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Supporters and opponents of the Sands casino proposal in Edwardsville packed the City Council meeting Monday night. The public comments portion of the meeting lasted about 45 minutes, with impassioned speeches on both sides of the issue and a computer-animated video presentation of the Sands site.

Afterward the Council approved unanimously the Sands’ request to rezone acres near 110th Street and Interstate 70. A few agenda items later the Council approved unanimously a resolution endorsing the Sands proposal to the Kansas lottery’s Gaming Facility Review Board.

The vote capped a tense period in the meeting, as just two Council members’ votes would have changed the outcome. That’s because the city had received a petition protesting the Sands’ request to rezone the land, signed by three landowners with property within 200 feet of the affected area, the Council needed a supermajority — four of the five Council members’ votes — to approve the request.

The petition was signed by property owners David Assman, 110 S. 110th St., Richard and Rhonda Herdman, 250 N. 110th St., Mary Shields, 220 N. 110th St.

All four have contracts for their land with Golden Gaming Inc., which has its own proposal for a casino in Edwardsville.

The UG has approved three other casino proposals.

Commissioners for the Unified Government voted this month against a request by Sands to change the casino-proposal process to allow consideration of the Sands Casino’s revised application.

Both cities have until May 27 to forward casino recommendations to the Gaming Facility Review Board. The board will choose, by July 28, which of the casino proposals the state will allow to go forward.

See this week's Chieftain for more on the Council meeting.

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1. 15 April 2008 at 6:12 p.m.

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   garycarpenter (Anonymous) says…

   The whole city council must have gotten paid off. What a bunch of crooks

2. 16 April 2008 at 3:57 p.m.

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   daveblake (Anonymous) says…

   Of course they approve it. Municipalities everywhere only care about growth at any cost and the money it can bring in. Nothing else matters.

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