04/06/2023
To all our clients and industry partners. We just received a very impactful email from Clark County planning this morning. Please see below for detailed information and how this may impact your projects:
Good morning,
As many of you know, Clark County had to make adjustments to the application intake process during Covid as staff continued to come to work and process applications while everything was closed down. At the time, the online Application Pre-review (APR) process was the most expeditious, and safe, avenue for review. It provided us with the ability to look at proposals electronically and work with applicants to get to “complete” applications for submittal and scheduling to a public hearing. Knowing there were numerous retirements, staff separations, and lack of qualified job applicants during that time we do appreciate your patience as staff was at less than half of normal but did 2 to 3 times the work to keep applications moving. However, with more than 400 pre-reviews currently in the queue (with another 200 pre-reviews waiting for basic submittal information and another 100 started but not officially uploaded for staff’s review), we need to do a reset and get caught up. In addition, we have been hearing that the lack of personal interaction is not desirable anymore and in-person meetings with staff are preferred. Therefore, we will stop accepting NEW pre-review uploads on Sunday, April 9th at 5 pm. We will continue to process anything in the queue with the goal of being able to put them onto agendas as quickly as practicable (which of course means that applicant responses and corrections will dictate how quickly since we are seeing many responses taking weeks before addressing).
For any APRs currently under review, you may continue through the online review process, and have until Thursday, April 14th to respond to previous comments and requests for information and send the email as was directed by staff. For any pending APRs waiting assignment, you may continue through the online review process unless you decide to opt out and instead schedule an appointment when they are available. For any APRs still pending assignment and where we are awaiting information before we assign to staff for review, you have until Sunday April 9th at 5 pm to upload your additional information and send an email to [email protected] informing us of the upload.
In the meantime, Comprehensive Planning will be establishing an appointment rotation, a scheduling system, and start scheduling appointments for in-person planner meetings. We anticipate opening appointment scheduling the week of May 1st with the first appointments starting on May 15th.
There will still be applications we will take “over the counter” which will include:
Administrative applications (TC and Zoning letters)
Extensions of Time (ETs and ADETs)
Applications for Review (AR)
One last point, from today until Sunday, APR uploads must have ALL information necessary to assign to a planner. Any applications that are simply uploaded to get placed in the queue but don’t provide the submittal requirements listed on the applicable application form will be rejected and the record will be voided. Additionally, applicants will be provided with a short turn-around time to respond to staff’s comments and requests for revisions. If applicants do not meet the stated timeframes, the applicant will be directed to the appointment process. We honestly have to manage our reset and not chase down more than is necessary to get through the existing applications.
Remember, the checklists of information necessary to be shown on ALL PLANS have always been online and can be found here: https://www.clarkcountynv.gov/government/departments/comprehensive_planning_department/divisions/current_planning_division/index.php
In addition, the other critical information necessary (things such as Application, Disclosure Form, Deed, etc) can be found with every application form type. Application forms types can be found here: https://www.clarkcountynv.gov/government/departments/comprehensive_planning_department/forms.php -2021
Thank you,
Nancy Amundsen, Director
Department of Comprehensive Planning
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