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Why a Potential Casino in Holyoke is NOT a One-Act Issue-
Both a casino development and the process to review casino plans eats up millions of dollars, people’s time, our public official’s time. Time that could be better spent, and should be spent in addressing the issues of education, safety, employment, housing, drug abuse and rehabilitation, healthcare, and productive types of development with long lasting benefits.
Here’s how that happens and why casino development is somewhat unique in this:
1. The very process of reviewing casino proposals is very costly. It needs to be very extensive, as these complexes are very large and come with many inherent negative issues. It requires a close look at issues of traffic, zoning, building codes, alcohol licensing, security, over sight of pot...
ential illegal practices associate with gambling, and on and on. Many departments of a city and state government will be tied up for some length of time to get even close to an accurate assessment of a plan. And even then it is still hypothetical. This is why CFBH was concerned about a referendum vote that could open up the process of these unusually costly reviews, not because we wanted to silence voices. This casino review process has a reputation of so severely dividing a community, that even after the casino is gone, or the plan is denied, the division still lasts.
2. Mitigation – is the process for reviewing the many, many known negatives associated with casinos including increased crime, increased substance abuse, decreased property values, increased traffic, etc, then deciding how to compensate for the destruction. The very fact that we have to create a paid Massachusetts Gaming Commission, and that mitigation for this industry is expected, should be a RED Flag for this “industry”. How time and cost effective is this… to bring in an industry that you know from the beginning has massive amounts of negatives in the first place?
3. Casino developers have massive amounts of money to sink into propagandized marketing as compared to the budget of the towns they wish to develop in. So who do you think is going to win that war of persuasion and information? They can say anything, make any promises of potential jobs and revenue, and then when their promises don’t come true, they are not accountable as it is all hypothetical.
Again, all this time and money could be used in reviewing and implementing a balanced type of development that doesn’t have all the common negatives associated with it , we wouldn’t waste time and money correcting the known problems it brings and the cost of continual oversight in watching over activity of a casino. We could be using that time and money to enhance our police and fire departments, school system, streets, healthcare, entertainment, and general quality of life.See More
Why a Potential Casino in Holyoke is NOT a One-Act Issue-
Both a casino development and the process to review casino plans eats up millions of dollars, people’s time, our public official’s time. Time that could be better spent, and should be spent in addressing the issues of education, safety, employment, housing, drug abuse and rehabilitation, healthcare, and productive types of development with long lasting benefits.
Both a casino development and the process to review casino plans eats up millions of dollars, people’s time, our public official’s time. Time that could be better spent, and should be spent in addressing the issues of education, safety, employment, housing, drug abuse and rehabilitation, healthcare, and productive types of development with long lasting benefits.
Here’s how that happens and why casino development is somewhat unique in this:
1. The very process of reviewing casino proposals is very costly. It needs to be very extensive, as these complexes are very large and come with many inherent negative issues. It requires a close look at issues of traffic, zoning, building codes, alcohol licensing, security, over sight of pot...
ential illegal practices associate with gambling, and on and on. Many departments of a city and state government will be tied up for some length of time to get even close to an accurate assessment of a plan. And even then it is still hypothetical. This is why CFBH was concerned about a referendum vote that could open up the process of these unusually costly reviews, not because we wanted to silence voices. This casino review process has a reputation of so severely dividing a community, that even after the casino is gone, or the plan is denied, the division still lasts.
2. Mitigation – is the process for reviewing the many, many known negatives associated with casinos including increased crime, increased substance abuse, decreased property values, increased traffic, etc, then deciding how to compensate for the destruction. The very fact that we have to create a paid Massachusetts Gaming Commission, and that mitigation for this industry is expected, should be a RED Flag for this “industry”. How time and cost effective is this… to bring in an industry that you know from the beginning has massive amounts of negatives in the first place?
3. Casino developers have massive amounts of money to sink into propagandized marketing as compared to the budget of the towns they wish to develop in. So who do you think is going to win that war of persuasion and information? They can say anything, make any promises of potential jobs and revenue, and then when their promises don’t come true, they are not accountable as it is all hypothetical.
Again, all this time and money could be used in reviewing and implementing a balanced type of development that doesn’t have all the common negatives associated with it , we wouldn’t waste time and money correcting the known problems it brings and the cost of continual oversight in watching over activity of a casino. We could be using that time and money to enhance our police and fire departments, school system, streets, healthcare, entertainment, and general quality of life.See More
2. Mitigation – is the process for reviewing the many, many known negatives associated with casinos including increased crime, increased substance abuse, decreased property values, increased traffic, etc, then deciding how to compensate for the destruction. The very fact that we have to create a paid Massachusetts Gaming Commission, and that mitigation for this industry is expected, should be a RED Flag for this “industry”. How time and cost effective is this… to bring in an industry that you know from the beginning has massive amounts of negatives in the first place?
3. Casino developers have massive amounts of money to sink into propagandized marketing as compared to the budget of the towns they wish to develop in. So who do you think is going to win that war of persuasion and information? They can say anything, make any promises of potential jobs and revenue, and then when their promises don’t come true, they are not accountable as it is all hypothetical.
Again, all this time and money could be used in reviewing and implementing a balanced type of development that doesn’t have all the common negatives associated with it , we wouldn’t waste time and money correcting the known problems it brings and the cost of continual oversight in watching over activity of a casino. We could be using that time and money to enhance our police and fire departments, school system, streets, healthcare, entertainment, and general quality of life.See More
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