When Carrick "Bat" Masterson first took his seat on the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission in 2002, he recalled RPC members were resigning in droves after Nye County commissioners largely disregarded their recommendations.

The current RPC board, however, can feel less impotent as county commissioners religiously abided by RPC recommendations last week in rezoning the remaining parcels in southeastern Pahrump.

The parcels were left unresolved in a zoning study by Hogle Ireland consultants adopted in 2007.

The comprehensive rezoning task force recommendations were mostly disregarded, however, which included more suggestions to up-zone properties to commercial uses.

The task force was composed of a few members of the real estate community and a consultant for developers.

County Commissioner Butch Borasky, liaison to the RPC, made the motions to rezone the properties based on the RPC recommendations. They were usually adopted without comment.

After residents packed the audience for the RPC hearings on the remaining parcels, which lasted hours, only several people showed up to see their cases through to the final conclusion before the county commission Monday.

One of the objectors, Paul Holder, protested making an area around his lot at 2130 E. Manse Road residential. He said the RPC was "a quasi-government agency" composed of appointees.

"The area is slated for the airport, which would be a main thoroughfare," Holder said. "If we get this changed to residential properties, we might have a problem down the road trying to capitalize on any type of commercial zoning."

The county commission took his comments to heart and suggested the RPC reconsider the Manse Road area. Some residents there told the RPC they don't want commercial zoning. Borasky said the comprehensive rezoning task force suggested neighborhood commercial, but that may not be a zone they want to place on someone's property.

Two properties in the 4,000 block of South Homestead Road were also sent back for further study after property owner Martin Benson said Homestead would be a major north-south transportation route. Benson said he bought his property 15 years ago with the understanding it would be commercial. The recommendation was to rezone it village residential.

Developer Tim Hafen wanted a commercial manufacturing zone for properties recommended for a rural homestead residential zone in the 5,000 block of East Santovito Street. Commissioners agreed to remand those lots back to the RPC for consideration since the wording of the agenda didn't allow for rezoning the lots commercial manufacturing.

Terry Johnson won mixed-use zoning for property at 2315 E. Gamebird Road, while neighboring parcels were rezoned to rural estates.

Numerous properties on South Telegraph Road and South New Way, for which the task force suggested general commercial zoning, were tossed back to the RPC for further study when the planning department reviews the master plan.

Planning Director Jack Lohman said there will also be a study of the corridors along Highways 160 and 372, and Bell Vista Avenue as part of the review of the master plan, adopted in 2004, which was a general guide for the zoning map adopted in 2007. Lohman said master plans should be updated every five years.

Borasky told Niko Polema a master plan review could allow him to rezone his property at 6160 E. Thousandaire Blvd., to commercial. Polema said he's operated a trucking business there. It was rezoned rural homestead.

A parcel at 4061 E. Dandelion St. near Lewis Equipment Co., recommended for light industrial by the task force, was also remanded back to the RPC for further study.

Only the zoning of the problem parcels in the southwest quadrant remain to be decided by county commissioners.

The RPC last week had a small number of parcels to consider in that quadrant. The valley was divided into four quadrants, with the dividing lines being Basin Avenue and Blagg Road.

"We're gratified that the board of county commissioners is viewing most of the special quadrants the same way we are. We are all gratified that we're getting close to the finish line on hard zoning," RPC Chairman Mark Kimball said.

He said the county commission is adopting their recommendations 90 percent of the time.

"All of our work pays off when they have to review our work," Kimball said.