The would-be developer of housing planned for the defunct Badlands golf course is ready to settle its longstanding legal dispute with the city of Las Vegas for $64 million, according to documents prepared for Wednesday’s City Council meeting.
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The Interim Finance Committee voted to allocate the first half of a $500 million investment in affordable housing that Gov. Steve Sisolak announced in February.
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The last day to play golf at Royal Links, an 18-hole course along Vegas Valley Drive about a mile east of Nellis Boulevard, was Dec. 17.
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After a multi-family housing complex in downtown Las Vegas was sold last year, rents dramatically increased, leaving cash-strapped residents scrambling to decide their next move.
The turf ban would apply to all new development, except for schools, parks and cemeteries. Existing regulations prohibit grass in front yards and limit it to 50 percent of a backyard’s area.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority has aggressively pursued the removal of grass in Southern Nevada for decades. It wants to make turf regulations even more restrictive.
A judge agreed with the developer behind stalled housing plans on a defunct golf course near Summerlin who claimed that interference by Las Vegas officials made land impossible to develop.
The project had been fiercely opposed by a contingent of neighbors who viewed it as a threat to their rural lifestyle in the far southern Las Vegas Valley.