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Arizona City Fights Tribal Casino Location
GLENDALE, ARIZONA --
A proposed tribal casino in Glendale, Arizona, is meeting stiff resistance by local civic leaders. The Tohono O'odham Nation has no reservation nearby, but purchased blocks of land for their attractive location, and now wants to place a casino there.
Glendale politicians say the tribe tried to make the casino a fait accompli by surreptitiously advancing the process without notifying anyone connected with the city. The tribal council approved the plan, and a federal application for the casino was filed before city contact was made.
But tribal leaders are saying they are simply following an orderly process, and it is now time to negotiate with Glendale.
Regional officials from the Bureau of Indian Affairs have already signed off on tribal proposals to make the land reservation land, to replace land destroyed many years ago by a federal dam. But Glendale has sent its City Attorney to Washington to lobby the Department of the Interior and Arizona Congressmen.
City leaders say the casino would create traffic problems, draw crime, and pull customers away from the city's current entertainment and economic centers. They want some say-so on how the land is used, and control over building, things they would lose if the land is put into federal trust.
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