City annexes 1,100 acres in northeast

Dan Kulin

Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 | 9:52 a.m.

North Las Vegas will grow by almost 1,100 acres after the City Council on Wednesday approved the largest city-forced annexation to date.

City officials said the annexation will allow for better planning for growth in the area, near the intersection of Interstate 15 and the Las Vegas Beltway and near Nellis Air Force Base. The annexation will also mean more tax revenue for the city, which the mayor said was already providing services to the area without being compensated.

But a lawyer representing two of the affected property owners said the annexed land owners will only see higher tax bills.

About 26 percent of the property owners whose land will become part of North Las Vegas objected to the annexation. The annexation would have been blocked if more than half of the land owners had objected.

The annexation of 1,093 acres in the northeast part of the city is one of a handful of city-initiated annexations in recent years, but none was for so much land, city Real Property Services Manager Randy Cagle has said. This annexation, like the others, was allowed because the land was at least 75 percent surrounded by North Las Vegas.

The council voted 4-0 to approve the annexation. Councilman William Robinson did not attend the Wednesday council meeting.

Most of the land will be zoned for industrial uses.