File #: 23-1617   
Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 11/14/2023 In control: Clark County Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 11/21/2023 Final action:
Title: Introduce an Ordinance to amend Title 16 of the Clark County Code to add a new Chapter 16.13 to establish pedestrian flow zones on pedestrian bridges and up to 20 feet surrounding a touchdown structure; and providing for other matters properly relating thereto; and set a public hearing. (For possible action)
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Ordinance New Chapter 16.13 Pedestrian Flow Zones, 3. Final Sousa Report

CLARK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

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Petitioner:

Kevin Schiller, County Manager Abigial Frierson, Deputy County Manager

Recommendation: 

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Introduce an Ordinance to amend Title 16 of the Clark County Code to add a new Chapter 16.13 to establish pedestrian flow zones on pedestrian bridges and up to 20 feet surrounding a touchdown structure; and providing for other matters properly relating thereto; and set a public hearing.  (For possible action)

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BACKGROUND: 

The proposed ordinance would create Pedestrian Flow Zones within the resort corridor on pedestrian bridges and up to 20 feet surrounding a touchdown structure, which includes elevators, escalators and stairways located on public right of way associated with a pedestrian bridge. The ordinance would prohibit any person from stopping, standing, or engaging in activity that causes another person to stop or stand within a Pedestrian Flow Zone to ensure the continuous movement of pedestrian traffic on pedestrian bridges and surrounding touchdown structures. The public safety concerns regarding pedestrian bridges on the Las Vegas Strip are discussed in a report prepared by William Sousa, Ph.D.  The ordinance addresses public safety on the pedestrian bridges on the Las Vegas Strip and is narrowly tailored to accomplish this goal by requiring every person utilizing the pedestrian bridge to keep moving across the bridge to ensure pedestrians gets to their desired location in the safest matter possible.

Staff recommends a public hearing be set for December 5, 2023, at 10:00 a.m.