Senate Bill No. 191–Senator Titus

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Section 1. NRS 278.160 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 278.160 1. The master plan, with the accompanying charts, drawings,

1. affordable housing in the community.
2. (5) An analysis of any impediments to the development of affordable

1. housing and the development of policies to mitigate those impediments.

1. (6) An analysis of the characteristics of the land that is the most

1. appropriate for the construction of affordable housing.

1. (7) An analysis of the needs and appropriate methods for the

1. construction of affordable housing or the conversion or rehabilitation of

1. existing housing to affordable housing.

1. (8) A plan for maintaining and developing affordable housing to meet

1. the housing needs of the community.

1. (f) Land use plan. An inventory and classification of types of natural

1. land and of existing land cover and uses, and comprehensive plans for the

1. most desirable utilization of land. The land use plan may include a

1. provision concerning the acquisition and use of land that is under federal

1. management within the city, county or region, including, without limitation,

1. a plan or statement of policy prepared pursuant to NRS 321.7355.

1. (g) Population plan. An estimate of the total population which the

1. natural resources of the city, county or region will support on a continuing

1. basis without unreasonable impairment.

1. (h) Public buildings. Showing locations and arrangement of civic centers

1. and all other public buildings, including the architecture thereof and the

1. landscape treatment of the grounds thereof.

1. (i) Public services and facilities. Showing general plans for sewage,

1. drainage and utilities, and rights of way, easements and facilities therefor,

1. including any utility projects required to be reported pursuant to NRS

1. 278.145.

1. (j) Recreation plan. Showing a comprehensive system of recreation

1. areas, including natural reservations, parks, parkways, reserved riverbank

1. strips, beaches, playgrounds and other recreation areas, including, when

1. practicable, the locations and proposed development thereof.

1. (k) Safety plan. In any county whose population is 400,000 or more,

1. identifying potential types of natural and man-made hazards, including

1. hazards from floods, landslides or fires, or resulting from the manufacture,

1. storage, transfer or use of bulk quantities of hazardous materials. The plan

1. may set forth policies for avoiding or minimizing the risks from those

1. hazards.

1. seismic hazards such as susceptibility to surface ruptures from faulting, to

1. ground shaking or to ground failures.

1. disposal of solid waste.

1. widths of a comprehensive system of major traffic thoroughfares and other

1. traffic ways and of streets and the recommended treatment thereof, building
2. line setbacks, and a system of naming or numbering streets and numbering

1. houses, with recommendations concerning proposed changes.

1. including rapid transit, streetcar, motorcoach and trolley coach lines and

1. related facilities.

1. system, including locations of rights of way, terminals, viaducts and grade

1. separations. The plan may also include port, harbor, aviation and related

1. facilities.

2. The commission may prepare and adopt, as part of the master plan,

other and additional plans and reports dealing with such other subjects as

may in its judgment relate to the physical development of the city, county

or region, and nothing contained in NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive,

prohibits the preparation and adoption of any such subject as a part of the

master plan.

1. Sec. 2. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, in addition to

1. any other requirement of the local government or unit thereof, a person who

1. proposes to develop a project of significant impact within the Las Vegas

1. urban growth zone, as that zone is described in NRS 463.3094, shall, unless

1. the project was approved before the effective date of this act, submit an

1. impact statement to the local government or unit thereof having authority

1. over the zoning and approval of the project. The impact statement must be

1. submitted at least 15 days before the date on which the governing body of

1. the local government or unit thereof, or a person or agency authorized to

1. take final action by the governing body:

1. (a) Takes final action on the final map pertaining to the project, if the

1. project is a residential subdivision; or

(b) Considers the project for final action, if the project is a project other

than a residential subdivision.

2. An impact statement required pursuant to subsection 1 must set

forth:

(a) The number of vehicle trips that the project will generate, estimated

by applying to the proposed project the average trip rates for the peak days

and hours established by the Institute of Transportation Engineers or its

successor.

school, junior high or middle school, and high school that the project will

cause to be enrolled in local schools.

(c) The quantity of sewage effluent that the project will generate,

estimated by applying a sewage generation factor established by the

provider of sewer service or an equivalent calculation to the number of

units or area of indoor floor space that will be created by the project.

(d) The quantity of water that the project will demand during and after

its construction, estimated by applying a demand factor established by the

provider of water service or an equivalent calculation to the number of

units that will be created by and the gross acreage that will be occupied by

the project.

(e) The increase in quantity of storm water runoff that the project will

generate, estimated by using standard hydrologic methods.

(f) The distance from the site on which the project will be located to the

nearest facilities from which fire-fighting, police and emergency services

are provided, including, without limitation, facilities that are planned, but

not yet constructed, and facilities which have been included in a plan for

capital improvements prepared by the appropriate local government

pursuant to NRS 278.0226.

(g) The existing and planned capacities of schools, roads, sources of

water supply and facilities for wastewater and flood control that will be

affected by the project. This information must be obtained from the

appropriate local providers of those services.

(h) A brief statement setting forth the anticipated effect of the project on

housing, mass transit, open space and recreation.

3. A person shall not develop in phases, subdivide or otherwise

partition a proposed project for the purpose of evading or avoiding the

provisions of this section.

4. An impact statement required pursuant to this section may include

by reference any information or data relevant to such a statement that is a

matter of public record or is generally available to the public, including,

without limitation, information:

(a) Contained in a report required by another federal or state law or

local ordinance, or as a condition imposed as a part of the process for

approving the project; or

(b) Regarding a phase of a project that consists of multiple phases of

construction, if information pertaining to that phase has already been

disclosed in a report pertaining to another phase or to the project as a

whole.

5. A local government or unit thereof having authority over the zoning

and approval of a project of significant impact shall not approve such a

project unless:

(a) An impact statement has been submitted for the project pursuant to

subsection 1;

(b) The local government or unit thereof determines that the appropriate

local school district has been given an opportunity to review the project

pursuant to NRS 278.346, if the provisions of that section are applicable.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the local

government or unit thereof determines that the capacities of roads, sources

of water supply and facilities for wastewater and flood control will be

sufficient to support the project. A local government or unit thereof may

approve a project with respect to which the capacities of roads, sources of

water supply or facilities for wastewater and flood control will not be

sufficient to support the project if the local government or unit thereof

requires the person who proposes to develop the project to carry out

appropriate measures of mitigation to reduce the impact of the project on

those elements of infrastructure.

6. The provisions of this section do not apply with respect to real

property that is subject to a development agreement with a local

government if the development agreement became effective before the

effective date of this act.

7. As used in this section, "project of significant impact" means a

project that would create:

(b) Tourist accommodations of 300 units or more;

(c) A commercial or industrial facility generating more than 3,000

average daily vehicle trips; or

(d) A nonresidential development encompassing more than 160 acres.

Sec. 3. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

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