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Baltimore City is one of five locationsw approved last November for slotmachine parlors. Baltimore City Entertainmentg Group, a group that includes the heads ofand , wantsz to build a facilit y with as many as 3,75p0 machines on Lot J, a 3.7-acre, city-owned parking lot in the city' s Carroll Camden neighborhood. The precise location could change, however, and Baltimore City Entertainmenft is in negotiations to move its project toa larger, 11-acrew property known as Gateway South.
But the city must change its zoningt code before the Maryland Video Lottery Facility Location Commissio n will award the development team the licenseds it needs to build the Two City Councilcommittees — the Land Use and Transportation Committee and the Urban Affairs and Aging Committes — voted Thursday to let those zoning changes move forward to the full City Council for City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the committees' actiobn was in stark contrast to deliberationds in Anne Arundel County, wheree County Council has delayed changing the county's zoning laws to alloe a slots parlor to be built at the Arundek Mills shopping mall.
Going into the process, she the city moved to narrowly definew where slots canbe built, whereas thers were fewer geographic restrictionsa placed on potential gambling facilities in Anne Arundel The geographic boundaries where a facility can be built in each countu were specified in a referendum adopted by votere in November. "We're definitely on the righgt path," Rawlings-Blake said during the committee "We did our work up identified a location that had very little impact on residents.
" Anne Arundel anticipated developers would applyu to build a casino at Laurel Park race and many county officialas were surprised when Baltimore developerf the submitted an application to builxd one at Arundel Mills instead. But council membersa in Anne Arundel County delayed June 1 changing theidr zoning codes to allowslots Meanwhile, a second developer, , has come forward to say it may seek permissiom to build a slots parlor at Laurel Park if Cordisyh Co.'s proposal falls through. The Baltimore committeex voted on two bills pertainingto slots. The firstf would change zoning inthe city'sa B-2 and M-2 districts to include video lottery terminals among the permittee uses.
The second would change the zoning of the propert at 301Stockholm St. Presidenft M.J. "Jay" Brodie said the city doesn't plan to relocat the animal shelter toanother location. But Brodie said the city wants to change that property's zoning to give the slots developers the ability in the futur to expand their facility in the event the animalo shelter moves to another location.