Las Vegas Mayor's Symposium on Urban Design (poorly marketed) | Missing Middle Housing

Suzanne saw this on Instagram (#mayorssymposium).  There's nothing on the regular Internet.  The focus this year is on infill housing, featuring presenters from other cities in the west.  The Instragram hashtag has links to slides on the individual sessions.

FWIW, these kinds of activities may help to assuage the opposition to such initiatives elsewhere, such as in Arlington County, Virginia ("Arlington lawmakers to consider a missing middle plan with no eightplexes," Washington Post).  

A sign opposing a zoning deregulation proposal known as “missing middle” on Jan. 8 in the Lyon Village neighborhood in Arlington. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post) 

In community organizing/planned change, it's best to spend a goodly amount of time upfront to build the base of support for substantive changes to the status quo.

Dealing with this since the fall ("As housing prices soar, a wealthy county rethinks the idea of suburbia," Post) isn't enough time.

Salt Lake City has passed a similar change, up to four units.  

Corner duplex, with entrances to each unit on different streets, Salt Lake City.

And interestingly, infill housing could be done in a sensitive way, with restrictions on certain types of historic housing that isn't easily modifiable, because most neighborhoods have examples of existing small multiunit buildings (duplex, triplex, quads, quints, and small apartment buildings) that were sensitively done at the time the neighborhoods were constructed initially.

Many of the houses in Salt Lake are one story, so adding a story or two wouldn't be outlandish.  But the problem is if developers would be focused on creating four 2,000 s.f. units on one lot, which wouldn't work.

-- Missing Middle Housing website