A vote on the future of a former casino site in Las Vegas has been postponed.
The Clark County Planning Commission was scheduled to consider plans Tuesday evening for a sprawling housing development on the now-vacant former Eastside Cannery plot in the eastern Las Vegas Valley.
However, county staff said the proposal was being pushed to the planning commission’s meeting on July 7 and indicated this was at the applicant’s request. No other reasons were given.
Miami homebuilding giant Lennar Corp. is looking to develop a 279-lot subdivision on the former hotel-casino property on Boulder Highway at Harmon Avenue. The project site spans about 29.5 acres and would feature a community of two-story single-family homes.
Casino owner Boyd Gaming Corp. imploded Eastside Cannery’s hotel tower in March, after saying it intended to sell the site for residential use.
In general, developers often go under contract to buy a property and then close escrow after they obtain project approvals for the site.
Eastside Cannery had been closed since the onset of the pandemic, and Las Vegas-based Boyd previously said there was not sufficient market demand to reopen the property.
County staff had recommended denying the proposed housing tract, saying in reports that the property is more conducive to a higher-density project, given its location along Boulder Highway and the high-frequency bus service in that corridor, and the access to a bus route along Harmon.
Staff also had concerns with the homes’ driveways, which, they noted, would only be 5 feet long.
This separation between the garages and the edge of the street “does not allow for adequate sight distances while backing out of the garage, creating unsafe circulation,” and the driveways “will also not be long enough to accommodate parked vehicles under the proposed design,” staff wrote in a report.
Plus, street parking is “fairly limited,” the report added.
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