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Dear City Council:
As you consider the pending casino vote, please think about
Atlantic City. And Las Vegas. Neither is a city with
comfortable, safe, livable and walkable neighborhoods.
Philadelphia truly IS a city of neighborhoods -- wonderful and
intimate and diverse neighborhoods. Don't let Casinos destroy
more of them.
Whatever the Casinos may offer the city in terms, it doesn't
take much imagination to come up with other uses for that land
that will offer more.
Please vote against SugarHouse Casino and for the 1500 foot
buffer.

Dear City Council:

I respectfully request that you keep the casinos as far away from
this neighborhood as possible. The 1500 foot buffer is a good
start. Miles away would be better.

Chris Anderson

Dear City Council:
Please, for your sake and ours? Vote against Sugarhouse casino
and for the 1500 foot buffer, Thank You Very Much.

Dear City Council:

Don't allow casinos IN a city neighborhood. Vote with a
conscience. The casinos are too close to people's homes. Vote
for the 1500ft barrier!

Worse, the traffic infrastructure is not there and the Girard
Avneue Interchange will not be done until 2017 (as per
Penndot...though Fumo and Rendell would tell you otherwise).
How can Delaware Avenue accommodate 50,000 visitors a day with
or even without a major construction project? It can't!
That's why the PGCB never did a study for 2 casinos on Delaware
Avenue. That's why they lie and say the construction will take
3 years when Penndot publicly states 6-8 years.

Think long-term: 6000 casino jobs ($12-15/hr) v. 130,000 NEW
longshoreman jobs making $70-100K a year...this according to
Rendell who is spending $277 million dollars to create port
jobs by dredging the Delaware River.

How would you like drunk drivers (wasted on free casinos booze)
were zipping up and down your small one-way city street? This
endangers our children. The lack of highway infrastructure and
resulting traffic will cajole this drivers onto the streets of
Fishtown and Pennsport. Wait until the first child is run over!

I just got engaged. I WILL NOT raise a family in Fishtown. If
these casinos come, I am moving to the suburbs - and my fiance
and I are taking $8,000 in wage tax with us. How many are like
us?

The tax break, when you take into account the sales tax
increase, is only $6 per household in PA. The average
Philadelphian will pay more. Fistowners will pay MUCH MORE
when the Commonwealth increases our property taxes!

Do not flip your votes! Stay the course! Do what is right!
Do not sell out the middle class so the rich can get even more
wealthy ON OUR SUFFERING!

Dear City Council:

Stop all this madness. This is going to ruin these neighborhoods
. Put it next door to the mayors house and see how he likes it.

Dear City Council:

Two Las Vegas size casinos will be the beginning of the end for
the Delaware river neighborhoods. Casinos and neighborhoods do
not mix. Vote no on Councilman Ramos' casino zoning (CED)
legislation for SugarHouse and yes to Councilman DiCicco's 1500'
buffer bill.

Please allow Philadelphia residents to have a say in what their
community will look like!!!! So many of us are very afraid of
what these casino will do to our neighborhoods - I firmly
believe that family life will be downgraded due to the probable
influx of crime and traffic in our neighborhoods. Please VOTE
NO on Councilman Ramos' zoning legislation and YES to Councilman
DiCicco's 1500 Buffer bill!!!

Dear City Council:

There is nothing wrong with requesting the 1500 buffer. We
didn't want gambling legalized....but the politicians did it
anyway! We didn't want the casinos in the city....but the
politicians did it anyway! Can we at least have a say as to
where the casinos should be located?????? PLEASE LET THE 1500
BUFFER BECOME LAW AND STOP THE CASINO INDUSTRY FROM TAKING OVER
THE CITY!!!!!!!

Dear City Council:

Dear City Council:

Las Vegas sized casinos and residential neighborhoods do not mix.
I urge you to vote no on Councilman Ramos' casino zoning (CED)
legislation for SugarHouse and vote yes to Councilman DiCicco's
1500' buffer bill. I lived in Fishtown until last year when I
moved up the street to Port Richmond. It's obvious to me that
Sugarhouse Casino has bribed a small but loud group of Fishtown
residents into supporting it. I do not want to see a casino ruin
both my current neighborhood and my former neighborhoods.

Dear City Council:

Please vote against zoning for the SugarHouse Casiono and for
the 1500 foot buffer.

Also, the people of South Philadelphia would like you to keep
these Las Vegas sized casinos out our neighborhood too.

You will be destroying our neighborhoods if you don't protect
us from these casinos. We don't want them. Find a better way to
fund the city's needs. IT'S YOU JOB!

Dave Rizzio

Dear City Council:


Two Las Vegas size casinos will be the beginning of the end for
the Delaware river neighborhoods. Casinos and neighborhoods do
not mix. Vote no on Councilman Ramos' casino zoning (CED)
legislation for SugarHouse and yes to Councilman DiCicco's
1500' buffer bill.

Dear City Council:

Two Las Vegas size casinos will be the beginning of the end for
the Delaware river neighborhoods. Casinos and neighborhoods do
not mix. Vote no on Councilman Ramos' casino zoning (CED)
legislation for SugarHouse and yes to Councilman DiCicco's 1500'
buffer bill.

Dear City Council:



Please vote against zoning for the SugarHouse Casiono and for
the 1500 foot buffer.

you will be destroying our neighborhoods if you don't protect
them. It's your job.

Kathleen Phelan

Dear City Council:
as a resident of center city i am disgusted with lame duck
councilman ramos and lame duck mayor street. after the primary
it seems that they are up to dirty tricks and do not listen to
the residents. i urge council members to vote yes on bill 07039
and no on bill 070456 and bill 070458. people have children in
the areas where casinos are being considered. don't we have
enough crime in this city now! it will be a disgrace and an
insult to the citizens of these areas if you don't vote yes on
councilman dicicco's bill and no on the other two.

mary herdan

Dear City Council:



Dear City Council:
Two Las Vegas size casinos will be the beginning of the end for
the Delaware river neighborhoods. Casinos and neighborhoods do
not mix. Vote no on Councilman Ramos' casino zoning (CED)
legislation for SugarHouse and yes to Councilman DiCicco's 1500'
buffer bill.

Dear City Council:

As a concerned Philadelphian, I urge you to vote for the 1500 ft
buffer and against the SugarHouse casino group. This entire
ordeal with the casinos along the river has been corrupted by
taking our voice out of the process.

Thank you,

Shawn Sexton
1822 E Moyamensing Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19148

Dear City Council:

Dear City Council:

Two Las Vegas size casinos will be the beginning of the end for
the Delaware river neighborhoods. Casinos and neighborhoods do
not mix. Vote no on Councilman Ramos' casino zoning (CED)
legislation for SugarHouse and yes to Councilman DiCicco's 1500'
buffer bill.

Dear City Council:

As a concerned Phialdelphia resident, I urge you to vote IN
FAVOR of Bill 070391, introduced by Councilman DiCicco, which
would prohibit casinos from being located within 1,500 feet of
homes, schools, playgrounds and houses of worship.

I ask that you vote AGAINST Bills 070456 and 070458, introduced
by Councilman Ramos, providing favorable zoning for the proposed
SugarHouse casino, currently proposed for a site across the
street from a densely populated residential neighborhood.

This action is critcal to preserve our thriving neighborhoods
that make Philadelphai a great place to live, work and visit.

Thank you,
Yvonne Novak

Dear City Council:
The actions of Councilman Ramos are unforgivable and should be
shunned. The legislation offered by Councilman DiCicco is a
reasonable measure to assure that neighborhoods will not be
overwhelmed by casinos.
Presently the timing is just not right to push casinos forward,
especially before an appropriate level of citizen input is
actually considered. Until now, all citizen input to the PGCB,
the Casino Applicant’s and the city’s Street Administration
have been simple window dressing.
I sincerely request that you support the 1500’ buffer
legislation and that you send back the SugarHouse fast-track
legislation so that during the summer months, while City
Council is in recess, the time can be used to open the process
to the appropriate level of community input.

Sincerely:

Andrew Sacksteder,
President, River’s Edge Civic Association

Dear City Council:



Dear City Council:

Two Las Vegas size casinos will be the beginning of the end for
the Delaware river neighborhoods. Casinos and neighborhoods do
not mix. Vote no on Councilman Ramos' casino zoning (CED)
legislation for SugarHouse and yes to Councilman DiCicco's
1500' buffer bill.

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