City Council Approves Two Development Requests

By VERNON ROBISON

The Progress

The Mesquite City Council voted to approve two different agenda items that promised to bring more economic growth and development to the community during a meeting held on Tuesday, Aug. 10.

The first item was a unanimous decision to approve a resolution that it would be in the best interest of the city to sell a parcel of city-owned land at 515 Isaac Newton drive in the western part of Mesquite.
Deputy City Manager Martine Green explained that the item pertained to a 17.69 acre parcel across the street from a similar parcel already purchased by Bark! Dog Park for a dog boarding and recreation facility.

A private party had expressed interest in using about 2.5 acres of buildable land for a commercial endeavor, Green said.

“In order to do that, we would need to sell them the 4.16 acres that we can parcel off from the rest,” Green said.

The second of the items dealt with a proposal to build a single family residential neighborhood in the Sun City area of Mesquite. The neighborhood, called the Dusty Rose subdivision, would be built on a 51.32 acre parcel located on the west side of Flat Top Mesa Boulevard , just north of the Conestoga Golf Course Hole #15.

Representing the developer in the meeting was Daniel Catron. He explained that Pulte Homes is proposing to subdivide the 51.32 acres into 159 single-family residential lots at the site. This would be an age-restricted community.

Catron said that 6.8 acres of common open space would be included in the project. Much of that was on the west side of the development near the base of Flat Top Mesa, he said.

During public comment at both of these items, Mesquite resident Mike McGreer came forward to make a comment. Earlier in the meeting, McGreer had given a report to the council which claimed that water resources in the hydrographic basin which serves Mesquite is over-allocated.

McGreer’s report had recommended that any items involving further growth in the community ought to be tabled until a full conjunctive study could be accomplished by the Nevada State Engineer’s office and a revised water budget be issued.

“According to the Virgin Valley Water District, they are pumping in excess of the peak demand and way over the perennial yield,” McGreer said. “I ask that these items be tabled until those issues are resolved by the state engineer.”

Both items were approved by the council when they came up for a vote.

The Dusty Rose subdivision received a 5-1 vote of approval from the council with Council member Sandra Ramaker voting in opposition. She made no comment in the meeting explaining the dissenting vote.