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Clark County Department of Comprehensive Planning

In short

Clark County Department of Comprehensive Planning issues 3 permits we publish for Clark County, last verified 2026-09-25. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Zoning Confirmation Letteronly if it applies to youClark County Department of Comprehensive Planning$45.00 for delivery within ten working days of receipt, or $75.00 for delivery within three working days, each plus $5.00 per net acre for every acre over ten, not to exceed $5,000 total.one-time2026-09-25
Special Use Permit (Title 30), with Variance and Design Review as related land-use applicationsonly if it applies to youClark County Department of Comprehensive PlanningTitle 30 Fee Schedule effective July 1, 2026, Table 1 (Application | Mailed Notice | Sign): Special Use Permit $500 + $500; Variance $300 + $500; Design Review $500 + $500; Administrative Design Review $300; Temporary Use $100; Sign Design Review $500 + $500; Administrative Sign Design Review $300; Alcohol as Principal Use Outside GED $500 + $500 + $300 sign (the sign fee rose from $200 to $300 in the July 1, 2026 edition). The same edition also raised the Sign-column fee from $200 to $300 for Rezone, Expansion of GED and Concept Specific Plan applications; each of those carries its own separate application and mailed-notice fee not reproduced here, since the corrected sign figure is the only change verified against the current schedule.one-time, per application2026-09-25
Zoning Compliance / Business License Zoning Review (Comprehensive Planning)Clark County Department of Comprehensive Planning$25 Business License Review administrative fee; an optional stand-alone Zoning Compliance application costs $150.00 (10 working days) where zoning does not otherwise require a land-use applicationone-time, per business license application2026-09-25

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

Zoning Confirmation Letter

An optional written confirmation of a parcel's zoning designation: $45 for delivery within ten working days, or $75 for delivery within three working days, for a parcel of ten acres or less; larger parcels add $5 per acre over ten, capped at $5,000 total. It is not required to open a business, but is useful before signing a lease or purchasing a site to confirm in writing what the zoning district allows. Ask Comprehensive Planning at (702) 455-4314.

Special Use Permit (Title 30), with Variance and Design Review as related land-use applications

Only some uses need a Special Use Permit, Variance or Design Review; which ones depends on the parcel's zoning district under Title 30's use tables. The application fee is paid at filing and a separate mailed-notice fee is added after submittal; some applications also carry a sign-posting fee. A Special Use Permit costs $500 plus a $500 notice fee; a Variance costs $300 plus $500. The Title 30 Fee Schedule effective July 1, 2026 raised the sign fee from $200 to $300 for four application types: Rezone, Alcohol as Principal Use Outside GED, Expansion of GED, and Concept Specific Plan — a business adding alcohol sales as a principal use outside the County's Gaming Enterprise District, for instance, now pays a $300 sign fee rather than $200 on top of its $500 application and $500 notice fees. Every other figure in the fee table — Special Use Permit, Variance, Design Review, Administrative Design Review, Temporary Use, Sign Design Review and Administrative Sign Design Review — is unchanged from the prior edition. Ask Comprehensive Planning at (702) 455-4314 or zoning@clarkcountynv.gov whether a specific address and use needs one of these applications.

Zoning Compliance / Business License Zoning Review (Comprehensive Planning)

Title 30 §30.06.11C requires that 'No business license may be issued until all required land use applications have been approved and all conditions of approval have been satisfied,' so the Department of Business License routes every general application to Comprehensive Planning, which charges a $25 Business License Review fee under the Title 30 Fee Schedule (Table 2) and confirms the use is allowed by zoning. Where Title 30 does not otherwise require a land-use application for the site, an applicant may instead file a stand-alone Zoning Compliance application ($150, a 10-working-day process with no public notice required, §30.06.08G). If the use needs a Special Use Permit, Design Review, Variance or similar approval (listed as separate Clark County records), those approvals and their conditions must be satisfied before a business license issues. Whether the $25 review fee is billed as its own separate charge on top of the Department of Business License's $45 general application fee, or is treated as part of that same intake, is not stated on either agency's public fee page — ask Comprehensive Planning, (702) 455-4314 or zoning@clarkcountynv.gov, before relying on a combined total. The County's own guide states the application 'will then be sent electronically to the Comprehensive Planning Department for review and approval within 5 working days.'

Contact

Jurisdiction
Clark County
Phone
(702) 455-4314

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

  1. Step-By-Step Guide to Apply for a General Business License — states that Clark County comprises six licensing jurisdictions and that a Las Vegas mailing address may still be unincorporated Clark CountyClark County Department of Business License · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Title 30 Fee Schedule, 'Latest Amendment Effective Date July 1, 2026' — the current edition; diffed against the prior (07/01/2025) copy, the only fee changes are the Sign column rising from $200 to $300 for Rezone, Alcohol as Principal Use Outside GED, Expansion of GED and Concept Specific Plan, and the tree fee-in-lieu rising from $980.14 to $1,005.62Clark County Department of Comprehensive Planning · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Title 30 Unified Development Code, 'Effective 9/17/2026' — the current editionClark County Department of Comprehensive Planning · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27

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