When Hogle-Ireland consultants prepared a zoning map for 48,500 parcels in Pahrump in 2007, they left out 1,251 parcels for further study.

Those are being addressed by the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission now, to eliminate the last of the old open-use zoning.

Notices were sent out last week to property owners in the northwestern part of Pahrump Valley whose parcels are being addressed during an RPC meeting at 6 p.m., Feb. 11. The foldover letter also includes notice of possible action at the March 17 Nye County Commission meeting.

The northwest quadrant includes properties north of Basin Avenue and west of Blagg Road.

The two categories of properties left untouched in the Hogle-Ireland zoning study include 370 properties designated mixed use in the Pahrump master plan passed in 2003, where property owners have objected to rezoning from the open-use category. Those properties remained in the least intensive use, the open-use zone, until a plan was presented to rezone them.

The other category includes 871 former Calvada properties where conditions, covenants and restrictions from that project created conflicts with rezoning.

The Calvada conflict areas include:

* The Calvada Meadows Air Park, where the proposed VR-20 zone doesn't allow enough space for airplane hangars;

* The Calvada mobile home subdivision near Highway 372 and Firebird Circle, where an RV park-commercial zone developed as single-family residences;

* The Calvada North subdivision, where Calvada sales maps don't match the master plan;

* An area around Calvada Boulevard and Mount Charleston Drive where a large number of property owners opposed a suggesed multi-family residential zone;

* The proposed Industrial North area, in the far northwest section, which faces opposition from residents.

When consultants couldn't complete the rezoning in 2007, then-Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos suggested appointing a committee of businesspeople to review the remainder of parcels.

A comprehensive rezoning task force was formed which included Liakpoulos, Pahrump Regional Planning Commission member Carrick "Bat" Masterson, Dave Richards from CivilWise Services, Tim McCall from Terry Hand Realty and Donna Lamm from Provenza Realty. The task force held eight meetings and examined each parcel.

Nye County Planning Director Jack Lohman said the task force recommendations lay fallow since last April for a variety of reasons. The parcels had to be arranged chronologically and formatted for easy reference. The district attorney's office had to review the notices. There were revisions to landscaping and parking regulations being proposed first. Then came the holidays.

"Basically I want people to know we're not rezoning the whole Pahrump town," Lohman said. "We sent the notices out. We're starting to get calls with a misunderstanding of what's going out."

After the northwest quadrant, the RPC will consider the northeast quadrant, then the two south quadrants. Lohman said if all goes well, the entire remaining parcels could be rezoned by this summer.

The northwestern quadrant includes an Industrial North zone that is subject to debate. In some cases, the task force recommended rezoning property in acordance with the Hogle-Ireland recommendations, in other cases it suggested using the original Calvada sales maps as a guide.

The study suggests all of Blagg Road should be examined. The major road is not conducive to residences with the Celebrate Homes development across the street, it states.

At the initial meeting of the task force, Richards said some property-owners in the mixed use area in the master plan were zoned to the least intensive use but wanted to rezone to the maximum zoning, like commercial.

Hogle-Ireland had three other categories of properties that weren't included in the comprehensive zoning map passed on June 20, 2007. They included properties where there had been obvious mistakes; people who had different opinions from the consultants' recommendations where the consultants concurred with the owner's suggestion; and a category Lohman calls "no way Jose," where property owners disagreed with consultants but the owners wanted uses that didin't fit the master plan.