1. The regional planning coalition shall study and develop methods to provide incentives for:
(a) The interspersion of new housing and businesses in established neighborhoods, including, without limitation, the:
(1) Creation of an expedited process for granting necessary permits for a development that features such interspersion; and
(2) Imposition of a fee for the extension of infrastructure to encourage such interspersion.
(b) Mixed-use development, transit-oriented development, the development of a brownfield site and development which minimizes the negative impact on the environment. As used in this paragraph, "brownfield site" has the meaning ascribed to it in 42 U.S.C. § 9601.
(c) Large commercial development which provides employee parking at a site other than the commercial development. Such incentives may be developed in cooperation with the regional transportation commission and other governmental entities.
2. As used in this section, "infrastructure" means publicly owned or publicly supported facilities that are necessary or desirable to support intense habitation within a region, including, without limitation, parks, roads, schools, libraries, community centers, police and fire protection, sanitary sewers, facilities for mass transit and facilities for the conveyance of water and the treatment of wastewater.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 1928; A 1999, 3371; 2005, 1585)