Southern Nevada Homebuilders Ass'n v. Clark County

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

The Clark County Board of Commissioners approved a debated zoning ordinance that required supermajority (two-thirds) board approval of nonconforming zone change applications. The ordinance’s enabling statute, NRS 278.260, is silent as to whether supermajority approval is authorized. The district court concluded that the construction of other relevant statutes, together with silence on the matter in NRS 278.260, amounted to a broad grant of authority to the County Commissioners and declared the supermajority voting provision valid.

We conclude that there is no…