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Las Vegas Planning Commission Sides With Residents Of Historic Neighborhoods

March 14th, 2008 Categories: 6th & Sahara Hi-Rise, Beverly Green, Southridge

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The planning commission turned down the 47 Story hi rise development at 6^th and Sahara. About 40 neighbors from the Southridge, Beverly Green, Huntridge, and John S. Park Neighborhood Associations came to the hearing and spoke their opposition.

Of course, being turned down by planning gives the developer the right to plead their case to the City Council on April 13. So we’ll be calling once again for bodies and voices to attend the City Council meeting.

Steve Evans, the commissioner for ward 3 really read the riot act to the developers. His most important point is that they did everything backwards, by presenting a plan to the neighbors FIRST and asking us to just accept their grand design, instead of meeting with the neighborhoods that would be affected to find out what would be acceptable, and then designing based on having our support.

The city and especially Mayor Goodman and Councilman Gary Reese have been tellings me publicly and privately that viable, energetic, and continually improving historic neighborhoods are a top priority.

We applaud the commission for drawing a line in the sand between the single family neighborhoods and the developers who want to build with no concern for the impact on the neighborhoods.

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Planning Commission Hearing POSTPONED

January 10th, 2008 Categories: Beverly Green, Southridge

Tonight’s hearing in front of the planning commission about the 47 story Hi Rise for 6^th and Sahara has been postponed at the applicant’s request. The new date is Feb. 14^th.

We’ll keep you posted.

Greg Brown posted a comment on the previous post, but it’s worth repeating it here.

“I just got a call from the Planning department that it was abeyed at the applicant’s request. It is rescheduled for February 14th, though who knows if it will be heard that night.

 

Presumably they will hold another “neighborhood” meeting though the developer has told me he has no interest in holding an open meeting (which would only produce “complaints”), no interest in conforming to the Neighborhood Plan, and no interest in conforming to existing adjancy standards.

 

Clearly, they are trying to make an end-run around us.”

 

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This Is How Neighborhood Associations Help

January 10th, 2008 Categories: Beverly Green, Southridge

All of the really good, and potentially great Neighborhoods Associations came about because of proposed development or political controversy that impacted the adjacent homes.

I started the Southridge Neighborhood Association in 2001 in response to the Stratosphere’s Scorpian Tail Roller Coaster Ride. Later, we split it into two groups and the Beverly Green Association became a separate group.

John S. Park got organized because of the “Titanic” hotel project which had been proposed for where the Aruba and Holiday Inn sit on LVBS. The Huntridge East and West Associations have rekindled themselves over the issue of the closure of Circle Park.

Every home in the county or the city is eligible to be part of a neighborhood association. The City and County both have people in their planning departments to help get them going, or to help make them better.

If you don’t have one, then you can start one.  Energized citizens, who organize can create change as well as preserve what we have. I encourage you to get involved, and to come to the Planning Commission Meeting Tonight.

 

I’m cutting and pasting some of the comments about the 6^th and Sahara Hi Rise project that have been flying thru the tubes in email messages from many of the leaders of the Southridge and Beverly Green Neighborhood Associations.

I’m offering  the comments section for this post to all the people on the list that have been email each other to use it as a forum until we get a myspace or yahoogroups or whatever started to deal with the 6^th and Sahara project.

If you want to read some of the comments, or add your own, just click on the “read the rest of the post” link below.

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Las Vegas Planning Commission To Hold Hearing On Proposed HiRise At 6th and Sahara

January 8th, 2008 Categories: 6th & Sahara Hi-Rise, Las Vegas Real Estate News, Southridge

Greg Brown, who’s spearheading the neighborhood response is asking for help. We need as many people as possible to show up for the planning commission meeting on Thursday 1/10. The item will be #31 on the agenda, so it will be heard fairly early in the evening, maybe even as early as 6:30pm

Our Previous Posts On the Subject are Here and Here

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47 Story Tower At 6th And Sahara To Be Presented To Planning Commission

January 7th, 2008 Categories: 6th & Sahara Hi-Rise, Beverly Green, Las Vegas Real Estate News, Southridge

Greg Brown, from the Beverly Green Neighborhood Association wrote the following, and encourages anyone with something to say about this project to attend the planning commission meeting where it will be introduced. The meeting will be Thursday 1/10 6pm.

This has the biggest impact on Beverly Green and Southridge Neighborhoods, but in light of it being an excellent example of how development affects ALL of our neighborhoods, the more involvement from our neighbors that we have, the better prepared we’ll be for what ever the next development project is. We reported on the proposal and gave our opinion last month.

Here’s Greg’s Summary of the issues and details.

Dear Neighbors,

On Saturday you should have received in the mail a series of cards from the City’s Planning Department giving official notice of a the Planning Commission hearing on the evening of January 10 of the proposed high-rise commercial/residential tower on Sixth Street. The cards asked for responses in support or opposition to the project. Because its become clear in talking to many neighbors over the weekend that the cards were not sent out to everyone in the neighborhood, and since so many people are away from home for the holiday, I’m sending the information via email — and encouraging everyone to please pass this information along to anyone else in the neighborhood who has an opinion on this project.

The project, as presented earlier this month, is for a 500-foot tower that would occupy the sites that are currently the Sixth & Sahara shopping center, the vacant lot to the north of the shopping center, and the Christian radio station on Sixth. The building would include approximately 1100 residential units and 180,000 square feet of commercial use. The portion of the building that would run along Sixth would be 12 stories high and all vehicles would enter and exit on Sixth.

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Hi Rise Proposal Provokes Mixed Feelings From The Adjacent Neighborhoods

December 13th, 2007 Categories: 6th & Sahara Hi-Rise, Beverly Green, Downtown Las Vegas, Southridge

A new proposal was introduced last night to build a 44 story condo/office/retail mixed use tower at the corner of 6^th Street and Sahara. Tony Romas, Marie Calendars and the small shopping center would be replaced if the plan ever goes forward.

The biggest objection is that the parcel and site plan would be in the back yard of homes on Alhambra Circle in Town and Country Estates, and right across the street from a dozen homes on 6^th Street. The neighborhood Associations have always objected to commercial intrusion into the neighborhoods.

(As with all photos on VVV, you can click the picture to see it full sized)

The developers own most of the land already, and there’s no stopping them from redeveloping it, but the leaders of the neighborhoods that are most affected, Southridge and Beverly Green, gave the project mixed reviews. With out a doubt, everyone wants to see Sahara Avenue cleaned up and redeveloped, but everyone I spoke to objected strongly to the 44 story height of the tower. Opinions were also very strong that the preliminary drawing showed a building with no artistic merit, or even the least bit of homage to the 1950’s mid century buildings surrounding the site.

They claim the target market for the condos will be local working people, but the stated price range is from 300k’s to 1.2million. Granted new shops and offices with workers who will go out for lunch, shop on their lunch hour, and lots of residence will be good for the single family homes nearby. However, last night they didn’t discuss traffic problems that would be generated with all the traffic for the project having to use 6^th street.

There will be more sit down meetings with the neighborhood associations, and they’ll need to get zoning variances, which we think will start with planning commission meetings in January.

In general, we think it’s much to big of a project for that corner, and that it’s out of character for the surrounding neighborhoods. We always believed that medium rise mixed use would be much better than a 44 story tower, and would have no problem with it if it was mid rise instead of hi rise. Of course, if the design incorporated a lot of mid century modern styling it would help appease us a lot.

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Proposed Hi Rise Condo At 6th and Sahara ?

December 11th, 2007 Categories: 6th & Sahara Hi-Rise, Beverly Green, Downtown Las Vegas, Market Conditions, Southridge

We got a mysterious flyer about a project for the corner of 6th and Sahara. They’re doing a preview of it on Wednesday 12/12 from 4 to 7 pm at the Reformation Lutheran Church at 580 E. St. Louis.

I thought it was going to be about the “fly away” that’s been proposed for 7^th and Sahara, but rumor now has it that its for a HiRise Condo Complex to be built on the Marie Calandar/Tony Roma lot at 6^th and Sahara.

If you’ve got 2 cents on this subject, then we’d better start throwing it in to the pot now.

I’ll be going to check it out, and will report back as soon as I know anything concrete.

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Neighborhood Activists Applaud Cities Efforts On St. Louis Ave.

November 27th, 2007 Categories: Beverly Green, Las Vegas Real Estate News, Southridge

Yesterday’s dedication ceremony was well attended by many of the regular supporters and leaders of the various Neighborhood Associations. Mayor Pro Tem Gary Reese, and City Manager Dr. Doug Selby thanked the neighbors for the idea to beautify and control traffic on St. Louis.

The attendees were reminded that change doesn’t happen from the top down. Concerned citizens, working together as neighborhood associations are the catalysts for improvement.

Are you active in your neighborhoods voluntary association? Does your neighborhood even have one?

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St. Louis Ave. Dedication Ceremony

November 26th, 2007 Categories: Beverly Green, Downtown Las Vegas, Las Vegas History, Las Vegas Real Estate News, Southridge

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What Can Happen If You NEVER Change Your Filters

November 23rd, 2007 Categories: Downtown Las Vegas, Home Repair and Remodel, Southridge

It’s just the funniest example I’ve ever encountered. We see streaks on the ceiling eminating from the registers, but this was just too much.

Flocked wallpaper was all the rage once upon a time, and we still find it occasionally. I didn’t know that the flocking could become supercharged.

This is in a real interesting fixer upper home in downtown. It’s only 199,000, but its 1500 feet, with 3 bedrooms, two baths and a surprisingly, a pool that’s in great shape. The rest of the place requires a complete gut job, but it would be well worth it. Anyone interested, give me a call.

 

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St. Louis Ave Dedication Ceremony

November 20th, 2007 Categories: Beverly Green, Downtown Las Vegas, Events, Everywhere We Look, Historic Preservation, Las Vegas Real Estate News, Southridge

The Las Vegas City Council invites you to attend the dedication ceremony for the completion of the St. Louis Avenue Improvement Project.

 Monday, November 26, 2007 10 AM

 

 

 

St. Louis Avenue and Santa Clara, just east of Paradise Ave.

RSVP to Department of Public Works 229–4186