To those who sat through Tuesday’s six-hour Clark County council meeting, the outcome may have seemed written before it began. The Clark County council approved sweeping changes to the framework of its 20-year growth plan and adopted zoning policies that included the reduction of rural parcel sizes.

Councilors David Madore and Tom Mielke voted in favor of new planning assumptions for the Clark County Comprehensive Growth Management Plan update that will consider fewer lots buildable than under previously adopted planning policies.

Both Republicans also voted in favor of a preferred alternative that included all of Alternative 4, which shrinks the minimum allowed parcel size of some rural, forest and agriculture lots across Clark County. Councilor Jeanne Stewart, also a Republican, voted against both proposals.

Both components of the growth plan were authored by Madore, who for the last nine months has taken the county’s 2016 update into his own hands on behalf of rural residents who claim their property rights were stolen from them with the adoption of the county’s first growth plan in 1994.

In recent weeks, Madore developed the new planning assumptions and his own version of the preferred alternative. That version of the preferred alternative was posted on the council website, The Grid, on Monday afternoon.