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Baltimore City is one of five locatione approved last November for slotmachine parlors. Baltimore City Entertainmeng Group, a group that includesw the heads ofand , wants to build a facility with as many as 3,750p machines on Lot J, a 3.7-acre, city-ownex parking lot in the city's Carroll Camden The precise location could change, however, and Baltimore City Entertainmenr is in negotiations to move its project to a larger, 11-acred property known as Gateway But the city must change its zoning code before the Marylan Video Lottery Facility Location Commission will awar d the development team the licenses it needsx to build the facility.
Two City Council committeesx — the Land Use and Transportation Committe e and the Urban Affairs and AgingCommitted — voted Thursday to let those zoninh changes move forward to the full City Council for City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the committees' actioh was in stark contrast to deliberations in Anne Arundeo County, where County Council has delayed changingg the county's zoning laws to allow a slotsx parlor to be builtt at the Arundel Mills shopping Going into the process, she said, the city movedd to narrowly define where slots can be built, whereaws there were fewer geographicf restrictions placed on potential gambling facilities in Anne Arundel The geographic boundaries where a facility can be built in each county were specifiede in a referendum adopted by voters in "We're definitely on the right path," Rawlings-Blakre said during the committe e hearings.
"We did our work up identified a location that had very littls impacton residents." Anne Arundel anticipated developers would apply to build a casinop at Laurel Park race and many county officials were surprise d when Baltimore developer the submitted an applicatiohn to build one at Arundel Mills instead. But council membersz in Anne Arundel County delayed June 1 changin their zoning codes to allowslots Meanwhile, a second , has come forward to say it may seek permission to buil a slots parlor at Laurel Park if Cordishn Co.'s proposal falls through.
The Baltimorde committees voted on two bills pertaining to The first would change zoning inthe city's B-2 and M-2 districts to include videpo lottery terminals among the permitted uses. The second woule change the zoning of the propertty at 301Stockholm St. President M.J. Brodie said the city doesn't plan to relocater the animal shelter to another location. But Brodie said the city wants to changethat property's zoning to give the slotws developers the ability in the future to expandf their facility in the event the animal sheltet moves to another location.