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Company wants to build 1,836 units in Laughlin

LAUGHLIN — On Tuesday, the Laughlin Town Advisory Board will take up the case of a limited liability company that wants to build stores and almost 1,900 condominiums and apartments next to Laughlin Junior-Senior High School.

The advisory board meeting will be held 1:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting in the Clark County Regional Government Center on Laughlin Civic Drive between Casino and Thomas Edison drives.

Omninet Laughlin, LLC, wants to erect the project in up to 10 phases and start before the township’s exemption to the Las Vegas-designed high-impact ordinance expires in June 2011. That ordinance requires developers to pay extra through mandated negotiations with the county staff in Las Vegas for the cumulative impact their completed projects would have on a community. It is triggered by more than 500 housing units or 8,000 vehicle-trips per day — something that helped sink a multi-million dollar condominium development at Laughlin Bay Marina.

Represented by a Las Vegas law firm, Omninet wants to erect 34 multi-family residential buildings totaling 1,836 units. In comparison, the adjacent new Vista Creek Apartments and The Vintage at Laughlin senior citizen apartments total 450 units. Both properties front Cougar Drive between the school for 6th-12th grades and Bruce Woodbury Drive, by the American Legion hall. The Omninet homes would include 750 one-bedroom, 918 two-bedroom and 168 three-bedroom units, from 600-1,300 square feet in one- to four-story structures grouped in clusters.

Also part of the project would be nine stores with 43,200 square feet of floor space, ranging from 2,300-8,600 square feet and 28-34 feet tall.

Omninet needs four actions:

A zone change for about half the 81 acres from rural open land (R-U) to multiple family residential, high density, for 406. acres and urban village (U-V, mixed use) for 40.3 acres in a mixed use design-4 overlay district,

Use permits to allow the increased density from 18 to 23 units per acre, plus higher building heights of up to 54 feet verses the 35-foot limit and reduced on-site parking from 3,423 spaces to 3,299,

Waiver of development standards for the increased building heights in the R-4 area,

And design review approvals for the R-4 portion, a mixed use development of residential, commercial, open space and amenities.

Michael Daniel, Omninet manager, filed the land use application on April 16. Tabitha D. Fiddyment of the law firm Kaempfer Crowell Renshaw Gronauer and Fiorentino represents the applicant.

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