Expansion plans for Terrible's Town Casino will be presented to the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission, which meets at 3:30 p.m. today.

Ed Herbst, representing the Herbst Family Limited Partnership, has submitted a request to rezone the 12.16-acre property at Highway 160 and Crawford Way from open use to general commercial. A conditional use permit has also been requested to expand the casino and gas station, add a hotel and construct a parking garage, movie theater and restaurant.

The plans include demolishing an existing recreational vehicle sales office and expanding the convenience store, gas station and casino.

The proposed expansion includes a 21,620-square-foot addition for eight theaters with 1,300 seats; a 5,000-square-foot restaurant addition identified as part of the T.G.I. Fridays chain; a five-level, 534-space parking garage and an additional 29,618 square feet of casino space.

A four-story, 100-room hotel will be part of a later expansion that will be added as market conditions warrant, according to a letter to the Pahrump Regional Planning District from Patrick Lenahan, senior project manager for the Kansas City firm of Yaeger Architecture. Another four theaters, another 19,000-square-foot expansion of the casino and an expanded garage are also part of the project referred to as later expansions.

The casino addition would expand to the south of the existing casino and would be about 20 percent larger. The theater addition would continue south from the casino addition, while the restaurant would branch off toward the street from the casino addition. The proposed hotel would be built to the rear of the property behind the existing casino, at a future date.

The company asks for a waiver from regulations requiring a six-foot, side landscape buffer, as the project will span across several property lines.

The multiple properties are being developed under a long-term lease agreement between the Herbst family and other property owners.

A traffic impact analysis will be submitted once it is completed and approved by the Nye County Public Works Department, Lenahan's letter states.

While the request to rezone the property has been submitted to the RPC, Brent Steed, senior building inspector for the Pahrump Building and Safety Department, said no plans have been submitted for review by the building department or the state fire marshal's office.