During the review of the OALC Hyson Cemetery expansion project, officials and the applicant discussed potential impacts to a wetland habitat buffer located on the property. The applicant is evaluating whether to completely avoid the buffer area during Phase 6 of the expansion or to pursue a formal wetland permit that would allow for minor impacts and the installation of physical demarcation along the boundary.
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Clark County Land Use Hearings · Mar 26, 2026 · 1:14:53–1:15:20 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: Salmon Habitat wetlands habitat stormwater wildlife
What was said
1:13:52 The name of this project is the OALC Hyson Cemetery. The case before the hearings examiner this evening is a request for conditional use and site plan approval to add 3,489 cemetery plots in 10 phases to the existing church property and to build a second 800 square foot maintenance shed located on 12.64 acres in the R5 zone. There's my slide here. Sorry. All right. As I said, my name is Joe Kinsman. I am the review planner for this project. Alistair Dawson is the review engineer. Jason Noble reviewed this from the fire marshal's office. And Craig Cottle is our concurrency engineer.
1:14:47 And last but not least, Lance Watt reviewed this from -- this project from the wetland and habitat review group. Tonight during our presentation, staff will provide an overview and summary of the proposal, identify any major outstanding issues or concerns and make our recommendation to the examiner. On the vicinity map, the subject property is identified by the black dot. North is oriented to the top of the page. We can see on this map that it lies south of northeast 279th street, east of northeast 147th avenue, west of northeast 182nd avenue and north of battleground lake.
1:15:41 The zoning map provides a closer look at the parcelization of the subject and abutting lots. The site is highlighted in red. The site and surrounding parcels are zoned R5. And this property is surrounded by a rural single family residential lots. In this slide, it is an aerial view of the subject property with the property lines shown in red. In this image, we can see that the existing rural single family residential homes that surround the site on all sides. You can also see that northeast 182nd avenue is running along the east property line of
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direct keyword 1:14:53–1:15:20 Salmon, Habitat, wetlands, habitat, stormwater, wildlife
this project. Alistair Dawson is the review engineer. Jason Noble reviewed this from the fire marshal's office. And Craig Cottle is our concurrency engineer. And last but not least, Lance Watt reviewed this from -- this project from the wetland and habitat review group. Tonight during our presentation, staff will provide an overview and summary of the proposal, identify any major outstanding issues or concerns and make our recommendation to the examiner. On the vicinity map, the subject propert