Residents raise privacy and safety concerns as North Las Vegas council approves Lone Mountain rezoning

The North Las Vegas City Council voted Dec. 17 to approve AMP 10-20-25 and adopt Ordinance No. 3263 (ZN 10-20-25), reclassifying a parcel on East Lone Mountain Road from neighborhood commercial (C-1) to single-family low-density (R-1).

Residents who live immediately south of the site told the council they opposed the change. “I lived in North Las Vegas for over 20 years,” said Linda Merkel of 609 Agate Ridge Drive, who told council members she has experienced foundation cracking in the area and warned the site’s clay soils could cause similar problems for future homeowners. She also described dangerous turning maneuvers near the nearby 7-Eleven, saying drivers often use the wrong side of the street to enter the store.

Justin Carroll, whose home backs onto the proposed development, said the planned multistory buildings would create “an unavoidable loss of privacy for my family,” noting windows that would look directly into his backyard and asking the council to deny rezoning.

The applicant, Jennifer Verlazovich, representing Beazer Homes Holdings LLC, said the project is a down-zoning from C-1 to R-1 and that the proposal shows single-story, for-sale homes rather than multifamily buildings. Verlazovich told council members a neighborhood meeting had been held and that attendees were generally supportive; she also said the builder has submitted a soils report and that developers are accustomed to mitigating soil conditions in Southern Nevada. “It is not for multifamily. We are showing single-family residential lot, and all of our homes … are single story homes,” she said.

Council members asked staff and the applicant about traffic and geotechnical mitigations. Planning staff said a traffic study would be required and that street improvements would be coordinated with public works; the applicant provided estimated lot- and home-size ranges (minimum lot size roughly 6,100 sq. ft., average about 6,300 sq. ft.; typical home sizes cited around 1,800–2,300 sq. ft.) and said starting prices were expected to be in the $525,000 to $599,000 range.

Councilwoman (S7) moved to approve the master-plan amendment and the council later moved to pass and adopt ZN 10-20-25 as Ordinance No. 3263; the presiding official declared the motions passed (voice votes; tallies were not specified in the transcript).

Next steps: staff will coordinate required traffic studies and final development submittals, and the planning and public-works processes will establish any required mitigation and improvement timelines.