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Wednesday, April 05, 2000
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Sloan cat shelter given variance to remain open
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The Clark County Planning Commission gave the owners of a Sloan animal shelter for cats a zoning variance Tuesday night that will allow its operation to continue.
Co-owners Renee Lyss and Grant Greene will not have to close the 5-acre plot where they operate For the Love of Cats and Kittens -- FLOCK.
The area currently is zoned to allow farm animals, but not a kennel. Commissioners stipulated in their unanimous vote that FLOCK must keep its population under 150.
"I feel delighted that we're going to be able to stay open," Lyss said after the vote. "But we need to be able to handle far more than 150 cats. That's just a pathetic drop in the bucket."
Lyss said she now will begin looking for another location to open a second branch of FLOCK.
The shelter operated in Sloan, a small town about 15 miles south of Las Vegas, for five years before residents in a nearby housing development complained to commissioners that, after a July flood knocked down the sanctuary's fence, cats escaped, invaded residential neighborhoods and began having kittens around the houses.
When Lyss first appeared before the Planning Commission in January, the no-kill shelter housed about 300 cats. After Clark County Animal Control officers said there were too many cats at the shelter, Lyss and Greene decreased that number by about half through an adoption program at a local pet store.
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