LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Advocates are warning of a looming deadline in their efforts to protect the plans to relocate dozens of families living in a sinking neighborhood.
Nearly 100 families are slated to move out of the Windsor Park neighborhood in North Las Vegas. Their homes are slowly sinking into the ground because the land is shifting underneath them.
Over two years ago, Governor Joe Lombardo signed “The Windsor Park Environmental Justice Act,” which allocated $37 million to move families out of the community and build new homes of the same size nearby.
The project has not yet broken ground.
In March, Senator Dina Neal introduced a new bill to keep it on track.
SB393 clarifies tax rates, identifies which homes and vacant lots are included in the relocation, and pushes back a deadline for $12 million to build the homes that currently must be used by the end of 2026 to 2027.
There’s still a long way for SB393 to go ahead of the end of the Legislative Session in early June.
“We’re waiting on the amendment, and then it will move to the floor, and then it has to go on for a general file for a vote. So we’ll have second reading and then it’ll go directly on for a vote,” Neal said.
With a long road ahead, Neal’s hoping the bill advances sooner rather than later, to close a chapter for Windsor Park residents.
“It will complete the civil rights and human rights journey that the Windsor Park families have been on for 25 years,” Neal said.
Annie L. Walker has lived in Windsor Park since the 1960s. She said the cracks in her home’s foundation and ceiling are worsening from the shifting ground underneath it.
Despite the problems, she doesn’t plan on moving.
“I have accumulated so much here in this home and it’s become a part of me, the neighborhood has,” Walker said.
However, she supports her neighbors who do.
“I don’t want to be a hindrance to anybody, and I mean that,” she said.
Neal said the current homes in Windsor Park would be torn down and the neighborhood would become a park. She said families who want to stay in their homes will be allowed to, and the park would be built around them.
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