The Carson City Board of Supervisors will get to weigh in on a proposed RV and boat storage facility to which planning commissioners gave thumbs down in August after hearing from concerned neighbors.
The supervisors’ meeting starts 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the community center boardroom, 851 E. William St.
The 3.64-acre subject property zoned single family 6,000 is located on the east side of Emerson Drive at the southern end of Louise Drive. The applicant, KLS Planning and Design, is set to present two items to supervisors. First is a proposed Master Plan amendment that would change the land use designation from low density residential to community/regional commercial.
The second request is for an ordinance approving a tentative commercial planned unit development (PUD) to change the underlying zoning from residential to tourist commercial and grant a special use permit for the storage facility.
On Aug. 28, planning commissioners voted 5-1 (and one absent) to recommend denial of the Master Plan amendment, and then voted unanimously to recommend denial of the PUD.
At the time, the project proposed up to 167 RV and boat storage spaces, either enclosed or covered, on the property that was a remnant from the state’s construction of I-580. John Krmpotic of KLS Planning & Design Group argued the PUD would limit the property to the single proposed use of storage. He also maintained the storage activity, with gated access and offsite management, would be quiet and compatible with houses to the north.
But neighbors took issue with the unknowns of any commercial use and agreed residential use of the land would be preferable.
In other action:
• Supervisors will consider directing the Carson City Treasurer to move forward selling by public auction 15 properties delinquent on taxes “for a total amount not less than the amount of taxes, costs, penalties and interest legally chargeable,” according to the agenda.
Pending board approval, a proposed notice of order shows a public option scheduled for April 23.
“Pursuant to NRS 361.570, the owners of those properties had a two-year redemption period in which to pay all delinquent taxes, costs, penalties and interest legally chargeable against the property,” reads a staff report. “The period of redemption has expired, and the Carson City Treasurer recorded a deed on the properties as required by NRS 361.590 on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The taxes on the 15 properties listed with this agenda item remain delinquent, and the combined total for all 15 properties that is currently due is $212,496.10.
“In addition, a combined amount of $11,911.68 in other fees for water service and Code Enforcement liens are also due. While this required step toward a tax sale is now being taken, some of these properties may be protected from sale under U.S. Bankruptcy laws.”
A public sale for five delinquent properties scheduled for April of this year was canceled after the Treasurer’s Office received the full amount of property taxes owed, according to the report.
• Supervisors will consider the first reading of an ordinance “amending various provisions governing industrial wastewater discharges and sewer design standards and related administrative and regulatory requirements and procedures,” according to the agenda.
“Over several days in September of 2020, a virtual audit was performed by the EPA to review permit language, documentation, compliance records of any user violations, and Carson City’s Pretreatment Program ordinance language, found in CCMC Chapter 12.06. During the audit, the EPA found that the Pretreatment Program ordinance was insufficient and would need to be amended. Based on the EPA’s findings, and with consultant support, a proposed amendment to CCMC Chapter 12.06 was developed,” reads a staff report.
The report states the EPA gave notice of approval of the proposed amendments on Sept. 27 of this year.
The Pretreatment Program was approved by the EPA in 1981, according to the report, and is “responsible for overseeing and permitting industrial and commercial users who discharge to the Carson City sanitary sewer system in order to protect the Water Resource Recovery Facility.”
“Changes to CCMC Chapter 12.06 include revised definitions; substantive and procedural changes to the discharge permit application process and the terms and requirements for issued discharge permits; revisions to provisions concerning administrative review of decisions related to CCMC Chapter 12.06; providing more detailed regulatory and enforcement authority for the city’s Pretreatment Program; requiring the city to annually publish the names of any users that have been in significant noncompliance in the last 12 months; revising requirements for users to provide secondary containment for accidental discharges and establishing new requirements for accidental discharge, spill and slug discharge plans; and establishing new pretreatment standards for categorical industrial users,” reads the report.
Related, supervisors will consider an interlocal agreement (the third agreement) with Douglas County to continue accepting wastewater from the Clear Creek area “for an indefinite term, subject to the termination provisions in the Third Agreement, and providing for use and connection costs and certain compliance and enforcement costs to be paid or reimbursed to Carson City,” according to the agenda.
Supervisors will also potentially take action on an update of the Carson City Public Works Enforcement Response Plan “for industrial users that do not comply with the requirements of the city’s wastewater pretreatment program,” according to the agenda.