A four member task force was approved by Nye County commissioners Wednesday to make recommendations on 1,251 properties left out of the comprehensive zoning map.

The members include Dave Richards, vice-president of Civilwise Services, which represents landowners in rezoning requests; Carrick "Bat" Masterson, a Pahrump Regional Planning Commission member and former salesman for the Calvada project as well as The Land Office; Donna Lamm, a member of the Southern Nye County Conservation District and broker for Provenza Realty, and Tim McCall, an employee of Terry Hand Realty.

They were approved by a 3-0 vote of the county commission. (Commissioners Joni Eastley and Roberta "Midge" Carver were attending a meeting of the Central Nevada Water Authority in Eureka and weren't present.)

County commissioners June 20, approved a rezoning map presented by Hogle-Ireland consultants, except for about 2.5 percent of the parcels in Pahrump Valley. The consultants left out 871 properties identified as needing further study, most of them in a few Calvada subdivisions, and 370 listed as mixed use in the master plan.

Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos made the suggestion to appoint a committee of local business people to review the 1,241 remaining properties and make a recommendation. He made the motion to appoint the four members Wednesday.

The areas that were identified by consultants as needing further study included:

Calvada Meadows Air Park subdivision, where a VR-20 zone restricted airplane hangars;

The Calvada mobile home subdivision southwest of Highway 160 and 372, which conflicts with single-family development in the subdivision;

A Calvada multi-family study area, south of Mount Charleston Drive along Pahrump Valley Boulevard, where large numbers of property owners oppose multi-family zoning, though sales maps designate the area as multi-family but lots are subdivided as single family;

The Calvada North subdivision, close to Leslie Street and Mountain View, where sales maps indicate some commercial components but don't match the master plan;

The industrial north study area, south of Tiffany Street, east of Leslie Street, where the master plan aroused controversy from residents opposed to the business park/light industrial land use designation.

Some properties that were identified as mixed use in the master plan, where the property owner requested something contrary to what Hogle-Ireland consultants proposed, were retained with the old catch-all open use zoning until they could be studied further.