Local officials and city representatives reviewed preferred land use alternatives for Clark County's 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan update, focusing on meeting state mandates for middle housing, job growth, and housing affordability. The discussion centered on adjusting Urban Growth Area (UGA) boundaries, increasing residential density, and utilizing upzoning strategies to accommodate over 100,000 new housing units. Participants also debated how to balance these urban expansion and development targets with the preservation of agricultural land through potential Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) programs.
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Clark County Council · Apr 27, 2026 · 21:12–21:30 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: capital facilities PUD UGA concurrency comprehensive plan subdivision zoning rezoning affordable housing annexation Density density infrastructure
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20:12 So let's go to the next slide. So these are the decision, some of these decision are already my opening remark. But we started this process with, because it's required in the law that we have a public participation plan, which the council approved by resolution. And we have followed that public participation plan, providing opportunity for the public to continue to comment on the process before the final decision is made. I talked about the population where the council chose 7, 18, 154. I'm glad I didn't miss that up. And then the employment, even though it says at 269, that is the total job expected by 2045.
21:07 The number we are planning for is 88,100. I talked about the housing and employment allocation by UGA. The council have seen that. If you recall, you had several meetings. And like I said earlier, I commend all our city partners. They made an adjustment, if you recall, for cameras. And then we went into the scoping and then the selection of alternative to be studied in the DEIS. As part of that, I give credit to our city partners. But because the cities did include land designated as agriculture,
22:04 that led to multiple hearings and workshops. And the council then agreed, because there have been changes made to the GMA, that you are no longer required to do ag on a parcel-by-parcel basis, or even by area-wide, that it has to be county-wide. And the council agreed to commence an ag study,
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direct keyword 21:12–21:30 capital facilities, PUD, UGA, concurrency, comprehensive plan, subdivision, zoning, rezoning, affordable housing, annexation, Density, density, infrastructure
council chose 7, 18, 154. I'm glad I didn't miss that up. And then the employment, even though it says at 269, that is the total job expected by 2045. The number we are planning for is 88,100. I talked about the housing and employment allocation by UGA. The council have seen that. If you recall, you had several meetings. And like I said earlier, I commend all our city partners. They made an adjustment, if you recall, for cameras. And then we went into the scoping and then the selection of alter