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Board splits on Las Vegas Boulevard hotel: vacation approved, height waiver denied, tentative map approved
Summary
The board approved a right‑of‑way vacation and tentative map for a two‑phase hotel development on Las Vegas Boulevard but denied a waiver that would allow increased building height and some nonstandard right‑of‑way improvements, citing concerns about future Boulevard build‑out and screening.
The Enterprise Town Advisory Board on April 30 approved a request to vacate portions of Wigwam Avenue and related easements and approved a tentative map for a two‑phase, dual‑hotel project on Las Vegas Boulevard, but denied key waivers including the request to increase building height to 77 feet.
Marissa Furman, representing the applicant, described a roughly 4.7‑acre site planned for two five‑story hotels (a Courtyard by Marriott and an AC Hotel) delivered in two phases. Phase 1 would include a five‑story, 146‑room building with surface parking; phase 2 would add a second five‑story, 153‑room hotel and a four‑story parking garage to serve both properties. Furman told the board that phase 1 provides 101 parking spaces where 119 are nominally required, and that a parking‑demand study was submitted to justify the reduced count.
Planning staff recommended approval of the vacations (VS250236) and the tentative map (TM25500059) but recommended denial of waiver requests 1 and 2 (WS250237) related to increased building height and elimination of street landscaping in a strip that the applicant says lies in a potential future Las Vegas Boulevard right‑of‑way. The applicant asserted the wide landscape strip would be located in a future right‑of‑way and therefore should not be counted against required landscaping; staff noted that if the right‑of‑way were ultimately built to 200 feet the landscaping would be within public right‑of‑way and not part of on‑site landscaping totals.
Board members expressed concern about relying on a possible future Boulevard expansion and the effect of removing on‑site landscaping and screening along Las Vegas Boulevard and Giles Avenue. Several board members said the 77‑foot proposed height was substantially greater than nearby development and worried about visual impacts on adjacent residential areas to the east. One board member noted that if the 40‑ to 45‑foot planting area along Las Vegas Boulevard is later converted to public right‑of‑way, the hotel would be directly up against a block wall.
After discussion the board voted to approve the vacation application (VS250236) and the tentative map (TM25500059) per staff conditions, and to deny the waiver package WS250237 (increase height and eliminate certain street landscaping). The applicant indicated willingness to consider providing the standard 5/5/5 detached sidewalk/tree landscaping along the block wall as an alternative, but no revised signed plan was before the board at the time of the vote.
