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backconnect the proceedings will be rebroadcast on city of Las Vegas TV the Saturday after the meeting at 10: a.m. Monday at midnight and the following Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. please stand for the pledge of Alle I pled algi to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I call your attention uh I call to your attention the information oh I'm sorry can you hear me now sir let's just start with that who asked for the volume increase no is that better all right um city clerk could you please call the role chair Taylor present Vice chair kasama excused commissioner schlotman present commissioner Rogan commissioner Walsh present commissioner do salvio pres commissioner mford excused thank you chair you have a quorum thank you um I call to your attention the information printed in your agenda concerning our actions and the appeal and review process if appropriate please read this carefully and if you have any questions staff is available also the second page of the agenda contains our rules of conduct we appreciate your adhering to these rules so we can have a smooth meeting thank you um next we have um public comment during this portion of the agenda public comment must be limited to matters on the agenda for Action if you wish to be heard please come to the podium and give your name and spell your name for the record the amount of discussion as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited all comments um made under this item for specific action items will be cross referen to those items are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion of the agenda good evening Robert Cunningham uh 6030 South Jones Boulevard with Tanny engineering I'm representing item 40 which is going to be held tonight but I wanted to know if there's anyone who came down for it that's in the audience I will be in the back of the room so that I i' be happy to meet with them separately if they have any questions thank you thank you anybody else all right seeing none I will oh thank you sir sir sorry uh good evening my name is Leonard Martin I've come here in reference of item 23 I live 623 Harrison Avenue Los Vegas Nevada 89106 uh me along with uh the single family home members on uh van bun and on Harrison we all oppos this project we feel that it is not appropriate in a single family home neighborhood we are in talks with uh Cindy Braden the uh developer and they have uh some site uh housing housing town houses and condominiums that will fit right on this 0.33 acres of land thank you thank you sir and just so everybody knows in case you are here to speak on item 23 uh do know that this will be heard tonight so you're welcome to speak now or you can wait until the item is heard as well oh okay well I'll speak now uh my name is Dedra Edmond Drew I am the CEO of the Jackson Street Alliance and I'm here also for item 23 and we are in favor of this being passed um the west side is just been in dire straight for so long and having some movement having some dirt uh flipped over in the ground would be a welcome site into the historic website um thank you oh I'm sorry yeah I'm the CEO but I'm also a property owner at 418 Jackson hi my name is Cynthia Thompson I live at 601 Harrison Avenue I am opposed to the project by no means am I opposed to growth uh that I do look forward to but the the project that's going to be put up it will be in my backyard I purchased that home for uh retirement looking into the future to retire with uh and have my children grow up there and my grandchild I did uh compose a letter I formally expressed my uh uh opposition to the position of the fourplex development plan for the northwest corner of Van bun and a and vanban Avenue and F Street behind my property at 601 Harrison Avenue while I understand the need for responsible development I have significant concerns regarding the impact this project will have on my neighbor on our neighborhood first and foremost the uh introduction of a multi-residential building in this area raises serious concern regarding property value and neighborhood character the community primary consists of single family homes and adding a fourplex could dramatically alter the density and the aesthetic appeal of the neighborhood additionally I con uh consed uh about the uh I'm also concerned about the increase in traffic and um parking congestion the addition of multiple units each with multiple residents and vehicles would um exacerbate existing traffic flow issues and increased safety concerns regarding pedestrians especially children and elderly people uh moreover the primary and uh quality of life for adjacent NE uh homeowners will be significantly impacted a multi-story building will result in a loss of privacy from my property and others nearby the added noise lighting and overall activity from multiple families will disrupt the quiet enjoyment of our homes I urge the planning committee to consider this proposal and explore alternative solutions that better align with the previous zoning and character of our community if necessary I request the opportunity to speak at an upcoming meeting to present these concerns in further detail thank you for your time and your attention to this matter I appreciate it thank you so much I am a community servant I have served the community for many years uh Clark County School District district and uh 26 plus years I have children and children's children that are coming that have been there before so I appreciate your ear thank you so much thank you very much ma'am how many people are here for item 23 ma'am were you coming up to speak on item 20 let me see what have we okay folks so just so you know when this item gets heard then um you can speak now or you can wait till the item is heard but probably won't do uh repetitive speakers so just up to you folks is it possible I would like to speak please absolutely ma'am please go ahead good evening everybody uh my name is Miriam Gibson and uh I'm calling I'm here uh representing the people in the community uh uh with the new construction that's being proposed with the two units uh Harrison H Harrison F and vanur the the neighbors are very much opposed to they want you to table this uh uh table this until they have an opportunity to get more information about what is being actually put into their neighborhood I understand that there are there are 22 units but it's haven't been defined as whether they're one bedroom two bedrooms uh what's the possibility of maybe somebody somebody in the neighborhood qualifying to rent or buy these units that's very very important you know because they're going to be uh uh probably misplaced displaced and inconvenience quite a bit so they need to have an input as opposed to somebody just com and dropping something on them telling them what they're going to do without at least uh uh talking and conversing with the neighbors in the area I would appreciate if you guys would table this until further consideration thank you thank you very much ma'am for your comments anybody else anybody else for public comment okay seeing none um we will close public comment um under item number four um and we'll welcome comments from um other folks on item 23 if you're here for that when we get to that item um with that we'll move on to item number five 5 um for possible action to approve the minutes of the Planning Commission meeting of February 11th 2025 yes chairman or chairwoman through you move to approve the minuts of the plan commission hearing on February 11th 2025 thank you commissioner schlotman um there is a motion to approve the minutes of the Planning Commission of February 11th 2025 please cast your vote commissioner Rogan commissioner Walsh screen work screen's not working we'll take a verbal I I I will be fine thank you thank you okay we can please post and the motion carries all right let's move on to number six um are housekeeping items are there any items that Commissioners staff applicants or members of the public would like to pull forward for Action Madam chair Nicole edos for the record staff is requesting to hold item number 17 to the July 8th Planning Commission meeting to allow neighborhood services staff to continue working with the applicant the applicant is requesting to table item number 18 the applicant is requesting to hold item number 20 to the April 8th Planning Commission meeting staff is requesting to hold item number 29 to the April 8th Planning Commission meeting in order to add an additional application due to Res revisions received after public hearing notification the applicant is requesting to hold item number 42 to the April 8th Planning Commission meeting and staff is requesting to hold items number 10 through 16 item number 26 and items number 30 through number 41 due to a sign vendor notification error these it items will be Ren noticed for the April 8th Planning Commission meeting thank you thank you miss edos all right um does anyone wish to speak um does anyone wish to speak on any of the items that we have just addressed okay seeing none um if I could get a motion on the housekeeping items yes uh chairwoman through you I would like to make a motion uh to hold in AB bance till the April 8th 2025 Planning Commission hearing items 10- 16 20a through 20 C 26a through 26d 29a through 29 c 30 through 41 and 42a through 42b and then on item number 17 uh to hold that item in a bank until the July 8th 2025 Planning Commission hearing and items number 18a through 18d to table uh those particular items at 18a through 18d that is my motion thank you commissioner schotman uh there is a motion on the floor please cast your votes commissioner Rogan [Music] and if we could please post commissioner Walsh I thank you the motion carries all right um now we'll move on to our consent items these are considered routine by the Planning Commission and may be enacted by one motion however any item may be discussed if a commissioner member or applicant so desires can I get a motion on um the consent items please yes uh Madam chair uh through you I'd like to make a motion my motion would be uh a move to approve items 7 through nine which are the Cent agenda item subject to conditions okay thank you commissioner schlotman there is a motion on the floor please cast your votes commissioner Rogan commissioner Walsh great please post and that item carries thank you and Madam chair those items are final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in seven days thank you all right now we are going to um because we've held all of our one Motion One vote items we are going to move on to our public hearing items um [Applause] um okay all right thank you okay so first we're going to do number 19 which is Advance 24- 0608 dv1 applicant owner um actually sorry I want to pull forward 43 and 44 sorry about that guys uh so items let's start with item 43 which is in director's business um abayance -24 0615 di1 applicant owner city of Las Vegas discussion for possible action on adopting the Kyle Canyon special area plan for the Kyle Canyon area Ward 6 bruny staff recommend approval good evening planning Commissioners Marco vat city of Las Vegas Department of Community Development for the record tonight I'm going to present to you the Kyle Canyon special area plan and uh the uh in its entirety uh this is a one of our special area plans that we have been working on in the Northwest in addition to the lamadre Foothills which you'll hear uh in a couple uh in a couple meetings from now as we've gone through the 2050 master plan and its implementation we've broken down uh different parts of the city this one's a little bit different because it is in the Suburban part of Las Vegas a little bit different from how we've done downtown east Las Vegas and the Charleston areas uh so this this has a little bit of a different look and feel I'd like to acknowledge uh Smith group uh who helped us with development of this over the past year and uh as as well as the lamadre Foothills plan uh and with that I'll get into it so again the 2050 master plan provides the vision for Las Vegas over the next 30 Years and contains land use goals out and outcomes for that entire period And it covers a wide range of different subjects one of those is the adoption of special area plans uh built with community support and so we did work want to do uh additional Outreach because we had some um a lack of a lack of in-person opportunities during the pandemic uh this was one of the ways that we could get out to individual neighborhoods and talk to people all across the city and different stakeholders to help set Visions for different parts of of Las Vegas so in this case you know it helps uh to have these special area plans identify specific issues that fulfill the 2050 master plan which is at the highest level and and with special area planning we try to bring that down to the neighborhood and the street level to try to get specific actions or issues identified and taken care of Kyle Canyon uh is is a bit unique because it is in the in this transition zone uh from the valley floor going up to Mount Charleston along the uh along Highway 157 it is an area that has existing development agreements with master plan communities including Sunstone and Sky Canyon as well as other uh other developments that have been entitled and developed over time for Kyle Canyon we are looking at specifically the area north of Grand Teton uh west of Durango and essentially our city limits uh on the North and and the western side with a little bit of ception uh on the uh on the uh north side where we have an extension of the city going north of the uh of the pyute tribal lands this is effectively the Northwestern gateway to the Las Vegas Valley and the spring mountains and it has been a fast growing area and how housing types and housing costs have been uh really dynamic as it's developed over the past couple of decades we've noticed a lot of Need for uh for new infrastructure and new and new services to go in here and we have um such fast growth that we have been trying to play ketchup and this area in particular is one that we wanted to take a little bit deeper dive on because of how uh fast-paced some of that has has happened when you look at our projections for the for the next 30 Years you know this is mostly Suburban part of town but there are specific needs that will have to go in as as the area continues to develop out certainly uh fire protection Schools Police uh and then other uh other things to help support the potential of 14,000 new units that would go in all throughout the the area itself not not Al not just the uh the Kyle Canyon uh State Highway 157 Corridor so there are a lot of uh there are a lot of knes and pressures uh from economic as well as a need to to develop uh housing that is needed through uh in the city of Las Vegas there are some other unique attributes you know the the the lack of infrastructure we'll we'll talk about a little bit uh a little bit further on but this is one part of town where we have uh some unique attributes you know just the proximity to the spring Mountains and the uh the open space opportunities that are that are immediately nearby so in in terms of um park space and and uh things that are that are immediately nearby there's a lot of opportunities to build and capitalize on that but there's a lack of jobs there's a lack of um other facilities that might need you know that might be needed to serve this community uh especially considering things like water water service Sewer Service uh drainage uh things to that effect as well as there's pretty much only one mode of transportation that can effectively be used to commute into downtown Las Vegas in the strip and that's the car uh there there could be opportunities to connect with existing or new Trail networks that link other parts of the Las Vegas Valley we did Outreach throughout 2023 and 2024 uh and in a variety of different ways we did some surveying online we had some focus groups and did public visioning sessions and we did have uh committee of community members uh to talk through some of these issues um and what we heard from those uh you know from those surveys um you know a lot of people uh that live here haven't been there for that long obviously reflecting the fact that there's you know this is a newer part of town a lot of the master plan communities themselves aren't that old um and most people you know that are living here are in the millennial and and gen z uh demographic um they and and they do you know do like to get out and and recreate they do like uh the ability to to to walk but this is primarily uh a car uh a car dominated location a lot of people like that that feel of of having that peace and quiet uh they like the scenery the the views of Mount Charleston and uh the Sheep Range gas Peak um the strip to the south I mean there it is definitely a a desirable place to live but there is also a a high demand for having other amenities in the in the Northwest entertainment and Retail having uh Public Safety improving some of the existing development just reflecting the lack of you know some of the other activities that are not there you have to go down to Centennial Hills for down to Sky Canyon for because there isn't anything there just yet so in terms of developing a vision you know we were we wrote something that helps reflect this Gateway and this um opportunity to connect to the spring mountains into Kyle Canyon it's uh itself uh that Las Vegas has uh these abundant outdoor resources um and that we have these views of the Heights and the lights uh that really commits uh Las Vegas to uh to to a good future and uh this part of town in particular the plan itself is divided into five sections uh we talk about uh the land itself the quality of place outdoor recreation and having some of the infrastructure in complete streets uh to help get people connected and and moving around so these individual sections are effectively policy statements that our planning staff can make use of as we uh as we see entitlement applications and capital projects uh get proposed and we can use the utilize these in such a way that we can help make recommendations for for the Planning Commission for City Council on what should be approved and maybe how you know things need to be conditioned when we consider them when it comes to uh the the land itself you know we want to take a look at projects that are complying with our our title 19 zoning code and that are respecting the uh the land the the desert the Mojave desert landscape that are out there now keeping in mind that we have uh that we have a drought going on we have a situation where we have to be conscious of how water is being consumed in a residential setting and that we have extreme heat we have uh an urban heat island effect that yes does affect this part of town as well so urban forestry you know the Landscaping that needs to go in to to complement these communities that are have been built or will be built needs to be appropriate and respective to the uh uh to the changing uh conditions with uh with water consumption so the recommendations that are discussed in this in this section really go back to the snwa approved Landscaping list and ensuring that all the codes with respect to water consumption or adhere to and that any development that comes in you know really has that thoughtful context sensitive uh design in mind that we're thinking about the connections to uh Tuli Springs National Monument to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation area which does come all the way up to this part of town and that we think about you know the the existing uh aluvial fan that that is there the the drainage that's coming off of Mount Charleston and the spring mountains themselves in terms of place you know we think about you know what what are the range of housing opportunities that could be available and you know this is a a unique part of town where we don't want to you know really impact every every single part of it you know fill in every single part of of Kyle Canon with with density but there might be opportunities for specific nodes of commercial and mixed use development perhaps most closest to the Interstate 11 us95 corridor and where we can make those opportunities at a smaller or micro scale to have that uh to have that unique placemaking happen similar to perhaps some of the developments at you know Durango in '95 where we have the village of Centennial Springs um having uh you know some attached product having some product that is um really integrated with commercial use that complement um the proposed Station Casinos at at i1 and Kyle Canyon those are the types of things that could help really bring amenities to uh to this part of town where there are some now and done in such a way that is is is thoughtful and and not you know not at a scale that is is overbearing so again uh when we think of when we think of place how do we make sure that we get those amenities in there uh and where do they go this gets us to the land the land use plan itself essentially we're looking at in the Northwestern most quadrant of Kyle Canyon having a tapered uh range of density and intensity from east to west having more intensity near the Kyle Canyon i11 interchange with more housing units more density on the Eastern end and then slowly tapering off as you get further to the West past uh past sheet Mountain Parkway past Rufus Road and tying into uh the uh unincorporated County lands where again it's lower density uh as you go further and further west up the mountain to uh Cal Canan itself so we propose essentially a pattern here that you you can utilize to make judgment calls for individual entitlement applications as they come through and ultimately you know what we're looking for is some something in which general plan amendments and Zoning applications that come in um you know if they align with this uh with this plan you know we we would have um we would have those considered and be recommended for approval or denial based on how they are consistent with that in terms of recreation uh you know again we want to complement the Desert Edge where possible there are opportunities for for parks and trails to go into the into the spring mountains into the into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge into uh the National Monument there's a lot of there are a lot of uh facilities there that have not been um developed just yet but where where we can do that we would like to increase those opportunities uh we have um a few parks that have been built or are about to be built through development agreements including Alan Beck and Igor Soo Parks we have a new park uh which we'll see here in just a minute the Northwestern Regional Park which is a uh a an entire complex full of uh um athletic fields as well as playgrounds and traditional Park amenities and then linking those together uh Trail heads that can integrate into the Vegas Valley rim trail to go to the north to the East and to the South uh around the city itself and then a new Trail along Kyle Canyon Road the yaka de bristle Cone Trail that was a part of the uh last master plan amendment that would essentially parallel uh Highway 157 all the way up to uh to Kyle Canyon and tie into the trail system up there so with this Northwestern Regional Park we're anticipating uh comprehensive CCSD High School being built in the southwestern quadrants as well as baseball and softball facilities and in the uh on the eastern half of the site the Las Vegas and tonopa railroad which in about a hundred years ago uh came up from downtown Las Vegas I went through this area into the uh and then on into uh Indian Springs and up to Goldfield and tonopa um there is a y here essentially a uh a rail sighting where uh logging would be uh you know from Mount Charleston would come and um rail cars were loaded up uh to be transported back to Las Vegas uh that will all be reflected um as far as the the history of this uh unique history as part of this part of town and and really kind of incorporating a trail into the um uh into the park design itself the trail system would connect with the streets and again because we have a lot of people that are recreationally minded having the ability to uh connect to uh on Street facilities as well as off Street facilities uh is important so with those streets themselves you know thinking about how we can build better and Highway wind 57 itself has been a focus of this planning effort you know that is an endot facility we are trying our best to work with endot on how we can uh develop a facility that is a little bit slower in speed and incorporate things to slow vehicle traffic down and provide a safer uh space for both vehicles and bicyclists uh that particular roadway we're working on some design plans that would include roundabouts at certain uh intersections along the along the road as well as the trail itself that parallels it ultimately though we're wanting to carry forward our vision zero uh for for Las Vegas into this area and incorporate the uh the street hierarchy that we already have incorporated into our into our zoning code as well as provide opportunities for transportation electrification and uh access to Regional connections uh there is a park and ride facility that as a part of the sky Canyon development agreement that would be built at uh Kyle Canyon and uh and us95 uh for potential future express service into downtown Las Vegas and again with Kyle Canyon Road uh that's something that we've been working with oton and as individual entitlement applications have come in already working with the designers uh on some of the existing permits that have been approved to again try to look at that crosssection and make sure that we don't have a massive Super Highway that's being built all the way up to Mount Charleston really being context sensitive and trying to get a design that's uh appropriate for that uh that Corridor that leads us into the last section which is the Investments uh so Kyle Canyon essentially is is going to have a number of challenges with respect to infrastructure uh first and foremost the Las Vegas Valley Water District has limited facilities and you'll see here in just a couple second that there are uh there are some uh immediate Capital challenges to building anything new at a certain point because of where existing water infrastructure is where existing sewer infrastructure is and then of course flood control and flood protection for uh some of the some of the sites this is also the gateway to uh the rest of the state of Nevada with respect to NV Energy System we have transmission lines that are uh that have been approved through uh Senate Bill 448 and through some of the uh Envy energy dockets that have been approved for green link West that come right into the Northwestern substation at Moccasin Road and about sheet Mountain Parkway so we have those transmission lines that are there already making for a pretty an industrial atmosphere as it is so considering that and the the branch that are there how do we mitigate some of the you know some of that that is existing already so with those Investments you know there's the underlying as growth is coming we need to make sure that we provide the same services that we're providing everywhere else throughout the city you know as as we see in Summerland as new development comes you know also comes coming down the line are the are the the schools the fire protect ction the police substation and we don't know at this point where some of those facilities Go I mean some of them like the the Comprehensive High School uh some of the other educational facilities we do know but there are some that we don't because Parcels haven't been purchased yet but ultimately what we're trying to underscore is that this has a big price tag and in the appendix of the plan you'll see that there there in 2024 there's at least half a billion dollars worth of of infrastructure that needs to be paid for primarily in the water sewer and flood control uh Realms with respect to uh the Water uh there are a couple reservoirs located to the south in Centennial hills and a few tanks in the lader Foothills and working with Las Vegas Valley water district there are unfunded me needs that aren't appearing on any Capital program but there have been reservations made for BLM land uh for future reservoirs in in higher pressure zones and one of the considerations that needs to be made is these pressure zones themselves require Engineering in order to get to and you know as develop you know as development occurs we can't exactly Leap Frog in from one area to another because of where the of where the pressure is and what is being served further to the west and further to or I'm sorry further to the East and further to the South the area in green right now in terms of development are already served by the Las Vegas Valley Water District but the areas in Orange in red cannot be served until those future reservoirs and future laterals get constructed and those typically are built with development agreements you know we have special Improvement districts that are constructed and those go towards paying for those those ultimate facilities so those are those are costs that are up in the almost $50 million range just for some of those as well as uh some of the uh transmission pipelines that have to be built not only in Kyle Canyon but in this to to the south in lamadre Foothills for flood control there are a number of regional Flood Control District facilities that have already been identified some major uh some major detention basins that have already been built but new conveyance that needs to be built to the east along Moccasin Road to get to their ultimate uh their ultimate uh receiving point which is in the upper Las Vegas wash uh subwater shed so essentially to where Floyd Lamb Park is those facilities also would need a a special improvement district or something like that in order to be built in a traditional sense uh we know where those flows are uh certainly Kyle Canyon and Moccasin would be where those major facilities go and ultimately uh some modifications to some of the existing detention basins that are on the east side of the freeway sewer is kind of similar to water as we have water that's built we we also need the sewer to go along with it um with the exception of devel m to the north with the Las Vegas P tribe or uh the upper Las Vegas wash development in the new cave area there are facilities that have been identified again along Kyle Canyon Road and along moccasin to again provide that service for development as it comes in so those are some major uh challenges that we have to consider um there isn't necessarily a clear path but what this plan does provide is some direction and consideration for how we work with our regional stakeholders and you know specifically our public works department as to how to provide those facilities and we have a number of of of options that we can consider um in terms of how those development are there assemblages of part of properties that come together that could be utilized to help form some of the special Improvement districts to pay for some of those those big ticket items um or do we work on it on an incremental individual basis as we go further from from east to the West ultimately uh this plan provides us a direction it's a starting point for for the future and admittedly you know this is one of those fast moving uh development areas that you know we you know we have not had a previous planning effort here um I think the previous one that we had looked at dates back to the early 2000s um and it certainly wasn't comprehensive uh considering some of these needs and it's also unique in that we have a number of individual Property Owners instead of one single one making it all the more a little bit more difficult to navigate but th that being said we have policy that will be utilized by our planning staff to help you uh make decisions on how to improve how to approve General amendments zonings or other uh planning applications that come along and with that if there are any questions I'd be more than willing to answer them for you thank you Mr vat um and thank you for all of the hard work you have you and your team and the whole city team has put into this um is there any type of Staff report on this item m Madam chair that that was our staff report but we're happy to answer any question okay thank you Mr Floyd all right um this item has been noticed uh for public hearing so if there is anyone U member of the public wishing to provide um comments on this item please come down to the podium good evening sir can you please State and spell your name for the record good evening Madam chair Commissioners my my name is Bob gronau 1980 Festival Plaza Drive I'm here representing uh clearway energy um I want to make a couple comments on the plan first of all and foremost as uh uh uh Madam chair as you mentioned I want to thank your staff and Marco they've worked very hard over the last it seems like few years on this project it's been moving fairly quickly uh put a lot of stuff together in all of your Consultants um our client has been a part of this process uh with respect to adding comments with re uh with respect to the plan that you see here the one thing that I want to point out on the overhead is because I do know and we talked today and to clarify everything that we would have to come back for a general plan Amendment requesting the change to the plan that you've seen here but if I could get your attention on the overhead here fairly quickly um I could wrap everything up and just explain what the intent is so if you uh zoom in in this area right here that I'm showing you um this is the Kyle Canyon Road this is the us95 uh up in this area we we have a log cabin way and essentially in the northeast corner of uh pulley and log cabin way we have about 15 acres here as you see it's crosshatched in in in Orange this area is in blue which is a planned for public facilities as a matter of fact as was just mentioned you have the Nevada substation excuse me nve uh substation in this area here uh we are looking to place on private property here we we are in contract for a battery energy storage station um we're going looking to go through that process and when we do one of the applications or a few of the applications will'll be asking for is changing this area to public facility and to come in for the Civic zoning along with the site development plan review to address the um the use on the property so for information purposes here we understand that this is a guide that's here tonight I do and will remind you when I stand back up here in a few months as we go through that process that our concern or at least what our comments on the record is we'd like to see that blue you know to be a public facility but we understand we'll come back for a general plan Amendment at that point in time and this will be that 15 Acres that I say remember I stood up here on in March and we made some comments on that plan so otherwise I want to thank your staff and I want to make sure for the record that we continue to work work on all the way through City Council on this thank you Mr gronau anybody else wishing to make comments on this item from the public okay seeing none I will close public comment and turn this back over to the commission starting with myself um thanks Mr vat again for all the work I know that um you and I were at Several of these um meetings public meetings public forums charettes discussions with our neighbors about how this should look um and I I just I really appreciate the fact that there had not been a comprehensive Vision put together for Kyle Canyon Road prior to the work that started uh on this in shortly after I think councilwoman bruny took office so March or so of 23 but um it's a unique property because it's not like some of the other areas that you guys have had an opportunity to work on Master development agreements because you don't have you have like sort of a patchwork of land owners it's a little bit unique so um really just kind of wanted to highlight again that this this is the first time for this road and for this area that this has had a a collective and holistic vision and before this although it was subject to 2050s master plan there hadn't been the kind of planning that we see in this and so I'm I'm really grateful to have been um part of this process from the very start and part of uh the initiation of of this special plan the other thing I just want to sort of comment on is you know again the importance of this because we had seen prior to this and we've been trying to work with um projects as they've come in to try to set them up to meet this Vision as we go forward but there had been sort of like a patchwork of of zoning applications taverns gas stations things that maybe under this Vision wouldn't have been part of what we saw you know approved or to be developed up the road and so again glad that we can now finally have this vision and sort of a policy statement to get a holistic kind of treatment of how we grow this really unique and special area which I've talked about before how much um K Canyon Road means to me as a resident of the Northwest um and I really appreciate that the plan has called out specific things uh related to maintaining the environmental sensitivities on KY Canyon Road maintaining conservation light pollution um keeping our heat um Islands down um and so I I really I think would appreciate if you have a few more highlights Mr vat about mitigating ecosystem disruption as we look at how we develop this um and I'd also really be curious because I don't know that we've seen this really traditionally in in Ward six projects but some of the discussions about not having traditional block walls around our projects um would love to hear some of your thoughts on how that looks and then finally any thoughts about um sort of maintaining again those views and Vistas as we move forward with um sort of height guidance on on projects yeah thank you commission commissioner uh Madam chair uh Marco vat again for the record so you know last night I was flying back from Carson City and uh you know as we're coming in on approach uh you know you can see out in the Horizon you know there's I look for these four radio antennas they they stick out they're north of the golf course but you know really that the edge of the Horizon where where the lights of the city meet the the darkness you know I I can see out there and that's it for the city of Las Vegas in terms of grow to the Northwest I mean that this is essentially the last the last part spot in in this within the city itself in which we do uh new subdivisions new development like that everything else is infill and Redevelopment for us so our approach is certainly a lot different here and you know this is a balancing act between a lot of different forces you know we had a lot of comments about you know what people wanted to see and what they didn't want to see in this area and and we really kind of walk a line because you know we're right at that edge between the desert and the city and there is this interface between uh between the two that I think we're this plan is trying to capture it's trying to be sensitive too so with respect to the you know to the ecosystem you know we we do have title 19 what comes next with you know if this is approved tonight and goes on to city council there will be a resolution and you know we we've talked about uh what goes into that resolution to again affirm the contents of this plan and really take some of those considerations with respect to you know uh you know the the development and how it's phased where it goes uh and specific conditions that might occur you know if there are um if there are condition you know if there are situations where you know infrastructure is just not there yet I mean that will be something that staff is going to have to consider as a part of the uh as a part of their analysis and as a part of their findings uh same goes with our development stand standards in title 1906 and 08 with respect to uh walls um and how you know how fences go uh go in um right now we have uh we have that to go on uh and we do recommend you you know certain things especially near the the Northwestern substation with respect to trees Landscaping you know how can we work with applicants uh and how we work along the RightWay to again mitigate some of the you know some of the infrastructure that's out there that is certainly necessary for the rest of the city and for you know some of the larger goals of the of the entire State um you know preserving that you know that look and feel for you know the spring rounds itself you know the you know Mount Charleston gas Peak you know where we can do where we can do that and where we can work with uh applicants I mean I think you'll find that Within These sections and we'll certainly make sure that that's reflected in the resolution that adopts the the plan itself um thank you and just Indulgence um since this is a really big a big um item and uh really important for going forward just a few more questions um I wanted to ask to Marco Vada um Marco V Mr vat if you when you talk about stakeholders we're not just talking about folks in the city because there's multi- jurisdictions as you go up the mountain so can you speak a little bit about work that was done specifically with say the county or work that still needs to be done with the county as uh we look to Future development up Kyle Canyon Road certainly uh Marco again for the record uh so you know we did we did reach out of course to the county as well as to our other Regional stakeholders to again make them aware of this planning process and what some of the you know what some of the things are at play and and again we are AB budding um both uh you know both both the county itself as well as Federal and tribal land so you know there is that uh there is that Outreach we did have uh a number of meetings uh with those stakeholders in particular with this and and as I'm sure you can imagine as we go on with individual entitlements themselves uh or individual applications as they come in that are getting you know close to respective boundaries you we'll make sure that there's that notification that takes place and that the Commissioners or the or the other stakeholders are aware um certainly we've had a lot of conversations with the water district and the uh you know and some of the uh other Departments of the city you know Public Works in particular about the infrastructure piece of it I mean that's going to be the thing that really is defining as to how this goes in as well as ultimately how do we set up the the mechanisms to make the you know make the the infrastructure pay for itself over the long term um that's going to be future work um and I think it's spoken to it's addressed in both the appendix and the uh and the plan um but I think rest assured we're going to continue that that that dialogue between entities and all the stakeholders that are involved and of course making sure that the public is aware of it thank you so much Mr Vada and then um just again to sort of round out the discussion of how this works so this is a set of recommendations this is a vision for cal Canyon as projects come in what would it look like in terms of sort of deviation from say a density recommendation are there you know are we bound any more or less than we are with any other um piece of development that comes before us certain uh Marco Vada for the record again I mean at the end of the day we're following all the procedures that are laid out in title 19 and the the plan itself as you know this is a little bit different because this is kind of a sub plan of the larger plan that has been adopted by the commission and city council already but at the end of the day you have recommendations and staff report that are based on this they're trying to achieve the larger outcomes the goals and the polic icies of the 2050 plan which are these These are in direct alignment with each other so right now yeah you have you know a PCD designation for that Northwestern quadrant of Kyle Canyon you have zoning that's you know a little bit you know on the on the residential side uh and Commercial side close to the The Interchange and then for everything else you know that that's pretty much undeveloped you're you're going to ultimately have staff recommendations that that have looked through this and they' have looked through the5 50 plan and we're making sure that you know we're addressing all of those different uh check boxes so it's going to be it's going to be a little bit different than before and you're not going to have straight density like you know eight dwelling units perak which is pretty much what it is right now for the vast majority of it you can make those those decisions and ultimately it's the discretion of the Planning Commission and city council as to how you know what those findings are and how much it aligns and we'll make sure that we advise you accordingly based on how uh how those projects work and then of course Public Works we're going to make sure that you know we're not setting up a situation where there's you know there isn't adequate service that's uh that's there thank you very much okay anybody else from the commission have comments on this no oh commissioner mford I um I'm U I'm part native American so I know Benny and the the PES has have they said anything about about the plan or for the Snow Mountain PES had they had any concerns Mark of aot for the record through the chair to you um you we we did talk to uh chairman so uh uh earlier this year um there weren't any there wasn't anything that was uh brought up at that point um but again I mean we're you know as part of that Outreach uh you know just in the conversation with him I think we uh between councilwoman bruny and uh you know planning staff you know we reaffirmed that we want to be that partner with with the tribe and we want to be respectful of any concerns that they have as well supportive of anything that uh that they are wanting to do so um I think we want to continue that relationship uh on and and again nothing really specific came up about this and you know there were certainly I spoke to Chairman last week and they are planning some expansion out there with their Hospitality I think they're going to put a hotel out there so and then they they might like you know the you know the plan and seeing more people coming out there you know might might work with what they're doing so sure thank you so much commissioner um nobody else has any comments just want to say thank you again and um thank you for all the work and thank you for all the opportunities for our community to weigh in on this and to really um provide input as to what they want to see going up um Kyle Canyon Road because Mount Charleston and Kyle Kyle Canyon Road and up to Mount Charleston is a really special place it's very unique in southern Nevada um and so whatever we can do to sort of balance again needed development with that you know the ecosystem there and the sort of specialness of Kyle Canyon is is so appreciated um and so with that um I will make a motion to approve um the Kyle Canyon special area plan for the Kyle Canyon area commissioner Rogan I uh I thank you um okay post and that uh carries thank you very much Mr vat and Madam chair that will move on to City Council on April 16th okay uh next up I would like to call Item 44 25-24 dtx1 applicant owner thank you City ofoc Vegas for possible action on a request to amend the Town Center development standards manual to add open air vending uh trans and transient sales lot use as a special use permit to the sx- TC Suburban mixed use special land use district and to provide for all other related matters um do we have a staff report on this Madam chair this amendment will allow the open air Vending transient sales lot use in the Suburban mixed use special land use District also known as sxtc within Town Center with an approved special use permit the Suburban mixed use district is characterized by a mixture of compatible land uses either having a horizontal or vertical design element that maximizes employment and housing opportunities as such the use would be compatible with other uses within the Suburban mixed use special land use District subject to minimum special use permit requirements staff has no recommendation thank you thank you um okay all right thank you sorry this item has also been noticed for public hearing if there are many any members of the public wishing to be heard please come down to the podium um seeing none I will close public hearing and turn it back over to to the commission for discussion um does anyone have any comments on this item no okay great um okay um given that the Town Center area is mostly in w six I'll go ahead and make a motion on this um text amendment to approve it there is a motion on the floor to approve please cast your votes commissioner Rogan I thank you please post and that carries and Madam chair that item will move on to City Council in ordinance form thank you okay next up going back to item 19 um bance 244-0608 V1 applicant owner Blanca Gonzalez Rosco for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow an existing residential accessory structure Cita that does not conform to title 19.06.13 Canon staff recommends denial may I have the staff report please good evening Madam chair Steve Swan senior planner Community Development staff finds the request to be preferential and a self-imposed hardship as interior access from the converted garage to the main house is feasible therefore staff recommends denial thank you thank you good evening if you could please state your name and spell it for the record and um tell tell us about your project hi everyone my name is Blanca Gonzalez I live in 312 Sayan Drive Las Vegas Nevada um 9107 I'm here to um hear the deis uh to my um garage conversion on my property I was here last month my brother to help me support support do you have any pictures or anything you want to show us uh I sent all the plans and everything and um um inspector was on my house um like three weeks ago to see the possibility um posib inspector was okay there and just waiting for approval or decision from you guys okay no problem I just wanted to make sure you were able to present everything you wanted to present so okay uh this item has been noticed for public hearing if there are any members of the public wishing to be heard please come down to the podium okay seeing none I will close public hearing and um pass this back to the commission starting with commissioner Rogan thank you shair uh I'm I'm the inspector that went out a few weeks ago I met with Lan I think the conversion is fine as long as the Builder can provide the emergency the escape and rescue openings that are needed so I think staff has prepared an additional condition if they could provide that to us please yes through the chair uh that added condition would be the applicant should provide the required emergency escape and rescue openings as indicated in the international residential code IRC okay thank you thank you anybody else um anything else commissioner Rogan nothing from me okay thank there's no further comment any further comment does not appear so please make your motion um with regard to agenda item 19 project 24- 0608 V R1 make a motion for approval subject to all conditions and additional condition conditions read into the record this evening and you agree to all those conditions yes thank you there's a motion on the floor please cast your votes commissioner Walsh no that's okay great please post and that carries uh thank you folks and that is final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days and next item thank you thank you thank you next item 21 AB B-24 d638 V1 applicant owner Martin Mendes Nasco for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow an existing patio cover carport and a proposed patio cover porch that do not conform to title 19.06.13 at 4921 Elmhurst Lane w 5 Summers Armstrong staff recommends denial may I have the staff report please Madam chair the applicant has revised their site plan and are no longer requesting a variance for the front porch as it now meets the front yard setback requirement this also eliminated the need for a variance request to allow the accessory structures to exceed 50% of the floor area of the primary structure at this time the app is only seeking a variance for the sidey yard cor carport with a zero foot side setback which staff recommends denial of due to the request um due to the request being a self-imposed hardship thank you thank you good evening ma'am if you could please State and spell your name for the record and tell us about your project absolutely my name is Rebecca Simon s i m o n from ploted design and 594 South Rainbow Road Unit 30005 on behalf of the owner uh like said uh we did reduce the setback for the proposed porch so that is now within the front setback um and so that does alleviate that 50% of the total area and then we are just asking for the z00 setback for the carport uh we do also understand that this will have to be sent to the building department and approved and get all plans and calculations done necessary um we did uh we also do already have on our plans that there will be a firewall included um so that has been discussed to the owner and approved by the owner that for those plans and uh that is all I have for you okay thank you very much this item has been noticed for public hearing are there any members of the public wishing to be heard on this item if so please come down all right seeing none I will close public hearing and I will pass it back to the commission starting with commissioner mford how you doing good how are you done um on that firewall that that that seems to be the only uh issue that we have with all this what is it because that was that was originally recommended by the was that recommended by the fire department um due to the setback um it would have to be fire rated so we did include those in our plans so so it will meet the fire rating of what the fire department recommend correct yeah okay all right that's the only question I have okay thank you any other comments from the commission seeing none um commissioner runford are you prepared to make a motion I motion to approve um uh on conditions of the of uh the planning department and um and uh yeah I have motion to approve thank you there's a motion on the floor please cast your vote commissioner Rogan I thank you please post and that carries subject to all conditions and that will'll move on to City Council on April 16th all right next we have item 22 AB bance 24-6 46- V1 applicant owner uh Jose haige for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow an existing accessory structure storage and repair shop building that does not conform to title 19.06.13 staff recommends denial hi I'm Rebecca Simon oh Sor may I have the staff report please oh sorry got a Madam chair the applicant has revised their site plan by eliminating the connecting addition between the two original accessory structures which eliminated the the request for a rear lot coverage variance and is now requesting to allow zero foot rear yard setback for the two 89 squ ft storage sheds in the rear yard staff maintains their recommendation of denial as this remains a self-imposed hardship thank you thank you good evening again if you could please state your name and spell it for the record yes uh my name is Rebecca Simon s i m o n from ploted design 5940 South Rainbow Road Unit 30005 um so uh we did remove the when we came last meeting um the storage area was part of the initial plan um but after discussion uh we did go ahead and remove that middle storage area and the Breezeway so those are no longer existing uh the owner is actually demolishing them as we speak um so we are just asking for the um the two store the two remaining storage areas uh those were there when the property owner did buy the property um yeah so we are just asking for that uh setback reduction in the rear and um yeah that's all we need right now okay thank you yeah um this item has been noticed for public hearing if there I will open the public hearing for anybody who wishes to come to the podium to speak about this item seeing none I will close public hearing and pass um this item back to the commission starting with commissioner schlotman thank you chairwoman through you uh couple of question or comments we've seen this last month there was a lot going on on this particular application and it it was extremely confusing and even the aerial photos made me think that there was a roof structure over this entire property so uh thanks are holding this inance for 30 days bringing it back with a cleaner plan just going to reiterate the the the title of this um document uh states that it's to allow an accessory structure and and in quotes uh or parenthesis storage and repair shop building that does not form to title 1906 um and I just want to reiterate this isn't a commercial property we're not resoning this as a commercial property there has been a little bit of confusion with people seeing uh the sign that's been posted thinking it's a commercial property and a lot of them thought it was a commercial property because your client has uh had a lot of vehicles in the front yard that they've been working on and making it look like a commercial property so they're going to have to really regulate that make sure that they're they're not doing that but I I appreciate you moving out the that that whatever they built between those two storage sheds that were there they're less than 10 by 10 each they look like they've been there for 50 years and that looks like what almost everybody else has in their backyard within that entire Block in that neighborhood so I'm okay with this I wasn't okay with the the the the larger structure that was connecting the other two structures um I'm glad you got rid of the Breezeway there was just way too much going on on we connect at the house this isn't a separate rental unit and it it needs to be treated as a single family house so if you're agreeing to all of those things and uh you agree to all the staff's conditions I can uh now support this and the new plans yes I understand okay and you you agree to all staff's conditions yes we agree to all conditions thank you chairwoman thank you commissioner are there any other members of the commission uh go ahead Mr commissioner to salvio thank you m chair through you um the structure has it been removed the one that we're talking about uh yes so um this is the existing site plan so it had that storage area and the Breezeway um that is currently being demolished so it is just going to be the two storage and then the Breezeway is completely gone thank you very much yeah okay uh seeing no other comments commissioner schlotman would you like to make a motion yes uh uh chairwoman and and how much longer do they need to tear down that structure uh I can confirm with the owner and uh go ahead and email you but uh they are currently tearing it down right now what's down right now uh they're currently tearing this area down right now so um I know the inspector went out and did look at the property and he is are speaking with the um because this came from a code violation so I know that he has been talking with the code enforcement officer and emailing him back and forth pictures and things of the demolition as well okay all right uh Madame chair through you I'd like to make a motion on 22 AB bance 24- 0646 V1 move to approve subject to staff's conditions thank you there is a motion on the floor please cast your votes commissioner Rogan thank you please post and that motion carries and Madam chair that is final action tonight unless appeal to the city clerk in 10 days thank Youk next we have bance and a re notification for 24- 0647 sdr1 applicant oos Development Corporation owner city of Las Vegas for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed four-story 22 unit multif family Residential Building at the northwest corner of vanan Avenue and F Street Ward 5 summer Armstrong staff recommends approval may we please have the staff report Madam chair the proposed development supports goals and policies identified in the 2050 master plan and vision 2045 downtown master plan staff finds that the proposed development can be harmonious and compatible with the surrounding area and therefore recommends approval subject to conditions please note there were additional documents of protest received after publication thank you thank you uh good evening sir if you would please State and spell your name for the record and tell us about the project thank you madam chair Commissioners good evening my name is Bob gronau 1980 Festival Plaza Drive to my right is the applicant the representative Chico Clark he's here to answer any other questions that you may have with respect to the development of the parcel and the process that he's gone through and his his company's gone through to get to where we are today so the first thing like to do is just Orient you to the location of the property uh this is as you've heard earlier on public comments there are some neighbors are who spoke in uh I think a neighbor spoke in support but there are others that spoke in opposition to the project um this is located on in Las Vegas and downtown known as the West Side uh more specifically what you have is we are located this piece of properties located on the northwest corner of Van Bean which is down to to the south of the property and to the east here is F Street so this is right on the corner of F Street in vanan it's currently a vacant piece of property uh just to the north of us is an Alleyway located here uh we do have a single family home that's located adjacent to the property right here and we have some other single family homes that run across the northern uh northern part of our property and further down to the west of North uh Northwest of our property located there uh this property is approximately 33 Acres uh this is a development that my client has been working with the city hand in hand for a very long time to get to where we are today with the design uh that's why your staff is recommending approval and I'll get into that in a little bit but with respect to the site plan as you can see here um what we are proposing and staff has mentioned is this is going to be 22 units um uh for the development overall we have uh five one-bedroom apartments we're going to have uh uh 12 excuse me yeah I got it back backwards five five 52 525 yeah five I'm sorry 12 two bedroom and then five uh three-bedroom apartments uh that being said we are also looking to uh build this modern building here this is just a look at this this would would be on the uh corner of van beeren in in F Street located there uh this four-story building this will give you the east facing Building located here this is the South face building that's located right here and then we also have the uh west facing building which would be located here and I think it's important so you can see the architecture and the design and the layout of the building that is uh being proposed here uh the first floor of the uh building the four-story building will be for the amenities and office spas and so on the second third and fourth floor is where the residential units will be actually located uh the development overall here is a $10.5 million investment in the into this area which is a significant investment uh uh coming into this area but what's important here if you're familiar with this piece of property and area there are many plans and overlays in this area um for one this is in a Redevelopment area one as staff has already mentioned in their back in their staff report uh this is in the historic Westside district and downtown uh plan and it's also been studied by UNLV which is known as the 100th plan okay so and there are many other professionals that have looked at trying to revitalize this area and obviously when you're trying to revitalize an area you're going to have a lot of emotions with respect to any type of Development coming into the uh neighbor neighborhood but one thing makes certain with respect to what the city has done over the years because of all these plans they've been recruiting developers such as oos development to come in and invest into this community so you can get some type of synergy for development of residential and Commercial and so on to to begin to sprout in this in areas like this and matter of fact what staff has pointed out with respect to all these plans that I mentioned with Redevelopment plan the Hun plan and the um the uh historic Westside District plan this meets the goals you know this plan that you see here number one it improves the housing stock in the area as staff has pointed out in their report uh this is a development uh if you take a look in the upper right hand corner this this area here you can see there's a lot of vacant lots a matter of fact some of the vacant Lots unfortunately have people living in tents in those areas I've been out here at the area and so on uh what you have is in this area here with a development like this you're going to have access to Transportation H modals in the area but and then the other goal here that we're also fulfilling is in these plans I looked at in these neighborhood infills to come in with some type of multifamily medium type of housing in in areas like this uh just kitty corner to us you have a multif family development in the in the uh on the property just kitty corner which would be to the southeast east of our property um we had a neighborhood meeting um there were Neighbors in support there were Neighbors in opposition um I believe there was about 20 people there you had your staff members there uh so it was a lively conversation for about a little over an hour listening to the pros and cons of the development you heard some of the uh earlier comments on public comment um one of the things that we'd like to offer with respect to uh trying to be a good neighbor uh partner in the neighborhood um we we gave staff some if approved conditions uh just in case if you were to approve the project we were looking and I know um Chico has been meeting with the neighbor to the north and to the West we'd be more than willing to put landscaping and what we've talked about putting Landscaping in their yards to help do some type of buffering to the west of us and to the north of us uh we've talked about doing with cypress trees we was trying to figure out what is the best type of uh uh uh buffer so to speak for landscaping open up for suggestions and and willing to do whatever we can and then in addition what we would do on the uh west side of the property here which you've approved on a link another project not too long ago which would be some form of awnings which would also skew uh kind of skew the view of looking down onto someone else's property so we've come up with some ideas here we're always open to listen to the neighbors to listen to the commission because what we believe is this is a $10.5 million investment into the community we want to do it right we've worked with your staff um a matter of fact as I said Chico has been working for the last couple of years to with your staff to get the project of where it is today so hopefully we can continue to get the city support as we move forward and make a very big investment into this community so we'd ask you to follow staff's recommendations of approval uh we would add as I mentioned the three conditions uh the conditions of landscaping to the north and to the west and also to the west to add some type of awning fixtures out uh out there and then what we can do is after the neighbors speak um we can answer your questions and Chico can answer questions I'm not able to thank you Mr gronau um this item has been noticed for public hearing if there are members of the public wishing to be heard please come forward if you have already spoken and you don't have new comments let's give an opportunity to the folks um that haven't been up to the podium yet to speak and we will go from there so thank you and you can come down there's three microphones please line up so we can be efficient you can hand that to the clerk he's coming over to grab it all right do you have a pen I could use Evelyn I've been on my property for 20 years sir did you want to come down and speak while oh you're you've got a card as well okay thanks hi I'm Mark Martinez I live uh in the same area that they will be building uh 618 westan buan Avenue um I have seen this community um stay reason to be quiet over time there have been already uh several different uh apartment complexes that have I would say maybe not better uh not I wouldn't say better the community I would just say that there are other things as well that would probably be better to um accommodate before we uh add uh this uh uh this place uh into this neighborhood that could also uh benefit from a bunch of other different uh facilities besides just the apartment complex uh I would say there's uh different uh plazas in the area that need business as well uh and then that could definitely bring in people from uh and you know from other states and stuff like that that maybe you could uh make a plan for uh different building uh on different areas there's already deals going on uh around different Lots in those areas people buying it off obviously yeah it's very cheap um but the cost of uh human comfort and uh eventual uh progress of that part of the city is going to have to be um addressed too and I don't think this apartment complex will probably uh help us in that regard so that's all thank you thank you anybody else if if you all want to come down and oh yeah anybody who wishes to be heard on this item come on up and let's line up with the microphones good day my name is Dr Judith gold and I would just like to say something I'm driving Uber in this area and the traffic is really extremely busy particularly on Fridays and Saturdays and it this is the amount of people is just immense and I feel there's a with big apartment building number one the aesthetic of the area it will look really ugly it doesn't fit into that area it's just like KY Canyon where you approved and it was said or let it be aesthetic that it be beautiful everyone it must match the environment it must match and I think the same thing with downtown Las Vegas to start putting their big apartment building in a big complex with multif family homes I do think there not in place for that location and I live in vas over 17 years I've seen the city grow and I do believe in Gross I'm in reala too and I just don't think this apartment building will improve that neighborhood and it will produce a lot of traffic and parking shortages and emergency problems if there's any emergency the people can't go as fast to those locations already now is a problem downtown when there's an emergency and these are those points I think should be really much taken into consideration because it is about the people and it's not just about the building about the investment into the town it's really about safety and helping people to have a great community and enjoy the location they're living not to drive them out that they don't like it anymore because of parking security and safety thank you so much thank you ma'am sir come on down good evening I'm Muhammad Abdullah my address is 215 Travis Street not Las Vegas 89030 I'd like to say uh that I'm opposed to this particular project uh for the reasons that she mentioned but also uh UHC mainly because of the traffic schn I believe it that is going to cause and also I think that a better use would be sort like a strip mall or businesses um because we're talking about injecting economic uh uh prosp erity or potential there in the in the area we need more businesses okay and so I would really urge that because of the the traffic snar and all the things he going to do for the infrastructure so please consider that before you make a decision thank you and Mr D can you please spell your name for the record yes ma'am it's mu am m m a d and my wife is grenland K Walker of the Walker African-American Museum and Research Center okay and and she's also opposed as well okay thank you Mr douah and your last name is Abdullah ABD thank you d u l l a h okay thank you that's why I had you spell it for the record because I totally Mard it thank you so anybody ma'am are you coming uh down to speak yeah just please come down to the microphone so we can expedite yeah thanks my name is Evelyn Cerna and I'm just here to express my thoughts about the building they're going to build there the structure um there's going to be a lot of apartmentss there the parking it's going to be a you know where are they going to park the people I wonder outside in the street right now the cars are being you know break into and um it's a lot of stuff that's going on and you got to they got to think about those things what we need is Condominiums and homes so it could all come together have a nice neighborhood I mean I've been living in my neighborhood for 20 years and I mean I love where I live cuz it's five away five minutes away from downtown I I get to enjoy that it's it's always you know Pleasant for me to go there and with my husband and have a you know nice time with him so it's you know it would be good to have condom minion and homes that's what we need okay thank you okay thank you thank you and can you please spell your name for the record I'm sorry can you please spell your name for the record uh sterna I mean Evelyn EV v a l y n sterna s e r n a okay thank you Miss Cerna thank you I just wanted to enter in my uh opposal my C you just want to turn that into the CLK man okay thank you sir you uh again good evening uh I I failed to mention my name is Leonard Martin l e o n a r d m a r t I in I live 623 Harrison Avenue Las Vegas Nevada 89106 I am currently the vice president of the historic Westside Community Association in our neighborhood I spoke I I have been speaking on terms with commissioner mford first and foremost that property was purchased by the city with taxpayers money second of all second of all uh we talking about $10 million uh investment with in today's money the single family home owners that live in that area we say $63 million that's what the homes are worth in that area $63 million in today's money we we were once the the young energetic people who who God blessed to to to have uh uh credit good enough toay pass and signed with these banking institutions for 30 and 40e mortgages now I'm a senior citizen disabled he speaks about the plans yeah we got the H 100y plan H25 plan all of those plans are revised revised and all of this you ain't put paint on the wall in 50 years now we have a a unique opportunity this vision of this building was Cedric Greer February 16th the mayor came out to Jay came out to Jackson and F Street and I have the video she said what she wasn't having it discrimination and intimidation and all the other stuff that go along with these developments in in the community but in our community we are a family of neighbors we have been living together for a decade uh uh most of them are on fixed incomes with the density of this building you talking 22 units if if it's one person more more than likely it's two people in that that apartment that's 44 people where they going to park what about the trash what about the noise at night when when most of the senior citizens are up at 6 and they in bed before 47 what about the noise cuz they can't park on the property they got to park on the P City Public Street so they got their radio on and they doing what they want to do and and here we got to call the police who never show up the city uh in my opinion is the worst landlord it is you're going to talk about putting the building under management but here we talking about dollars and cents so when it becomes uncomfortable to spend that money on the management after a couple of years who going to run the who going to run the the the establishment after you put it there and we got all the headaches okay he talking about the building the Jason Department building I think it's about 12 units that was 1950 something when they built that that building if you look on 8th Street they had a senior citizen building that Skyline is best suited for that like I said we in talks and I sent the uh Council woman the name of the I spoke with the engineers I even sent a letter to commissioner mford letting him know I spoke with the engineer they have a a beautiful plan for that acreage of land that would be best suited for the both of us we not against development in that area you look at the honey plan you see the streets are cut off with the cafes people are walking with their dogs it's a nice environment it's it's got comerce moving and everything you look at the 125 plan there some more details in the 150 plan it's some more uh details that we are loving but to put a project I come from the city of Chicago I used to live on the ninth floor in the icky projects 2250 South straight uh n ninth floor they tear they tore all the projects down in Chicago Robert tayor Cabrini Green State way God all of those are demolished this is a project that's all it is you can never own you can never give off a generational wealth on an apartment you cannot pass that on to your your children your your grandchildren none of that own an apartment and the rent is going to steady go up higher and higher and you're going to be paying for what you pay for a home in that apartment thank thank you very much thank you very much sir uh Mr grar oh sorry anybody yes we've got another if anybody else is going to speak on this item can you please come on down so we just get a sense of how many more people we have speaking are you speaking ma'am come on up to the microphone state your name spell it for the record thank you so much good evening everyone my name is Cheryl Thompson I am um my address is 1916 pink I Court I um am um not that far from the development that they are speaking on tonight I live about uh three about three blocks down um my sister who the apartment complex will be right over her neighbor right over her window I go down there to visit her every now and then and I just we go open the door we open the back door we open the front door sit out for the summertime and uh we'll walk the dog I sometimes in the win in the summertime we would go get on our bikes and all this is is just another it'll be like a big old Dome over her over her bedroom because where she her bedroom is she can just open the window window just look out and there it is I don't think that that is the kind of a development that should be in a neighborhood this is a home for children for families where we plan to retire and live and we can't retire and live in a big old complex where it's just a bunch of um people that we don't even know our neighbors we know these people in um Apartments we don't know we're afraid we don't know what's coming out at night in the evenings when we just sitting out the on the porch thank thank you thank you very much ma'am anybody else for public comment on this item okay seeing none I'm going to close public comment and call the applicant back up to the podium um for any responses or to add anything else Madam chair uh Bob gron hour for the record um I think we're ready to answer any questions that you may have um if that's okay that is perfectly fine Mr grar thank you so much I will turn it back over to the commission starting with commissioner Munford hi M granau um so when we talked the uh for the property I guess that's uh Cynthia Thompson's house that's directly to the West I think it's Miss Wallace is to the west and Miss th to the north yeah okay so um the what I'm hearing a lot is es you my main concern is is probably that house yeah and the buffering for that house um the uh what and and for that property you were proposing to put H uh trees on their property that is our proposal if need be we can also look at putting it along our property line it's tight but th those are things that we can definitely do uh we would like to do some form of landscaping definitely if it's uh on her property or on our property we like to do that Landscaping there we think that's appropriate and then from what I from what I understood you offered her if the if the are on her property you offered her to pay the water bill for a year I uh my name is Chico Clark representing oos development for the record uh we offered to install these plants as well as uh maintain them for a year to make sure that they are growing properly and staying healthy okay I I'll be honest with that I I would if I own the house I'd have an issue with that myself even if you're going to pay for it for a year trees grow grow that's that's going to be added cost you know burden on it's kind of a burden on the actually to me it it feels like it's a burden on the homeowner um the uh um I I agree we need we need more affordable housing I me I spoke with Mr granau um probably when when one of the one of the stigmas that we have when we're talking about affordable housing uh somebody kind of touched on that today um you know it uh and I've you know I mentioned you know I'm in my background is real estate I'm in commercial and so you know when if I'm working with a investor I'm I'm usually looking for off-market mismanaged properties kind of short order slum Lords that are maybe in the maybe in the valley and they're mismanaging these properties it's an opportunity for me and my investors to come in and buy those properties and improve them so you know the and so I understand the public when they have kind of a stigma when they hear the quote unquote affordable housing project my big concern moving forward with you know when we're talking about affordable housing projects is that we is that there I'd like developers to really have a plan in terms of long-term management of that property I've never managed multif family I've managed mobile home parks I'm a property manager as well I Mo manage mobile home parks and I manage commercial uh the good commercial players you know they you know every other year or every year we we fix the pavement we you know if we need to paint if you know we have our landscapers Keepers every day or you know when whenever is needed to make sure that property looks good when people drive by or when people come and shop at those shopping centers or whatever and so you know that that that I think especially if anybody is a you know looking at doing affordable housing I I think that's important for us to consider is what's that management plan over not not just just over 5 years but for the duration of the ownership is how I look at it um you know somebody mentioned also that the uh they like to see retail in there um and I've seen here in Vegas a few even in the downtown area where they were they've brought retail in the area but in my opinion they didn't bring enough resident itial in that area whether it be whether it be multif family or some type of because you need people in that area to to shop at those shops and to support that area so there has to there has to be a balance I believe that you know you that plan has to you have to have a plan where a residential comes in and I've been in that area you know that's that's my father's old District that I I first time I've been W went through that area was I was probably 3 years old or four years old with my dad and at that time there was there was residential and there was commercial in a way it was kind of it was kind of forced because it's African-Americans we had to live in that area and so we had to have those businesses and our homes in that area when it when it was first established so you know we need to uh I think there needs to be uh you know yes we need we need commercial in there but we do need residential we do we do need affordable housing um somebody you know uh what happened in 2008 we're feeling it still today because all those I know when being in real estate as long as I have been after 2008 you couldn't get any money to build anything so for to to 2012 Builders really couldn't build anything and that's why we're having you kind of see the shortages that we're having today and so you know I I want to um with I'm concerned about and I hear the people in the community um I would the you uh chairwoman you mentioned maybe table in this or and that I would like to I would like to um you know I'm I since cuz I I said my my big concern right now I'd like to get get a solution for The Neighbor Next Door first a a solid solution for her um in terms of you know where we have something a little bit more a meeting of the minds where it's going to be some kind of setback or something I'm looking at I'm looking at the plans uh that's parking um you know is there is there any way where we can um because that that's my first concern you know all the other stuff with the community and everything um but that the you know and I you know when I bought my house um where my first house I bought I bought it because I had nobody living behind me I had nothing but desert so I I like that and so I understand you know the resident here she's concerned about you know about that issue so I'd like to before any kind of approval to try to figure out what can we do with her first um and and it it you know going and I understand um when you're developing it has to pencil out so you need it also I have a question on that first floor there's no units on the first floor right correct so that's more is that more what what is a use uh so you have the manager's office that's located there you have the maintenance office that's located there uh there's a play area for uh kids indoor uh play area there's a great room living room um there's a computer room office type of thing and there's a few other things in there that would be on the first floor there and then second third and fourth floor are the residential units okay all right um like I said I'd like to I'd like to get this the N you know cuz I'm hear I've heard different ideas especially with the neighbors you know with the trees I don't think that's going to work for her I know it wouldn't work for me um if there's something that could be done um and then and then uh and then again um uh like I said the uh when it comes to the um and then and I understand the concerns about the about the density issues that might be going on with this but and my personal feeling too is we do need we do need the um we need do we need some type of affordable housing and also too I you know um going be that area being Ward five I I don't feel you know that since that's W five you know we automatically just put affordable housing in that area just because it's w five um because you know throughout the city we need affordable housing projects but um let's let's take that issue first um can I ask the Builder what what is your motivation in terms of that being an affordable housing project Chico clerk for the record um I've been coming to Las Vegas for 20 years visiting family out here I've not seen a whole lot of development in that area um our company we do exclusively affordable housing so that that is our primary objective is to is to deliver that same that quality product to neighborhoods that need it where where where else have you done affordable housing uh we currently are closest to uh to Las Vegas is in Carson City right now we're close we're finishing up Sierra flat that's Phase 2 it's 160 units 40 senior and uh 16 market rate and the remainder is affordable housing and you said that's in Carson City correct uh 3320 uh buyway buti we are also doing developments in uh Nebraska in um Manhattan Kansas Garder Kansas Independence Missouri and pooki Florida okay all right um my I'd like to recommend for you know like I said that we that we um commissioner mford yeah sorry you before you make your motion let's if you want to give folks a chance yeah to make no no no no problem but um yeah if there's any other any other comments from thank you commissioner uh our questions commissioner schotman yes uh chairwoman through you uh just want to make a few quick comments I mean we we have developed our our downtown a little bit different than we've developed other cities Dallas Atlanta Houston LA and some of these other places where we brought in a whole bunch of retail and Commercial prior to bringing in the residential it it it's kind of unique uh to me because we've I've developed another city to where we've gone backwards um not backwards just opposite residential and then bring in the retail um it it's it's worked it's worked down here in in Fremont it's uh it's it's worked in the arts district but you know we're starting to see you know the volume of retail commercial bars restaurants things like that um that are now needing the households to kind of support uh some of these businesses and if a lot of retail and Commercial businesses get built in uh this historic west side without the residential and if we look at a aerial map it looks like about 50% of the Lots in this little neighborhood are are vacant um I'm just not sure if anybody is going to go in and put the investment into retail until we actually have enough people to support that retail um and um you know I I I do realize that changes change is hard change is something that we don't want to see uh very often and we're we're scared to change because we don't know what what that brings us um however um I I've I've seen a a ton of projects come uh to this area and uh over the past you know 12 13 years that I've been up here and I have I've seen a lot of lot of improvements in a lot lot of areas I'd like to see stuff happen in this area I'm not saying I want to see it overdeveloped but I remember uh Tom Pergo U our old assistant general manager for the city um put out a RFP to to build some project uh not a project u a just a uh some housing project or commercial development or something the city was going to give the land away in this neighborhood and you know nobody applied and he called me and he said treny why why is nobody uh a applying and you know there's a laer list of uh reasons why they weren't applying a lot of them didn't think they'd get entitlements the the the cost of infrastructure is is more expensive um and uh just because all the infrastructure has been aging uh there's also that whole stretch of property up against the highway and there was another plan where we're looking at trying to uh bring in uh a whole bunch of uh you know restaurants and other uh I don't want to say entertainment because it wasn't really Entertainment District it was just it was more uh uh uh restaurants Inc incubator spaces to where people could come and and uh you know lease these spaces out move into a bigger space and you know kind of give some uh you know allow uh some of these places to bring in jazz and music and culture and and uh and you know so but the developers wouldn't get behind it because they didn't feel that there's enough people there to to support that um and this is just what what what I've been told throughout the years so I mean for a a new apartment project to come through and be built here being that I mean we have two different ways we can go about doing this we could do it at Market rates which the the rents are going to be a lot higher or we could do it an affordable and that do affordable doesn't necessarily mean the projects um affordable just means that it's hitting that median income that uh and you can't exceed whatever that median income is and I won't quote what that is because I don't know um so but it's a great looking project i' i' I'd love to see something happen I do understand the concerns of the neighbors and and uh and and the immediate neighbor and trying to figure out a way to overcome those objections but I'm looking at the Sierra flats that you're finishing up in Carson City and this is a beautiful project and um and you know if if if we can actually get more people living down here we can actually start bringing in some of those other like really great elements that we want to see uh flourish in this area so those are my comments but I'll I'll turn it over to you chairwoman thank you commissioner schotman uh commissioner dovio thank you madam chair through you commissioner slotman you hit it right on the head I mean to see development residential go in this area is something I know as a planning commissioner when I've been on for five years and then it's just getting back on again that was one of the objectives is to see residentials start growing in that area and and to see this come forward I think it it works I think it is harmonious compatible I see based on your elevations if you put them back up again uh you have it off on at a hard Corner we have a a a tremendous buffer for what you're dealing with right you have a tremendous buffer for the parking to the adjacent neighbor uh you have the developer that's willing to help the the residents behind with even additional more landscape buffing uh I think this fits I the questions that I that I do have is what is the price point right now for a wooden bedroom or a two bedroom I know we're here for land use but I just I just kind of want to wrap my head around that for a second sir you want me to go through what we talked about earlier I got it okay uh so we have uh we are serving uh individuals and families making 30 to 50% of the area median income um at the 30% level we have one one bedroom two two or two two bedrooms and one three bedroom with rents being at 442 525 and 600 respectively uh for the 40% we have three one-bedroom nine TW bedroom and three three bedroom with $65 $720 and 826 respectively and for 50% we have one one-bedroom one two bedroom and one three bedroom with rents being 767 $767 $915 and $1,051 thank you and um you for your neighborhood meeting that you held and and we've all set through hundreds of them so you started at a at a p perspective right here and then you you got with the neighbors I think you stated that there was at least like 20 people that showed up yeah 20 25 in that area so between what you proposed at that time and then what was uh raised at the neighborhood meeting had there been any concession changes that you tried to make it as harmonious and compatible to the feelings of the neighbors that were going to be directly affected was there anything changed on your site plan to help on the site plan itself uh because of sensitivity to the uh West neighbor what we were agreed to do is we do awnings that would obscure The View into the adjacent property there um so that's that's one of the things and then subsequent to uh Chico's meetings with some of the neighbors to the north and to the West we wanted to do additional landscaping and try to figure that out so those were the things that we were coming here today with to say hey if you're willing to approve this project these are things that we're willing to do okay gotcha you know the hardest part and this is to the public the hardest part as a planning commissioner and even for the city council person is infield projects they're they're one of the hardest things I'm fortunate enough to live out in w six so there's a lot of land and there's not too much infill going on right now but just about every Ward up here has infill projects it's either something that's getting knocked down and put back or raw land like this and comes in so to have a developer and that's why I asked about if there's any concessions made to have a developer sit down come to you with a project uh that I I honestly think it is a beautiful project after looking at it uh to then make concessions to try to be harmonious and compatible and have the buffers and have it and obviously staff made a recommendation for approval because it's got the proper setbacks it's it's not intrusive into you know for height uh I think this is a good project and I'm looking at his price point and to me based on pretty much everywhere there is to me that seems like an affordable price at that kind of price a month uh so you're not far from being affordable housing I could tell you that right now um but I can definitely get behind the project due to the fact that I think it's needed I think it fits uh I think there is buffers there the concessions are working with the neighbors to do what you need to do to try to uh massage that a little further uh me I would totally support this project if it went on today thank you thank thank you um and then I just have a couple of questions um so I'm looking at your um I'm looking at the Landscaping plan um because you know this area is the hottest spot in the urban heat island mapping um that was done by U RTC um and so first question and I I know Mr granau when you and I talked I think there was a mention of of going back to maybe do some revisions around the Landscaping but I noticed that while the number of trees is sufficient you've got them in at 24 in and I'm wondering if you would be willing to do 36 in box because it may more quickly create sort of some Aesthetics um that's my first question and then my second question is in the parking as I'm looking at the landscape Legend it looks to me like and I just don't remember if we talked about this are those trees in the land in the parking or are those shrubs because if there're shrubs and there's any way to do trees I think that that would be better again for mitigating that heat off the asphalt like that's kind of the key place where you want to make sure that you have Urban canopy Forestry um and so I just was curious cuz it looks to me like what's there are the 5 gon juniperus no they're the sweet uh ACAA those are sweet Acacia yeah okay so it's just the rendering yes all right so those are trees so thank you for that clarification and then would you be willing to do 36 in box instead of we can look at that the problem is is because the project is tight right now with respect to making some of the changes we can look to see what we can do and I think if anything if we were to do is I think I know this might be going is we can look at making some of the bigger boxes to do to be used as buffering uh but that's something that we would have to look at to see if if that's the step that we can do but we could address that okay yeah I I think that that would be good again for buffering and for having that sort of aesthetic look um a better curb appeal more quickly to have those larger trees and I know that you know I mentioned to commissioner Munford that there had been people at the front public hearing asking for a 30-day abayance um so if that is indeed um something that uh commissioner Munford uh requests and that passes I would certainly hope that that is something that can be looked at and worked out before you uh come back to us um for another hearing so I mean that's again I I think it's a greatl looking project I think it has some opportunities and I've learned even for w six that you don't get the retail you want until you get the rooftops so um anyway uh with that I will pass it back over to oh commissioner Walsh thank you madam chairman the uh one question I have and for the gentleman I'm from Chicago as well and I know exactly what you're talking about and nothing's built there yet and they've been tore down at least 10 years and what I found working um the low-income communities and how hard it is is that I see is working um it if you take a new development and you put it in where there was an area or still is an area that is underdeveloped or doesn't has been bad crime high crime I didn't hear the crime rates yet either out there what because that plays a significant role so what they were trying to do was the mid the M the middle good project which is yours and try to get the others to either go along with it or somehow try to attempt to to work on making it a better community with them help them re through the you know the doors get everything fixed up in the buildings next to them so it's a good project and I'm support of it and I'd be interested to hear what you guys are going to come up with okay thank you hey commissioner they build a town on 31st State Street High School wrong okay that sounds good thank you commissioner Walsh did you have any other comments okay great so um I'm just waiting for commissioner mford are you I'll pass it back to you I appreciate uh all the Commissioners comments and input and um and going going back you know I like I said before um you know if we're going to have any kind of we you know like again going back to you know if I'm working for an investor and we're looking for especially like a commercial site it's we're looking at rooftops we're we're we're doing that analysis of of everything in that area and I know I know I know talking to different people um that is one of the one of the goals for that area is to bring back that retail aspect to that community that where you know whether it's a Entertainment District whether it's um I've heard plans of even uh making that area since so many of the residents have roots to Louisiana making that a you know making that an area where they we're bringing in jazz clubs and stuff like that but you're going to when you do something like that again you you have to have residents in the area you have to have you have to have uh people that are working and and uh you know as I look at this project and I'm looking at the uh at the renderings and all the drawings I agree it looks like a it looks like a good project um in terms of what you're going to develop and put there um the uh again just my my main concern is is the neighbor yep and if I I'm I'm going to move for approval because this will go before the city council at the end of the day I'm going to move for approval but I want in that meantime if you could you know get with that neighbor I I would uh the chairwoman made a good suggestion in terms of you know trying to get that that larger tree as a buffer um in that area um the thing about it too is is if we do get more retail and more business development in there the traffic is going to be is going to be what it is and you know it you know uh Vegas Vegas you know at the end of the day has traffic issues all over the city we could say that's good we could say that's bad but what it does show is that we're vibrant City there's there's people moving around we're spending money it's a you know the the city's on the Move I'd like to see that area on the move and if it's on the move you know that means you know we have we have stuff going on in that community and I know being in that you know I've been in that area like I said since I was a little kid and and I've seen it I've seen it when it was vibrant and now that you know now you drive through there like the uh commissioner was saying 50% of that area is just empty and so I'm going to move I'm going to move for approval sir we've we've closed public hearing I'm going to move I'm going to move for approval but like I said I would like you to you know get with the the the the people that that are in that area and uh the neighbors and you know try to work something out in terms that because that to me that's that's the biggest issue in terms of that that that uh you know the like I said I understand the the the neighbors concerns right there and uh when you have that many people moving next to you um I know I know another developer they're doing a larger project and it's surrounded by residential yeah and so that you know that's going to probably be a big issue with the people surrounding that but again it's multif family it's going to be a Workforce more of a Workforce housing project and but again you know we need we need my feelings is we need that type of product so I with for item uh for item 23 um uh 24 uh re notification 24-6 47- sdr1 I move for approval um and uh yeah thank you commissioner mford uh there is a motion on the floor please cast your vote commissioner Rogan hi commissioner Walsh I okay I'll just do it verbal for the rest of the me because it keeps y uh please post thank you Commissioners and commissioner we'll keep you posted uh updated on the discussions with the adjacent na okay and Madam chair that item we'll move on to City Council on April 16th okay and so um folks can come down to city council and uh provide input at the city council meeting thank you very have a great night okay next up um item 24 abeyance 24- 0649 dv1 applicant owner Alex AO haronian for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow proposed residential accessory structure garage that does not conform to title 19.06.13 therefore staff recommends denial thank you thank you for the staff report good evening sir could you please State and spell your name for the record hi good evening my name is Alex arunan h r u t Yu n y n um I'm the owner of the property um the reason we want to build the garage a little bit closer to the walls um sir could you step a little closer to the microphone I having a hard time hearing you thank you okay um uh we want to I want to build a u garage a big garage it's the front yard of my property uh from west to it and North to it there is no uh Neighbors on the west side is a street north side is a um Canal so um the setback from the west side it says 15 ft so if I put the garage in 50 ft from the wall then it's going to be more like a dead space it's not a CA to have a backyard little backyard it's just a big garage that um if I go with 15 ft and 5 ft then I'm I'm losing that space uh pretty much and uh um I asked my neighbors it's it's a small it's only three neighbors of ours it's a small C the sack ask my neighbors they're okay with it one of them signed uh second one was out of country he couldn't sign it but they're okay with it um and I don't have any other neighbors bothering anybody to have the garage too close to U the wall pretty much okay thank you um this item has been noticed for public hearing are there any members of the public wishing to be heard okay seeing none I will close public hearing and pass it back to the commission starting with commissioner Walsh sorry for that disturbance um I went by the the your location down in the one street it's gated and I tried numerous times to get in but nobody replies to the the Press code bot but I could see the portion of where it was at and um it was a lot different when the first person came to to identify the issue um I would ask staff is there a good condition to where we can allow this CU on this one Madam chair through you um what what I guess what kind of a condition are we talking about what we talked late was the actual uh there's only one violation identified correct yeah in order to eliminate the need for variance he would need to meet the setbacks okay so they have to be no matter what which at that point he could just withdraw without prejudice this application and then meet the setbacks for the structure okay do you you understand that uh pretty much the problem is the setback right right any specific reason why it could be kind of allowed or uh to be a little bit closer to the wall the reason why I'm asking is uh we check the set back from north south east and west and the only the west side is not allow it's it's going it has to be 15 ft um I don't know what's cations how far away from the wall is it the the setback yeah the set back that um the the rules uh uh it's 15 ft I'm asking less than that to put the structure closer to it could you downsize the structure to meet the requirement I if I make the the smaller I'm planning to put an RV in it so it won't Feit and then if I go and put it close to the driveway then the RV won't be able to uh come and go to the garage you couldn't pull it in from the pull it in from the East because it won't make that turn correct can it get under that over that around where the circle is you'll see the big circle in the plant and then there's the it's a tree so I have uh fruit trees and stuff there so I really don't want to touch those are good trees so we were I was originally under the understanding that it was going to be to store antique cars and things like that that's the first I heard of of a res you know a bigger vehicle to go in there and at that point you could have met it by shrinking the building down that that's how I interpreted I didn't hear about putting an i RV in it okay yeah it's going to have a huge roll up door I might have it somewhere here so just for clarity I I want to I get a question from you are you planning on putting NC cars inside that garage or is it just an RV no it's going to be cars it's going to be uh cars I collect classic cars so uh um from that how about if you meet the requirements and just put the cars in there and find another location for we tried with the architect to kind of find the way but I don't I mean I know I have a big lot but um the house the initial owner whoever built it they put the house the way that if I put this garage it's I can't put in the backyard and the only spot we found it's here in this corner which we have to have that 15 yeah but if you pulled it east and made it smaller the cars could get in correct make it East yeah you push it out towards the east if I do it to the east then the drive gets very close uh very small Drive oh I'm sorry to the north here's what it looks like yeah to the north if you push it towards the north it's too close to the north uh this is the West okay this is the North oh then it would be the South pushing it more towards the South I thought it was going to go by the Yeah the the problem is pretty much the West this is the valad street mhm and this is a dry Canal so my closest neighbor is probably past the street on this way and my other neigh is probably 300 ft to the north and those are backyards but it's about 20 ft distance between those Neighbors in us well I if if you could do that move the vehicle like we plann or suggested you pull it out and make it on the other side make the building a little bit smaller okay then I have no problem with it I can prove it tonight if you meet that condition if you can't I don't think I can approve it because of the way the variant stands in other words you're cramming too much stuff into that one corner is one of the problems and issues and putting an RV in there ver the antique cars is another um I shouldn't be in there I totally understand even if we move the building to the uh in the middle of this lot or this way the existing um driveway will not allow us to you know do that that much so it looked like there was plenty of room on I saw it looked like plenty of room to bring a car in through there to go all the way to the yeah you bring it right under that that over pass there and then bring it you could go into the garage what if you move it or not I don't see that as a hindrance but you're going to have I mean you're trying to conform to an RV versus the antique cars and I don't think it's going to work I'm just honestly I just trying to use the lent as smart as I can if it's okay to say um you believe me I'm from your W and I would really try to make help you make this decision to do it correctly so in a matter of time at this point I can give you that concession and then it can go with a condition or um I would deny it tonight so I mean that's an option you have and I don't know how the other Commissioners feel but um my vote would be to do that if you don't make the concessions I'm sorry about that but I mean I know it's a tough decision I understand um commissioner Walsh I think commissioner schlotman had a couple comments to that's okay sure yeah pass along go ahead commiss thanks yes uh commissioner I just uh wanted to throw a few comments in maybe um to to understand it a little bit better the we we met last month we gave uh through through you chair uh we met last month well not with you but you sent a representative down here and you you had the right to come down here and explain it yourself you also had the right to uh go back and come up with some sort of concession before now I'm looking at the same same plan that I've seen 30 days ago you didn't do anything you come you're coming back just asking for the same thing that you asked for 30 30 days ago so we're we're making zero progress um not not your turn to speak um you're wanting to do this it's a self-imposed hardship you're wanting to do it because you want to put a RV in there an RV doesn't fit in there you have 50 ft from your house to this garage here 50 ft that's what your plan says okay you can do that in 30 ft um you don't want to do that but you can do that and you could make it happen and still have room left over so this is 100% of self-imposed hardship and you brought nothing back to us we're pretty much wasting our time up here that's my my comments and that that's my feelings on this if if there was some sort of Cession like let's go 8 ft let's go 10 ft but there was none of that that that come about he could have landscaped that whole side of his property he could have made it look closer to the rest of the neighborhood and I'm just not seeing it and I'm seeing that he's not wanting to make any changes but I just wanted to put those comments out there you do as you wish thank you sir thank you commissioner I agree with his opion okay any other Commissioners wishing to make comments okay if uh if you're putting cars in there can you can you put a system that Stacks the cars say it again I'm sorry if you're putting cars in there in the first place could you put this could you put a system in there that Stacks the cars on I used to own auto shop and we'd do that we' stack our cars so we can get more cars into that space is that option I haven't went that far to uh see how many cars I can fit there or not uh but um as um I was my I don't come here every day I don't know all the rules regulations what to say first or second but in my mind was to come myself I was out of country and the second thing that I tried to BR bring today the neighbors that they were okay to that first time we uh we didn't have that paperwork and my question was if is that possible to make a little bit like as you were saying is there any options to make I don't know 5 8 10 ft something close to that wall so that space will not be dead and uh I can use it properly something I understand that's the rules but if you're okay just to make a little bit closer to the wall so chairwoman through you yes I wasn't asking for this to be a dead area I was as asking for it to be a live area with trees Landscaping you're not you're not listening to what I'm saying man you're you're not matching the rest of the neighborhood and uh no I I mean for me it it's not going to work and and again echoing commissioner schlotman you know there was an opportunity to amend what you had provided to us last month and absent um a motion to continue this again which may end us up in the exact same discussion point you know it's it is a a problematic project for me as well so uh with that with no other comments I will pass it back to commissioner Walsh do you have a motion sir thank you madam chair first okay this is what I'm going to do I'm going to give you one chance to give you another 30-day pass and come back with professional drawings meeting the the design that we proposed and I suggest that you meet with staff to go over items so you don't come here because if we rule on it again you're not going to be able to build there for a while so I mean so it's up to you would you want a 30-day abidance excuse me 60 days so it's not yeah okay let's make it a 60-day one two months to give you to come back with the right plans and staff has always have people through all these different things with different concessions that's what I would suggest if not and you're not going to do that I would suggest then you we're going to deny it and you can appeal it uh from that point but they're going to rely on the docum doents that have already been proposed so do you want the 60 days uh 30 days should be fine too I think it's up to okay don't come back with the same drawings right okay and uh get some professional help on this with staff and other people they're here to help you we're not here to hurt you we want to be a happy you know project for you and in the community so with that I'll make a motion is it for is the motion for 60 yes yes okay thank you sir for 60 days there's a motion on the floor and and that date would be May 13th I'm not seeing the motion come up oh you heard the commissioner okay great thank you okay there's a motion on the floor please cast your votes and commissioner Walsh I thank you thank you please post and that motion to hold for 60 days passes thank you sir thank you see you in May okay um next item number 25 AB bance 24- 0657 va1 applicant owner Rosie Landa for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow a proposed single family detached dwelling with a port cashier and a proposed residential accessory structure bathroom that does not conform to title 19.06.13 thank you good evening again M would you please State and spell your name for the record and then tell us about your project absolutely uh my name is Rebecca Simon s i m o n and I'm from plotted design 5940 South Rainbow Boulevard number 305 um on behalf of the owner uh so we are um we were H this meeting held um we did get approval from all the other neighbors I do want to note that we did add um the trees on the bottom or on the south end um which was the only concern which was the South neighbor wanted that privacy barrier for the balcony um we are asking for a setback reduction for the portica share for the front setback the side setback and the back setback um the front setb the side setback and the rear setback the only part in the rear setback is the balcony um the side setback is um the just the eaves um as as well as the front set back um let me there we go uh because it does have rather large EES as a design um and then we are also asking for that bathroom here we go uh with no interior [Applause] access and that my presentation thank you very much uh this item has been noticed for public hearing are there any members of the public wishing to heard okay seeing none I will close the public hearing and pass this back to the commission starting with commissioner Rogan thank you chair I took the opportunity to meet with the applicant representative to compare it to the old plan that we approved about four or five years ago and it's a similar design so I'm comfortable U motioning for approval I just my question I guess is I think we may need to condition regarding those trees within the belt setback but I'll leave that to staff to determine thank you commissioner um while staff is looking at that in regard to a condition is there anyone else that has comments on this item thoughts okay chairwoman chairwoman yes sir my staff is looking looking that up I'll just make a couple of comments I I I remember this application and we actually looked at uh potentially reducing some of those setbacks and some of those big re is this re or what what was the Zone in here uh sorry the zoning yes oh um the zoning is there you go uh it's going to be re yeah and we we actually looked at reducing some of those uh setbacks in the re just because it we've had so many of these requests and you know setting back that portica share or whatever 50 ft and you're it's just a few feet so uh I could uh get behind this and I actually remember this application when it come before us thank you thank you commissioner staff do you have that condition ready yes Madam chair we can add a condition that reads applicant shall install fast growing drought tolerant trees along the sidey yard set back to the south in conformance with the site plan dated February 24th 20 25 thank you um Miss Simon do you agree to that condition and to all the staff's other conditions yes we do okay um with that commissioner Rogan are you prepared to make a motion uh yes I'll make a motion to approve agenda item 25 project 24- 0657 V1 subject to all conditions and additional conditions read into the record this evening thank you there is a motion on the floor please cast your votes commissioner Walsh I um thank you please post that motion carries and that item is final action tonight and let appeal to the city clerk in 10 days thank you for your time okay next up agenda item number 27 AB B 24672 S1 applicant sedra Investments LLC owner 7th Street Properties LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed 12,700 ft alcohol on premise full use with a 7,650 ft outdoor patio at 115 North 7 Street ward 3 Diaz staff recommends approval may I have the staff report please Madam chair the proposed alcohol use can be conducted in a manner that is harmonious compa comptible with the surrounding land uses and is located within the downtown entertainment overlay District which encourages similar uses staff therefore recommends approval subject to conditions thank you uh thank you commissioner schlotman yes uh Madam chair on this matter last month uh it was uh that was brought before us I noticed the one person that uh did come forward was uh Mark Carlson who I have worked for for many of years um and the organization that he's with and out of abundance caution I'm going to abstain from this matter thank you thank you commissioner um good evening can you please State and spell your name for the record Madam chairwoman Commissioners Nathan Taylor 8414 West Farm Road representing the applicant um I'd like to first uh thank all of the Commissioners that took the time to speak with me uh this week about this item um there was a lot of discussion uh regarding this uh I'll try to be as brief as I can but I'd like to give a little bit of a historical background on how we got here today uh first of all um this was agenda last month as commissioner schlotman just said um unfortunately I wasn't a I wasn't able to be here um due to an illness so that's why uh commissioner D Salo held it for 30 days so that we could have this discussion um at the February 11th meeting uh Mark Carlson got up from dtp and turned in some postcards in opposition to this application it's worth noting that all of those postcards were mailed to the same post office box 7516 Las Vegas Nevada 8 9125 I've prepared an exhibit which I believe all of you have in front of you and if I could just ask Nick to put this into the record um this is a list of all of the llc's that are controlled by essentially the same Trust so I don't want there to be any confusion about the postcards and who is opposing this project I'd like to just read a couple things from the staff report because I think it's worth noting although staff already did a pretty good job with their initial report the proposed alcohol on premise use can be conducted in a manner that is harmonious and compatible with the existing surrounding uses and I'm reading from the staff report the subject site can physically accommodate the proposed alcohol on premise full use in proximity to retail restaurant use in strip mall development site access is provided from 7 Street and 80 foot local Street subject title 14 this street is in sufficient size to accommodate the needs of the proposed use the proposed alcohol on premise full use will be subject to regular inspections during Rehabilitation of the building itself by the department of building and safety and regular inspections by the Department of Community Development business Licensing Division once a business license has been issued thus protecting the public health safety and Welfare and finally the requirement set forth in requirement one is not applicable because the subject site is within the downtown entertainment overlay I say that because at the February 11th Planning Commission meeting our deputy director loen scen stated these are the types of businesses that we want to locate in the Entertainment District overlay in addition this is not a newly requested use I want to make that clear there was already a use like this special events there was already a nightclub here that was a license was issued from December 14th 2014 and it expired June 12th 2024 having said that we got our application in if we had got our application in prior to the entitlement expiring we wouldn't even be having this discussion today my clients are going to employ about 30 people I think that's worth mentioning we invited the DT dtp folks and I think it's worth mentioning I've been doing this a long time 25 years I've never had to deal with dtp before I didn't even know who they were I've never spoken to any of these individuals so this was all new to me um and having discussions with them so I learned quite a bit about dtp we had a meeting on March 3rd for the purposes of addressing any concerns that they may have to give a brief recap we were presented by one of their attorneys and it was mentioned that we didn't notify our neighbors about the project since this was not a general plan Amendment nor a zoning change a neighborhood meeting was not required nor was one held the city did send out postcards as I already noted the dtp representatives invited two Executives from El Cortez to this meeting and I'm going to leave this part out these two Executives from El Cortez who I've never met before were quite intimidating and that's about all I'm going to say it seemed to me as though we needed their blessing because they've dumped $20 million into a renovation of their hotel which I'm very happy for my mom's first job in the casino business was working at the El Cortez so that property has a special place in my heart but I don't think we need the blessing of anyone for a business that belongs in the Entertainment District overlay my clients have spent many months doing due diligence trying to find a location that would work for this business it wasn't like they put a blindfold on and put a map up and put a pin and said oh this will be perfect for us they called the city they talked to the planning department they did everything they could possibly do to identify this location to locate this business these are not new operators they operate in Texas they do a very good job they're going to bring business to downtown it's going to be another great addition to our Entertainment District overlay I think it's worth noting they've spent upwards of $400,000 already on tenant improvements some of which include sound proofing of state-of-the-art stereo system new furniture improvements to the existing bar and finally the dtp folks and El Cortez Representatives just like anyone in this community they have a right to oppose any project that comes before the Planning Commission of the city council it's their right it's also my right to explain to you why you should approve this project their main issue is noise there's a patio area and in that patio area it's an anary use to the business but this patio area which will have Renovations as well is going to be used for it's about 25 ft from their existing downtown Motel which is across the alley what's ironic about this and and I'm going to show you some pictures is that dtp used to lease this space dtp used this space they utilized it they utilized the stage they used utiliz the outdoor patio area they played music they had large speakers outside and they used the space for large Gatherings and I guess I'll just show you the pictures right now of what kind of things went on when dtp rented this space so here's one looks like a wedding lots of chairs we've got big stage speakers people dancing here's some pictures I took um this is shows it's about 25 ft from our property line um I found it interesting that on their wall of their Motel it says Shake That Funk Pump That Base found that quite interesting considering that this is a nightclub that we're presenting here is another picture that shows our space this is the patio area this is the stage that's already there we did not put this there that's already there that was utilized by dtp when they leased the space picture of a ribbon cutting and something very interesting to mention this property surrounded on two sides by parking garages this parking garage is across the street from us if you look at the El Cortez there are no hotel rooms facing this business there's a gigantic parking garage in between there and the El Cortez so any mention of loud noise and music coming from our location when there's a parking garage across the street I don't understand that to the north of us is another parking garage I'd be remissed if I didn't mention Container Park is one block away the container park park has outdoor speakers they play music late into the night they have bands they're located in the Entertainment District overlay in conclusion I'd like to go over the fact that while there is this motel that they're operating in the Entertainment District overlay the hours of operation and I've talked to business licensing and I've talked to planning at length and these are some of the discussions I've had with you Commissioners the noise ordinances and the hours of operation do not apply to this business and staff can speak to that if they'd like if I've said something wrong but from my research this is the nightclub in the Entertainment District overlay noise and hours of operation does not apply to this type of business while they want to be good neighbors while there is a patio component to this business it's ancillary to the indoor operation that seems to be the biggest um hurdle here with the opposition is the patio area the DJ will be inside dancing will be inside the patio use will be used obviously for folks to smoke if they want to go outside and talk when the weather's nice I'm not going to speak to the hours of operation I'm not going to get into that uh myself I would say that this type of business and what I know about nightclubs that generally their hours of operation are dictated by their clientele so if it's a Thursday night and it's midnight or 1:00 in the morning and there's five people there I would assume they wouldn't want to keep the doors open um I want to also reiterate that they have spent a lot of money on noise reduction there are rolling doors they're also going to put noise reduction on that with all that said staff is recommending approval I'm asking that you follow staff's recommendation for approval I'm here to answer any questions you may have there are some attorneys here that are involved I'm not an attorney I don't pretend to be one I don't know what they're going to say I don't know what they've agreed to but what I'd like to put on the record is that I'm here to represent my client in the best way that I can and that's to allow them to operate within the law the law that the city has allows them to operate what hours they want to operate what days they want to operate and if they do anything that breaks the law then they will have to deal with the consequences and finally we will have to work with Metro and downtown because Metro wants to work with these types of businesses Metro is going to want a copy of our security plan Metro is going to want to interface with our security so with all that said I can only ask you to approve the application following staff's recommendation knowing that this business is allowed to be here it's allowed to operate here and they will be a good Steward in this community I've been dealing with these clients for months they they operate in other places they haven't had any problems and I can tell you that we we don't want to have to come before you again because there's a problem with the business and whenever I stand up here before you it's my reputation on the line so when I represent an application and I tell you these guys are going to do a good job they're going to be a good business you will be happy that you approved it then I I hope that you'll just know by as many times as I've come before you that that is just the fact and with that I will remain around uh for any questions um but I do believe there are a few other people that would like to speak thank you thank you very much for your time thank you Mr Taylor um gentlemen any um I'm guessing you are the lawyers of which Mr Taylor spoke and I would just like to request that any comments you make please make sure that those are gerine to this application as we are an advisory body on um on the planning piece of it sure sure and thank you chairperson Commissioners I'm stepen Mack I'm an attorney here um in 2712 West Oki uh my clients's here with me uh and uh and I represent the uh owner of the business that's going that's leasing the property uh and I've spoken with the attorneys for uh downtown project ETP and and with um Cortez and we want to be good neighbors so what we've done is come to you know an agreement with them on the issues that they've presented previously um and the issues that they have in addition we had a meeting with um the uh City councilwoman's staff and the only other person that was missing that was there that's I don't know if they're here is the school dist School District's interest in in in the hours of operation as far as school days and so I want to kind of address that because even if they're not here we we told them in the meeting that we would uh work a certain way with them and I want that on the record as well because we don't want anything hidden we want to be good neighbors um so so and um d gold smith is here as well and she can comment on the agreement that we did come to um and that is that during the week uh during the uh Sunday through Thursday not including holidays that my client on the outside will shut down any music as of midnight um and on the oh I'm sorry 11:00 a.m. I'm sorry 11:00 p.m. 11: p.m. uh let me correct that 11 p.m. and then on the weekends or holidays uh that we will shut down the music outside at 1 a.m. okay um that is something that we've agreed to with them um and with the school district part of it we've agreed with them on school days that the that the club will be open no later than 400 a.m. um because we don't want to mix and their concern really was the traffic of people coming to and from the school and they were okay with that in our meeting uh the other part of this is that if there is any issues with sound coming out of the the building itself we would work with them to control that if there's an issue they're going to give us some notice and and before they file any kind of complaint or try to come up with something so that we can try and fix it in the back of the building there's an area for trash and enclosures we're going to actually extend the building a little bit to create a buffer um out there so that it controls the sound from coming from inside side my clients are spending a lot of money on the sound perfing to try and keep this as quiet as possible on the inside um and uh and so with those comments oh and we agreed that instead of a two-year uh license would' be okay with one year if just as a status check because we're confident that we're going to be uh easy to um comply with all the the things they've run a business for five years in Houston without a without a problem without a complaint we don't expect there to be any here and we want to be good neighbors with these people and and continue on did I miss anything just thank you I just want to make sure that I didn't miss anything I know she's on the opposition but this is a um collab collaboration so that's great okay um we address that if there were I just need you to state your name and my name is Dara d a r a my last name is gold SM G SMI 2055 Village Center Circle Las Vegas Nevada 89134 I'm Council for the uh Tony state of Tony Shay as well as the dtp entities of which um Mr Taylor uh recognized that um in this in this uh Zone we own about 60 properties and operate them the other item that we had addressed with Mr Mack and his client was that if there was an emergency situation that we saw that our agreement to um work with them you know in two weeks to corrective measures that that wouldn't be in place that we would be looking at you know if we needed to call the police because of an emergency obviously we would be doing so um but reaching out we would have our our team our dtp people on the ground reach out with the operator and try to reach resolutions um we've been very collaborative we've had discussions with um with Mr Mack his client as well as Representatives El Cortez um and we think that it's important that the um use permit here be a temporary use permit just in the event there are issues with regard to sound I think it's interesting that while I'm fully cognizant that this is in the feed District that the purpose of the special use permits which is what the application is for here is to ensure that the proposed use is conducted in a manner that's com harmonious and compatible with the uses located on the same or surrounding properties and to that end I think it's important to note that within a 350 ft radius there are 541 guest rooms and we made that point um contacting staff because it really wasn't identified um in the report and the report fails to note that adjacent uses include hotel and motel rooms and while I appreciate the pictures that Mr Taylor presented um let's see me put this see it might go there do you see it or no where am I okay I right here has to go right yeah there um you can you can see by that um that those are the 541 guest rooms that are within a 350t radius of the nightclub and that's really why um part and parcel we feel that the staff report failed to recognize that um it's not mentioned on page two or mentioned on page five of the report talking about adjacent um items also when you're looking at an suup you have a situation where you're looking at, 1500 ft for noticing Provisions that would also include for apartments that are operated by dtp over 300 to 350 to 400 units so in the, 1500 ft parameter um radius you would hit the 211 which has over 315 units um and Mr Joe Woody is here today from the El Cortez and he can address the um multifam development that they're putting just north of the Cabana Suites and while Mr Taylor did set forth show the picture here of the parking garage he failed to point out the um adjacent use of the Cabana Suites which are within um the param the 350 ft radius of the operations and those would be the cavana Suites the parking lot that's just north of the just north of the patio is the uh parking lot for the Downtowner um Boutique mutel which is only 20 ft across the alley across the back so that's why we're concerned we really try to be um collaborative we know that while we operated while dtp operated the place on 7th um as a special event center the L Cortez um had issues sometimes and we would work with the L Cortez to resolve those we've tried to be collaborative and I feel that in our conversations with Mr Mack and his client we've tried to be collaborative and we're on the same page we just really want to make sure that it's successful the new business is successful but not to the detriment of the existing um operations which includes those 541 guest rooms thank you Miss gold smith the only other thing that I'd like to address and I don't know maybe the City attorney can answer this we knew it was being pulled to the city um this item was set to be pulled to City apparently um mainly because of the the um oppositions that we had um but we've kind of settled that whole thing I don't know that necessarily needs to go to City neither of us feel that it's necessary so that would be up to I'm not sure how that's done and I think I could be wrong Madam chairin I it is going to city council I've already been instructed by planning that this is going to city council so um am I correct in that this is going to city council no matter what happens today Madam chair that is what I have in my notes so so since and I'll be quick Madam chair I just because my name was mentioned I just like to say a couple things um I I do not agree to any conditions on the application I want to make that clear so that it's on the record that I don't agree with any conditions on this application I don't think any temporary permit should be put on this I think it should be just like any other business that gets approved here that they get a two-year review um I think that the city uh staff has done a great job there's been mention that the city staff left stuff out of their report let me just say the city staff did their job their report reads the way that the city staff believes the report should read and finally we're standing here because dtp and El Court is trying to dictate how my client runs their business and with that said I'm done thank you Mr Taylor for the record can we get a a Clarity on who's speaking for the client here yeah I'm just going tell you so I was hired first by the client um I represent the property uh the actually The Operators I don't represent the property owners just the operator so the folks that are leasing the space is who I represent I'm sorry I apologize I was hired to to take care of the issue that we've now taken care of so the what we've put on the record as a collaboration between the operator and uh and dtp and El Cortez is the way that the client feels I just very clear about that okay so let me ask aize all right let me ask a question because just um the applicant is to draws Investments LLC who represents sadra's Investments LLC I do okay good evening do you want me Commissioners ma'am please hold for a moment let me just I represent the landlord here my name is Hara Aran North 7th Street and Steven Mack represents the tenant here today who is cedra invest you have a contract with me and Samy signed the contract so don't play games okay hey don't play games my name is my name is b r all right hold on everybody for a moment please just give us a second here because this is an item that's for public hearing and it and it was up Miss Goldsmith you probably should have been part of public hearing and it's just we're going to just everybody step back please from the mics for a minute I'm not you get out of here I'll call the Marshall right now get out of here you need to get out of here right now you threaten me in a city meeting what did I say Marshalls I've been threatened that's on the record I'd ask him to be to be removed this is never happened before in 25 years of me doing this he threatened me and he needs to be removed okay you got my face and threaten me you need to leave all right folks I'm I'm prepared to make a motion on this item um I'm going to make a motion that this be obeyed for 60 days uh there's obviously a fair number of issues that need to be worked out so that is my motion on the floor um to obey um agenda item 27 for 60 days and that would be to the May uh 13th meeting yeah so please folks cast your vote uh Madam chair we're doing a vote before you vote may I speak so if if we have an applicant and I'm just trying to wrap my head around it's because I've never seen this kind of stuff either before if we have an applicant who's willing to concede to conditions when those conditions shouldn't even be imposed on him and the businesses agree with the operator why would we obey it for 60 days if they're willing to adjust to conditions in which they should even have to thank you thank you and I think you stated that you would Sunday through Thursday outside no lat then 11:00 p.m. for noise Friday and Saturday to 1: p.m. Club hours of 4:00 a.m. during schools in session if I understand that correctly and then one year a status check instead of two correct and and and that is the The Operators uh desire to do that's the collaboration that we have with the opposing parties 100% And it's it's 11 it would be 11:00 p.m. on uh weekdays that aren't and then holidays and weekends would be to 1:00 a.m. on the outside and that's all agreed to everything the only other thing that was not mentioned is let's talk decb at that time so noise outside 2:11 or 1: in the morning if that's the case what are we talking are we talking like ambient music to where I could still have a conversation this far away from somebody or are we talking about just you know pounding speaker noise so most of the time it will be just an ambient music that's out there for what for people that are smoking we are going to have corporate events we are going to have different events out there it's it's like a mini dtlv or the the event center right because of the fact that it's kind of unique there's no other property down like it where it has that kind of a stage and open presence so we we might have some live entertainment there but it end at those time frames okay so that's that's the intent of the use it's not going to be used every day and it's not going to be used for their normal business uh so and you're satisfied with the 11:00 and the 1:00 my my clients are very happy with that okay Madam chair that's that that's the only reason I interrupted and and and and obeying this 60 days would probably tank it cuz it's they've got a lot of money already in it need to get open and you still have to go okay before city council correct apparently we were trying to avoid even the collaborat the the the opposers dtb and us were trying to avoid having to go to the city because the whole reason it was going to be pulled a city was because of the opposition but since there is no opposition anymore since we're agreeing to all terms that's why we're trying to just keep it here okay um all right so just one more time let's just walk through this because to me talking about any of your conditions is not ripe because we don't know who's actually speaking on this application right so who is the applicant is sedra who represents SED draw and I don't want comments I just want hand rais okay who represents 7th Street Properties LLC nobody I am no I am sorry who represents own now according to the application the applicant is to draws Investments LLC and the owner is seven Street Properties LLC I want a clear delineation of who is representing who I represent sidas you represent sadras I'm their attorney who represents owner 7 Street property LLC I do who has the authority to speak for the applicant I do I do I have a sign contract but honestly at this point in time sir client is not the applicant is present that is Sidra right good evening I am the owner of sraz Investments what is your name and please my name is Bal Rak okay and yes we did retain Mr Taylor but I as the owner of s sidr investment would like him to be excused and not speak on my behalf anymore okay okay if uh sir if you would like to speak for yourself you may um but you know we need to move this along in an orderly fashion so again my motion was for a 60-day abayance so that you can all sort this out I recognize Mr Mack you're saying that this may tank the deal however this is a very messy application it's a very messy set of facts we haven't even gotten to public hearing yet and you guys have so much infighting going on that we can't actually have a a a cogent conversation about conditions about whether or not there are as Mr Taylor has asserted No Limits you know whether I had questions specifically on the conditions that you guys presented so um we have one other application after one other item after this 28 so what I would like to do is I'm GNA Trail you we're going to hear 28 you guys go figure it out and then come back with your representatives okay thank you and chair through you this is Deputy city clerk Nick Crawford there is a motion on the floor so can our City attorney please advise how to proceed thank you the motion's table until we pull the item back [Applause] okay all right thank you so is that tabled now Sir Mr clerk we've got we've got that table the motion yes we do chair okay fantastic thank you all right let's go to item 28 which is abeyance 24674 dsp1 special use permit public hearing applicant AML LLC owner fa Holdings Rula LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for proposed 2,849 ft alcohol on premise full use at 450 Street suet 135 APN 13934 513- 02 C2 General commercial Zone Ward five Summers Armstrong staff recommends approval may I have the staff report please uh Madam chair the proposed out alcohol land use can be conducted in a manner that is harmoniously compatible with the existing surrounding land uses therefore staff recommends approval the requested special use permits subject to conditions please note there are additional documents of protest received after publication thank you thank you um good evening sir can you please State and spell your name for the record Madam chair Commissioners Nathan Taylor 8414 West Farm Road um this is in the neonopolis this is a additional location of the hush puppy restaurant it's been here for 50 years we would appreciate you follow staff's recommendation for approval I'm here to answer any questions thank you any sorry I'm having a computer issue right now apologize um all right Mr Taylor I'm sorry was there anything else to present on the project no ma'am okay thank you sir uh this item has been noticed for public comment are there any members of the public wishing to speak on agenda item 28 okay seeing none I'm going to close public comment and I'm going to pass it back to the commission starting with commissioner mford I uh I I see no issues or any problems with this I I would motion that that we approve it um if there's any other Commission Commissioners that have any comments Deputy city clerk Nick Crawford for the record that is to approve subject to conditions that's correct subject to conditions we accept all staff's conditions thank you let me check with the rest of the Commissioners anybody else have items on or comments on agenda item 28 okay um seeing none if you would like to officially make your motion commissioner runford I Mo a motion for approval uh that's item number 28 uh 24 or- 0674 dspi special use permit uh per conditions of of primate okay thank you there is a motion on the floor please cast your votes uh commissioner davio yay my screen timed out thank you commissioner Rogan I commissioner Walsh yes thank you great thank you please post and that item carries and Madam chairman chairwoman sorry that item will move forward to City Council on April 16th 2025 thank you thank you um 27 item agenda item 27 you guys have everything sorted out on representation Madam chair I believe they just stepped into the Cove there to get everyone to come back in and then I think we have a a path forward um it has been suggested that perhaps we take a couple minute recess just to get everybody um gathered back in here now that you have everything straightened out so we are on recess for five minutes five minutes five minutes I'll take the five minutes [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh n [Music] oh [Music] n n [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] 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applicant by this by this commission yes I have authority and yes I have um the ability and authority to accept any conditions okay great thanks so what we did not do because we did not have a chance to we did not open this up for public hearing um because we had the nice collaborative discussion going on and so now let's have public hearing is there this was noticed as a public hearing item is there anyone in the public wishing to speak on the item and before you do speak sir as you come down Mr Floyd did I miss anything in terms of the summary no Madam chair that was well done thank you sir okay please State and spell your name for the record Joe Woody J OE w o d y El Cortez and I just want to State for the record that um you know we were we did meet with um the representative of the um tenant over there and we were not intimidating I think our point being that our investment in the elcortez has been significant um when the Entertainment District first opened up we were part of that organization organ organizing group and so we've been there the entire time and um since that time we've invested over $100 million in the El Cortez and including 25 million in the last year um we currently have plans to um remodel the pla or the uh Cabana Suites we're in the process of getting new drawings we got a designer hired and we are also going to be um want to show these residences that we were um currently looking at that are just north of the Cabana Suites and so while we we agree with um the applicant um that uh under these conditions we're acceptable to that we just want to make sure that um they adhere to that and that we have that opportunity to object during this this one-year period And so um we just want to make that super clear and um we're going to put a lot more money into the El Cortez and downtown and and um you know we want good neighbors we think uh these these future tenants are good we like the land owners and um so we just you know want to see the process go through thank you very much Mr Woody anybody else thank you for public hearing and if you have spoken already uh feel free not to repeat prior comments okay I wasn't sure if you were coming to speak Miss Goldsmith okay um so seeing no other comments I will go ahead and close public comment um I have some questions for you Mr Mac let me just confirm with the other Commissioners that they have no comments okay great so Mr Mack um well actually hold on one second there were a couple things that were said that I want to get some clarification from our City attorney on there were representations that because this is the Entertainment District really there are no restrictions that can be placed on the use permit or on the use itself Mr ridilla can you please uh provide us with some clarity on that while while the code doesn't explicitly require the noise um requirements in title uh nine to apply to the Entertainment District they're coming in for a special use permit which we can reasonably condition and there are limitations on the noise such as speakers being faced uh into the building and such so with the fact that they're coming in for an sui I think it's reasonable to put reasonable restrictions on any noise issues in in the Entertainment District okay thank you Mr rill and speaking of speakers being pointed into the building is that a discretionary restriction or is that part of some other code that's actually in the code thank you all right so I have a couple questions Mr Mack um briefly and I think that those will be addressed in a set of conditions um but uh actually you know what let's do it this way um do we have a set of conditions that we can share and uh Madam chair through you yes we do if you could please read those conditions Miss edos Madam chair uh the conditions we have are the night club shall close at 8:00 a.m. with the exception of Clark County School District scheduled school days the nightclub shall close at 4:00 a.m. on weekday non holidays the outdoor patio shall close at 11:00 p.m. on weekends and holidays the outdoor patio shall close at 1:00 a.m. and finally a required review shall be performed 6 months from date of issuance of a business license and at one year from date of issuance from a business license the applicant shall be responsible for the submittal of the required review application and Associated fees okay thank you Miss edos um Mr was I have one last note and I'm sorry about this but there is one last note about the emergency situation and there would be two weeks for corrective measures is that something that should be placed in as a condition or is that something that is just between two private parties just between us I think just between us okay yep all right um so then with that all being said chair Excuse me yes sir uh there there was a additional condition that was contemplated I believe that the patio would have ambient music which would be defined as music that you can sort of have a conversation over right but that would still end at those time periods but that the music on the patio would generally be ambient absent a special event permit for a concert or other activity corre correct okay so then let's go ahead and put that in a condition as well if that's acceptable to the applicant so it would be a condition that said m music music would be ambient um and shut off at the hours agreed to absent a special eventt for live music well yeah concert special events corporate events weddings whatever okay so I think I believe that condition would read uh outdoor areas are limited to ENT music only uh except in the case of a special event per uh permit at no time shall music be loud enough to cover normal conversation are you amendable to that condition Mr do we need a special event uh permit though for to hold events in there we do or is it come under the license Madam chair if that condition is added they would be restricted to ambient music only on the patio and then in order to have anything louder than ambient music they would need a special event permit I wouldn't want that as a restriction I mean I would prefer if we just we I mean that's one of our things that we will do as a you know we will plan on doing we're not planning on playing the music that's inside outside it's only when we're having the events outside that they won't be does that make sense I don't I don't want to have my client have to come in every time that they have a wedding or or a corporate event or even live music and have to get a special permit for that especially since it's already okay under their license the the way we're just G I mean the the the reality is we're just going to keep ambient music out there you know during the period of time the people I mean till 11: p.m. we may even not do that uh director Floyd all right Mr adilla did you have a question uh director Floyd So if they are licensed as a club if they want to have a wedding or a concert they would have to either expand their business license or get a special event permit correct as a club you can you have those type of events I'm not I'm not familiar enough with the license you can right you can so what what I think um might make sense Madam chair is is just to I think that condition is going to be a little tricky to right uh is to not have that condition what we can do is at that six-month or one-year review if there are issues that need to be addressed related to events or noise we can address it through a condition at that time thank you that sounds that sounds good appreciate that thank you okay so anybody have any other conditions or issues if not I am going to make a motion uh in line with staff's recommendation to approve aband 24- 0672 su1 applicant oh no I'm not because I no I did do public hearing I closed it and everything okay it's late it is late and this was supposed to be a short agenda all right item number we apologize and by the way we you don't need apologize Mr Mac agenda item 27 OB bance 24- 0672 S1 applicants s draz Investments LLC owner 7th Street Properties LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed 12,700 foot alcohol on premise full use with a 7,650 ft outdoor patio at 115 North 7th Street um move to approve that item oh subject to a six-month review and subject to all conditions and you agree to all conditions into the six month and the one-year review okay that is the motion on the floor please cast your votes um commissioner Walsh oh no you did commissioner dovio okay fantastic all right please post and that motion passes thank you all for your patience and your work on this and and sorry madam chair that is final action tonight fin thank you very much unless appeal the city clerk in 10 days see you in six months is thank you thank you okay and that closes out all of our public hearing items and the last item that we have is Citizens participation public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission no subject may be acted upon by the Planning Commission unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for Action if you wish to be heard come to the podium and give your name for the record so I'm going to open p I'm going to open public discussion now seeing none I'm going to close public discussion and with that we are adjourned was the last time the last [Applause] [Music] time let [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] any [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] lonely is a gateway makes it easy to slide up on that sto and sip on the hard St take the edge off of losing you all the first don't work in second on either I can still