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Cowlitz Tribe Impact Study Criticized
The analysis of the societal impacts of a proposed tribal casino near La Center was criticized and dismissed by the city of Vancouver as told to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Friday marked the deadline for public comment on the draft environmental impact statement that aims to examine the Cowlitz Indian Tribe's proposed casino. The city of Vancouver gave its comments that day, forwarding it to Stanley Speaks, the BIA's Northwest region director in Portland.
Some of the reason stated by the city of Vancouver for finding fault in the studies by the Cowlitz tribe, as prepared by Analytical Environmental Services of Sacramento:
The transportation section does not consider impacts beyond five miles south of the site, which is north of the Vancouver city limits. However, an estimated 80 percent of the trips to the casino resort complex will be coming from the south, including the tri-county Portland area. The Cowlitz casino will increase traffic on the two Interstate bridges crossing the Columbia River, but that is not considered in the draft document, says city analysts.
The draft likewise plays down the expected increase in problem gambling and casually addressed the problem through the payment of no less than $50,000 per annum for problem gambling services.
The document also made the fault of assuming that the 3,000 available jobs can be filled solely from Clark Country area residents.
"Unless the standards are going to be anyone who walks in is going to get a job, there's no way you're going to fill 3,000 jobs from the immediate area," Steve Burdick, the city's director of economic development.
Sunday, October 22 , 2006
Gerald Kernighan