• Ordinance amending Lyon County Code title 6 by deleting Chapter 6 – fire districts; and amending Title 10 Land Use Regulations, by adding Chapter 19 – burning Restrictions; and amending Title 10, chapter 7 – Building codes:

Approved as presented.  Changes give needed enforcement authority to the individual Fire Districts and basically putting into the County Codes what has already been occurring.  The changes will also permit the individual fire boards to further amend the building codes as they relate to fire safety, which may be stricter, not less than the International Fire Code standards.

• Ordinance revising Title 10, creating Chapter 20, outdoor lighting control governing non-residential uses:

Approved as presented.  Intended to provide minimum level of regulation necessary to achieve the goal of protecting ability to view the night sky without unduly restricting the ability of property owners to provide illumination necessary for advertising, security and aesthetic purposes.

• Sullivan, M.W. & Crosby, Kathryn/Sullivan-Crosby Trust – Development Agreement – to define the expiration date and phasing of required improvements for the parcel map and construction of the new Stagecoach Fire Station for the CLCFPD, located in the vicinity of Highway 50 East and Stagecoach Drive, Stagecoach;

Approved 5-0.  One 4-acre parcel will be donated to the fire district.  The district has grant funding to assist in the construction.

• Propose and ordinance to Adopt the Development Agreement between Sullivan/Crosby Trust, the CLCFPD and Lyon County to define the above:

Ordinance proposed.  Will be heard after proper posting.

• River Road, Dayton – Nine individual property owners requesting to change the zoning on their 5-acre rural residential lots to C-2. General Commercial on approximately  48 acres located at 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120 and 130 River Road, Dayton:

Approved 3-2.  Commissioners Hunewill and Roberts opposed.  The Planning Commission recommended denial of both the Master Plan change and zone change requests.  At a previous meeting, the commissioners voted 3-2 to approve the M/P change. 

Several concerns were brought to the commissioner’s attention by Planning Director Rob Loveberg, including a lack of infrastructure, power, water, sewer and inadequate roads for commercial traffic.  There is also no access to Highway 50.  Loveberg also noted the number of developable commercial properties, with adequate infrastructure, that are currently available.

Commissioner Chuck Roberts pointed out the lack of compatibility with the surrounding zoning and lack of a viable growth pattern.  He also noted the vast number of undeveloped commercial lots already in the Dayton Highway 50 corridor – currently 331 vacant acres (106 parcels) of C-1 and C-2 zoning.

“This zone change is completely unnecessary at this time,” Roberts told the board. “The master plan is a tool to plan the community. We are not charged to give everything to them when they ask.  We have to stop this continuing pattern of sprawl.”

Commissioner Hunewill expressed concern the individual properties will be developed by the individual owners, leading to strip-type commercial development.

Commissioner Tibbals stated “I think the owners already have an agreement or they would not have committed to this.  There should be no residential development on Highway 50.  This zoning is in the proper location.”

A petition with approximately 170 signatures was submitted by the property owners.  The majority of the signees live outside the Dayton Valley, some as far away as Reno.

Roberts motion to deny failed 2-3.  Tibbals motion to approve passed 3-2.