Officials waive Front Sight paving requirement, for now

Nye County commissioners waived the requirement for paving the new parking lot for phase 3 at the Front Sight Firearms Training Facility.

The original request submitted by the applicant was to waive the requirements to submit a traffic study and drainage study, and waive the requirement to provide paved surfacing for a new parking lot and driveways as required per Nye County Code’s dust control regulations within the Pahrump Regional Planning District.

Nye County dust control regulations generally require new parking lot areas to be paved within the Pahrump Regional Planning District.

Officials waive the parking area but not the driveways that have to have an ADA handicapped parking.

“A few parking areas would have ADA access, proper striping and access to the facility itself. It’s more than a drive aisle, it’s also parking places, ramps and that kind of thing,” Nye County Planning Department Director Darrell Lacy said.

Lacy addressed issues with paving requirements for dust control and parking requirements for Nye County Code.

“The board of county commissioners does have the authority to grant a waiver from development standards, with one exception primarily, which is ADA access, tops the issues which are federal requirements,” Lacy said. “In addition, planning (department’s) recommendation would be that if you do decide to waive some of the paving requirements for parking that we do not waive the pavement for the road end into the area as well as main drive aisles.”

County Public Works Director Tim Carlo said the department doesn’t have problems with the traffic at the facility. Front Sight, however, will have to provide a traffic study and drainage study in the future, he said.

“This phase, the existing stuff is not going to change. The impacts are going to be minimal on traffic. A third of the road is in Nye County, the rest of it is in Clark County. It’s called bi-highway and we could see some impacts on the state highway coming into town to local hotels and stuff. But at this time, we felt it’s appropriate to support this (waiver for traffic) at this phase,” Carlo said.

Dave Richards, of Civilwise Services, Inc., who represented the applicant, said Front Sight isn’t asking for a permanent waiver.

“This isn’t a permanent waiver we are asking for, all we are trying to do is put things on a timeline,” he said. “All these things will be addressed when we do get into the main development, paving and so forth. Right now, we are just trying to get to a point where we can get phase 3 gun ranges in operation. And then, all of it will be dealt with as suggested.”

The applicant has also applied for waivers under Title 17 related to paving, drainage and traffic study requirements, which are scheduled to be heard by the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission on Dec. 14.

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