Laurayne Murray, the Pahrump town board's liaison on the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission, said she's been receiving inquiries about the Beverly Park master-planned livable senior citizen community.

The RPC approved a map Wednesday that calls for building a 953-unit residential condominium development for seniors on 78.6 acres at Barney Street and Basin Avenue.

The subdivision would come complete with a 10,000-square-foot senior center, which will be donated to Nye County. Medical offices, a gas station and shopping center complete with a pharmacy, coffee shop, laundromat, grocery store and bank will also be included.

The "livable community" -- meaning it includes all the necessary conveniences -- will include 30-foot-wide golf cart paths.

"A lot of people told me, 'I postponed building a house or buying a house waiting for this to happen,'" Murray said.

The property was rezoned from open use to mixed use Oct. 24.

RPC Chairman Mark Kimball said he wants to show the plans to members of the American Planning Association when they tour Pahrump on a side trip from a convention in Las Vegas as an example of the growing retirement community here. He noted an article in a leading business publication recently which stated Pahrump was the third most popular retirement destination in the U.S.

"We still have a long way to go in that whole process," Richards said, "but the tentative map gets a little more specific regarding engineering and densities and the way the project looks and the amenities that are going to be put in there. Even though it's not the final stage we have architectural site plans to be submitted to planning for approvals. This is getting a lot closer to the final product."

Richards was granted concessions striking two conditions of approval he said would speed up the project.

Richards was granted a waiver from a provision that would prohibit submitting a final subdivision map until engineering plans for grading, streets and utilities as well as drainage studies and traffic impact studies are approved by the Nye County Public Works Department.

Another would require off-tract assessment fees, bonding and improvement agreements in place before the submission of the final subdivision map.