Restaurant application off the table
A request to build a fast-food restaurant next to a pet cemetery has been withdrawn, but cemetery supporters remain wary because the property at issue still could be rezoned for commercial use.
Property owners CT-1 LLC asked for a one-acre parcel at Craig Road and Tenaya Way to be reclassified from residential to commercial property and applied for a permit to build a fast-food restaurant there.
That raised the ire of people connected to the 30-year-old Craig Road Pet Cemetery next door, who thought that a 24-hour restaurant would mar the corner's tranquility.
The site is about two blocks south of Bunkers Memory Gardens Cemetery.
This week, CT-1 released a statement saying it would not seek a permit for a Carl's Jr. restaurant at that corner.
The statement does not mention the requests to change the property use from residential to commercial, though, and so opponents are not letting down their guard, said Curt Weiman, the cemetery's manager.
"We all believe something should go there," Weiman said Tuesday. "It needs to be something that fits with the community. A food joint is not going to do anything for this area."
The items were scheduled to be before the Las Vegas Planning Commission on Thursday, but the meeting has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 5.
Warren Hardy, a consultant who is working with the owners, said they have not decided whether the remaining requests will stay on the agenda or be delayed.
"We would like to have some conversations with the residents out there and see if there's something we can bring to that project that is more acceptable," he said.
The cemetery occupies four acres on the northwest corner of Craig and Tenaya, almost the entire block, except for the one-acre parcel owned by CT-1.
Commercial development sits on the east side of Tenaya Way, but the development surrounding the cemetery is residential.
Contact reporter Alan Choate at achoate@reviewjournal.com or 702-229-6435.
