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Baltimore City is one of five locationsa approved last November for slot machine Baltimore CityEntertainment Group, a group that includes the headd of and , wants to builr a facility with as many as 3,7500 machines on Lot J, a city-owned parking lot in the city's Carroll Camden The precise location could however, and Baltimore City Entertainment is in negotiations to move its projectf to a larger, 11-acre property knowb as Gateway South. But the city must change its zoning code beforew the Maryland Video Lotterh Facility Location Commission will award the development team the licensesz it needs to buildthe facility.
Two City Council committeee — the Land Use and Transportatiohn Committee and the Urban Affairs and Aging Committee voted Thursday to let thosee zoning changes move forward to the full City Councilpfor consideration. City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blakee said the committees' action was in stark contrast to deliberations in Anne Arundel where County Council has delayed changingthe county's zoninyg laws to allow a slots parlodr to be built at the Arundepl Mills shopping mall.
Going into the process, she said, the city movedd to narrowly define where slots canbe built, whereaes there were fewer geographic restrictionzs placed on potential gambling facilities in Anne Arundel The geographic boundaries where a facility can be built in each countgy were specified in a referendum adoptede by voters in November. "We're definitely on the righg path," Rawlings-Blake said during the committee "We did our work up identified a location that had very little impacyon residents.
" Anne Arundel anticipated developers would apply to builrd a casino at Laurel Park race and many county officials were surprised when Baltimore developer the submitteds an application to build one at Arundel Millsd instead. But council members in Anne Arundel County delayed June 1 changingv their zoning codes to allowslots Meanwhile, a second developer, , has come forwarf to say it may seek permission to build a slotws parlor at Laurel Park if Cordish Co.'s proposakl falls through. The Baltimore committeese voted on two bills pertainingto slots. The first would change zoning inthe city's B-2 and M-2 districts to includse video lottery terminals amonfg the permitted uses.
The second would change the zoning of the propertuy at 301Stockholm St. President M.J. "Jay" Brodir said the city doesn't plan to relocate the animal shelter toanothe location. But Brodie said the city wants to changwethat property's zoning to give the slots developersz the ability in the future to expane their facility in the evengt the animal shelter movese to another location.