The hearing reviewed an application for the Morgan Creek cluster subdivision, which proposes dividing a 27.5-acre parcel zoned R5 into five smaller cluster lots and one large buildable remainder lot. The project design adheres to rural cluster density standards while implementing specific building envelopes and setbacks to protect the adjacent Morgan Creek wetland and riparian habitats. Because the six-lot plat generates minimal peak-hour trips, it did not trigger a traffic concurrency study, and county staff have recommended approval subject to environmental and forestry conditions.
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Clark County Land Use Hearings · May 14, 2026 · 41:22–42:39 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: plat concurrency subdivision zoning density Subdivision
What was said
40:19 and 4450. Let's see. The riparian zone on the old code 4440. The riparian zone can be reduced up to 50%. If there's a 200 foot riparian zone, they could reduce it down to 100 feet, as long as they average the buffer elsewhere on the parcel equivalent habitat functions. And that that applies to wetlands as well and the 44.
41:16 Is there anything else I should catch on before we move on. I think that that kind of addresses it I mean, I hear this a lot in in subdivision development proposals that are kind of far from the urban core. They always seem to have streams wetlands habitat wildlife habitat. And so I get a lot of comments, and just for for you know the public's information that the county has adopted over the years, very detailed elaborate wetland protection ordinances habitat protection ordinances shorelines regulations.
41:59 This is required by state law and has very exacting and quantified requirements that are extremely sort of tricky to administer, but these plans that are submitted with a development proposal in this case the habitat and mitigation plan and think the amended best version is this exhibit 62 correct yeah yeah is deals with those requirements and so it's not just Fisher there in on this development site, and therefore development has to be prohibited.
42:39 That's not how this works. Those habitat areas have to be protected. And that means generally a buffer, and then the setbacks from buffers and from streams and those habitats, and it's so it's a mapping, and a quantification and measurement and exercise. And that's what makes these projects so I know so complicated to design and evaluate, but that's that has happened I see this as a very old application started it was first submitted in 2024 so it's been sitting on the shelf for quite a while. Correct. Yes, we, you know, I've been working with the applicant quite a while, getting this this mitigation plan approved, so it's, it has been going on quite a while.
43:30 Okay. Yeah. All right, thank you. I think with that we're ready to go and hear the applicants primary presentation.
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direct keyword 41:22–42:39 plat, concurrency, subdivision, zoning, density, Subdivision
the buffer elsewhere on the parcel equivalent habitat functions. And that that applies to wetlands as well and the 44. Is there anything else I should catch on before we move on. I think that that kind of addresses it I mean, I hear this a lot in in subdivision development proposals that are kind of far from the urban core. They always seem to have streams wetlands habitat wildlife habitat. And so I get a lot of comments, and just for for you know the public's information that the county has ado