New Website

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The City of Mesquite is excited to announce that we will be unveiling our new "user friendly" website. City staff members have been working with Delphia Consulting to create a user-centered design approach for our website that will be efficient to use, easy to learn, easy to remember and subjectively pleasing. Delphia Consulting has worked with a number of cities, including Las Vegas, creating websites that are tailored to meet the needs of the user. The new site is intended to improve your ability to find the information about Mesquite you are looking for whether you are a resident of our community or a visitor from across the country.

With the unveiling of our website we will be launching our new Building Permit online service. With this service licensed contractors and owner/builders will be able to register online and apply for a permit. Builders will then be able to track the status of the permit and request inspections online. Businesses will also be able to manage their City Business Licenses online with the new Business Licensing online service. This service will also allow visitors to the site to search for licensed businesses.

We are proud of our city and we want to use our new website to let others see what a wonderful place this is to live. This is your community so help us design the new site. We need pictures that promote the quality of Mesquite. We are sponsoring a photo contest so send us your pictures! You can e-mail your photos to info@mesquitenv.gov or bring them to City Hall to the information desk. Contest details may be found on the website. Entries must be received by September 1, 2007. The winners will win a dinner for two at The View at Falcon Ridge Golf Course. Winning photos will be posted on the new website and may be used as part of the design.

The City of Mesquite is continuously looking for opportunities to provide the most efficient services to the community and our visitors. Browse the new format and give us your opinion.

The Desert Tortoise

Like many desert creatures, desert tortoises spend most of their lives "holed up." In spring and summer, they roam grazing on grasses and wildflowers, then head for their burrows when it gets too hot. In fall and winter, when it is cold and there is not much to eat, they stay burrowed in for six months or more at a time.

If you see a desert tortoise, you are seeing an endangered species. Please watch out for them on the roads. Tortoises live in washes and valleys where the soil is soft enough for them to burrow into, yet stable enough so they do not collapse. Remember, desert tortoises are protected under the Endangered Species Act and may not be handled or removed.

Golf in the Desert

The city of Mesquite combines calm, small-town flavour with big-city attractions and championship golf. The Palms and the Oasis Golf Clubs are only two of the half-dozen challenging courses in the area.

Golf Highlights in Mesquite

Golf built on the dramatic Virgin Foothills of Nevada makes for a unique landscape and golf setting.
Enjoy a spa treatment at the Spa at Casablanca or the Spa at the Oasis.
Mesquite serves as a gateway to the national parks of Southern Utah and Zion National Park, which is less than two hours away.

View more information about golf courses in Mesquite

The Speedy RoadRunner

Called paisano in Mexico, the roadrunner is a well-known desert resident that only superficially resembles its popular cartoon portrayal. The greater roadrunner has adapted to life on the run. Though it can fly well, it prefers to use its strong legs and X- shaped toes to run rapidly over the desert landscape. Active predators, roadrunners aggressively chase insects, lizards, snakes, small birds and mammals.

Tolerant of humans, they sometimes nest in protected eaves and garages when they are not building large stick nests in desert trees. Their vocalizations include bill clicking noises and a mournful cooing made during breeding seasons. They do not meep-meep.