The next meeting of the Carson City Planning Commission will be held Wednesday, April 30, 2025 beginning at 5 p.m. in the Bob Crowell Board Room at the Carson City Community Center located at 851 E. William Street.
Topics include the Plateau Subdivision development, a digital billboard request, the abandonment of a public street and more.
Check out the agenda in its entirety at the bottom of this story, and when it’s available, we’ll update with the livestream via YouTube.
Proposed townhome Plateau Subdivision
A tentative Planned Unit Development (PUD) has been requested to create 240 single family townhome residences with a minimum lot size of 985 square feet, and approximately 8.17 acres of common area on a parcel of around 22 acres located to the north and west of Morgan Mill Road.
The site consists of two parcels which are currently zoned for Multifamily Apartments (MFA) and Public Regional (PR).
This is an expansion of the Plateau Subdivision, which was approved for 57 single family lots in December 2024 and is currently under construction:
According to the agenda, MFA zoning allows for a minimum density of 29 dwellings per acre, and the project is proposing a gross (max) density of 11.34 dwelling units per acre, which will require a zoning change. MFA also allows for a building height of 45 feet tall, and the applicant is proposing two-storied townhomes at a height of 35 feet tall.
Applicant Wood Rogers of Reno is proposing a timeline in four-phases, each of which will need to record within two years of the previously recorded phase.
The project proposes, in addition to the 240 residential units, a total of 637 parking spaces including two garage spaces per unit, 118 guest parking spaces, and 39 on-street parallel parking spaces.
The project is designed with a mix of four- and five-unit buildings, all of which will be two-stories constructed of a mix of stucco and siding with a mix of “desert natural colors designed to blend with the natural hues of the area,” according to the application.
Townhome entrances are oriented toward the internal common areas, with rear garage entrance accessed from internal streets and alleys.
Units will range from around 1,300 to 1,800 square feet and include two, three and four-bedroom units.
Open Space and landscaping
Code requires that 30% of any development be dedicated to open space, with at least 25% of provided open space having a slope of 5% or less. No more than 50% of the required landscaped area is allowed to have a slope in excess of 15%.
Essentially what this means is that a majority of open space areas should be accessible for recreational uses as opposed to the sides of hills or something similar which would make utilizing them difficult.
In addition, a minimum of 100 square feet per residential unit shall be designed for the recreation of residents which can be included in the required 30% open space areas.
The project includes around 5.41 acres of landscaped open space, with at least 24,000 square feet required for recreation uses. Approximately 44% of the project has slopes of less than 5%, with around 36% having slopes in excess of 15%. Around 16% or 3.4 acres will remain undisturbed with native vegetation.
Code also requires that landscape plans be approved according to city standards. The project will include a mix of trees and shrubs that “provide an aesthetically pleasing landscape across the development with a adequate screening and buffering,” with all common areas accessible via sidewalks and paths according to the application.
The preliminary landscape plan includes one tree for every 400 sqft of required landscape area, one tree for every ten parking spaces, and one tree for every 30 linear foot of street frontage for a total minimum of 393 trees. Six shrubs are required per tree, and trees will be a mix of ornamental, deciduous shade trees, and evergreen trees, with evergreens accounting for a maximum of 40% of the total tree count.
Plant quantities, locations and final species selection will be finalized during the final construction plans.
Open space will be maintained by a Homeowner’s Association.
Traffic
The development is anticipated to generate 5,003 daily trips including 344 morning peak hour and 473 afternoon/evening peak hour trips.
Staff said that a traffic signal will be “partially installed” at Highway 50 and Drako Way with the first phase of the project that is currently under construction in the area.
According to the traffic impact study, the light will be activated when warranted:
“The traffic signal is condition[ed] to be installed with the final map of the single family residential phase and will be completed and activated when traffic signal warrants are officially met. As outlined in the original Plateau Development Traffic Analysis, signal warrants are anticipated to be met when approximately 67% or two-thirds of the Plateau Development is constructed.”
The project does not include any bike paths, as the application states that adding bike paths within the development would be “inconsistent with the Unified Pathways Master Plan.”
The full application can be viewed here.
Digital Billboard Request
A Special Use Permit (SUP) is being requested to change the western facing display of an existing billboard to a digital display on Old Clear Creek Road, which is viewable from Highway 50 coming down from Spooner.
The current billboard has been there for approximately 18 years, and the SUP was last reviewed in August 2022 and was provided a five-year extension until 2027.
The applicant is requesting to change the western display of the billboard to a digital display, while the eastern display would remain static (non digital).
Abandonment of Monitor Peak Street
The developer of Blackstone Ranch is asking for a portion of Monitor Peak Street to be returned to them after it is will no longer serve its initial purpose within the development.
Originally, the portion of Monitor Peak Street was given to the city in August 2022 to be connector between the different phases of the Blackstone Ranch development. However, when the tentative map for Phase 2 was papered in August 2023, it was determined that the connection was no longer necessary as there were other roadway connections between phases one and two, according to the agenda.
Now, the road has become a dead end, and the developer is asking for the portion of roadway back to be divided between the two abutting properties. The property is approximately 50 feet wide by 105 feet long, and would be divided equally down the middle.
In other items:
- An Airport Road resident is requesting to build an ADU with 688 square feet of living area which is more than 75% but less than 100% of the primary structure on the property zoned Mobile Home 6,000 square feet, which requires an SUP.
- A map clean up is being requested which will officially abandon an 8-foot by 210-foot strip of land along South Pratt Avenue between East 2nd and East 5th streets, which was believed to have been adopted in 1965 but was never formally adopted, resulting in the piece of land being “orphaned.” If approved, the area will revert to the private properties located to the east and west of the “sliver,” according to the agenda.
Have a comment? Send it to planning@carson.org ; to be included in the minutes, you must include your full name and send it in by 3 p.m. the day before the meeting.
Interesting in watching virtually? You can watch at www.carson.org/granicus, by tuning into cable channel 191, or via YouTube. We will also update this story with the stream via YouTube when it becomes available for easy viewing.
View the full agenda below.
