Developers, city agree plan changes need limits

City of Las Vegas officials, local homeowners and area developers for once are in agreement on an issue -- regulating the frequency in which the general plan can be amended.

But, not surprisingly, the three entities are in disagreement over how that is to be done.

A Las Vegas City Council recommending committee on Monday discussed a proposal by the city's staff to limit such request for changes to twice a year.

Representatives of several homeowners groups said they would be willing to compromise to quarterly hearings on general plan amendments which are heard by the city's Planning Commission.

The Southern Nevada Home Builders Association recommended, however, that the so-called "GPAs" should come before the commission once a month.

The committee of Councilmen Larry Brown and Michael McDonald decided to hold the matter in abeyance until the Sept. 21 recommending committee meeting to give all parties a chance to sit down together within the next month and hammer out an agreement that everyone can live with.

The city staff says that by limiting the meetings to twice a year it would not only prevent such changes coming before the board almost every two weeks, but also would give the staff the time necessary to research and review each request with the applicants and neighbors to assess the impact on neighborhoods.

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