Clark County zoning briefs for July 20, 2000

LAS VEGAS SUN

Timeshare project receives approval

A four-story, 229-unit timeshare hotel received a thumbs up from Clark County commissioners on Wednesday despite objections from residents living near the proposed project at Tropicana Avenue and Decatur Boulevard.

Residents in the adjacent subdivision, armed with a petition with about 100 signatures, spoke against the zone change from residential to general commercial. They argued that the height of the project will overshadow the adjacent subdivision and that it would bring too much new traffic into the area.

Greg Borgel, a land use consultant representing applicant Consolidated Resorts, said the project will be a high-end, luxury condominium-type timeshare, would have significant landscape buffering and it would bring less traffic into the neighborhood than other potential uses.

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