We understand many are interested in guidance on what to say to the Planning Commissioners and City Council about Duncan Golf’s “hotel and spa” conceptual plan and Zoning Map Amendment LDC25-00061 to re-zone 12.5 ACRES of the Lakeridge Golf Course from ace PGOS to SPD.
If it is helpful, below is text designed for you to review, customize to add your own voice and perspective, and send along to City leadership. Please do not copy and paste the entire email as it would minimize the recipients from hearing your voice and how strongly you feel and how it would set a bad precedent for re-zoning all open space in Reno.
Email addresses for City Leadership are available under What You Can Do.
Email template to customize - Please do not copy verbatim!
Subject: No to Duncan Golf Zoning Map Amendment LDC25-00061
Email Body:
City of Reno leadership and planning commission,
I stand with the concerned citizens who would be impacted if Duncan Golf’s application LDC25-00061 were to be approved. Vote “No” to Duncan Golf’s application that would ruin the Lakeridge community.
The facts support a “no vote” on Duncan’s re-zoning application:
Re-zoning ANY of the Lakeridge Golf Course, even 8% of the entire golf course sets the City and its constituents up for a repeat of the Lakeridge Tennis Club debacle. Once you say Yes, you can’t say NO!
Land zoning must be consistent with the Reimagine Reno Master Plan. The City of Reno specifically re-zoned the 155 acres in 2005 as Parks Greenways Open Space (PGOS), and a 2022 staff report to the Planning Commission wrote: “The current neighborhoods within the Master Planned Community of Lakeridge that surround the golf course have grown and developed with the presumption that the golf course would remain an open space… Losing open space has impacts to elements such as public value, viewsheds, traffic and overall neighborhood character…”
The application states, “actual building size, configuration, and location will be determined at the time of application submission for future building permits or land use entitlements.” With no renderings or a cross section of the conceptual land plan for the 12.5 acres, the community and City of Reno are being asked to support a project that they have no idea what it will look like in terms of how it will impede views and privacy. Ahead of any review of the zone change and master plan amendment, Duncan Golf should be required to prepare such visualization as only then will the City and residents see how the proposed buildings and uses would be positioned on the property and impact existing residences views, privacy and property value.
Not only will zoning be changed from PGOS to a development zone, but it’s being changed without any concrete information. How is it possible to find the project in conformance with the Reimage Reno Master Plan? How can Staff, the Planning Commission, or the City Council be able to make any findings per the Master Plan based on the application as submitted for approval. There is no compromise! Say NO and send Duncan Golf back to the drawing board.
Thank you for your consideration and support!
Sincerely,
Your concerned constituent