The proposed plan would bring 5,000 new homes and 15,000 new residents to Red Rock Canyon. For comparison, that's about the population of Boulder City.
These six neighborhoods — affluent, poor, urban, rural — couldn’t be more different. But they do have one thing in common: a can-do desire to make life better on the block.
The unofficial mayor of Blue Diamond, Evan Blythin, has written a book about the pressures that Las Vegas' explosive growth has put on his enclave. Blue Diamond has resisted suburbanization and other offers to become part of greater Las Vegas.
We look at the small, tight-knit community of Blue Diamond, which is fighting the sort of development that has swallowed the Las Vegas Valley by preserving its past.
