Thursday, April 9, 1998 | 10:15 a.m.
* SUMMERLIN SOUTH -- The Clark County Commission has rejected the final map for the second phase of the first village under construction in the Howard Hughes Corp.'s 6,138-acre Summerlin South master-planned community. The board had approved the original tentative map for Summerlin South in January 1996 for the 18,000-unit development between Sahara Avenue and Desert Inn Road and from Hualpai Way to Red Rock Canyon Recreation Area. A tentative map for the 344-acre second phase was approved March 20, 1997. The proposed final map consists of nine medium density lots to be further subdivided by home builders, three lots for a church, park and part of the park paseo system, and four high-density lots.
* GLENDALE CASINO -- Charlie Hester has won more time to complete negotiations and financing for a two-hotel-casino complex to straddle Interstate 15 at the Glendale exit about 40 miles north of Las Vegas. The County Commission Wednesday accepted the first extension of time on a zoning change approved in March 1996 for the project. Hester, owner of the gas station and hotel at the I-15 exit, wants to build an 87,000-square feet hotel on 74.5 acres north of the interstate and a 93,500-square feet hotel and casino on 76 acres south of the interstate. A district attorney said the board had no choice but to approve the extension of time because this was Hester's first request and there was no justifiable and reasonable reason to turn him down. Denial would have likely led to a lawsuit that Hester probably would have won, the county's counsel said.
* PRIVATE MONORAILS--
The County Commission has sent staff back to the drawing board on proposed code amendments to establish private transit systems. The board Wednesday said that what staff had proposed would amount to issuing use permits over property the private monorail developer didn't own, initiating eminent domain proceedings the commissioners didn't want to go through. The Hilton and MGM Grand hotel-casino want to jointly build a monorail connecting their properties along the east side of the Las Vegas Strip.
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