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How county decisions work
Reading an opinion posted by Mr. LaFleur in the April 27 Nevada Appeal has prompted me to provide a little history regarding citizens’ protests over land development.
Make no mistake the familiar words “The Master Plan of the existing zoning regulations ...” depict a permanent plan which is really a temporary plan subject to any changes requested by developers. Homeowners cannot compete with developers for some unexplained reason. County officials must vote in favor of dollars and expansion of the voting class to increase the power of the politicians and income of the businesses; that is their job; not the good feelings of the homeowners.
I lived in Las Vegas for 28 years starting in the mid 1960s and attended many Clark County meetings where homeowners protested the development of subdivisions on or around their horse properties. Hundreds of homeowners showed up to protest. Guess what? Surprise, surprise, they (we) lost! Ranches were now surrounded by subdivisions! Las Vegas is now a quagmire of developments with tons of traffic and wall to wall people ... running out of water, etc.
The state’s/county’s solution is to widen I-15 again and build more hotels to suck up more water. Well, it worked down there, so let’s do it up here! Right?
Bob Hellen Sr.
Carson City
