The county seeks a thorough technical evaluation of agricultural, forest and mineral resource land designations within the unincorporated areas, outside of the current urban growth areas, of the county utilizing applicable state and local resource lands designation criteria. This evaluation is to include both the currently designated agriculture, forest, and mineral resource lands, as well as recommendations for inclusion of any lands that should qualify for such designation, but currently are not designated resource lands. The primary deliverable will be a formal “Clark Couty Resource Lands Study” that fully describes the methodology, provides analysis, and reports the results in a manner that can be extrapolated for use in rezoning and potential designation decision recommendations to the county council. Mapping shall be prepared to present recommendations of each resource land type to be designated Public outreach meetings or events will be required to properly elicit input from the public on these topics. Specifically, public involvement should include: 1. Creation of a public outreach plan including uses for traditional, non-traditional and technological outreach resources. 2. A minimum of four interviews with different stakeholders representing each of the following resource land (agriculture, forestry and mining) constituents: a. Land owners b. Active farmers including a variety of farming interest from large operations to smaller organic producers, livestock producers and specialty crop producers; forest and mining operators. c. Land conservation groups d. Agricultural and farmers market boards...
