Boulder City is one of only two incorporated Nevada cities where gaming is prohibited, and its municipal culture is small-town by design. The building department is smaller than Clark County’s, runs on relationships and repeat contact, and applies rules that reflect Boulder City’s specific history as the town built for the Hoover Dam workforce in the 1930s. Clark County’s larger permit volume produces a different working rhythm. A builder used to Clark County’s cadence has to adjust to Boulder City’s.