One of the initial votes for Las Vegas Mayor-elect Shelley Berkley will be to settle the long-running land-use dispute between the City of Las Vegas and the owner of the defunct Badlands golf course.
The Las Vegas City Council agreed Wednesday to suspend a vote settling the case until Dec. 18, allowing attorneys for the city and Badlands owner Yohan Lowie to continue negotiating a dollar amount to resolve the case. By the time the city council considers a settlement, Berkley will have been sworn in as mayor.
An item to discuss and vote on a plan to settle the nine-year legal matter by paying between $250 million and $286 million to the developer, was announced last week . The settlement range is far below the $450 million to $650 million taxpayers would have been facing in lawsuits filed by the developer.
“I would love for it to go through,” Berkley said Wednesday, hours after she was declared winner of the Las Vegas mayoral race, defeating Councilwoman Victoria Seaman by nearly 13,000 votes as of Wednesday evening.