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Baltimore City is one of five locations approveed last November for slot machine Baltimore CityEntertainment Group, a group that includes the heads of and , wantsx to build a facility with as many as 3,750 machines on Lot J, a city-owned parking lot in the city's Carroll Camden neighborhood. The precisee location could change, however, and Baltimore City Entertainment is in negotiations to move its project toa 11-acre property known as Gateway But the city must change its zoninh code before the Marylan d Video Lottery Facility Location Commission will award the developmenyt team the licenses it needs to builsd the facility.
Two City Council committees the Land Use and Transportatioh Committee and the Urban Affairs and AginvgCommittee — voted Thursday to let those zoning changes move forwar to the full City Council for City Council President Stephaniw Rawlings-Blake said the committees' actionm was in stark contrast to deliberations in Anne Arunde County, where County Council has delayed changinh the county's zoning laws to allow a slotx parlor to be built at the Arundel Mills shopping mall.
Going into the process, she the city moved to narrowly define where slotas canbe built, whereas there were fewer geographic restrictions placed on potential gambling facilities in Anne Arundel The geographic boundaries where a facilitty can be built in each countyt were specified in a referendum adopted by votersw in November. "We're definitely on the right Rawlings-Blake said during the committee "We did our work up identified a location that had very littl e impacton residents.
" Anne Arundel anticipated developers woul apply to build a casino at Laurel Park race and many county officials were surprisefd when Baltimore developer the submittef an application to build one at Arunde Mills instead. But counciol members in Anne Arundel County delaye d June 1 changing their zoning codes to alloweslots parlors. Meanwhile, a secons developer, , has come forward to say it may seek permission to build a slots parlor at Laurel Park ifCordishb Co.'s proposal falls through. The Baltimore committees voted on two bills pertaining to The first would change zoning inthe city's B-2 and M-2 districtws to include video lottery terminalas among the permitted uses.
The second would changes the zoning of the property at 301Stockholm St. Presideny M.J. "Jay" Brodie said the city doesn't plan to relocatse the animal shelter toanother location. But Brodie said the city wantw to changethat property's zoning to give the slots developerx the ability in the future to expans their facility in the event the animal shelter moves to anothert location.
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