🎙️ S2 EP 31 🎙️“Rebuilding the Future: Strong Towns, Smart Streets & a Safer Las Vegas”

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Bour Okay, this evening, we have two guests. Okay, we're
Our first guest is hold On Alex Rodriguez and Cyrus Hoojatti.
Thank you, I got it right welcome to the show.

(05:47):
You guys, I want I want you both. They are
both involved with a Strong Town's Las Vegas, and so
you're gonna tell us a little bit about each of you.
You're going to tell a little bit about yourself, and
then you're going to tell our listeners about what strong
Town's Las Vegas is. But our question of the day,

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and for both of you to briefly answer, is what
is your proposal to reduce the pedestrian death rate in
Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
First of all, thank you for having me on. A
lot of people claim that the main cause of our
pedestrian drafts is simply the drivers, but the reality is
they're not designed for pedestrians. That's the problem. You see
when you look at the middle routes what we call
arterial roads surface streets. These are Jones, Charleston, Blue Diamond,
Eastern Saint Rose. They try to mix the benefits of

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a highway and a street in the one so cars
will speed and they usually often don't go fast, and
then pedestrians usually try to cross, and somehow the drivers
are very confused. They're not driving in an environment that
is safer for pedestrians to cross. So what we need
to do is we need to distinguish between slow moving

(07:02):
traffic for cars that is safer designed for pedestrians and cyclists,
and then separate from fast moving traffic which is essentially
designed for cars to go fast and so forth. In fact,
this is our number one urban planning issue, which is
street design. This is in our code. It is still

(07:23):
currently being built and proposed encode in Clark County. And
that's what we mainly have to change. Urban planning is
the number one issue living here in Las Vegas, Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
And that was Cyrus JACKI And so now we're going
to hear from Alex Rodriguez.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
What is the same.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Yeah, it's just basically you have like you got obviously
all the strods.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
You have your Jones Boulevard, your Rainbow Boulevard.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
You're going forty five fifty some cars are going fifty
five miles an hour. Then there's a stop light there,
and then there's always that yellow light. They're always trying
to try to pass and stuff. That's also causing all
the car accidents instead of just finding to slow down
some of the roads, like you have your Alta was
it Alta Avenue over there? And Charleston over there, that
street's a little bit slower. And also why didn't our

(08:09):
sidewalks a little bit by our schools, you know, the
schools too, of the sidewalks are.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Not walking friendly as well.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
It's also why a lot of parents are not allowing
their kids to walk to school anymore.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
It's not safe for kids to walk to school anymore.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
But they're riding those little scooters to school.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
And the scooters also are also getting in the way
of the cars.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, so okay, so to begin apause,
But Alex, please tell us a little bit about yourself
and how you got involved with Strong Towns Las Vegas.

Speaker 6 (08:42):
I was born and raised here in Las Vegas, and
my family is actually my dad's side of the families
from New Jersey, right across the river from New York City,
and my mom's side of the family's from Detroit, Michigan.
So going back into the East Coast and the Midwest,
seeing what life is like over there, I noticed that
the cities, especially you know, New York City, and there's

(09:03):
parts of New Jersey too, where you know, it's it's
just like life is just a little bit different out
there out here. It's like, you know, you got to
get in your car to get everywhere. It's almost like
we're forced we have to have a car to get
around everywhere in New York, New Jersey.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
You know, it's it's it's a little bit more mixed
out there.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
And what I wanted to add is that, you know,
people will say, well, we want detached homes. They're about
two thirds of the housing stock, but almost all of
them are tiny lot and you can find tiny lot
homes where he's talking about, and it's a totally different ballgame.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yeah, but where I why I also got into this.
I've also been in real estate before. I've I've renovated
homes before, so I'm interested in renovating neighborhoods, safer neighborhoods,
things like that. And just over times I was driving
around in the city and stuff. It was I met
Cyrus about five years ago or so and kind of
woke me up realizing after I've also been in.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
A couple of car accidents in this town. For crying
out loud.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
It's also because of the way our streets are designed,
go stop, go stop, and I've been most of the
car accidents were either tea or rear end obviously that's
when you see most accidents happen out here.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Alex. Have you been politically active in any way.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
A little bit?

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah, ever since a little bit since twenty twenty or so.
But you know this has been, you know, mainly a
personal issue of mine with the car accidents I've been in,
and also I care about my neighborhood and my community.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
You know, I'm seeing the community change a little bit,
We've seen.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
I used to live also out by Blue Diamond Road,
where there was like a country area. Now you see
it all sadly developed and it's not like the same
quiet area once was.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
So okay, Cyrus, can you tell us a little bit
about yourself and how you became involved with Longtown.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
I was born and raised in southern California. I moved
here when I was twenty four. It was my goal
since around twelve years old to become a real estate developer.
I was inspired by the building boom back then. I
moved here and Southern California made a lot of mistakes
in many regards, including urban planning. But I also knew
urban planning was the top issue here living here in

(11:03):
Las Vegas. It just doesn't have a lot of the
character that you find in old historic cities. So I
want to be a developer, but it's important that we
reform the codes build possibly new cities out of scratch
forty miles away, so we can show to the world
that we can become something. I need to come up
with this activism, show the people what is wrong, and

(11:23):
promote my organization, which I'd like to share later on.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
So basically, Strong towns Las Vegas is a nonpartisan nonprofit
with over one hundred US chapters and worldwide and chapters
around the world. And so can you just tell our
audience a little bit more about Drongtown and what is

(11:47):
its goal.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well, we seek to reform land, US transportation and architecture. So,
as you know, he talked about old city planning. Even
here in southern Nevada, areas that seem to have the
kind of character and functionality. Examples include downtown here in
Las Vegas, maybe Water Street to a certain extent, but
historic Boulder City. They all have the character of the functionality,

(12:11):
and what we're trying to do is Ever since then,
after the nineteen twenties, codes came along, like parking requirements,
certain street design standards like the arterier roads. I talked
about forty five mile an hour, six lanes, two left
turn lanes, all that those codes came in, and we
want to roll a lot of those things back. We
think that a lot of those changes were unnecessary. We

(12:33):
are focused on land use. So for an example, we
are pushing mixed use. Now we want something flexible pretty much.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, So you mentioned callers. Our number is seven zero
two two two one seven two eighty three. Please call
in and join the conversation. This is about your neighborhood.
And so one thing that I did mention is when
I first heard about strong strong towns, I thought it
was similar to those fifteen minute cities, which I oppose

(13:03):
right off the bat. But tell us what the distinction is.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
The leader of the organization, Charles Moron, does not promote
climate change or any of these environmental agendas. Now, there
have been some environmental push to push this. Look, there's
been what we're opposed to is pretty much modern urban
planning sprawl. There have been these infiltrated factors that have

(13:27):
been trying to push agendas like that. I've been calling
it out for the last fifteen years. We are more traditional.
We want to just bring the benefits back of the
nineteen twenties when we were freer. So it's really about deregulation.
We believe that you should want to live where it's
low density or high density. But the problem is is
that almost all of America it's difficult to build what

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we want, especially high rise buildings.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Okay, and then you mentioned code reform. Now wouldn't that
be the venue of the county commissioners or could be
state legislatures?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Let me done by both North Carolina legislators.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
You're doing to try to discuss this issue with the commissioners,
with the legislatures so that you can try to get
some of these reforms in that you're seeking.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well, North Carolina all legislators voted to remove parking requirements,
and we believe it can be done here. So uh,
for an example, we have a caller.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Hello, caller.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
Eve, and everyone is Ontario Brown. You'll lovely stay delegate.

Speaker 8 (14:32):
How you're doing it?

Speaker 9 (14:33):
Even every one?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Good evening, Aunt Daria. We're just speaking about you. So Ontario,
do you do you have a question for our guests?

Speaker 7 (14:44):
Well, yeah, I do have an answer to follow up,
and this is what it is to produced the East
school of Death of major loss niggas roles like Voter Highway,
Saint Rose park Way and Sahara. We need rabid safety
upgrades and bend the street design. I believe we need
to add protected and scooter lanes, high visibility crosswalks and
refugee islands and r R rfb's fashion beacons at major crosses.

Speaker 10 (15:10):
Also improving lightning and slidewalk, especially near transit stops, and
force the speeding und save school to ride, and create
eat clear scooter zol to separate riders from practice. Coordinating
nations with DLT cities and Metro will save these lives. Now,
how do you propose we do this, because it's not

(15:31):
gonna happen back to county level what we were proposing
the state legislation in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 7 (15:37):
And how youre going to lobby for that to be
done in the states.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, first of all, First of all, Ontario, you are
a candidate for assembly. Isn't that correct here?

Speaker 7 (15:48):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, well, hold on, hold on, hold on. You're a candidate,
and so I would assume that these type of proposals
that Strong Towns is seeking, it has to be something
that you might want a campaign on. But thank you
for your question. We have another caller and take your
answer on the line. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, in the last legislative session, our organization was active
in testimony and we hope to be active in the
next legislative session. We hope to meet up with legislators
from both parties, like Assembly women. Constantine represents that district,
so she can look into that. But yeah, it can
be in a state local approach. I like also like
to add up that roundabouts do help or large medians.

(16:28):
Roundabouts needs fewer lanes, reduces it's safer for pedestrians, cyclists,
and it moves cars more efficiently. Adlex would you like
to add on to that.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
We we have a second caller.

Speaker 7 (16:39):
Caller.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Who are we speaking with.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Yeah, you're talking to Matthew Winterhock.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Oh, good evening.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
How are you.

Speaker 7 (16:48):
I'm wondering how TWAC and your guests are feeling about
AB five in this Hollywood.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
Situation with a special legislative session.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
Going on as in the bat and the impact of
your feeling.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Will Alex Well, that's more of a you know, I
have a personal feeling on that, but you know, as
far as the urban planning design I haven't looked at
I have a personal feeling about the bill, but as
far as the urban planning part, I haven't really looked
into besides whatever it's gonna affect, how it's gonna affect
summerline in general.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
So and most likely development is not going to be
more traditional pedestrian friendly. Most likely they will require more lanes,
which our gas taxes will have to be used to
fund these programs. That's what I gave in my testimony yesterday.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay, well, thank you mister Winnahowk for your question.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Let me jump in here. This is Garland. I'm actually
opposed to see bill, mainly because I'm fine with the
movie industry put in just a studio here, but I
think they should pay for it and they should not
get tax a rebate or trade offs.

Speaker 6 (17:59):
I do personally do oppose the bill though, but on
just on behalf of Strong Towns.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
There isn't really has been an organization stance on that.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well. Personally, as being a sag actress, I would love
to see segwork come to Nevada, but I don't know
how long that's going to take for them to build
up these studios. And also where are they going to
get the people to be the craftsmen that are going
to be helping provide the services for making films. We

(18:30):
need the electricians, we need the lighters, we need the gaffers,
we need everything. And so I don't see that happening
if they want to make sure that these jobs are
here for people from Nevada instead of having people from
la coming into that. So this is a mixed feeling
I have about that topic. And so going on with
our questions of this evening with our guests Alex Rodriguez

(18:55):
and Cyrus Pujati, Yeah, and you're listening to talk with
a conservative.

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Speaker 1 (20:26):
You're tuned into talk with a conservative where recent still
rules and free speech still matters. Our guest this evening
are Alice Roveguez and Cyrus for HATI and they are
from Strong towns Las Vegas, and I just want our
listeners to know that Strong towns Las Vegas offers urban planning,

(20:49):
neighborhood development alternatives, and land use, transportation and architecture. So Cyrus,
please tell us a little bit more about some of
these changes you would like to see in Clark County.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Well, let's take a look at really what we have.
We we've done for the last eighty years. It's problem
around the world. We can even see it in Dubai
and all over the world. We have notorious for street
layout with cul de sacs. Streets are in a maze
that feed into very few roads. Gated areas are rampant
strip malls of dull, boring office parks, hoa's the same

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cookie cutter tract home development, large apartment complexes, and certain
housing types that are very separated. Land development is done
in a large scale like twenty acres, a certain single
use development, so certain types of commercial And this has
been going on for so long. What do we have
as a result. A lot of problems, health issues, the cost, congestion,

(21:53):
car dependency. It requires low cost of energy, so when
gas prices go up, we get screwed. It creates isolation
in the area's lack beauty and charm. But we do
have alternatives to this, and I'd like to elaborate on that.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
We have a caller, Hello, caller, Hey, how you doing good?
And who are we speaking with? Oh? Hi, Dave, how
are you.

Speaker 9 (22:21):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (22:22):
Doing great?

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (22:23):
I like what your guests have to say. They did
a question, not necessarily a state issue, probably more of
a city issue, but it would do with public with
the pedestrian safety and stuff. But do they ever are
they hearing anything or do they what's their opinion on
if there could ever be a subway type system like

(22:43):
around the two fifteen ring with the spokes going into
the strip, it would alleviate a lot of the local
traffic going in, especially now that everything's the things to
be centered on the sports industry going right into the
center and all that traffic that's going through there. It
would be good to get the local traffic eliminated from

(23:04):
the strip with some type of a subway system.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Well, thank you Dave for your question.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
Alex, that is a great question.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
I think where we want to start is with obviously
let's look at some things like the monorail. For example,
why haven't we connected the monorail to the airport.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
That's definitely a start.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
We could connect it to our sports stadiums because take
a look at what's the difference between Yankee Stadium and
Dodger Stadium. Have you guys been to a Dodger game.
You ever been in and out of Dodger Stadium. It
takes about forty five minutes to get in and out
of there. But you get to Yankee Stadium, how do
a lot of fans get there? Some people get through
the car, some people get through through the subway. So
I think there's some things that we got to start
within the city. I mean, subways are going to be

(23:44):
a little bit difficult to start, but I think starting
somewhere in the urban areas and then we eventually figure
it out as we get out. That's one of my answers,
just to get started.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
And I wanted to add that other developed countries build
these systems about one seventh or one eighth the cost
than they do in this country. So these costs of
these systems are outrageous, like the California High speed rail.
So we can learn from what they do, and we
have to maintain them, keep them safe like they do overseas.
But we are a very pro transit organization. We know

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that it moves people more effectively, but we need to
get walkability first.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
We should bring this up that the Raider Stadium, by
the way, they didn't have to follow the parking minimums,
the Raider stadium, the MGM, they all kind of figured
it out almost in a free market.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
The RTC can take over the ADMI.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
We can get in and out of those stadiums and
those events real quick and efficiently.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
They still can't figure out at Dodger.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Stae and Gondola's pods whether it's passenger rail can help
as well.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Well. Here we actually have Elon Musk and the boring
company who's making underground auteries if you will, so they
could actually, I guess Elon Musk could if the boring
company do a subway around you know, last I guess
what folks going in. The equipment's already here, will just

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take a little while to do it.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Yeah, but Tesla's don't move as many people as other
transit systems.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
That's say we hook a bunch of Teslas up, but
we I think a little.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
Bit more than.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
So, Uh, Dave, are you still on the line.

Speaker 13 (25:21):
Yes, Yeah, I was gonna say, Uh, I think it'd
take more than just the Tesla system. I don't think
that moves enough people. But uh, it just seems like
what we need is a city councilor some commissioners with
some type of a vision for the future because obviously
the pedestrian traffic, I mean, look at the Strip, strip
is getting crazy. If we could find a way to

(25:41):
move people either underground or monorail better, uh, you know
than they do right now on the Strip, it just
seems like that would eliminate a lot of pedestrian traffic.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Off of the art reason Dave as a candidate for
Congressional District four, is there anything you would be able
to do at the national level?

Speaker 13 (25:59):
You know, I think there's more of you know, you
wouldn't want to maybe a little bit of federal money.
I don't know, you'd have to justify that, but I
think it's more of a city issue, but you know,
there might be federal funding. You know, the purpose of government,
whether it's local, you know, city, state, or federal, it's
to protect people, to protect my lands, transportation and treaties. Right, So,

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transortation is a key element of government, and that includes
pedestrian traffic and car traffic and any other kind of
transportation avenue that you have. So I just think it's
the purpose of government to take care of that.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
And that goes back to having candidates that are buying
into the small towns of philosophy and making sure that
they understand what the community needs in order for it
to come into the twenty first century and go beyond correct.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yes, yeah, is are there any candidates that are supporting
or endorsing or Bulkley?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
We knew.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
We just met someone recently. I saw her yesterday speaking
out against the movie studio bill. Her name is Mijia
I can't remember her full name, and as she is
running for county commission, pushing on this issue about mass transit,
you know, housing, as well as stopping federal land expansion,
which is something mister Flippill actually opposes. But you know, again,

(27:26):
we just do the best we can.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
As an organization too, we do not endorse candidates. We
work with whoever's in office because we have the national
organization on top of us.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
So candidates could support you, yes.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Okay, yeah, And so what my question really was about
is are you focus in on candadates that share your vision?

Speaker 6 (27:46):
We would like to tell we would like to talk
to all kinds of candidates about some of these issues,
and we think some of these issues can.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Also help them with they're with their campaigns as well.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, our call in number seven oh two, two to one,
seven to eight three. For the people that haven't called
in yet, I expect you to have that under speed dial. Also,
if there's any other candidates that would like to be
co host with us, let us know shout outs. This
is a thing where you could actually call in for
a special event and we will actually repeat it three

(28:19):
times on the air to give credit or jubilee for
your event or your new child.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Or new job. I was on Jubilee.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
So our next our next meeting, the Conservative town Hall
in North Las Vegas is Thursday, December fourth, from eleven
thirty to one thirty at eighteen seventy West Craig Road.
We're hosting our third annual Christmas party and toy drive
for children in Clark County Foster Care.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
And we have a caller Hello.

Speaker 9 (28:54):
Caller Hello, Yes, myname is Jason.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Jason, and your question how are you doing?

Speaker 5 (29:02):
I'm will?

Speaker 4 (29:03):
How are you doing?

Speaker 9 (29:05):
Great?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Great?

Speaker 9 (29:06):
I guess one of the things that I was thinking
is that with strong towns, because the fact that all
these cities are kind of entrenched and there's not a
lot of room to I don't know if you could
say grow internally or fix the problems internally with all
the regulations and everything that's been zoned and built up.

(29:27):
But wouldn't some of these strong town ideas be better
if it was just created in like a brand new town.
And let's say for Las Vegas, like you know, maybe
like thirty minutes out of Las Vegas, somewhere in the
middle of the desert.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
That was in my introduction earlier. I moved here from
southern California to build a new city out of scratch
near Sloan and Jene. So what would happen is would
be an alternative. You'd have more like here's your single
family home, beautiful front porch, you could easily walk to
a corner store that it looks like a villa. You
have pedestrian friendly streets, streets are near grid, you have

(30:06):
like more roundabouts, and then you have all sorts of housing,
dense housing, large lot homes. You can have mass transit,
you can have cars, can drive fast, you can have
pre approved plans from the city like you get from
Sears catalog. So our focus isn't just existing, like we
can do some infill in downtown, but we do want
to grow outward. Hopefully when they with the if there's

(30:30):
demand to do that towards prim we can grow more
effectively instead of your typical Summerlin Green Valley Southern Highland
status quo son of a gun. Did I answer your question?

Speaker 9 (30:41):
Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (30:43):
I mean it's and the thing is is that, yeah,
because I was really sure about your organization, about how
what y'all do exactly. And one of the things that
I was thinking is internally for Vegas. And I know
it's going to sound like a wacky idea, but instead
of having like cars down on the Strip, would it
be better if they could just all park in a

(31:05):
parking garage outside of the Strip and then walk towards
if they want to walk towards the Strip or so,
and have like the strip instead of just a street.
It would be just laid down with conveyor belts.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Sort of like the idea that Chris chief For posted
several years ago the County commissioner. It's really hard to say.
The Strip is a very unique place. I have suggested
under where you have rams that go underneath intersections.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
And thank you Jason for your call. So god, I
know that last week President Trump mentioned something about a
fifty year mortgage what are your thoughts on that.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Well, we have no stance on that. It doesn't really
solve the problem. The fact of the matter is for
the last several decades it's been very difficult to build housing.
So there are some strong town supporters that don't believe
the fact that should release more land towards a state line.
But the fact is is that when you limit land supply,
it has an effect on prices, very likely. But also

(32:09):
the fact that in many of the major cities, in
the inner cities, whether it's especially on the coast, especially
in California, they make it difficult to build upward. The
fact is it's difficult to build housing. It's difficult for
developers to expand the supply. This is why we're in
the mess. If I could snap a finger that the
supply of housing doubles in Las Vegas, prices will have

(32:32):
to come down. Inventory goes up. So that doesn't really
solve the heart of the problem.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, Dave Flip will still on the line. Dave, what
does your respond to this question?

Speaker 13 (32:44):
Well, I'm going to miss the question.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
What are your thoughts about a fifty year mortgage?

Speaker 13 (32:52):
You know, I think if people are advised properly. You know,
maybe it brings the cost down temporarily for them, but
I would encourage them to refinance as quickly as possible
and do a shorter term loan. Otherwise they're going to
be paying interest forever. But you know, and the other
problem you're going to have, and I think what Cyrus
was alluding to is as soon as the government gets

(33:13):
involved in doing things like this, what people will end
up doing. Instead of getting a four hundred thousand dollars mortgage,
they'll get a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars mortgage,
and then they'll just have a bigger payment. And so
then what you're going to see is these forty thousand
dollars houses becoming seven and fifty thousand dollars houses. So
you always got to be careful when the government gets involved.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
In some federal reserve. Yeah, and I just wanted to
point out that areas that have built more housing more effectively,
like Texas, Minnesota that has the studies have shown that
housing costs have come down, and a lot of people
have been moving to areas typically that can build more
supply of homes, thus increasing their population. And since you

(33:54):
guys talk about politics that affects house seats in twenty thirty.
So all of that really does matter to answer the
guy's question before too.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Besides, already building outside in the new areas well are
one of our goals too, is already well the problems
that we have already inside the city, but we can
fix aary is getting rid of the parking minimums. Look
at the parking lot on You have two parking lots
on Sahara and Valley View. Look how big they are,
Look how empty they always are. You got another parking
lot Spring Mountain and Rainbow where the kmart used to be.

(34:23):
So because of those codes there existing, if we get
rid of those, we give the developers more freedom to
build more, maybe more office spaces, maybe more, or they
could start building some mid rises.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Or housing some housing there.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
And parking lots absorb a lot of heat too.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
So you guys have these alternatives, but who are you
sharing them with. It seems like a lot of these
things could be addressed by the county commissioners. Is that
they just don't want to hear these.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
We spoke with one of them recently.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
We have we're starting to engage a little bit with
some current elected officials.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
So ba okay, so yeah, baby steps.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
See our Instagram page.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
So how long have you been with Strong Towns Las Vegas.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
We took over about a year ago or so it was.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
It was almost two years started by somebody else before that,
and he had some he left for personally.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
So can you tell our listeners what your role is
in this organization?

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yeah, I'm the Strong Towns leader.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
He is, I'm kind of second in command.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
I help him out.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, advice and so just give us an overview of
what are your what you do on a daily basis
about this with this organization.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Well outreach to obviously elected officials, other organizations as well
as developers. I'm looking to sell some of my stocks,
buy land, build Some structures may not be affordable, but
it's a start because we got to get private money in. Ultimately,
it's the private sector that has to do the heart
of delivering that because I've been investing in stocks for

(35:53):
fifteen years and you know, I got to keep at it.
Got to start, you know, building a few structures at
a time and building eventually, hopefully new neighborhoods. And that
leads me to my point. I mean, there's a lot
of there's a lot of layers that we got to
do this. But the first our top two issues is
parking requirements and street designs. If we can't fix that,

(36:14):
that's the underlining of the issue.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
What when you say parking requirements, what do you mean
the parking lots, parking on the street.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Right, So if you are a business that when I
went to the City of Henderson, no matter how small
it is, you have to provide seven parking spaces for
like a thousand square foot. That is the law, and
we want to get rid of that. Developers should decide
how much asphalt they need.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Our callers. Our number is seven zero two two two
one seven two eighty three, and we are here with
Alex and Cyrus from Strong Towns, Las Vegas, and you're
listening to talk with a conservatives.

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Speaker 1 (37:56):
So we have two callers on the lines of first caller, Hello,
oh who speaking? Hi Frank, how are you?

Speaker 8 (38:05):
I'm doing good?

Speaker 1 (38:06):
And what are your questions for our guests?

Speaker 8 (38:09):
Well, not just the well a question is saying, if
we want to bring down the price of housing here
in Nevada, we should be growing hemp and compressing it
to board to sheet rock. It's not only more sound proof,
more fire retardant, but then we would have the local
products grown that we would need to build the houses.
What do they think about doing something like that with

(38:30):
their company?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Thank you Frank for your question.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
We have been having ties and meetups with companies trying
to build an alternative methods.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Yeah, we're not opposed to a free market idea like that.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
And hell, okay, so go on.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Who's our second caller?

Speaker 4 (38:52):
He said, Okay, what are two bring another topic? It's okay, yes,
help Well, as the metropolitan area we have here in
Las Vegas continues to grow. Because I think we can
agree since the mega resort boom of the late eighties,

(39:13):
starting with the Mirage, a lot of things didn't do
very well. And we can talk about the corporate wall Street,
infestation of the casinos and a lot of other issues
that come with it. But one thing we can agree
that we didn't grow properly when we were growing outward.
But it's not just that. It's local government structure, and
it's Las Vegas is very unique that it's the only

(39:34):
metro area in the US with not only one school district,
but one county, and you have only three cities in
the valley. They just keep getting larger. Majority of the
people live in unincorporated areas, and if we have this
local government structure the way we are, our areas are
going to become more dysfunctional. So what it makes sense
to say, as we grow outward, we have to establish

(39:57):
new towns, new addresses then become new cities, which the
city can also become a county and have its own
school district, you know, thirty forty to fifty miles away.
Because the powers that be have to tell us how
is the system sustainable? We could be looking at double
the population by the end of the century and we're
going to have the same structure.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Really, I know, sireus, that you're a proponent of breaking
up the Clark County school district.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
And county too. The county has to be broken.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Up ect and what would your proposal be.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Well, that's a very excellent question. We can do a
step by step. We have to ask the people first
of all of Loughlin, Mesquite, Sandy Valley do they want
to be in the same county. I think they can
govern themselves. But one simple thing we can do is,
let's say we're going to build a new Master planned
city like another like the size of Summerline next to Sloan.

(40:48):
It'll have its own town, then it becomes incorporated, and
then the city can also become its own county, like
I just said, have its own school district. So now
people can choose. You don't have to change existing You
kind of compete with the existing system and makes you
think who would be opposed to that.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
I've got to call in number seven oh two two
to seven two eighty three, and we appreciate it. When
the calls in.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
So final thoughts and comments from both of you, and
we'll start with Alex this time. What would you like
to leave our listeners with this evening? What comments thoughts?

Speaker 6 (41:28):
I hope you guys are have taken some kind of
interest and woken up about some of the ideas that
we brought to the table today. And if you agree
with us, great, If you don't, hey agree to disagree.
But if you do agree with us, please get involved.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
With the local level officials. This is where it starts.

Speaker 6 (41:44):
Contact your local assembly person, your state senator, your county commissioner,
your local school board member, and start bringing these ideas
to the table.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Cyrus Well, I like to point out that this issue
is not easily seen, like crime, immigration and the economy.
It's not too visible. People have to learn how to
look at things, question things, and realize if they make sense.
When I was twelve years old getting new into urban planning,
I accepted the status quo. Then over time I woke

(42:15):
up and realized and heard from others. So when you
hear things ideas that may sound strange, you know, look
into it, get some different thoughts, because, believe me, you
know there are good things like I've mentioned before in
this system, like we majority of people have detached homes,
we don't want to get rid of it, and even
large lot homes. But the thing is is that there's

(42:36):
just a lot of things in the system, the functions,
the design, a lot of aspects that just doesn't add up.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
So is there a contact information you want to leave
with our listeners?

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Yes, Strongtowns Las Vegas is on x It's on Facebook,
it's active on Instagram, it is on YouTube as well.
So we have been trying to get on many different
platforms I believe. I think is there another one that
we have.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
A Facebook group and a Facebook page ves.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
And do you have an email or a phone number
that people can reach out to you.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Yes. Our email, which we might change is Vegas Neighbor
Collective at gmail dot com. And I'll be happy to
Should I share my cell phone number or the Instagram page.
The Instagram page, they can go there and they can
definitely check it out. And please, if you like our organization,
invite us to be a guest. We'll share some ideas

(43:33):
and slides, problems, solutions and so forth. That would be splendid.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
To join our Facebook group as well, they could reach
out to us as the admins on there. I'd love
to speak at a lot of conversation.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
And get to developers, ask them why the status quo
is ongoing, because this is the thing. It's just special interests.
Maybe big box stores.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Okay, and Dave, Dave, do you have any final party?

Speaker 2 (43:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Okay, all right, Well again, we just want to thank
our guests this year named Dave Flippo, candidate for the
Congressional district for Alice rovegaz and Cyrus Jati from Strong Towns,
Las Vegas. Also thank you to our callers this evening
Ontario Brown, Matthew, winter Hawk, Dave Flippo, Jason and Frank Free.

(44:21):
And a shout out to seven seventy five Alive for
your support and to you. Our listeners are loyal listeners
who make it a priority to tune in to TWAC
every Monday evening. We appreciate you, and we appreciate your
support and encouragement. God bless you and God bless America.

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