The council debated amending the comprehensive plan to adopt a density credit system that incentivizes developers to build larger, multi-bedroom units instead of studios. However, staff warned that within the tight capacity of the unincorporated Urban Growth Area (UGA), counting larger apartments as multiple units could artificially inflate density metrics and ultimately reduce the actual number of homes produced. Consequently, the council voted to have staff study the density credit's potential impacts for six months before shifting their focus to a new motion restricting cluster developments on agricultural and forest lands.
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Clark County Council · Oct 05, 2026 · 19:40–20:13 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: density UGA comprehensive plan
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18:33 i'll just go ahead and do this and i've distributed this to the council uh by email and i'll just go ahead and do this and i'll just go ahead and do this and i'll just go ahead and distribute it on the dyest here so you have that fresh so i would like to move to prohibit cluster development on forest agriculture and agriculture wildlife districts which are fr80 fr40 ag20 agwl which is 40.210.010 to remove this section that allows for cluster development
19:24 on these resource lands that's my motion is there a second second point this moved and seconded uh so we discussed this oh i think maybe it was a week and a half ago related to cluster development and i have raised some questions about this this was uh allowed with the adoption of the 2016 comprehensive plan update prior to that cluster development was prohibited and just as a reminder cluster development really targets the larger acres of uh resource lands and allows for the development of one acre parcels as long as that there's an 85 percent remainder and the directive is that it stay in agriculture forest or open
20:23 space and just uh as i've observed this application in my uh in one of the projects that i've done and i've done in my community we haven't had and i have asked for more comprehensive analysis of how this has impacted the county uh county-wide is that the um the remainder parcel well one of the requirements is that it uh these developments be on uh poor soils so that has not been the case development has occurred on prime ag soils that the remainder parcels in in all of the cases that i've seen are fields of weeds there's a requirement that it continue as
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direct keyword 19:40–20:13 density, UGA, comprehensive plan
is there a second second point this moved and seconded uh so we discussed this oh i think maybe it was a week and a half ago related to cluster development and i have raised some questions about this this was uh allowed with the adoption of the 2016 comprehensive plan update prior to that cluster development was prohibited and just as a reminder cluster development really targets the larger acres of uh resource lands and allows for the development of one acre parcels as long as that there's an 8