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Clark County Council · Apr 27, 2026 · 2:59:06–3:01:44 · Watch on CVTV ↗

Residents and officials debated updates to the county's Comprehensive Plan, specifically weighing Alternative One, which maintains existing Urban Growth Areas (UGAs) to protect agricultural land, against Alternative Two, which expands UGAs to accommodate new subdivisions, light industrial development, and affordable housing. Public commenters raised concerns about the high infrastructure costs of urban sprawl, inadequate water supplies, and the county's failure to meet road concurrency standards for increased density in the 179th corridor. In response to these infrastructure deficits, planning staff proposed reducing excess housing capacity by maintaining current zoning rather than upzoning specific areas.

Keywords: capital facilities PUD UGA concurrency comprehensive plan subdivision zoning rezoning affordable housing annexation Density density infrastructure

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2:58:04 And so the jurisdictions that are proposing growth boundary expansions, battleground moving to the west, Camas for the airport at the minimum, and then they have a second, the Nevin property, La Center and Ridgefield have both expressed interest in expanding their UGAs. All the other jurisdictions have not, except for Yakult also expressed concern or expansion request. The planning commission recommended not pursuing that and also recommended not pursuing what the county had proposed for employment. - But all of those are alternatives too.

2:59:02 So alternative one is no change. That means we're not up zoning, we're not increasing density, and we're also not making the changes that are required to comply with state law. - That's correct. Okay, I did want to, I wanted to understand, I think it's important to have a public conversation about this. From my understanding of a conversation that I had with you guys today, your recommendation for up zoning in the area around 179th has changed. Am I correct in that? - That's correct, that's what we're proposing to reduce the capacity, the excess capacity from that 43,000 to the 32,000 would include making changes to the area at 179th

3:00:01 to essentially keep it as is except for the areas that are currently zoned urban medium. So if it's R-12, the proposals will still stay to go to R-24. But anything that was R-20 or R-16 or R-175, it was mostly proposed to go to R-24. And that is not part of that reduction. - Okay, and then do you know just, you may not have this off the top of your head, but how many housing units did that amount to reducing?

3:00:39 - It's a little over 10,000, not just, are you just talking generally or just in that location? - In that location. - I don't know specifically, I can get that. - Yeah, if you could get that too. - I'd be interested in that as well. - Actually, those are my questions. That's it, thank you. - Chair. - Okay, yes, go ahead. - Thank you. Just a couple of questions as well. You mentioned that alternative one doesn't require increased density, correct? - As presented now. - Right. - So alternative one is a no action alternative. So you can't, it doesn't include any proposed density the way of zoning, the way it's presented now.

3:01:37 Doesn't mean that you can have an alternative that couldn't do that. - But it doesn't discourage it either, right? There's no wording about discouraging and, okay, got it. Now my question is, what percentage of projected growth can be accommodated with the existing UGAs? - So essentially that 99,000 out of 103,000. - Okay, and I'm curious, 'cause we all know that urban sprawl requires a lot of infrastructure, and I don't know if you can answer this question, but when infrastructure funding gaps exist under the expansion alternatives, so that if we were to select alternative two, requires a ton of infrastructures, roads, sewage, sewer systems, et cetera. So do we have an idea of what the funding gap may be if that was the preferred alternative? - So that's part of the next stage in this process.

3:02:37 Once we hit a preferred alternative, we're gonna do a capital facilities analysis to determine exactly what the cost is


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direct keyword 2:59:06–2:59:14 capital facilities, PUD, UGA, concurrency, comprehensive plan, subdivision, zoning, rezoning, affordable housing, annexation, Density, density, infrastructure
expansion request. The planning commission recommended not pursuing that and also recommended not pursuing what the county had proposed for employment. - But all of those are alternatives too. So alternative one is no change. That means we're not up zoning, we're not increasing density, and we're also not making the changes that are required to comply with state law. - That's correct. Okay, I did want to, I wanted to understand, I think it's important to have a public conversation about this. Fr

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direct keyword 3:01:34–3:01:44 capital facilities, PUD, UGA, concurrency, comprehensive plan, subdivision, zoning, rezoning, affordable housing, annexation, Density, density, infrastructure
ouple of questions as well. You mentioned that alternative one doesn't require increased density, correct? - As presented now. - Right. - So alternative one is a no action alternative. So you can't, it doesn't include any proposed density the way of zoning, the way it's presented now. Doesn't mean that you can have an alternative that couldn't do that. - But it doesn't discourage it either, right? There's no wording about discouraging and, okay, got it. Now my question is, what percentage of pro

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