Supervisors to look at south-side housing plan involving 75 houses

Plans for building 75 single-family homes within a 3.8-acre site in South Carson City are being reviewed by top Carson City officials.

The Board of Supervisors will consider the Clearview Ridge housing proposal during a late session Thursday evening.

"Our main concern is a very high density being proposed in a very rural neighborhood," said neighbor Jeannine Kechely.

Planning Commissioners didn't recommend the project to the supervisors when they met last month. Open space being strewn throughout the development - not concentrated for recreation or a park - and inadequate traffic circulation and parking for a project with roughly 20 homes per acre were major reasons cited by the commissioners.

Kechely said the commissioners' decision last month was "a pleasant surprise."

The homes would be between West Roventini Way and West Overland Street, and Cochise and Voltaire streets west of Highway 395.

Part of the neighborhood in which developers want to build is zoned for commercial use and the rest for housing on more spacious lots that call for one dwelling per acre.

The location would be in what the city has identified in its master plan as a mixed-use residential area that offers medium- to high-density housing and various retail and commercial uses, Lumos & Associates, the engineering firm representing the property owner, Roventini LLC, stated in its lengthy report.

Clearview Ridge is within the city's South Carson redevelopment area. A commercial project also is being planned for the neighborhood, near the Clearview location, on the site of the Oasis Mobile Home Park. And nearby Casino Fandango started its expansion last month.

The homes would cost an estimated $280,000. Putting fewer houses on the property would make the homes less affordable. Less-expensive housing is a characteristic highly sought after by the city and some of its businesses, such as Casino Fandango, said Audra Miller, senior planner for Lumos.

Kechely, the mother of two young children, also said she has concerns about the combination of added traffic and lack of parks or open space within the housing proposal. Lumos emphasized that it would add roughly 60 more children to the neighborhood.

"Kids trying to find a place to play could end up in a dangerous situation," she said.

• Contact reporter Terri Harber at tharber @nevadaappeal.com or 882-2111, ext. 215.

If you go

What: Carson City Board of Supervisors

When: 6 p.m. Thursday

Where: Sierra Room, Community Center, 851 E. William St.