Boulder City real estate dilemma.

Boulder City likes to do it its own way. As Southern Nevada has exploded with growth over the years, the city by Hoover Dam and Lake Mead has opted to remain on the slow track to housing development. It has been called sleepy and out-of-touch and small-townish. And other names, I'm sure. For its citizens the preference is just that.

But pressure from outside and some inside interests has been growing for a while for a change. And it's getting more intense this spring. The voters will decide in June what will happen. On the ballot will be a question whether the city should sell to Clark County land in Dutchman Pass and the money from that would go to buy 700 acres near Railroad Pass. That purchase would save the parcel from a potential development of 3,800 homes. Complicated, isn't it? Let's see what they decide to do. How long they can hold onto their sacred lifestyle. It'd be refreshing if they could go on like that forever.