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Say NO to the proposed Casino in Forest Hill, Richmond VA

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Anonymous
5 years ago

My family and I are concerned with the negative effects of a casino to our neighborhood...organized crime, traffic, light pollution, noise, other associated infrastructures like hotels etc. We take pride in living in Westover Hills as a family-friendly community. I would like to express my family’s strong opposition for a casino within our community. I acknowledge that a casino will bring in significant revenue to the city. But it needs to be in an area away from large residential neighborhoods.

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Peyton Powell
5 years ago

I do not want a casino in my beautiful neighborhood

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Carol Thomas
5 years ago

A casino is not appropriate in a designated residential neighborhood with a wetlands designation. The traffic on Forest Hill Avenue and businesses along the route will suffer. Say No! Not in my front yard!

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M Byrd
5 years ago Featured

I come from New Orleans East near many casinos in the city and those in Biloxi. For the survival of the business and for the survival of the neighborhoods BOTH, such enterprises need to be situated along major interstates near other tourist attractions like the convention center, etc.

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Cristina Gould
5 years ago

Please, no casino in the Forest Hills area. .

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Kat Davis
5 years ago

I am strongly opposed to the proposal for a Casino to be constructed in the Stratford Hills neighborhood along Forest Hill Ave. The entrance from Forest Hill Avenue would make an already dangerous interchange more congested and the habitat destruction the proposal would cause devastation to our wildlife, and would ruin the appeal of this currently thriving neighborhood and area for future growth and new residents.

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Kirsty Dixon
5 years ago

No casino in Forest Hill!

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gary wagner
5 years ago

please, no casino so close to residential areas! do not disturb the wildlife.

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Barry S Kohn
5 years ago

this is not the best location on the list. Closer to 95 could better handle the traffic. This is a highly sought after City of Richmond residential neighborhood. A large casino could only bring trouble on multiple fronts to the folks who call this neighborhood home.

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Joyce Wagner
5 years ago

no on a casino; inappropriate for the neighborhood and wildlife.

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Robert Cheseldine
5 years ago

No casinos.

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Cheryl Sherman
5 years ago

Totally inappropriate site for a casino complex.

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Emily Wilson
5 years ago

A casino in this area is a horrible idea

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Nancy Emerson
5 years ago

The proposal to put a business this size in a suburban neighborhood is ludicrous. The sewers cannot handle it, the roads cannot handle it and the neighbors well vehemently oppose it. The site isnot zoned for commercial and is composed of wetlands. The Powhite creek is a watershed for the James River. The light pollution would be untenable.

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Glen King
5 years ago

As a resident of Oxford and very close to this Stratford Hills casino location, I am concerned about the impact on Forest Hill traffic, already a mess, crime, and the destruction of natural habitat. No casino here.

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Karen Buterbaugh
5 years ago

What? You want more ADDICTS? NO!! Don't want it, don't need it. HELL, NO!!!

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Susan Cox
5 years ago

A casino in this area is absurd. Too close to residential homes, schools, James River Park System. The added traffic burden would be disastrous.

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Richard Robins
5 years ago

No casino in our neighborhood,

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Philip Burks
5 years ago

Happy to join this initiative

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Lyn Burton -Wright
5 years ago

I vote no casino