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TAB denies plan amendment and zone change for Gillespie Street site, approves limited easement vacation but rejects proposed eight-lot subdivision
Summary
The Enterprise Town Advisory Board rejected a developer's plan amendment and zone change to allow an eight-lot residential subdivision on a roughly 2.14-acre parcel on Gillespie Street, but approved a separate request to vacate certain easements; the tentative map to create eight lots was denied.
The Enterprise Town Advisory Board on May 14 denied a developer's plan amendment and zone-change applications that would have redesignated and rezoned a 2.14-acre site on the west side of Gillespie Street north of Wells Springs Avenue to allow an eight-lot single-family residential development. The board approved a related request to vacate some existing easements but voted to deny the tentative map for the eight-lot subdivision.
Applicant Robert Cunningham of Tammy Engineering told the board the project area sits south of Zorado Ranch Park and is constrained by an overhead power-pole easement that reduces usable acreage. Cunningham described a proposed hammerhead cul-de-sac off Gillespie, eight lots (three roughly 10,000-square-foot lots and four lots about 5,500 square feet), two large adjacent lots to the west and two-story homes planned at about 3,000 square feet. He said the developer had reduced an earlier concept with 10'12 homes down to eight during outreach. Cunningham also said the project would use Las Vegas Valley Water District water and Clark County Water Reclamation District sewer lines; he estimated market prices for the homes starting around $900,000 and up.
Neighbors and nearby residents spoke at the hearing. Cammy Grolfiata, who lives at 10045 Gillespie Street immediately south of the site, told the board the site's usable area is smaller than advertised and urged a lower density than eight lots. David Durango asked whether the subdivision would be gated and what the lot/home sizes and services would be; Cunningham confirmed the street would be private but not gated, that homes are approximately 3,000 square feet and will connect to public water and sewer.
Planning staff and several board members expressed concerns that the proposed density did not fit the adjacent neighborhood, that the site's effective buildable area is reduced by the power easement and that approving a higher-density land-use change could set a precedent for greater density on nearby parcels. The board voted to deny the plan amendment (PA23700051) and zone change (ZC230879); it approved the vacation/abandonment of patent easements (item 8) per staff conditions and denied the tentative map (TM25500070) for the eight-lot subdivision.
