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by: Dean Mirshahi
Posted: Apr 3, 2024 / 03:15 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 3, 2024 / 03:15 PM EDT
by: Dean Mirshahi
Posted: Apr 3, 2024 / 03:15 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 3, 2024 / 03:15 PM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Another Richmond casino vote is off the table.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed bills to remove Richmond from the list of Virginia’s eligible host cities for a casino in Virginia proposed by two Democrats representing parts of the city.
The legislative move to block another vote for Richmond comes about five months after city voters defeated a proposal to bring a casino to the city’s Southside for the second time. The first time the vote was close, but voters resoundingly rejected the second effort.
The measures put forward by Del. Betsy Carr (D-Richmond) and state Sen. Lamont Bagby (D-Richmond) passed out of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly unanimously.
“I supported the casino, but the people have spoken twice,” Sen. Bagby said in a phone interview Wednesday, noting that Richmond residents voted him into the state Senate.
State code doesn’t list the eligible cities for a casino — Portsmouth, Norfolk, Danville, and Bristol – but lists specific limits that fit each. The bills signed by Youngkin strip out language making Richmond eligible.
The bills remove language making any city with more than 200,000 residents in 2018 population estimates from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia, at least 24% of the assessed value of all real estate is exempt from local property taxes in fiscal year 2018 and a poverty rate of at least 24% in 2017 eligible for a casino.
According to the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia estimate, Richmond had more than 230,000 residents in 2018. More than a quarter of the assessed value of all real estate in the city was exempt from property taxes in fiscal year 2018.
While another bill could eventually add this language back and revive Richmond’s dreams of a casino, Bagby said the odds of that path are “slim to none.”
After losing out on a casino project on a 51% to 49% vote in 2021, Richmond’s second effort for one was crushed last November with nearly 62% of voters defeating the ballot referendum.
Youngkin signing the bills — and the measures themselves — was news to 8th District Richmond City Council member Reva Trammell, who represents the district where the casino would have gone if approved by voters.
Trammell, one of the top, and most vocal, proponents of the casino, said she wasn’t aware of the bills and asked how long the city would be blocked from holding another vote in a phone interview with 8News on Wednesday.
When told the legislation removed the city’s eligibility, Trammell voiced frustration with the decision, saying she was still “mad” about the last casino vote and railing against the effort to legalize so-called skill games, electronic slots-like betting machines.
“What makes it [skill games] safer than a casino? The casino was going to be a very, very safe place,” Trammell told 8News.
Spokespeople for Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, another top supporter of the project and vocal proponent of all the city’s efforts to get a casino, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Del. Carr was not available for an interview Wednesday, her office told 8News.
A bill to make Petersburg — a city that has tried to be included in the list of host cities — eligible also passed but Youngkin has yet to take any action on the legislation. A plan to allow a casino referendum in Fairfax County was pushed back until 2025.
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