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Moratorium altered again
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suggested that they work together more often to reach the
desired goal.
"If we are going to appoint you, then we're going to listen
to you," Carver said. "I will tell you though that there is little
appetite among the commissioners to change this moratorium
again. January 17 is still right around the corner."
Debra Strickland of Strickland Construction said that she
felt it wouldn't be fair to those involved with the parcel map
process to uphold the moratorium as it stood. She said that
developers had investments and that they were betting on the
January 17 date to handle their business.
Planning Director Ron Williams had little to say to the
commissioners in regard to the moratorium. He was still
adamant about the December 1 date remaining. Williams had
been the chief player in the move for the moratorium, citing
health and safety issues associated with the PR.PC's creation
of a Draft Master Plan as reason for needing to direct all
available time away from parcel applications.
"No one is saying that Williams isn't overworked," said
Ron Murphy, a local contractor and developer. "What the
Commissioners need to understand though is that we have
interests and money tied up in this and the moratorium would
hurt us all."
Murphy and Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Chair
Lisa Mendel have been the unofficial leaders against the
moratorium.
Copass agreed with the pleas to change the date. He made
a motion to hold the moratorium until the January 17 date,
giving parcel map applicants a little more time to prepare.
Commissioner Bob Davis seconded. The amendment passed
3-1, with Commissioner Cameron McRae as the lone hold-
out.
As it currently stands, the moratorium will not take effect
until the January 17 date. When the moratorium does take
effect, large parcel maps, subdivisions and commercial and
industrial maps will be exempt. Williams request for a com-
plete moratorium ended up only halting small parcel maps
and subsequent parceling.
"Right now everyone is thrilled and I think it was a win-
win situation for everyone," Mendel said. "The biggest thing
achieved was that the County Commissioners learned to
listen to the people and take the proper steps."
PRPC concentrates on work ahead,
parceling matters on their minds
by Andy Holtmann
PVG Staff
Nye County Planning Director Ron Williams and the
Pahrump Regional Planning Commission (PRPC) have
stepped up efforts to complete their Draft Master Plan asso-
ciated with planning concerns for Pahrump.
While Williams admits the work will not be completed
before the moratorium on parcel maps goes into effect, he said
that the PRPC is working
harder than ever to address
concerns such as water sup-
plies, dust, septic and wells,
roads, building inspection
and parcel map requirements.
In the first of four scheduled
workshops held at the Bob
Ruud Community Center on
Saturday, November 16,
some of these issues were
reviewed.
"We're trying to make our
own working document," •
Williams said. "To do this
right takes serious time and effort."
Williams said that, on average, it takes 20 hours of staff
time to handle a single parcel map. Much of that time would
be better spent working on the Draft Master Plan, he said.
The issue of subsequent parcel maps arose in the discus-
sion. Subsequent parceling occurs when a parcel map is
recorded on a property and a second parcel map is recorded
over it. Williams felt that many developers were using this
method to create subdivisions
while avoiding the subdivi-
sion restrictions.
"Any more than four par-
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a subdivision," he said. "TII
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any day of the week."
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"It takes 20 hours of
staff time to handle
a single parcel map"
is nothing wrong with this and that Nevada Revised Statutes
on parceling vouch for this. Williams acknowledged that the
actis not necessarily illegal, rather that it is used as a method
of skirfng the rules that the PRt try to enforce.
"We all know it is not illegal," Williams said. "However,
if you (PRPC) and the County Commissioners choose to
reverse it and place the
• maps under subdivision
laws, you have that option.
The maps do hold water
until you decide that it is a
subdivision."
Williams said that he
would like to see is to have
subdividing by parcel maps
stopped altogether. The
PRPC would then have the
power and authority to deny
maps if they felt that subdi-
viding was occurring. Wa-
ter rights are needed to sub-
divide property. Williams felt that in five to 10 years they
would be extremely hard to find due to the tremendous
growth.
PRPC Chairman Ben DePue said that if the commission
were to allow subsequent parceling at all, that it should never
be allowed to go below one and a quarter acres.
"Most people moved out here for clean air, space, and a
rural feel," Commission member Charlotte LeVar said. "They
didn't move out here to be jammed. You can't have it both
ways. It's time to take our stand."
Town Manager Mike Cosgrove agreed with the one and a
quarter acre idea, stating that anything smaller would add too
many septic tanks to compact areas. This increases the chance
of contamination problems that threaten the water supply.
Williams said he wasn't going to fold on the morato-
rium. Commissioners LeVar and Carol Lindberg agreed
and said they'shouidn't have voted for the resolution
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calling for the removal of
subdivisions and large par-
cels from the moratorium
that was approved at the
November 5 County
Commissioner's meeting.
"The resolution has no
teeth in it whereas the mora-
torium would," LeVar said.
"The moratorium would be
an asset rather than a hin-
drance to about 90 percent
of the town's population."
Williams said he hoped
that the moratorium and the
PRPC's work on the Draft
Master Plan would change
the way that business is con-
ducted in the Pahrump Val-
ley. Meanwhile, the PRI
remains optimistic that their
major work can be com-
pleted sooner than expected.
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