At a Clark County Planning Commission briefing, planning staff recommended approval of a multipart land-use application proposing an office-warehouse development on Post Road and Mohawk Street, while the Spring Valley Town Board recommended denial and multiple members of the public submitted protest materials.

The package includes a plan amendment (PA25700021) to change the land-use designation from “Rancho State neighborhood” to “business employment,” a zone change (ZC250262) from RS-20 (single-family residential) to IP (Industrial Park) and removal of the neighborhood protection RMP overlay, a vacation of easements along a portion of Post Road, and a site-specific waiver/design application for an office-warehouse development (WS250263). Planning staff said they recommended approval of the plan amendment and the other companion items; the Spring Valley Town Board recommended denial on the same items. Planning staff reported 6 protest cards and one protest letter against the plan amendment, 7 protest cards for the zone change, and additional protest materials for the easement vacation and the warehouse proposal.

Why it matters: The applications would change a corridor currently designated for lower-density residential uses to business/employment and industrial park zoning, which would permit office-warehouse development where single-family dwellings and neighborhood protections now apply. Several neighbors and the town board signaled opposition through formal protest cards and a town-board recommendation of denial.

Planning staff read the counts into the record: “We have received 6 cards and 1 letter in protest for the plan amendment,” and described companion tallies for the zone change, easement vacation and the proposed office-warehouse project. Staff also reported a Public Works change sheet agreed with the applicant that adds a condition requiring either execution of a private access and maintenance agreement with adjacent property owners along Post Road or provision of paved legal access on Mohawk Street from Patrick Lane to the applicant’s parcels (the applicant’s filing affects four assessor parcels). Staff told the commission the applicant was aware of and working on the access condition.

Discussion at the briefing was procedural: no formal vote was taken by the planning commission during the briefing. Commissioners confirmed the applicant had been notified that the Public Works condition would be read into the record at the consent portion of the hearing. The transcript records the planning staff characterizing the items as “companion items” and noting the split recommendation (staff approval, town board denial) and the number of protest cards for each application.

Next steps: These items remain on the commission’s agenda as companion items and will be heard at the public hearing. The record will include the Public Works condition described by staff requiring either private access agreements or construction of paved legal access on Mohawk Street from Patrick Lane to serve the four parcels.

Less-critical details: The planning staff repeatedly stressed the items are companion pieces (plan amendment, zone change, easement vacation and development application) and that public comment and the town-board recommendation are in the file. The commission’s chair, Madam Chair Kolarski, and Commissioner Reutman participated in the briefing; planning staff read the staff recommendations and protest card counts into the record.