Las Vegas Ward 6 City Councilman Steve Ross will be holding his annual Information Fair at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Northwest Career and Technical Academy, 8200 W. Tropical Parkway, where information about various northwest land developments will be distributed.
It couldn't come at a better time for a growing legion of residents in the Ann Road-Las Vegas Beltway area, who recently met to organize their opposition to the Washburn-Alpine Ridge project, a city facility still in the planning stages.
An informal meeting of more than 100 neighbors, simply calling themselves Citizens of the Northwest, was held on April 2 in a meeting room at the Santa Fe Station. The purpose was to connect with one another and collect signatures for a petition opposing the rezoning of 131 acres at the southwest corner of Ann Road and the Beltway that would pave the way for the facility, which might include a trash transfer station, a bus yard and a city maintenance yard.
"We just want to make sure everyone has signed the petition. It will help us develop a proposal to help them realize exactly what we don't want," said Denise Arencibia, one of the meeting's organizers.
She also made sure the attending residents were planning to attend this week's Information Fair.
"I don't think they will be able to ignore angry residents," she said.
The event will be an opportunity for neighbors to get copies of maps and proposals for the Washburn project, but it will not be a meeting to discuss any action. The rezoning requests by the city were included on the March 13 Planning Commission agenda, but were tabled to a later, undetermined date.
A neighborhood meeting to discuss the project has been planned for June 10 at 6 p.m. at the Centennial Hills Community Center, 6601 N. Buffalo Drive. Clark County Commissioner Chip Maxfield and Las Vegas Ward 4 City Councilman Larry Brown are scheduled to join Ross at that meeting to address neighbors' concerns.
Information about other developing projects in the northwest, such as the Great Mall of Las Vegas planned at Grand Montecito Parkway and Deer Springs Way, also will be available at Thursday's event, and representatives from development companies, Clark County and the Nevada Department of Transportation are scheduled to appear to make presentations.
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