Through the City’s Community Development Department, planning, zoning and other short and long-term development duties are conducted. The City has been pro-active in ensuring that growth in West Wendover is not left unchecked but instead is guided to meet the goals of the community, sustaining community standards and quality of life issues. As a young city, West Wendover has the ability to create its own vision and to plan accordingly.

The following are the planning categories within the City.  For a current copy of a plan such as those listed below, click here.

-Transportation and Street Master Plan

-Airport Master Plan

-Port of West Wendover

-Air Force Property Acquisition and Use Plan

-Bicycle Master Plan

-Pedestrian Master Plan

-Equestrian Master Plan

-Utility Master Plans (water, sewer, storm drainage, service corridors)

-Natural Gas/Propane Master Plan (provided by private industry)

-Housing Plan

-Land Use Plan

-Annexation Plan (long-range)

-Zoning Plan

-Wendover Project LLC property

-Parks & Recreation Plan

The following are current development under consideration and work here in West Wendover:

Wendover Project, LLC (75-acre commercial/retail site, 600 plus acre rail served industrial site)

Lost City Development (60-acre resort/retail/housing development)

West Wendover Entertainment Center (1,000 seat entertainment facility)

Transportation Planning

If you were to take a map of the Western United States from Denver, Colorado to San Francisco, California and the Canadian border to the Mexican border you will find West Wendover smack-dab in the middle of it all.  As such, over the last century all main inland transportation arteries have been located through our community.

Street/Highway

Interstate 80, which connects New York City on the East Coast and San Francisco on the West Coast, also bisects the community.  This portion of the Interstate Transportation System was completed in 1976.  On a daily basis ten's of thousands of vehicles many, transportation carriers, pass through West Wendover east and west bound.  As well, U.S. Highway 93A interconnects with Interstate 80 right here in West Wendover heading south where it connects with I-15 in Las Vegas.  These two overland transportation routes more than meet the needs of a 9 state region.

Within the community, you will find upwards of 16 miles of public maintained streets and an additional 10 miles of privately maintained streets.  There are three major arterial streets in the community; Florence Way, Pueblo Boulevard and Wendover Boulevard (part of former U.S. Highway 40), which form the three main spokes or "fingers" connecting our community from east to west.  A unique perspective on street design and planning is that West Wendover does not use a conventional grid layout for streets but instead, in order to better use the topography of the area, the City incorporates a more European design with meandering pavements that are more aesthetically pleasing to the environment and better incorporate the natural beauty of the many rock formations of our high desert surroundings.

Air

West Wendover is fortunate to have the accessibility of a major air facility.  The Wendover Airport, formerly Wendover Field, located in neighboring Wendover, Utah, is one of a few examples remaining of a time when the Unites States war efforts were at their high during WWII.  Wendover Airport was constructed as part of the mass mobilization effort of World War II, to train heavy bomber crews who would move on to serve in both the European and Pacific theaters of war.  Today, though the facility is no longer used exclusively by the military, it serves as an important facet in the transportation plans of West Wendover.  The airport facility currently operates two runways, both capable of serving passengers and cargo operations.  Combined with this currently facility, West Wendover has moved forward with its development of the Port of West Wendover.  The first phase of this project being a 3,000 acre multi-modal industrial park which will be located immediately adjacent and west of the existing Wendover Airport runway facilities.  The plans for the facility include a Foreign Trade Zone, air cargo, air terminal, bonded warehousing, manufacturing and other related facilities which would be managed by a City Port Authority.  Access to runways of the Wendover Airport would be through connecting taxiways, allowing both West Wendover and the Wendover Airport to benefit from such industry development.

Rail

One of the Union Pacific Railroad's main east-west lines from Salt Lake City, Utah to San Francisco, California bisects our community.  This line was originally constructed by the Western Pacific Railroad in the early 1900's and was the spark, which initiated the development of the community of Wendover as a water and maintenance stop for the steam locomotives of an era gone by.  With access to this rail line for both passenger and freight, West Wendover stakes a claim to one of the best localities in the western United States.  Several services are being worked on in the near future which would use this main line including:  the Port of West Wendover and the Wendover Industrial Park as well as others, which are situated to take every advantage of the main line through spur construction for loading and unloading use.

Property Use and Development

In order to meet the community's vision, the City has taken great efforts to maximize the use of properties located within the City to meet the needs of developers, residents and businesses alike. 

One such major project underway is the Port of West Wendover.

The proposed Port of West Wendover will serve as a primary area for commercial, industrial and aeronautical development within the City of West Wendover.  It will facilitate the needs of the community in expanding and diversifying its economic base to include greater coverage of industrial, manufacturing, warehousing and aeronautical businesses and resources while at the same time continuing to support the growth of West Wendover's destination tourism and recreational components.

Another development project is the annexation and development of the Wendover Project, LLC properties.  This 6,500+/- acres which was part of a Bureau of Land Management exchange in 1998, provides ample property in and around the City of West Wendover to meet the growth needs for the next many decades.  Currently, the City is underway with two major component developments of this property which includes a 600 plus acre rail served industrial site near the proposed Port of West Wendover and a 75 acre commercial retail site immediately adjacent to Interstate 80.  These two projects are important components to the diversification efforts of West Wendover.

Lastly, the City has identified a long-range annexation plan in order to provide a view of West Wendover 50 to 100 years from today.  This annexation plan includes the current city limits, the addition of air force property which is currently under acquisition, and the 6,500+/- acres of Wendover Project, LLC.