we get the stand uh the staff report, please.
Mr.
Chairman, the numerous waivers of form-based development standards requested indicate that the overall development does not meet the urban design intent of the T5 MS zoning district to create a compact walkable environment with active street furniture.
Staff therefore recommends denial of the special use permit and site development plan review, subject to conditions if approved.
Thank you.
Oh, and please note there were additional documents of protest and support received after publication.
Thank you.
Good evening.
Good evening, Jennifer Lazovich, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here tonight on behalf of the applicant.
The site is located on Eastern Avenue and Charleston Boulevard.
It is approximately 0.85 acres in size.
So what we're proposing to do tonight is to redevelop the site, tear the existing building down.
We would be proposing a uh convenience store and a fuel pump.
We have the building for the convenience store set back on the far west portion of the building, and then sitting up here closer to Eastern Avenue is the fuel canopy.
In light of the earlier discussion about the heat island effect and and some other applications, I want to spend a minute talking about the landscaping.
Um you will note that there is there are some landscape waivers in our application, and I want to kind of talk about some of those.
But the rest of the landscaping, predominantly up here, it really um meets or exceeds what code requires, and then you kind of come over in this corner the same.
We just have that tiny little pinch point, so I don't want there to be an idea that um the entire landscape frontage along Charleston or Eastern is that small in width.
We have the width that we need to plant uh the trees.
As it relates to the trees themselves, um the two the areas where we have parking right here.
Um we do have two trees on either side of that.
We only have six parking spaces.
Uh and then all of our trees as submitted showed 36-inch box, but um if this uh commission um would like to move this item forward tonight, we would ask that an additional condition be added uh that if the gist of it is that all trees would be three-inch caliper measured six inches above ground.
Again, our plan showed 36-inch box, but um, knowing how this commission prefers that to be worded, we're fine with that, and it achieves what we were trying to do with the 36-inch box trees anyway.
With respect to the waivers, um, we think it is a cleaner look on this street frontage to place the building back on the west side, but that drives a lot of the waivers that you'll see in the staff report.
Uh, in addition, the overlay for this area requires there to be a minimum of two stories.
So, what we did is created a two-story building.
The two-story building, the second floor of it is actually faux, it's not real, but just in terms of um a nod to what the overlay plan says for this area.
We did create that two-story elevation.
In addition, some other things that I just want to point out.
Um, uh, all of our pylons underneath our fuel canopy have stone stacked all the way to the top of the fuel canopy.
And it showed um in a better picture as staff was going through.
But the reason why I wanted to show this at nighttime is because it's a two-story building.
We were trying to think of a way to light up the building, but not only the bottom of the building, also the top of the building.
So this lighting, this up-down lighting would go all the way around all four sides of the building.
We understand it's important to um to keep the entire area lit up.
In addition to that, of course, there will be lighting under the fuel canopy as well.
So with these kind of added uh changes to the area, we would ask for your approval of this application.
Thank you.
This notice does the public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward.
Ms.
Lazovich, if I could have you step to the side.
And sir, if I can get you down here and have your name and address for the record, you could take that microphone.
Thank you, Jason Macris.
Uh, my address is 1721 East Oakie Boulevard, 89104.
So we live a few blocks just from this planned development.
Uh, we actually have a face group, uh, the Crestwood neighborhood.
We actually have a Facebook uh group about this, and we saw that this was on there.
I'm not speaking for the entire neighborhood, but there were a bunch of people who were opposed to this.
We were really concerned about the liquor license and the uh another liquor store being added.
I think you're probably aware of the store that's on the 15th in Charleston and kind of the congregation that goes along there.
We'd love to see the residents, of course, the people who are homeless and have those issues be helped, but there is a concern about that kind of congregation helping there.
I think that the uh you guys are probably also aware that that particular intersection at Eastern and Charleston gets very heavily densely populated by vehicle traffic.
So I think there's going to be a further concern with having another gas station right across from the one that is already present there with regards to traffic congestion, pollution, the urban um environment that it's going to create with regard to heat.
And um, I can appreciate the business wanting to establish something here, but I think overall it's gonna actually detract from the area and create more uh environmental and public safety hazards, and so a lot of us were concerned about, so we would just like to know.
I would like to note my objection to the audience.
Thank you for coming down.
Seeing no one else on closed public hearing, have Miss Less Mitch come back up.
Did you have anything you wanted to add before uh turning it over to Planning Commission?
Uh yes, just one thing to note, um, and I don't know the specific details of what the gentleman just referenced with that location, but this is not uh this location will not sell hard alcohol or look or it is limited to beer and wine only.
I don't know if that's a distinction that's important to the other example that was raised.
Um and then the only other point that I wanted to make is uh convenient store with fuel pumps is by definition used for the convenience of those who are driving by.
So the traffic that is already in the area is why this is an attractive location for an additional convenience store with fuel pumps.
I don't believe that it will add more traffic, it will just service the traffic that's already moving around in the area.
Okay, thank you.
Uh I'm gonna close the public here and turn this over to Plan Commission for discussion possible action.
Yes, Miss Lebo.
Um I do Commissioner.
I have a question regarding the bus turnout.
Um you mentioned that there is um I don't know if it's an existing bus turnout or if you're dedicating additional land for that bus turnout as part of this project.
Um, so I'm just curious about that.
It's an existing bus turnout.
Okay.
It's there today, it sits right about here.
Gotcha.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Uh I'm gonna turn it over to myself.
So I I met with Miss Lazovich, I don't know, a year ago about this particular project, and uh looked at some plans and um asked her to go back to the drawing board, and then she brought back another set of plans and then um trying to look at the uh uh you know a two-story to uh try to get this to look more along the lines of what we're looking for in a form-based code.
And then we asked to make some more modifications, and uh went back and forth, and then um I asked her to make some other modifications to the exterior, and then when she brought it back, I was like, no, let's come back to the first one.
So we we we made had a lot of work on this.
I did hear about the neighborhood and all the Facebook posts uh and everything and about the liquor, and uh I I wouldn't support liquor here.
Um that that was a no-go for me.
And uh actually when I heard uh of the Facebook post, I I actually called Ms.
Lazovich and asked her if she was planning on doing liquor that it's not gonna not gonna fly at this location.
So anyway, she called me back and said uh that there won't be liquor.
It'll be beer and wine like everywhere else.
But liquor brings a whole nother element uh uh to uh to these locations.
I live in this neighborhood, I live in a notification area, I'm not gonna be affected in a greater or lesser than anyone else.
Uh so I'll be voting on this matter.
But I live at the Fremont Street Loss, just uh a couple couple projects up from here.
And when they put in the terribles, I was on the fence on that project.
But actually, I I go there and I actually go there because it's much easier for me to get in there and get my fuel and get back out.
The five points um gas station that is in the center of that triangle of Charleston, Fremont, and uh and Eastern is uh you know the worst laid out project that that I think I've seen.
You can't if you're going eastbound on Charleston, westbound on Fremont, or southbound on Eastern, you can't make it in.
You can keep driving around there and not get in.
Only if you're going the opposite direction, can you actually enter that that gas station?
And uh and and sometimes it becomes so overcrowded uh that it just becomes like a traffic uh nightmare there.
Um but I would like to say that the uh terribles is there.
I go there early in the morning, go there in the evenings, and uh, and they do a really good job of keeping keeping that place uh um you know clean, and you don't see that element of people hanging out there like you do at every other place up and down Fremont Street and some of these other places as this gentleman mentioned because some of those places he mentioned I wouldn't even even want to walk in.
So you know, for those reasons, uh you know, we could we could look at this, we could try to put another um uh fast food joint in there.
Uh this building's old and dilapidated.
Um, but at this point, I I think this is better than what we have, and and it's as close to the uh the the look and feel of what the building is that we're looking for down there.
I would like to see if staff at some point in the future could talk to us, maybe have a agenda item and talk to us about gas stations and uh the frontage and how they do front on uh the uh the streets and how we want the gas pumps in the back because we've been talking about this for you know uh as long as I've been on the plan commission, which Commissioner Rogan said was 1950.
Um so but I I don't remember ever approving any of these where they were actually built in this direction.
So like to see what the thought is behind that and also if we need to look at modifying code or or what, but um we don't have to discuss that tonight.
But those are my comments.
Um Commissioner Rogan.
I mean, I agree that we have to take a look at um all these auto-oriented uses in this area.
I mean, I know we've dealt with car washes, and I I think that we've kind of taken a position as a recall that we're not putting cart washes on Sahara Avenue right now.
Um I think the same should be said for gas pumps or at least have a discussion about what we're doing with gas pumps.
As far as this particular application, I I appreciate all the effort that you've gone through to redesign it, and it's taken a year, but at some point I think we just have to make a decision that we're following form-based code or we're not following form-based code, and we have a code here.
You're you're seeking to put traditional suburban developments, and it looks great, and I appreciate that you put that uh redesign in there, but it still doesn't meet it's so far from from code that I just I can't support it.
And along the lines if we're asking staff to do things, I'd like to at some point inquire if if we're keeping track of how much how many times we're deviating from form-based code and approving these things so that we can actually see if it's working or if we're not doing our job in requiring applicants to come back because I I feel like we're doing this all the time.
And um, I I just want to get some data on there to make sure that my feeling is matching the reality of what we're seeing.
So I appreciate again, Miss Lazovich, everything that you do, but I'm just not gonna support it tonight.
Thank thank you.
Anyone else?
All right.
Um I'm gonna close this and um look for a motion on item number uh 1626-0059, 16A and B.
Um, I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve item 16, 16A 26-0059 SUP1 and 16B 260059 SDR, um, subject to all conditions, including Miss Edo's the added condition regarding the trees being three inch calipers, six inches above grade.
Yeah, Mr.
Chair, through you.
Uh that added condition would be on 26-0059 SDR 1, and it would be all trees shall be a minimum three-inch trunk caliper measured six inches from the base of the trunk.
Thank you.
Motion is on the floor, please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
And that motion carries.
Thank you.
And Mr.
Chairman, that item will move on to City Council on July 15th, 2026.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Item number 1726 0143 VAR one.
Applicant owner pro view series 36 proposal action on land use entitlement project request to allow a proposed front yard wall fence that does not conform to Title 19.08 development standards for height uh at 1701 South Las Vegas Boulevard Ward 3.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, no evidence or of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented, and that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship for proposing a fence taller than what Title 19 allows.
Therefore, staff is recommending denial of the request.
Thank you.
Yes, and um I'm gonna go ahead and open number 18 26-0198 VAR1.
Applicant owner proview series 36 for possible action on land use entitlement project requests to allow proposed free stand and sign that does not conform to Title 19.08 development standards for sign area and setbacks at 1701 South Las Vegas Boulevard.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Uh Mr.
Chairman, for that one, um again, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented and that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing a new freestanding sign that exceeds the maximum's allowed sign area and that will remain within the setback area.
Therefore, staff is recommending denial of this request as well.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening, sir.
Good evening, Planning Commission.
My name is Adam Fulod, 10225 Stony Ridge Drive.
Um, I'm gonna be speaking on both items.
I'll focus on one at a time though.
For the first, the regarding the fence, I know that uh staff said that there's no reason for it, uh more or less.
Uh this is the same area that Mayor Goodman several years ago said that she went with Mr.
Oscar Goodman and refused to get out of the car at Lovett Custard because she was worried about the homeless people out front.
Um we have invested a lot of money to redevelop this property.
Unfortunately, I don't have photos of what it looks like now.
We've done a lot of property a lot of projects in the arts district uh and in the downtown to revitalize properties.
Unfortunately, this area is very rough.
Um, and the reason why we want the oversized or tall fence is because of all the riff raft in the area.
Uh we see it as absolutely necessary, uh, and for that reason uh we're proposing instead of doing the standard five or six foot to go uh past that.
So uh that's regarding the fence.
Now, regarding the sign, um they did say it's a new sign.
Uh this is an existing sign, and I'm gonna go through several photos.
Uh, right now it shows the location of the existing sign on our approved plans.
It specifically states existing signage to remain.
Uh and again, same location.
We're not removing it or changing it.
Uh we are changing it to something more modern.
Um now I'm gonna go ahead and show this.
Unfortunately, the microphone is in the web.
Um there you go.
This is the existing signage.
Uh the what we're proposing is this, and the reason why we we see that as necessary again, this area is underdeveloped.
There's more homeless people right now than you see more homeless and people on drugs, and you see the average person walking around.
So we need something to help attract tenants to the area.
Across the street or across Las Vegas Boulevard is the White Cross.
Unfortunately, nothing is going on there for right now.
And we need something to be able to connect this property to the main part of the arts district.
For that reason, this is the sign that we're proposing.
We do already have the existing sign.
And the new sign is only 38 square feet larger than what would be, I assume what is allowed.
I do want to show some examples of other signs that are within a stone's throw of the property.
This is not even a two-minute walk from our property, it's 370 square feet, is larger than what we are proposed in.
This is directly up the street in Las Vegas Boulevard, it's the fun city of neighboring property to another property we own, again, larger than what we're proposing.
This is another one a little bit down the street, closer to our property again, 672.
This is another sign at the atomic golf, 1,836 square feet.
Um so uh again to go over it regarding the the fence, it is specifically for security.
I do understand the reasoning for the shorter fences.
Unfortunately, this is not a clean cut area for us, and we need something to help secure the property at night.
And again, regarding the signage, this isn't a new sign.
We already have the approval to keep the existing sign.
I do understand the setbacks, but for that reason I believe that this is grandfathered, and this would be just something nicer to help tie us in and to make sure that the property is a success.
Okay, thank you.
This was noticed as a public hearing.
Anyone wanting to be heard, please come forward, state your name and address for the record.
Seeing none, I'm close public here and turn this over to planning commission for discussion, possible action.
Commissioner Weeble.
Uh yes, Chairperson, NRS 281A420 requires me to disclose a conflict of interest.
The applicant before the planning commission and I had a previous business conflict that a reasonable person in my situation would be materially affected by this issue.
And because this is a disqualifying conflict of interest, I'm going to be abstaining from voting and speaking on this matter.
Thank you.
All right.
Um I I've seen this uh site.
I've I've I've watched it my warehouses across the street from from here, and uh I've I've seen it as it's gone up.
Um put a ton of money into this building and taking kind of a big risk as you're on the on the outskirts right now, but I I feel that this is uh right across the street on Las Vegas Boulevard and Oki, there's gonna be I hear about a lot of things that's gonna be coming in that area within the next five years, which I'm kind of excited about.
Um and I do remember when this particular project came forward.
I I thought felt that we're gonna have a lot of opposition from the neighbors, and you know, we we had a lot of neighbors actually show up and supported this, uh saying that they want to come support the breweries and the restaurants and everything that's in there.
So it was nice to see that we you you did have some community support then.
Um I don't necessarily have a problem with the the you know the sign, the sign's in that location, it's staying in the same location.
Um like you said, it's 38 square feet over the existing sign.
Um, and the fence matches everything, all the steel that you all have added to that building.
Um question is is this uh LED?
Yes, it's gonna be LED to help attract tenants, or it's gonna be for the tenants to help attract uh visitors to the property.
Okay.
And what what's on the east facing side of that that sign?
Is that gonna be LED as well?
Is that yeah, the both sides, it's double face.
So the side facing into the property and the side facing out will be the same.
All right.
Well, uh and and my only concern would be the brightness and the illumination from from that sign and making sure that it's not blending to the neighbors and and uh blend to traffic that's coming down that street.
So you know if approved, I would I would like to see that underneath a one-year administrative review just to make sure that we're not having any issues in that semi-dark neighborhood.
So uh you're gonna really have to keep this thing kind of somewhat muted uh facing the neighborhood, maybe a little bit brighter facing Las Vegas Boulevard.
So just keep that in mind.
So the side facing in absolutely uh just the side that faces into the property is almost blocked in by the building.
Oh, is it?
Yeah, so it's it doesn't face uh east-west, it's angled, so the back end of it would really be facing into the property, but I do agree.
We don't want to sign that's gonna be blinding drivers just to get their attention.
We don't need a spotlight.
It's more so just to show hey, there's something over here and attract people to walk over.
Okay.
So if we do an administrative review, what happens is it'll just be heard by or reviewed by its staff.
If there's a lot of code enforcement complaints or anything like that, then it will come back to our body.
But if not, then it'll uh it'll be final at that point.
But I have no no further questions.
Anyone else have any questions?
Yes, uh, Commissioner Taylor.
I had two questions, but you covered mine about the the LED facing the neighborhoods.
But so I'm just looking at this site, and I'm trying to figure out like where's your access?
We have two.
Uh right now we have the main access is gonna be here along Oaky.
Uh there is one.
We had an agreement.
Unfortunately, long story short, the 711 was built into a an agreement that they would never build there, and I guess during COVID they decided to build.
Um we went back and forth.
They've given us another access right here.
This does not show the current development.
This is I don't know how old this photo is, but there is one man door here that we've been given approval for, and the main access will be here off of Oki.
Right next to the sign.
Okay, and then what is to the east?
Is that public access as well?
This side is all the alleyway.
Um so these are businesses are right here.
This is all one owner, and then these are for lack of better words, boarded up homes.
Okay.
So let me just make sure I understand.
Are you like so?
Are you using that neighboring site at the 711 then as an access point?
And for parking, or no, it will just be the access will be OK.
I think if we have and we're gonna have security as part of our umbrella liquor license, if we see the need for two entry points or exit points, there would be one off of Oki, sorry, one off of Oki, and the second would be here through the 711.
We have an access agreement with them now.
Okay, and so there's no access on that alleyway between your site and that plum crazy solutions.
No, the it will there's no bus, there's business access.
The tenants have access in order to get to the trash enclosure, so they have alley doors that allow them to exit to the alley in order to take their trash to the trash enclosure.
Um, but those entries are not for patrons, it is just for the backup house.
And is that is that access?
Are you restricting that access, or is that a joint agreement with you and all of the businesses to the east?
Um I don't know if I fully understand this.
The alleyway here is just a public alley.
Is that okay?
Did I miss understand that?
Okay.
There's actually no on-site parking at this location.
The parking's off-site across Los Lands Boulevard.
Okay.
All right.
We have some creative ideas for that.
But yeah, okay.
Yeah, I we don't have alleys in ward six.
So I okay.
Thank you very much.
No problem.
Thank you.
Okay.
Seeing no others, um be looking for a motion on item number 17.
I can go ahead and make a motion if you like on item 17.
I'll make a motion um to approve item 1726-0143 V A R 1.
Motion is on the floor.
I three chair.
Sorry, sorry, was there um a required review?
Is that a condition need to be added on this item or no?
Yes, with uh one year.
Yeah, sorry, thank you.
So does she need to read the added condition on 18?
So uh motions on the floor, please call it.
I'm sorry, on 17 and 18.
I forgot that that was both of them.
And we had an I vote for Commissioner Walters.
No, and that motion carries, and that is final action tonight, and let's appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Commissioner Chaler.
Is that clear?
Is it clean enough for me to like report on 17?
No one takes conditions.
Got it.
Okay.
Um, and then I'll make a second motion on item 18 26-0198 VAR 1, um, subject to all conditions, including the condition of a one-year administrative review, and you agree to all those conditions.
I do.
Um, Mr.
Chairman, let me read that condition in really quick.
For the added condition, it will read a one-year administrative review shall be performed from the date of final inspection of the building permit.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I agree to that.
Thanks.
Motion is on the floor.
Please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
Thank you.
And that motion carries.
And that is final action unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you so much.
Have a great night.
Thank you.
Moving on to item number 226-0165, applicant owner Santa Gold Realty, LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests at 1712 Santa Paula Drive Ward 3.
Staff recommends denial.
20A 26 0165 B A R1 to allow a 16-foot rear yard setback where 20 feet is required for an existing building.
20 B 26-0165 Z O N1 from PR professional office and residential or professional office and parking to R4 high density residential.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, the existing building previously converted from a multifamily use to an office in 2015, where it conformed to the rear yard setback requirement.
Staff does not now support creation of a non-conforming setback, and there is no physical characteristic of the lot that warrants approval of the variants.
Therefore, staff recommends denial of the variance and rezoning.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So applicant here tonight.
Seeing none, I'll close uh open this up to public hearing.
Seeing none, I'll close public hearing.
Uh turn this over to the planning commission.
So I I've reviewed this.
Um I I do understand it.
It was uh it would not uh meet today's codes, but considering how this was a multifamily at one point, uh went to professional office and going back to multifamily.
Uh I I have no uh no issues with this.
So there's no other issues, Commissioner Taylor.
Um I will go ahead and make a motion on item number 20.
That's 26-0165, um, and then 20 um a 260165 VAR1 and 20 B 26-0165 and one for approval.
Motion is on the floor for approval.
Please cast your vote.
Please chair through that's subject to conditions, correct?
Oh, yes, subject to conditions.
Thank you.
And Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
And that motion carries.
And that will move on to city council on July 15th.
And Mr.
Chairman, I need to make one correction on item number 16.
Uh, I believe we said that would be moving on to city council on July 15th.
That is actually final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you for the clarification.
Moving on to item 22, 26-0175 VAR1, applicant owner, Allah Ortiz, and Humberto Ortiz Jr.
for possible action on land use entitlement project request to allow an existing residential accessory structure gradually.
She does not conform to Title 1906.
Development standards for separation setbacks and aesthetic compatibility at 5329, Dennis Springs Way, Ward 6.
Staff recommends no.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance related to the physical characteristics of the property has been represented to warrant the requested variants.
As such, the hardship is self-imposed, and therefore staff recommends denial of this request.
Please note additional documentation of support was received after publication.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening.
Can we get your name and address?
Yes, Mr.
Chair.
Uh Umberto Ortiz, 5329, Dennis Ringsway.
Thank you.
Tell us about the project.
So when I purchased the home in 2021, the structure was already existing.
And uh I didn't know about the setback and all like that.
Um it's been there, I guess.
From us, I got letters from the neighbors uh directly behind me into a side and in front.
Uh the neighbor in front actually said that that structure has gone through three different owners since he's been there.
Okay.
Said it.
Uh yes.
Okay, thank you.
This was noted says public hearing.
If you want to be heard, please come down.
Seeing none, I'm closed public hearing.
Turn this over to the plan to commission to start with commissioner Taylor.
Thank you.
Um good evening, sir.
Thanks for coming down.
Uh we have had a similar item on your neighboring street of Echo Crest.
And it seems to me that there are a lot of these structures in this area off Dana Springs way.
Um, you know, my understanding is there was one contractor out there building these um pretty robustly.
Um so as a result, I do believe that this is harmonious and compatible for this neighborhood.
Um did you have any opposition from any of your neighbors either on um on your street or on the street behind you, Echo Crest?
No, ma'am, just support.
Okay.
Are those written support?
Yes.
Would you be able to turn those into the clerk?
Yes.
Great.
And then I have a question for staff on this item.
I don't know if you guys can answer it, but um, considering we did again have this on Echo Crest, the same issue.
What are the next steps for these homeowners?
Because I also understand that we've got several more of these potentially in the pipeline.
Um so what are they what happens if we grant a variance like this and what's their timeline?
Uh if the uh Mr.
Chairman, through you, once the if the variance is granted, they will have two years to obtain a building permit and have that permit receive its final inspection.
That will exercise the variants.
If they do not obtain a building permit and get their final inspection and close the permit, the variance will expire.
And if somebody complained again, then they would be back having to repeat this process.
Okay.
And um the applicants receive that information in the letter that goes out following a hearing in terms of their timeline and their next steps.
Mr.
Chairman, through you, yes, the uh final action letter will give them their expiration date, and one of the conditions of approval is for them to obtain a building permit.
Okay, all right, thank you.
Um I am prepared to make a motion if there are no questions.
Okay, I have one question real quick.
Yes, um, uh concerning what uh what she said.
Uh I had spoke to Officer Nick Gonzalez, who's a code enforcement officer right now on the case.
Really nice guy, and I explained to him because I was under the impression that me and the other neighbors were under the impression that we had two years to get it permitted, because when we talk to a building and safety, they say because it's a it's already a pre-existing structure that we have to hire a structural engineer to draw the plans and all that, which consists obviously of money and time as well.
Um, I was informed by the um current enforcement officer that we don't have that privilege of two years that we were basically because we are already in violation right now that we don't that's only if it was nothing was built there before and we're flying for a variance.
So that was my concern is that uh I needed some more time, you know.
Um like I said, Officer Gonzalez said that basically since I'm already in violation, the clock is already ticking.
So I would ask for some uh one second.
If I could ask uh plan, is there a condition that tells them how long he has?
Mr.
Chairman, yes.
The variance, if it is granted tonight, they will have two years to final, you know, receive their final inspection and exercise the variance.
A timeline given by code enforcement is separate.
So code enforcement will give them a timeline and make sure that they stay on track by obtaining the building permit by going through the inspection process and by you know obtaining that final inspection to ensure that the structure is safe and secure.
Thank you.
So that's two separate timelines.
Okay.
So I suggest you just get an architect and get this into the city as soon as possible.
Commissioner Taylor.
I mean, I guess my question then, Miss Edoes is uh through you, Mr.
Chair, is that seems sort of um disconnected then that you guys can give them a certain timeline, but then that may be completely obviated by code enforcement, and that just seems a little um I I can't think of the of the best adjective I want, but it just seems like there should be better alignment between code enforcement and this process.
Mr.
Chairman, through you the building permit process, especially when you have to obtain structural drawings, can take a little bit of time.
Um it could be six months, eight months, nine months.
So it is to the applicant's advantage to start this process, you know, if it is granted tonight to start this process immediately, because two years can go quite quickly.
So code enforcement will you know monitor this and make sure they are continuously making progress and that they're not just sitting on it and waiting until a month before the expiration date to go get their building permit because then it will expire.
They will not have time to obtain that.
Okay.
I I understand that part right there.
Um can code enforcement find me during the process.
Like so if I if I call like next week and get a structure to get the process going just to show that I'm being proactive and getting it uh permitted.
Uh will I still get the fines over that process for failed inspections from quote enforcement.
So Ms Mr.
Chairman Seth Floyd for the record.
So if the next thing that will happen after this meeting typically is the code officer will then check in with you.
Uh Nick will check in with you.
If you are, as Nicole said, making progress, then they will keep the case typically will keep the case on pause as long as you are making progress.
So uh you won't necessarily get a fine, but if that progress stops, gotcha, they may pick the case back up.
Okay, thank you.
Okay, thank you.
So with that, um, I would like to go ahead and make a motion to approve item 22 uh which is 260175 V A R 1, subject to all conditions.
Motion is on the floor for approval.
Please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
That motion carries.
And that item is final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
And Mr.
Chairman, I apologize for the confusion again.
Item number 20 uh is also final action tonight unless appeal to city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you for the clarification.
Moving on to item 2326-017910179 SDR1.
Applicant collita group, owner 116 10th Street LLC for possible action on land use project requests for an existing parking facility with waivers to Title 19.09.
Form-based code development standards at 946 East Carson Avenue Ward 3 staff recommends now.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, staff recommends denial of all requested waivers and it's development that was previously considered temporary and built to temporary standards should now be redesigned to meet form-based code standards to continue operation as a permanent parking lot.
The addition of landscaping would enhance the aesthetic appeal of the parking lot and provide shading benefits.
Staff therefore recommends denial of the site development plan review.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening, sir.
Good evening, Robert Cunningham, 6030 South Jones Boulevard with tanning engineering representing the applicant.
All right.
All right.
What we're asking for is exactly what staff requested.
This is an existing parking lot that was temporary and permitted in 20, I believe, 2017 or 18 constructed and utilized.
It was supposed to be removed and tore down, I believe, in 2020-21.
It's been remaining and functioning as a parking lot since then.
The goal here is to make it permanent.
In doing so, the coach changed and been updated several times since this was initially constructed.
Some of the variances that were applied for were related to the changes there.
But in particular, the the landscaping, I would like to address that.
One of the things that we applied for was a waiver of landscaping, but I think I'm gonna ask staff and the planning commission if we can modify that.
This is the landscape area or the area where landscaping could be built along 10th.
The majority of this is in the public right-of-way, only five feet of this is actually within the private property.
If a license and maintenance agreement can be entered into with the city, we could plant the required 24-inch box trees, um, 15 feet on center with the required shrubs running down here all down the 10th street alignment.
Now Carson is a different story.
Uh there's only about three to four feet of landscape rock area in this area here.
We would be able to plant shrubs in this area.
Trees would be very limited and and um nearly impossible to plant in that that very narrow landscape.
So we would still request that variance along that area there.
The wall, as you see here, is just a CME wall with iron on top as part of this as well.
We would agree to paint the wall and um or stucco it and make it more decorative in nature.
We believe that the combination of the two would aid in the view from the the adjacent street.
And um the setback waivers and or variances and other variances are requested, we would still ask for approval of those.
That concludes my presentation.
Thank you.
This was no discussed public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward seeing none of a closed public hearing, turn this over to plan commission for discussion possible action.
Uh Mr.
Cunningham, thank you for calling me.
Thank you for uh being willing to add those uh trees and that decorative stucco.
Um it it will totally make a difference on on that property, and especially since this is finally going from a temporary parking lot to a permanent parking lot.
And I know that the Kalita does uh group does such a great job all over town.
Um I'm sure they're gonna do an amazing job here, and uh putting in the shrubs along Carson where there's no room to put in the trees is uh uh was a great addition too.
So thank you so much for making it uh easy for us to uh uh make those modifications.
So go ahead, uh Commissioner Taylor.
Just quickly, Mr.
Cunningham.
Uh I think you probably know what I'm gonna ask.
Um instead of 24-inch box, are you willing to agree to a condition that the trees will be three inch calipers at six inches above grade?
Yes, absolutely.
That's not a problem.
Thank you.
And can we ask plan staff to read a condition into the record?
Oh, and actually, sorry, through you, Mr.
Chair.
Uh large, fast growing trees on the SNWA plan.
Absolutely.
Okay, thank you, Mr.
Kenyon.
Do you want to make the motion first or do you want me to read their own?
No, read the read the condition.
Uh Mr.
Chair, on item 26-0179 SDR1.
Um, we want to amend condition number five to read upon approval of a license agreement, fast growing large shade trees with a minimum three-inch trunk caliper measured six inches from the base of the trunk, shall be planted every 15 feet on center along 10th street, with four five-gallon shrubs for every required tree, and five gallon shrubs planted along Carson Avenue.
Thank you.
And you agree with that.
Acceptable, yes, thank you.
Thank you.
Commissioner Taylor.
Um, yes, okay.
With that, um, I would go like to go ahead and make a motion on item 23.
Oh, no, I'm sorry, I thought that there was another question.
Um for item 23.
That's 26-0179 SDR1 to approve the application.
With the added condition with the added condition to which Mr.
Motion is on the floor, please cast your vote and Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
Thank you.
That motion carries.
And that is final action unless appeal to city clerk in 10 days, and I'm sure about that.
Thank you.
Okay, thank you.
We'll just see about that.
Give it a couple more uh items.
On item 2426-0180 SUP1 applicant first watch restaurants incorporate it.
Owner 2001, North Rainbow LLC for possible action on land use entitlement project request for a proposed alcohol on premise full use with an outdoor patio area at 2001 North Rainbow Boulevard Ward 5.
Staff recommends approval.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, the proposed use is consistent with the uses allowed in the C1 limited commercial zoning district and can be conducted in a compatible and harmonious way with the surrounding land uses.
Therefore, staff recommends approval of the special use permit.
Please note additional documentation of protest was received after publication.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening.
Good evening.
Thank you.
Ryan Chapel, uh 8725 Penry Place.
Uh, representing first watch restaurants, senior development manager.
Um First Watch Restaurants is a one-winning daytime dining concept.
We have 630 locations across 31 states and recently entered Nevada in late 2025 with another location opening in early 2026.
Um for the request here, uh, we're seeking special use to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Um it's an menu of four to six alcoholic cocktails.
All drinks must be served with the food item.
Custom drinks are not accepted or possible since all alcoholic drinks are batched daily and not made to order.
Uh the location is uh former Romano's macaroni grill, which we will be doing pretty significant interior renovations, updates the floor plan, furniture, fixtures, as well as exterior renovations.
Thank you.
This was noticed as a public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward.
Seeing none, I'm close public hearing.
Turn this over to Plan Commission, starting with Commissioner Walters.
Hi, thank you for being here.
I um I don't believe I I am familiar with this site.
I used to attend it frequently at the macaroni grill.
I'm looking forward to something else coming in there with uh similar but different venue options.
So if any I will allow if anyone else has any question or for you at the point.
There's no other comments, please make your motion.
Okay, I'd like to make a motion on agenda item 24, 26-0180, SGP one, special use permit uh for approval.
Motions on the floor for approval.
Subject conditions.
The motions on the floor are subject to conditions with uh I vote for Commissioner Walters.
And that motion carries.
And that item is final action tonight, unless appeal to the city clerk.
Final answer.
Final answer.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Moving on to item 2526-0183 VAR1, applicant owner, Jose Francisco Solis D de Leon and Paula E.
Soto Chavez for possible action on the land use entitlement project requests to allow an existing front yard wall fence that does not conform to Title 1906 development standards for height and visibility at 1420 in Ingram uh Street Ward 3.
Staff recommends now.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Um hi, good evening.
Um I'm sorry, excuse me.
One second, we're gonna go with the staff report.
No problem.
Uh Mr.
Chairman, this is the subject of an open code enforcement case, as there's no unique or extraordinary circumstance related to the physical characteristics of the subject property that warrants the requested height and visibility variants.
The hardship is deemed to be self-imposed, and staff recommends denial, subject to conditions if approved.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening.
Hi, good evening.
My name is Paola Soto.
And um uh I'm owner of the 1420 Ingram Street, the property.
And I'm requesting the approval of the variance of uh an existing wall in fence in front of side of the my property.
Since these don't have the the height and visibility standards.
Um you can see in the photograph um the measurements of the fence on the wall.
This property um was purchased in the 2022 and already has this wall built more than 20 years ago.
Uh the fence was added to the existing wall.
Um the wall and the fence do not affect the light ventilation or privacy of my neighbors.
Um any of my neighbors have uh a wall and a fence on their property, and I'll and we also want to add it to a property.
Since the neighbor looks um safe and harmony, and it is also a way to protect the the property.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This was notice as public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward.
Seeing none, I'm gonna close public hearing, turn this over to planning commission.
Uh starting with myself.
I I went back and forth on this one.
Usually I'm don't like approving too many front yard uh fences that are built right out of the right-of-way.
Um, however, if if they're somewhat open and visible where you can see through, um, I could kind of get behind it.
The neighbor's fence is just as tall as yours, solid concrete, can't see in at all.
The difference is the neighbor is uh it's their side yard uh and it's your front yard that meet each other uh because they're on on a corner lot.
So um, you know, and then your neighbor a couple houses down has a fence that's you know almost as tall as yours with uh see-through uh fencing.
So, you know, I for those reasons.
If it was any more solid than what it actually is, I would uh likely say no, but uh for those reasons.
I I think I could uh approve this one.
There's no other comments.
I'm happy to make a motion for you, Mr.
Chair.
Thank you.
Okay.
Uh on item 25 26-0183 VAR 1.
Um, I would move to approve.
Subject to all conditions.
Thank you so much for your time.
Thank you.
You agree to all conditions if approved.
Yeah.
Motions on the floor for approval.
Please cast your vote, Commissioner Walters.
That motion carries.
And that is final action.
Let's appeal to the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Thank you.
On item 26, uh 26-0184, applicant block development owner.
That was obeyed.
That was obeyed.
Thank you.
27 26 0195 VAR1.
Um applicant owner VA O 7650 LLC for possible action on land use entitlement project request to allow proposed front yard wall fence that does not conform to Title 1906 development standards for height and visibility as 7650 via Levero Avenue Ward 1 staff recommends to know.
May we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, as there is no unique or extraordinary circumstance related to the physical characteristics of the subject property that warrants the requested height and visibility variants.
The hardship is deemed to be self-imposed and staff recommends denial, subject to conditions if approved.
Please note there are additional documents of protest received after publication.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening, sir.
Good evening.
Tom McCleester, 1904, Tomahawk Drive, Henderson, Nevada, here on behalf of the homeowner.
Um we are requesting uh a wave or a variance for the front yard and side yard wall height to be eight feet.
Um the wall will sit back off of the back of sidewalk 15 feet and will be landscaped in front.
The wall will be stuccoed.
And we feel it's harmonious with the neighborhood.
The the property just to the west of us has an 11-foot high wall.
We understand that's their side yard wall, but um as you come down via Olivera, it's mainly block wall as you go down the street.
Um so we're going from 11 foot to the west of us, we're doing eight foot, and then as he turned down Tioga Way, uh, we would increase that to eight feet as well to match the remaining north portion of our lot.
All right, thank you.
This was no says public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come down, see and none.
I'm close public here and turn this over to Plan Commission Sergeant Commissioner Rogan.
Thank you, Chair.
Um I I've been out to the site and have had discussions with Tom, and um you know my normal inclination is to deny these because once I approve them, then everyone else comes in with it.
But it depends on the context.
Um, and looking at this area, you're correct.
When I drove it when I looked at Google Maps, I mean the entire area, this development is predominantly cul de sacs with exterior walls that are eight foot in height uh on the major streets, like and the major collectors and minor collectors, and and certainly along South Buffalo, there's very few streets like yours or very few properties like yours that have the front yard facing the the street.
Um and in looking at that context, I think it's it's fair and appropriate to do this.
I also note that you you have a gigantic client has a gigantic front yard, and and if we denied it, they could simply build this wall 50 feet back, and I think that would look very dumb.
Yeah, so I think um, although it's it's not normally my position, I think that it it fits, and so I'm I can ready to make a motion for approval unless some other folks have any comments.
Please do.
All right, with regard to agenda item 27, project 26-0195 VAR1.
Make a motion for approval, subject to staff's conditions, and sir, you agree with all those conditions.
Yes, I do.
All right.
All right, motions on the floor, please catch your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
That motion carries.
Thank you.
And that is final action, unless appeal to City Clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Item 28, 260202, SUP1, applicant Jeffrey Iverson, owner, boulevard motel group LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project for a proposed single room occupy residents uh use at 2500 Fremont Street Ward 3DS, staff recommends approval.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, this request meets all the minimum special use requirement special use permit requirements as outlined by Title 1912, and staff has determined that this use can be conducted in a compatible and harmonious manner with the existing structure within the existing structure.
Therefore, staff is recommending approval of the request.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening.
Good evening.
Lucy Stewart, 1930 Village Center Circle representing the item, and with me is Mr.
Jeffrey Iverson.
And he's the CEO, president, and actually founder of the organization who's the tenant.
Um, and this is a really interesting piece of property.
It was built in 1954, and um to say it had a lot of deferred maintenance would probably be an understatement.
Um there's I think it's been a problem for Metro for years.
There's been crime, there's been many calls.
Um, and in fact, it became so bad that the previous owner lost their business license.
And so if January 1st of this year, it was sold.
The property's been cleaned up.
Um, if you've driven by it lately, you'll see it looks quite nice.
It's it's um they didn't they remodeled it, but it was really just the maintenance.
They the exterior's been cleaned, uh the uh electrical plumbing, all that's been replaced, everything's been upgraded and brought to current code.
Um, and so I'm I'm actually very excited about this project because this is um uh I'll let Mr.
I'll let uh Jeff explain, but it's um this is a sober living facility, and this is really the last step.
This is the people who live here have been with the program like six to nine months, and it's been more it goes from intense to as you know as it progresses, less intense, but there still is close supervision, there's counseling, and again, I'll let him come and tell a little bit about it.
And this is the last step before people go off and live independently on their own.
And in fact, while they're living at this facility, they um the staff the uh counselors helped them find uh permanent housing.
Uh and so if you want if you want to tell a little bit.
Sure.
Better than I can do, I'm sure.
Uh Jeff Iverson for the record, 2121 West Charleston is our address.
Uh the organization is known as Crossroads of Southern Nevada.
Over the last seven years, we've developed a very comprehensive continuum of care to address the unhoused, specifically the unhoused that are experiencing substance abuse and mental health issues.
So our main location is our crisis intervention center and detox center, located across from UMC at 2121 West Charleston.
We have put together probably one of the most unique treatment programs that I'm aware of in the state.
It starts with detox at our medically licensed detox facility.
Then we have residential treatment available at that location, and from there, we have several locations where people are housed while they're attending outpatient care.
This location on Fremont Street would be kind of like the final stay in our continuum where they've completed their inpatient treatment.
They may be meeting with a counselor once a month in our outpatient program, but this is where they're really going through their case management program.
And final step for us is helping them find permanent housing and employment.
So we are currently occupying this location and licensed as a motel.
Um but we would like to be classified as a residence hotel so we can extend the length of stay anywhere from 30 to 90 days while we're helping these people find jobs and permanent housing.
Thank you.
Um this was no discussive public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard?
Please come forward and state your name and address for the record.
Seeing none, I'm gonna close the public hearing.
Turn this over to Planning Commissioner.
Uh Commissioner Taylor, did you have a comment?
Um I did not have any comments.
I was just I have a comment.
So I I actually went out to this location and met with uh Miss Stewart and Mr.
Iverson and the ladies that are in the back.
And um so I you know, a couple of years ago we had some of these transitional housing and other projects that come on Fremont Street, and everybody was really nervous about this and how it's gonna affect the neighborhood.
And actually, it cleaned up the neighborhood instead of having prostitution and pimps and uh drug deals and ambulances and police and everything else coming in across the street from where I live all the time.
Now it's clean, it's quiet, and uh and and uh and and I actually enjoy having that across the street from me.
This one was a little farther down, uh uh a few blocks.
I I looked at it, they've they put over a million bucks in it.
I walked in one of the the places are working on temporary permit right now.
Um it's amazing.
This is the last step before they get back out in the community and start working, and and uh you're doing good things, and I like the facility.
It was it was a real well run.
So, anyways, wishing you a lot of luck and uh looking forward to uh getting this approved tonight.
And you agree to all conditions if approved.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Commissioner Taylor.
Okay, I was just eager to make a motion on this great project.
Um okay, so on item number 28, that's 26-0202 SUP1.
I'd like to make a motion to approve, subject to all conditions.
Motion is on the floor for approval.
Please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Hi.
And that motion carries.
And that's final action unless it's the city clerk in 10 days.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Moving on to item 2926-0206, EOT1, special use permit, SUP 78660, applicant owner Pacific Classic LLC for possible action on land use entitlement project requests for the third extension of time for the approval of the proposed car wash full service or auto-delling use at the Northwest Corner, Iron Mountain Road and Sky Village Road Ward 6.
Staff recommends denial.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Mr.
Chairman, this is the third extension of time for the special use permit approval, which has remained active for six years, even though the site development plan review for the site that includes the car wash expired three years ago.
Staff recommends denial and recommends that a new special use permit be sought when the developer is ready to obtain a new site development plan review entitlement.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening, sir.
Good evening, uh, Mr.
Chairman, commissioners.
My name's Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.
I'm here representing the uh property owner and the developer on this piece of property.
Uh, yes, this property was zoned a few years ago for a commercial shopping center.
Uh, this is also part of the site that was supposed to be the Costco is looking to come in at this location for an anchor tenant.
Uh, we are in the process of moving forward with another anchor tenant in this area here.
Uh the convenience store was just recently approved by the city council with an expiration date for that use permit or the extension, I believe it was for December 4, 2026.
Uh, we would like that this application to have that same condition if you were to prove it to be December 4, 2026.
And at that point in time, we'll be able to move forward with our entitlements on this piece of property.
Thank you.
This was no says public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward and see a none.
I'm closed public hearing.
Turn this over to Plan Commission, starting with the Commissioner Taylor.
Thank you, Mr.
Chair.
Um, good evening, Mr.
Gronauer.
Um just a couple questions since staff's recommendation is to you know, just move forward with a new SUP given that it has been six years.
Um what happens if this application is not granted tonight?
Then the uh the use, the extension of time expires on wait, if it's granted or not.
If it's not granted.
Oh, um, we have a purchase and sale agreement with the uh anchor tenant.
Uh this is moving in parallel course right now.
The convenience store, and this here has to be entitled as we get ready to submit the entitlements.
So it's more of a technical issue we're dealing with.
Um, and we're hoping for uh now that this is going to be going to city council if this gets approved.
Um that means that would be going in July.
We wouldn't be able to probably be here until September, October for a planning commission hearing.
That's what we're trying to hit for a site development plan review.
Okay, and that's to come back in front of us for a more comprehensive.
You're gonna see the entire site.
Yeah, we've negotiated with the anchor tenant, and the anchor is somewhat dictating as they do.
Uh the yanker that we're dealing with will dictate with what most of the uses are.
So we'll be able to lay that out.
So we're either going to put up here in the next two months, or you're not gonna see anything happening here for a while until we find another anchor tenant.
Okay.
And so you don't really have an SUP for the C store right now, you just have the SUP for alcohol, correct?
Oh, for the alcohol, yeah, but that that's yeah, that's a technicality, but just to be clear.
And then the site plan that you showed that was shown as you were presenting.
That site plan is essentially not like not in existence.
Not in existence because you're gonna come forward with a new one.
Okay, and then um, so it is your expectation that should this secondary SUP be gro um extension of time on this SUP for the car wash be granted tonight, that you should be back before us with a completed PSA and a site development review plan for this anchor tenant and for this pad no later than December.
Yes, that is the agreement that we have with the anchor tenant that we have to get it all done by the end of this year.
So um that's that's what that's the plan, yes, ma'am.
Okay.
Um I don't have any other questions.
Um, I don't know if anybody else does.
Oh, okay.
I will make a motion and also, you know, as always, save the best for last, right, Mr.
Grenau, you're last up again.
Seems like that happens.
Um, I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve item number 29 uh 260206 EOT1 extension of time on your special use permit 78660, and that is subject to all conditions, and you are going to work aggressively with your client to move this forward expeditiously.
Mr.
Chair, through you we would amend condition one to align the date uh of expiration.
Thank you.
Yes, please align that date with the read that one into the record.
So condition number one of 26-0206 EOT1 would be amended to read.
This approval shall expire on December 4th, 2026, unless another extension of time is approved by the city of Las Vegas.
Okay, thank you.
And you're not expecting another extension of time, right?
You're no, I don't want to stand up here again asking for an extension.
I we're we're either gonna be getting this on, and yeah, Liz, my partner will probably be representing it.
Okay, but uh I'm hoping one of us are here in two months with this site development plan, meaning that's where we are.
Okay, well, just keep up the communications with with the ward office so that we can get this moved forward.
So my motion again is um to approve with the amended condition one and subject to all conditions.
And you agree in those conditions, yes, sir.
Motion is on the floor, please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
All right.
That motion carries.
Thank you very much, and it was my pleasure to be be with you for the entire night.
Thank you.
It's not over yet.
And that item will move on to city council on July 15th.
Thank you.
Moving on to directors of business, uh, number 30 abandons 26-0161 TXT1 applicant owner city of Las Vegas prosper action on a request to amend LVMC 1909 relating to outdoor done within downtown Las Vegas Overlay District to allow the individual care center use, mixed use, and animal husband's tree, and addition additional zone districts and to provide for other related matters.
Staff recommends approval.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Uh yes, thank you, Mr.
Chair.
Fred Solis for the record.
Uh this text amendment revises existing form-based code language as a cleanup to outdoor dining standards and to allow the individual care center use, mixed use, and animal hub hubs in tree in addition uh in additional FPC zoning districts.
This amendment is intended to create consistency between the form-based code and other chapters of the zoning code.
Uh the proposed changes are in alignment with the Vision 2045 downtown Vegas master plan and staff recommends approval of the request.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This was no dissist to public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward.
Seeing none, closing public hearing, turn it over to Plan Commission for discussion possible action.
Seeing none, can I get a motion?
Commissioner Taylor.
Yes, I'll make a motion on item 30, abandon uh 26-0161 TXT1.
Um motion for approval.
Thank you.
Motion for approval on the floor.
Please cast your vote.
Commissioner Walters.
Aye.
Thank you.
That motion carries.
And that will move on to City Council in ordinance form.
Thank you.
Item number 33 26 0216 DIR1.
Applicant College of Southern Nevada, owner Nevada System of Higher Education for possible action on a request for the first amendment of the cooperative campus development agreement between the city of Las Vegas and Board Board of Regents of the National or Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the College of Southern Nevada Ward 4.
Staff recommends approval.
Can we get the staff report, please?
Yes, thank you, Mr.
Chair.
The proposed amendment complies with all NRS 278 and Title 19 requirements.
The amendment updates the development agreement with more accurate information and provides a review mechanism for the city council to monitor the progress of the future Northwest campus.
Therefore, staff remake recommends approval of the request.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This was no discussive public hearing.
Anyone want to be heard, please come forward.
State your name and address for the record.
Seeing none, I'm gonna turn this over to Plan Commission.
Close the public hearing, turn it over to Plan Commission.
Uh Commissioner Taylor.
I have no comments.
I'm just can I get a motion, please?
Yes, you can.
Item 33 uh 26-0216 DIR 1.
I'll make a motion to approve.
Motion on the floor, please cast your vote.
And Commissioner Wolters.
Aye.
Thank you.
Motion carries.
And that will move on to City Council on July 15th.
Moving on to citizens' participation.
Item number 35.
Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within jurisdiction of the plan commission.
No subject may be acted upon by the plan commission unless that subject's on the agenda and scheduled for action.
If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record.
The amount of discussion on any subject as well as amount of in time any single speakers uh allowed may be limited.
Seeing none.
Sir, you don't have anything to say.
Okay.
Uh then this meetings adjourned.
Las Vegas Planning Commission Meeting - June 30, 2026
The Las Vegas Planning Commission convened on June 30, 2026, to review a wide range of land use items including a new redevelopment area for East Las Vegas, a comprehensive heat mitigation plan, and numerous development proposals. Vice Chair Schlottman presided over the meeting with Commissioners Taylor, Rogan, DeSalvio, Lebeau, and Walters present. Commissioner Kasama was excused.
Consent Calendar
- Minutes Approved: The minutes of the May 12, 2026 meeting were unanimously approved.
- Housekeeping / Abeyances: Several items were moved to future meetings without significant discussion. Item 19 (26-0162 VAR1) was continued to July 14, 2026. Item 21 (26-0173 VAR1) was continued to August 11, 2026. Item 34 (26-0217 TXT1) and Item 26 (26-0048 ABNC) were continued to July 14, 2026.
- Consent Items: Items 7, 8A, and 8B were approved in a single motion as routine administrative items.
- One Motion One Vote: Items 9 (beer and wine establishment waiver), 10 (vacation), and 11 (vacation) were approved in a single motion. Items 9 and 10 were final actions; Item 11 moves to City Council.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Item 16 (Charleston/Eastern Fuel Station): Jason Macris, representing the Crestwood neighborhood, spoke against the project. He cited concerns over adding another liquor-focused business, traffic congestion at an already-dense intersection, environmental degradation, and public safety hazards from congregation.
Discussion Items
- Redevelopment Area 3 (East Las Vegas): Tracy Reich and Alex Strausser presented the results of a blight study covering 1,350.23 acres (bounded by Owens Avenue, Nellis Boulevard, Charleston Boulevard, and 21st Street). The study found 64% of properties showed visible deterioration, 80% of buildings were built before 1999, and there are 81 acres of vacant land. The redevelopment plan establishes incentives for property improvements (e.g., the Visual Improvement Program rebate was increased to $50,000). Commissioners praised the extensive community outreach and the plan's focus on reinvesting tax dollars generated in the area back into the same neighborhood.
- Heat Mitigation Plan (AB 96): Marco Velata presented a general plan amendment to address the urban heat island effect. The plan is a response to Assembly Bill 96 of the 2025 legislative session. Mr. Velata cited 500 heat-related deaths and 3,500 heat-related ER visits in 2024, with projections of 20 or more additional days per year exceeding 105°F by 2035. The plan focuses on tree canopy, cool building practices, drinking water accessibility, and cooling centers. Commissioner Taylor engaged in a detailed discussion about regional coordination on landscaping and building efficiency codes.
- Item 13 (Decatur Convenience and Fuel Station): Staff recommended denial due to insufficient parking and landscaping. The applicant proposed a conversion to a convenience store with fuel pumps. Commissioners Walters and Taylor raised significant safety concerns regarding the site design, including one-way 12-foot-wide access points that would conflict with fuel delivery trucks. The commission denied the application.
- Item 14 (Fremont Street Mixed-Use Development): Barack Silberberg presented a seven-story, 71-unit mixed-use development with 1,800 square feet of commercial space. Commissioner Schlottman (in whose ward the project sits) noted the site is currently a public nuisance with camping and fires and strongly supported the project as a community improvement. The commission approved the development.
- Item 15 (MLK Auto Repair): Applicant Dennis Lara described a planned tire repair and window tint shop. Commissioners Walters and Taylor noted a significant history of code enforcement cases at the location. Citing a lack of landscaping and an inability to support the project without resolving enforcement issues, the commission moved to hold the item in abeyance to July 14, 2026.
- Item 16 (Charleston/Eastern Convenience and Fuel): Despite a staff recommendation of denial for not meeting the form-based code's design intent, applicant Jennifer Lazovich presented a revised design with architectural stonework and lighting. Commissioner Rogan opposed the deviation from the code. Commissioner Schlottman, who represents the area, supported the project as an improvement over the existing dilapidated building. The commission approved the project, adding a condition for larger caliper trees. (Staff later corrected the record, clarifying this was a final action, not moving to City Council, unless appealed in 10 days).
- Items 17 & 18 (Las Vegas Boulevard Wall and Sign): The owner requested variances for a taller security fence and an LED sign slightly larger than code allows. Staff recommended denial. The commission approved both with a condition of a one-year administrative review to monitor light and noise impacts on the surrounding area.
- Item 20 (Santa Paula Drive Rezoning): A variance and rezoning from professional office to high-density residential were approved for an existing building.
- Item 22 (Dennis Springs Way Accessory Structure): A variance for an existing residential accessory structure was approved following a discussion about timelines for zoning compliance.
- Item 23 (Carson Avenue Permanent Parking Lot): The applicant agreed to significant landscaping improvements (3-inch caliper shade trees and shrubs along adjacent streets) to convert a temporary parking lot into a permanent one. The commission approved the application.
- Item 28 (Fremont Street Transitional Housing): Crossroads of Southern Nevada presented plans for a single-room occupancy sober living facility. Jeff Iverson described it as the final step in a continuum of care. Commissioner Schlottman noted the developer had invested over a million dollars and successfully cleaned up a formerly crime-ridden property. The commission unanimously approved the special use permit.
- Item 29 (Iron Mountain Car Wash Time Extension): Despite a staff recommendation for denial as the third extension for an inactive permit, the applicant argued it was tied to a larger commercial development. The commission approved the extension until December 4, 2026, with the expectation of a comprehensive site plan soon.
Key Outcomes
- Redevelopment Area 3: The blight study and redevelopment plan were approved. Moves to City Council on July 15, 2026.
- Heat Mitigation Plan: The general plan amendment was approved. Moves to City Council on July 15, 2026.
- Item 13 (Decatur Fuel/Convenience): Denied. Moves to City Council on July 15, 2026.
- Item 14 (Fremont Mixed-Use): Approved. Moves to City Council on July 15, 2026.
- Item 15 (MLK Auto): Held in Abeyance to July 14, 2026.
- Item 16 (Charleston Fuel/Convenience): Approved with conditions. Final action unless appealed in 10 days.
- Items 17 & 18 (LV Boulevard): Approved with 1-year administrative review. Final action.
- Item 22 (Dennis Springs): Approved. Final action.
- Item 23 (Carson Parking): Approved with landscape conditions. Final action.
- Item 24 (First Watch Alcohol): Approved. Final action.
- Item 28 (Fremont SRO): Approved. Final action.
- Item 29 (Car Wash EOT): Approved with amended expiration date of December 4, 2026. Moves to City Council on July 15, 2026.
- Item 30 (FBC Text Amendment): Approved. Moves to City Council.
- Item 33 (CSN Agreement): Approved. Moves to City Council on July 15, 2026.
Meeting Transcript
Good evening. We're ready to begin. This plan commission meetings 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 to other city content by visiting Los Vegas Nevada.gov forward slash connect. The proceedings will be rebroadcast on the City of Las Vegas TV the Saturday after the meeting at 10 a.m. Monday at midnight and the following Tuesday at 6 p.m. Please step uh please stand for the pledge deliverance of America and to do one nation called Madam Clerk. Would you please call the roll? Vice Chair Schlottman. Present. Commissioner Kasama. Excused. Commissioner Taylor. Present. Commissioner Rogan. Present. Commissioner DeSalvio. Present. Commissioner Lebeau. Present. Commissioner Walters. Thank you, Chair. You have a quorum. Thank you. I call your attention to the information printed in your agenda concerning our actions and the pill 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. We appreciate you adhering to these rules of conduct. And the agendas are right here on the uh on the corners of the uh the podium. Uh so public comment during this portion agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda uh for action. If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record. The amount of discussion as well as amount of time in speaker single speaker is allowed may be limited. Seeing none, I'll move on. Uh may we have a motion to approve the minutes of the plan commission meeting of May 12th, 2026. Um, yes, I would like to make a motion to approve the minutes of the planning commission meeting of May 12th, 2026. Thank you. Motion is on the floor, please cast your vote. Commissioner Walters. Aye. Thank you. That motion carries. Uh let's move on to the housekeeping items. Are there any items commissioner staff, applicants or members of the public would like to pull forward for action? Good evening, Vice Chair. This is Steve Swanton with Community Development Senior Planner. And we do have a few housekeeping items tonight. The applicant is requesting to hold item 19, 26-0162 VAR1.
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