LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A major real estate developer says the City of Las Vegas purposely altered key building requirements days before a pivotal vote, calling into question the validity of a multi-million-dollar purchase in a now-controversial tract of land bordering and partly run by Clark County.
A representative of Pulte Homes urged Las Vegas planning commissioners to approve a rezoning on Sept. 8 after pointing out city officials inaccurately labeled the land for nearly a decade. The realization of the potentially high-priced mistake was followed by a unique action — the city altered the map without public input.
“This is not a misprint,” Tony Celeste, a Pulte Homes representative, said. “This is what was published. Up until less than two weeks ago it showed the site as [residential development]. This is what I had shared with the neighbors and worked with the City of Las Vegas on when we began this application process back in July.”
“This is not a misprint.”
A map from Sept. 1 presented by Celeste showed the city still had labeled the site, near the intersection of W. Ann Road and N. Hualapai Way, as R-D (residential development) as compared to R-E (residential estates). The difference in zoning designation would reduce the number of houses potentially by 30 percent. The city changed the requirements for the zone to residential estates to comply with the Sept. 8 zone change application…