Las Vegas City Council will met on Wednesday, Aug. 3. Below are some agenda items that may be of interest. View the agenda and watch a recap..
Agenda Item 9 – Sewer Services Increase: City Council approved a business impact statement regarding a proposed ordinance to update LVMC 14.04.030 and 14.04.210 to implement increases in sewer service charges and sewer connection fees, including subsequent four percent annual fee increases and annual Consumer Price Index increases through calendar year 2032. A bill to implement these increases will be eligible for adoption at a later City Council meeting.
Agenda Item 11 – Cashman Center: City Council voted to enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement with Tru Development, LLC for Cashman Center, located at 850 Las Vegas Blvd., North. This exclusive negotiation agreement will provide an opportunity to study the feasibility of developing a mixed-use medical campus at Cashman Center supported by the Las Vegas Children’s Hospital Foundation. The agreement term is for one, six-month term with one six-month extension period if mutually agreed.
Agenda Item 16 – James Gay Park Vertical Urban Farm: City Council approved a Memorandum of Understanding with Vertical Harvest, Inc. to allow them the ability to conduct a feasibility analysis to develop a 70,000 square foot vertical farm with the potential for auxiliary affordable housing and parking on approximately two acres on the north end of James Gay Park in the Historic Westside.
Agenda Item 25 – Civic Center Building and Plaza : City Council approved a Resolution to seek approval from the Clark County Debt Management Commission to issue general obligation bonds not to exceed $70,000,000, which will be used to construct a new Civic Center Building and Plaza. The bonds will be repaid from revenues legally available to the city.
Agenda Item 26 – James Down Towers: City Council approved a Resolution directing the State Department of Business and Industry to transfer $17,473,558 in 2022 State Private Activity Bond Volume Cap to Affordable Housing Programs, Inc. for the rehabilitation of 200 units of affordable senior housing at James Down Towers, 5000 Alta Drive. The city has been allocated $36,404,348.35 to finance affordable rental housing projects in the city to be approved by City Council on or before Sept. 1, 2022. This development will accommodate seniors earning 31-50% of the area median income.
Agenda Item 28 – Badlands Settlement: This item for the possible action regarding settlement in four active cases involving the former Badlands Golf Course was stricken.
Agenda Item 29 – Bill Draft Requests for the 82nd Session of the Nevada Legislature: This item regarding legislative matters to bring to the 2023 legislative session was moved to the Aug. 17 City Council meeting.
Agenda Item 30 (related to RDA Item 4) – Las Vegas Enterprise Park Library: City Council approved an agreement with the Las Vegas Clark County Library District for the purchase of the West Las Vegas Library improvements located at 955 W. Lake Mead Blvd. and the development of a new library branch in Las Vegas Enterprise Park. The parties will terminate the ground lease and the city will purchase the existing leasehold improvements from the district for the existing library for $3,220,000 plus closing costs and contribute approximately 5.25 acres of vacant land located in Las Vegas Enterprise Park for the purposes of the development of a new branch.
Agenda Item 33 – Fremont Street Experience Curfew: This item regarding a curfew applicable to persons under the age of twenty-one and pertaining to the area bounded by Ogden Avenue on the north, 8th Street on the east, Carson Avenue on the south, and Main Street on the west, was stricken. We will continue to evaluate and review the positive impacts that the added security has already had at Fremont Street Experience.
Agenda Item 34 – Bill No. 2022-16: This bill will amend various sections of LVMC Chapter 6.75, pertaining to short-term residential rentals, to conform to and incorporate various recently-adopted provisions of State law. It will also amend other provisions of LVMC Titles 4, 6 and 19 to make corresponding changes. The amendment includes provisions that address state-law limitations on location and operation of such rentals, as well as provisions governing the licensing and regulation of accommodations facilitators in accordance with state law. This is a new bill. There was no public comment on this item and no action was taken by the Council at this meeting.