Sun City Summerlin
Linkview Drive community was built in 1989 during the first phase of Sun City Sumerlin’s development by Del Webb Corporation. Over the course of 35-years, Linkview has matured into one of the most desirable enclaves of quaint, modest homes anywhere in the Las Vegas valley. Today, the 98 townhome residences and cool, grassy, tree-lined streets of Linkview affords a tranquil retirement life for its senior residents. The neighborhood also serves as a peaceful retreat for nearby neighbors where they can similarly enjoy safe walks in our park-like setting with natural shade protection from the Las Vegas heat.
For a nostalgic peek at the legacy of our community, peruse the original sales brochure by Del Webb at this link. In the meantime, welcome to Linkview and we invite anyone to come enjoy our neighborhood.
Who said we are empty-nesters!?
Without a doubt, Linkview residents have the most charming and adorable collection of cats and dogs anywhere on the planet. And to prove it, we’re starting a visual Linkview Pet Parade right here so you can get to know all the four-legged family members who call our the Linkview Drive neighborhood home.
But beyond Linkview, we residents also see pets and their people from nearby streets and neighborhoods who come almost daily for a walk and a stroll in the Linkview forest to enjoy our cool, shady streets.
So, come-on Linkview, email us your favorite photos of Fido, Fifi, …or even your fish! And we’ll make a star out of them right here! Last names and specific addresses will not be published for privacy, but hopefully you can let us know your first names and what street you live on so we all can be on the lookout and greet you – and them – by name!
2025-2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Director
Director/Secretary
Director
Sun City Summerlin
Linkview Drive community was built in 1989 during the first phase of Sun City Sumerlin’s development by Del Webb Corporation. Over the course of 35-years, Linkview has matured into one of the most desirable enclaves of quaint, modest homes anywhere in the Las Vegas valley. Today, the 98 townhome residences and cool, grassy, tree-lined streets of Linkview affords a tranquil retirement life for its senior residents. The neighborhood also serves as a peaceful retreat for nearby neighbors where they can similarly enjoy safe walks in our park-like setting with natural shade protection from the Las Vegas heat.
For a nostalgic peek at the legacy of our community, peruse the original sales brochure by Del Webb at this link. In the meantime, welcome to Linkview and we invite anyone to come enjoy our neighborhood.
Who said we are empty-nesters!?
Without a doubt, Linkview residents have the most charming and adorable collection of cats and dogs anywhere on the planet. And to prove it, we’re starting a visual Linkview Pet Parade right here so you can get to know all the four-legged family members who call our the Linkview Drive neighborhood home.
But beyond Linkview, we residents also see pets and their people from nearby streets and neighborhoods who come almost daily for a walk and a stroll in the Linkview forest to enjoy our cool, shady streets.
So, come-on Linkview, email us your favorite photos of Fido, Fifi, …or even your fish! And we’ll make a star out of them right here! Last names and specific addresses will not be published for privacy, but hopefully you can let us know your first names and what street you live on so we all can be on the lookout and greet you – and them – by name!
2025-2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Director
Director/Secretary
Director
Linkview’s ninety-eight homes are blessed with more than 450 trees. Our virtual ‘forest-in-the-desert’ has matured over its 35-years to the point where some of our magnificent Mondall Pines tower upwards of seventy-feet high. A variety of tree types can be found within Linkview including, African sumac, Aleppo pine, flowering plum, glossy privet, lace bark elm, live oak, Raywood ash, Mondell pine, and ornamental pear.
As regional warming and water conservation have become an issue for the vitality of the Linkview forest, our senior-citizen community strives to maintain the health of our trees, especially the non-arid species planted decades ago. A long-range plan is being put into effect to slowly replace vulnerable species with more desert-hearty varieties over time without immediately compromising our mature and extensive canopy. In the meantime, since it will likely be another 20-years before the replacement canopy reaches the shade coverage we have today, we are acting to help mother nature by employing new irrigation technologies and responsible husbandry practices
While each Linkview owner is blessed with an average of five large trees per home, Linkview’s ~450 trees are actually the property and purview of the homeowner’s association. The homeowner’s association endeavors to do baseline tree-pruning every year although sometimes this is only required in alternate years. The Linkview Landscape Committee makes every effort to monitor the condition of the trees and communicates regularly with association’s contracted arborist and tree maintenance company to maximize their vitality. Community tree pruning and care fell behind between 2022 and 2024, but the new board has contracted with First Choice Trees to spruce-up the entire forest by the end of the first quarter of 2025. At any time, fallen branches, wind-damaged or dangerously leaning trees are observed, homeowners should report them by address and tree-number to Linkview’s management company (see ID Your Trees and the Contact link below).
n 2023 Linkview commissioned a comprehensive Tree Audit and Inventory that included a health evaluation of each of the 466 specimens in the community at the time. Although a recommendation was made to cull many trees (primarily Ash due to the spread of sooty-canker), the decision was made to prolong their life and instead begin a replacement regimen over years so as to not devastate the forest. Exacerbating the tree replacement-plan is the ongoing effort to determine whether Linkview will obtain a Turf Removal Waiver from SNWA. This dilemma is due to the irrigation-dependency of Linkview’s trees – the majority of which are not desert variety – which rely on the community’s extensive turf irrigation that was installed in 1989. In fact, several recent studies have shown that the amount of water required for our trees is essentially the same for the turf beneath them including the Nevada Department of Forestry’s recommended irrigation of trees.
During the 2023 audit, each tree was given a unique ID number by way of a metal tag. Should any owner have questions or comments about a tree on their lot, contact the management company or the Landscape Committee and refer to the tree ID number. An active Link to the neighborhood CAD drawing identifying the location of every tree is available next to the image and will allow identification of tree numbers by home address and placement.
Unlike every other sub association in Sun City Summerlin, Linkview’s turf, tree and landscaping combination brings unique property management issues as well as economic considerations for owners and residents. Water for landscaping and irrigation make up approximately 42% of the association’s budget, and as a result of Southern Nevada’s ongoing water concerns, Linkview’s irrigation, water-use and continuing costs to maintain our forest are also of utmost concern. Because of the condition of Linkview’s 35-year-old irrigation system which is in dire need of repair, the current board of directors is committed to a contemporary update of our irrigation system and methodology. In order to responsibly address the water needs of our forest while simultaneously reducing water-waste, cost and the constant need for repairs, a strategy has been formulated to satisfy both dynamics. Linkview retained the services of a PhD specialist in agronomy and turf-grass at University of Utah to help create a professional plan for maintaining the character of Linkview while significantly reducing water use and irrigation cost. Although not yet approved, this plan will bring Linkview into compliance with the objectives of SNWA’s water use targets and the goals of Nevada’s AB356 and AB220 while retaining the health of our forest and the long-standing character of our unique neighborhood.
In November 2024, Linkview engaged NLS Landscaping to assume regular and periodic maintenance of our grounds. To date, NLS has shown extraordinary care and professionalism in meeting stringent terms of the invitation-bid and RFP issued to eight companies in October. NLS is now providing 20% more services than our previous landscape company for 38% less in monthly charges. Most importantly, NLS views our business relationship as a partnership and like us, values the health of our forest and the special character of the Linkview neighborhood.
JANUARY 2026 ADVISORY
For the entire Las Vegas Valley, Huge developments are in the works in 2026 regarding SNWA’s overbearing regulations under AB356 for forced irrigation reduction and inevitable Landscape Destruction.
In January, a separate group of Summerlin homeowners in concert with a high-powered group of local attorneys, have filed a $300,000,000 lawsuit against the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to stop the wanton destruction of trees in its relentless pursuit of grass removal in the valley. It appears the lawsuit is being positioned to become a Class-Action, and for this reason, your Linkview homeowners’ association is keeping a close eye on developments. Interestingly, Linkview is already being invited to share critical information regarding our research on tree health, innovative new irrigation methodologies and other relevant information which SNWA has seemingly ignored up to now.
What the new Plaintiffs contend, and Linkview agrees – is that the harsh, arbitrary and unscientific approach to water control is unnecessary, destructive, bureaucratic overreach and in fact – likely illegal.
In March of last year, Linkview submitted a comprehensive Conditional Turf-Grass Conversion Application to SNWA. The plan was submitted directly to Executive Director John Entsminger and his executive team by one of the SNWA Board of Directors which led to the previously mentioned April 29, 2025 meeting with SNWA executives and staff in the Committee Room of Desert Vista community center. It was not submitted via the restrictive online funnel as a collaborative approach was being sought, but the response so far has been muted.
How much blood can you get out of a Turnip?
To be clear, Linkview has never taken the position that we cannot or should not make every effort to conserve water – that is an imperative for all Clark County residents. In fact Las Vegas’ water consumption has been dramatically reduced through voluntary effort and resident recognition of the situation underscores that. Per-capita water use in Clark County fell 55% between 2002 and 2024 despite population growth of 52%, and is saving ~38 billion gallons annually in consumptive use! Even more interesting is the fact that Las Vegas residents are now effectively “renting and re-renting” 80% of our in-home water through recycling! Yet in the meantime, your Commissioners and Planners are expecting (planning for and even encouraging), Clark County population to grow by nearly 25%!
For (some) Linkview residents who have lived here for decades, we wonder what cuts and sacrifices we must face in our retirement years. We bought homes in Linkview because of the neighborhood environment, and we pay a premium to enjoy the trees and landscaping. We are not going to give up what we earned, paid for and relish because the bureaucrats can’t make their own math work. In fact, some of us wonder by the way; if we can bring oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, where are the ingenious American engineers who built the Panama Canal?
SPRING 2025 ADVISORY
(Linkview’s position in early 2025) previous report
Over the past two years, nearly 200 Turf Removal Waivers have been granted by SNWA. Over that same period of time, Linkview’s new board members and current landscape committee have been doing extensive research and collaborative investigations into SNWA’s Turf-Removal initiatives including the possible impact of Nevada’s AB356 and AB220. Clearly, not only is our neighborhood situation unique, but we believe that planned upgrades and improvements to our irrigation system, revitalized, low-water ground-cover and senior resident-oriented, park-like amenity augmentations for the neighborhood will result in the granting of a Turf Removal Waiver. Rest assured your board is making every effort to avoid a catastrophic financial impact on our senior-citizen owners and residents by brutally ripping out our grass and replacing it with rock. Even more significantly, our primary goal with this commitment is to avoid the inevitable decline of our forest and on our trees as has been experienced in other conversion communities in Las Vegas.
Let there be no mistake, however. Should Linkview’s efforts not be successful – either in part or in full – our senior community may yet be faced with up to $600,000 for rock conversion and a dramatically negative impact on our trees not to mention environmental cooling effect we now enjoy. Even with a conditional Wavier, we will likely still face significant costs for the obligatory improvements. Importantly, SNWA’s turf-removal rebate program has been extended into 2025, but any rebate amount will not, and has never come close, to covering the expense of yard conversions to rock and will offset only a portion of the cost. Our goal is to obtain a waiver.
Linkview’s plan is not being put together haphazardly but with highly-credentialed, science-based assistance and professional support. We believe this approach will result in meeting the needs of the community as well accommodating the goals of state and regional water authorities. Your board is of the firm belief that our community does qualify for a Waiver and that we will be able to count Linkview among those fortunate enough to achieve one.
The plans afoot are to revitalize grass-surfaces with low-water, turf-like ground-cover and convert our aged and wasteful water distribution emitters to a high-efficiency, intelligently-managed irrigation system for a fraction of what the turf-rock-conversion cost would be. If accomplished, tertiary benefits will yield substantial reductions in the current irrigation expenses which the community has been experiencing (i.e. ~$90,000 in FY 2024 alone), as well as the escalating maintenance and repairs.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, your board is striving to maintain Linkview’s park-like character, which for most of us senior-citizen residents and pets, is the only recreational retreat close at hand as an outdoor-respite from the desert sun and our summer heat.
Linkview’s ninety-eight homes are blessed with more than 450 trees. Our virtual ‘forest-in-the-desert’ has matured over its 35-years to the point where some of our magnificent Mondall Pines tower upwards of seventy-feet high. A variety of tree types can be found within Linkview including, African sumac, Aleppo pine, flowering plum, glossy privet, lace bark elm, live oak, Raywood ash, Mondell pine, and ornamental pear.
As regional warming and water conservation have become an issue for the vitality of the Linkview forest, our senior-citizen community strives to maintain the health of our trees, especially the non-arid species planted decades ago. A long-range plan is being put into effect to slowly replace vulnerable species with more desert-hearty varieties over time without immediately compromising our mature and extensive canopy. In the meantime, since it will likely be another 20-years before the replacement canopy reaches the shade coverage we have today, we are acting to help mother nature by employing new irrigation technologies and responsible husbandry practices
While each Linkview owner is blessed with an average of five large trees per home, Linkview’s ~450 trees are actually the property and purview of the homeowner’s association. The homeowner’s association endeavors to do baseline tree-pruning every year although sometimes this is only required in alternate years. The Linkview Landscape Committee makes every effort to monitor the condition of the trees and communicates regularly with association’s contracted arborist and tree maintenance company to maximize their vitality. Community tree pruning and care fell behind between 2022 and 2024, but the new board has contracted with First Choice Trees to spruce-up the entire forest by the end of the first quarter of 2025. At any time, fallen branches, wind-damaged or dangerously leaning trees are observed, homeowners should report them by address and tree-number to Linkview’s management company (see ID Your Trees and the Contact link below).
In 2023 Linkview commissioned a comprehensive Tree Audit and Inventory that included a health evaluation of each of the 466 specimens in the community at the time. Although a recommendation was made to cull many trees (primarily Ash due to the spread of sooty-canker), the decision was made to prolong their life and instead begin a replacement regimen over years so as to not devastate the forest. Exacerbating the tree replacement-plan is the ongoing effort to determine whether Linkview will obtain a Turf Removal Waiver from SNWA. This dilemma is due to the irrigation-dependency of Linkview’s trees – the majority of which are not desert variety – which rely on the community’s extensive turf irrigation that was installed in 1989. In fact, several recent studies have shown that the amount of water required for our trees is essentially the same for the turf beneath them including the Nevada Department of Forestry’s recommended irrigation of trees.
During the 2023 audit, each tree was given a unique ID number by way of a metal tag. Should any owner have questions or comments about a tree on their lot, contact the management company or the Landscape Committee and refer to the tree ID number. An active Link to the neighborhood CAD drawing identifying the location of every tree is available next to the image and will allow identification of tree numbers by home address and placement.
Unlike every other sub association in Sun City Summerlin, Linkview’s turf, tree and landscaping combination brings unique property management issues as well as economic considerations for owners and residents. Water for landscaping and irrigation make up approximately 42% of the association’s budget, and as a result of Southern Nevada’s ongoing water concerns, Linkview’s irrigation, water-use and continuing costs to maintain our forest are also of utmost concern. Because of the condition of Linkview’s 35-year-old irrigation system which is in dire need of repair, the current board of directors is committed to a contemporary update of our irrigation system and methodology. In order to responsibly address the water needs of our forest while simultaneously reducing water-waste, cost and the constant need for repairs, a strategy has been formulated to satisfy both dynamics. Linkview retained the services of a PhD specialist in agronomy and turf-grass at University of Utah to help create a professional plan for maintaining the character of Linkview while significantly reducing water use and irrigation cost. Although not yet approved, this plan will bring Linkview into compliance with the objectives of SNWA’s water use targets and the goals of Nevada’s AB356 and AB220 while retaining the health of our forest and the long-standing character of our unique neighborhood.
IIn November 2024, Linkview engaged NLS Landscaping to assume regular and periodic maintenance of our grounds. To date, NLS has shown extraordinary care and professionalism in meeting stringent terms of the invitation-bid and RFP issued to eight companies in October. NLS is now providing 20% more services than our previous landscape company for 38% less in monthly charges. Most importantly, NLS views our business relationship as a partnership and like us, values the health of our forest and the special character of the Linkview neighborhood.
JANUARY 2026 ADVISORY
For the entire Las Vegas Valley, Huge developments are in the works in 2026 regarding SNWA’s overbearing regulations under AB356 for forced irrigation reduction and inevitable Landscape Destruction.
In January, a separate group of Summerlin homeowners in concert with a high-powered group of local attorneys, have filed a $300,000,000 lawsuit against the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to stop the wanton destruction of trees in its relentless pursuit of grass removal in the valley. It appears the lawsuit is being positioned to become a Class-Action, and for this reason, your Linkview homeowners’ association is keeping a close eye on developments. Interestingly, Linkview is already being invited to share critical information regarding our research on tree health, innovative new irrigation methodologies and other relevant information which SNWA has seemingly ignored up to now.
What the new Plaintiffs contend, and Linkview agrees – is that the harsh, arbitrary and unscientific approach to water control is unnecessary, destructive, bureaucratic overreach and in fact – likely illegal.
In March of last year, Linkview submitted a comprehensive Conditional Turf-Grass Conversion Application to SNWA. The plan was submitted directly to Executive Director John Entsminger and his executive team by one of the SNWA Board of Directors which led to the previously mentioned April 29, 2025 meeting with SNWA executives and staff in the Committee Room of Desert Vista community center. It was not submitted via the restrictive online funnel as a collaborative approach was being sought, but the response so far has been muted.
How much blood can you get out of a Turnip?
To be clear, Linkview has never taken the position that we cannot or should not make every effort to conserve water – that is an imperative for all Clark County residents. In fact Las Vegas’ water consumption has been dramatically reduced through voluntary effort and resident recognition of the situation underscores that. Per-capita water use in Clark County fell 55% between 2002 and 2024 despite population growth of 52%, and is saving ~38 billion gallons annually in consumptive use! Even more interesting is the fact that Las Vegas residents are now effectively “renting and re-renting” 80% of our in-home water through recycling! Yet in the meantime, your Commissioners and Planners are expecting (planning for and even encouraging), Clark County population to grow by nearly 25%!
For (some) Linkview residents who have lived here for decades, we wonder what cuts and sacrifices we must face in our retirement years. We bought homes in Linkview because of the neighborhood environment, and we pay a premium to enjoy the trees and landscaping. We are not going to give up what we earned, paid for and relish because the bureaucrats can’t make their own math work. In fact, some of us wonder by the way; if we can bring oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, where are the ingenious American engineers who built the Panama Canal?
SPRING 2025 ADVISORY (Linkview’s position in early 2025) previous report
Over the past two years, nearly 200 Turf Removal Waivers have been granted by SNWA. Over that same period of time, Linkview’s new board members and current landscape committee have been doing extensive research and collaborative investigations into SNWA’s Turf-Removal initiatives including the possible impact of Nevada’s AB356 and AB220. Clearly, not only is our neighborhood situation unique, but we believe that planned upgrades and improvements to our irrigation system, revitalized, low-water ground-cover and senior resident-oriented, park-like amenity augmentations for the neighborhood will result in the granting of a Turf Removal Waiver. Rest assured your board is making every effort to avoid a catastrophic financial impact on our senior-citizen owners and residents by brutally ripping out our grass and replacing it with rock. Even more significantly, our primary goal with this commitment is to avoid the inevitable decline of our forest and on our trees as has been experienced in other conversion communities in Las Vegas.
Let there be no mistake, however. Should Linkview’s efforts not be successful – either in part or in full – our senior community may yet be faced with up to $600,000 for rock conversion and a dramatically negative impact on our trees not to mention environmental cooling effect we now enjoy. Even with a conditional Wavier, we will likely still face significant costs for the obligatory improvements. Importantly, SNWA’s turf-removal rebate program has been extended into 2025, but any rebate amount will not, and has never come close, to covering the expense of yard conversions to rock and will offset only a portion of the cost. Our goal is to obtain a waiver.
Linkview’s plan is not being put together haphazardly but with highly-credentialed, science-based assistance and professional support. We believe this approach will result in meeting the needs of the community as well accommodating the goals of state and regional water authorities. Your board is of the firm belief that our community does qualify for a Waiver and that we will be able to count Linkview among those fortunate enough to achieve one.
The plans afoot are to revitalize grass-surfaces with low-water, turf-like ground-cover and convert our aged and wasteful water distribution emitters to a high-efficiency, intelligently-managed irrigation system for a fraction of what the turf-rock-conversion cost would be. If accomplished, tertiary benefits will yield substantial reductions in the current irrigation expenses which the community has been experiencing (i.e. ~$90,000 in FY 2024 alone), as well as the escalating maintenance and repairs.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, your board is striving to maintain Linkview’s park-like character, which for most of us senior-citizen residents and pets, is the only recreational retreat close at hand as an outdoor-respite from the desert sun and our summer heat.
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Welcome to our new website:
Linkview.org
By Dennis Dyer
President
Linkview Drive Homeowners Association
Although Linkview was spawned in the late 1980’s, we decided it was time to speed-ahead into the 21st Century and bring our community news, topics of interest and neighborhood business matters to this brand-new website for both speed and convenience.
In the years I have lived here, it seems it has always been a challenge to stay up with all that goes on in Linkview despite being such a small community. I’ve also learned that so much of the newsworthy items and topics of interest here are related to the very unique character of our little forest and it’s grassy landscaping under the trees. So much of our information will be geared accordingly.
Your board now hopes we can all benefit from having faster communications and better information at your fingertips; be it on your home PC or your smartphone. Linkview.org is now just a click away.
It is important to note that this website DOES NOT replace the all-important Web Portal of our management company (Westward360) where you will continue to make payments, send maintenance requests and do official business with the association. But Linkview.org will be your place to get up to date information including HOA meeting schedule information, status on community projects, a little fun history about our neighborhood and even a Linkview Pet-Parade section where you can get to know some of our furry, four-legged neighbors.
So, whether you live here, hope to live here or just want to check in because you enjoy walking our cool, shady, tree-lined streets with your pet, Welcome to Linkview!
On behalf of our entire board of directors and all of our residents, thank you for your interest in our community.
