LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Highflying Las Vegas Strip performers are fighting to save the trapeze in their backyard.
Some east valley neighbors in Sunrise Manor complained to the county wanting the 34-foot structure taken down. For about a year, the family who built it has been fighting to keep it.
“When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was walking around the neighborhood trying to get signatures,” recounted Blair Aued.
For Aued and her husband Jordan Tribble, the flying trapeze is part of who they are.
“It’s our jobs. It’s our love. It’s our passion… It’s something you really can’t appreciate until you have tried it that feeling flying through the air,” Aued described.
They bought a small home with a big lot on the outskirts of the valley with the intention of building the home practice facility.
“Especially in the city of Las Vegas that is known for entertainment, performers, acrobatics, we felt this was a really good fit… My husband is in his prime. He is well known to be one of the top flyers in the world right now and he has the potential to achieve tricks that no one has ever done before,” Aued shared.
Not everyone has enjoyed the backyard show. A complaint was filed back in November leading to code inspectors coming out and demands for a permit.
“We had to do a very lengthy application process. It was very costly. It was a $1,000. We had to spend hours and hours on site plans and meetings,” Aued recounted.
Tuesday night, at a public hearing on the trapeze before the Clark County Planning Commission, most neighbors spoke in favor saying it’s a highlight of their neighborhood and never causes a disturbance.
“Honestly, if this is the most unusual thing happening in our neighborhood on any given day, I say we are in pretty good shape,” one neighbor contended.
At least two expressed opposition due to safety, being an eyesore blocking the mountain view, and bringing down property value.
“If they go to sell their home, the value of their home is totally compromised as far as comps are concerned and that affects the value of my home as well,” another neighbor expressed.
Clark County did approve the current set up for now but the performers will have to go back in one year for a review. Lights will have to be off and practice over by 8pm every night.
This is not the first time neighbors have complained about a backyard trapeze.
A year ago, FOX5 met with a trapeze artist in his backyard where he practiced his skills with his twin daughters. However, after neighbor complaints and a public hearing before the Paradise Township Advisory Board, he withdrew a permit request and that three-story set up has since been removed.
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