Some of the biggest problems in rezoning the remaining 1,250 parcels of land in Pahrump continue to be postponed by the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission.

When they addressed the northeast quadrant last month, the Calvada Meadows Airpark issue was tabled. Last Wednesday, they decided to leave 359 lots targeted for the town center zone alone until a review of the five-year-old Pahrump master plan is conducted.

The intent was to create a pedestrian-friendly area with small lots that would be a center of town, with architectural controls. It includes the Calvada Eye where county offices are planned. Consultants envisioned a neighborhood of art galleries, craft shops and other businesses.

But property owners to the north, just off Highway 160, wanted to remind the RPC they exist as well in the proposed zone.

Herbert Kamakeeaina, 930 S. Firebird Circle West, said he has owned property in that area since 1984 and bought it with the assumption it would be for mobile homes.

"You're going to make my property tax and everything else go up," he said. "Situations like this, when things pass, they condemn places. They take the place away from the people who own it."

Bobbi Hommel echoed his concerns.

"I own a home in what you're going to call town center. There are 12 of us who own homes there. We're worried about taxes. We're worried about getting forced out," she said. "Those are modest homes. We can't afford more taxes."

Another area about which county commission liaison Butch Borasky said he received the most calls was on Torrey Pines Drive and Pahrump Valley Boulevard near Lakeview Executive Golf Course, where developers of the Calvada project envisioned multi-family homes. The area wound up developing into a neighborhood of single-family homes. But the RPC recommended rezoning it to multi-family anyway.

Richard Hatch said allowing multi-family residences would lead to blight in the neighborhood.

RPC member Carrick "Bat" Masterson, a salesman for many years for Calvada, said those lots were on the Calvada sales maps since 1970 as multi-family. He said property owners bought lots knowing they were in a multi-family zone.

"We were under the impression it was all single-family lots," Hatch countered. "We have hundreds, if not thousands, of undeveloped, multi-family lots in Pahrump now. Why do we need more of them?"

Nye County Chief Civil Deputy District Attorney Ron Kent said county officials wrestled many times with the issue of whether the conditions, covenants and restrictions for the Calvada project were enforceable.

The county isn't legally bound to enforce contractual agreements between developers and land purchasers like CC&Rs but could be ethically bound to abide by them, he said.

"The marching orders for the county commission historically has been to make every effort to accommodate the reasonable expectations of the purchasers with Preferred Equities," Kent said.

A few residents showed up to complain about Lewis Equipment Co. on South Dandelion Street in a request to rezone property to general commercial at 4191 S. Dandelion St. They got a compromise with a recommendation for neighborhood commercial.

"I can't see light industrial going up, zig-zag across the street from us with whatever welding, grinding, banging there might be," Dan Clark said.

Art Jones said residents on Malibou Street had to stop trucks from taking shortuts to gravel pits.

Gail Matthews said the situation at Lewis Equipment. has gotten worse.

"It looks like a dump, there's fences gone down, there is graffiti all over it. The stuff is packed so high, if we get a really strong wind I don't know why this stuff doesn't go down," Matthews said.

RPC Chairman Mark Kimball sounded exasperated to hear the Lewis Equipment debate again. The equipment company was plopped down next to a residential neighborhood back in 2001 before the hard zoning of today.

"The public testimony on this has been so mixed and so volatile for so long, I remember a time we all said this should never have happened but it did," Kimball said. "We used to say two wrongs don't make a right."

Bruce Winchester, a resident of Autumnwood Estates, asked Planning Director Jack Lohman, "Would you allow light industry across the street from your home?"

Farther south, residents on Manse Road wanted to keep it residential in an area that is now a hodgepodge of businesses and residences on a busy thoroughfare. A few lots were recommended to be rezoned neighborhood commercial but some residents won out, getting a rural estates zone instead.

"One of the problems is this is our residence. We lived there for 18 years," said Paul Hill, manager of the Weimer Estate at 1350 E. Manse Road. He got a residential zone but nearby properties were recommended for commercial.

Kimball told Milas Williams, 4090 E. Manse Road., the RPC didn't have anything to do with the way the area developed.

"It's the way the road happened," Kimball said. "It's busier."

Mike Rablin, Williams' neighbor, said planned large developments in the area ceased operation during the economic crisis.

"It's perfect the way it is -- residential. We don't need tire shops or greasy spoons, which isn't going to do anything conducive," Rablin said.

Masterson replied, "There was a feeling all of Manse would eventually become commercial. I'm not sure that is going to happen. At some point I feel it probably will, but we're several years down the road before it happens."

RPC member Nevada Tolladay noted the capital improvement plan calls for widening Manse Road into five lanes.

In some cases, the RPC was limited to recommending the rezoning of properties to an equal or less intensive use than what was posted on the agenda for the Wednesday night meeting. That was the case for the Hafen family of developers, who wanted a commercial manufacturing zone for the storage of supplies for their utility company on Santovito Street, and for Nico Polema, who wanted the same zoning for his trucking business on Thousandaire Boulevard.

Both businesses are east of Hafen Ranch Road and have been rezoned rural homestead for now.