KINGMAN – An avalanche of public opposition brings rejection of Las Vegas businessman Peter Cimino’s economic development plan for Golden Valley. Some two dozen speakers spent nearly an hour speaking against the project during the March 3 Mohave County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Cimino previously secured Planning and Zoning Commission support for rezoning required for the grocery store, fast food, storage unit and housing project proposed on 29 acres along Teddy Roosevelt Drive, south of Highway 68.
Many opponents indicated the project threatened their peace and rural lifestyle. And many noted various concerns about traffic and road maintenance, public safety and wastewater seervice plans.
Cimino noted he eliminated plans for a 47-unit apartment complex, given push back that occurred during a community information meeting. Cimino quietly and politely expressed understanding and thanks after the Board unanimously voted down the rezone.
In other board business:
Supervisors voted 3-2 against a limited trial run for zero-based budgeting supported by board members Ron Gould and Rich Lettman. The majority agreed that annual budgeting is already well underway and that now is not the time to engage in experimental spending plan development.
The Board voted 4-1 in support of Board Chairman Travis Lingenfelter’s proposal to equally divide incoming opioid settlement monies for use by each of the supervisors in their five districts. Lingenfelter said the same approach worked well for the distribution of more than $41-million dollars of ARPA funds received by the county.
County Manager Sam Elters said that it was cumbersome and “truly overwhelming” for staff to administer the five money pot approach for ARPA, and expressed the same will be true for opioid settlement dollars to be handled in the same manner.
“I think you’re over-complicating it,” Lingenfelter told Elters, before the five district distribution plan was approved.
