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hate ot wermom naroor casino plan still unclear
BY BENNIE	Hancock Planning and
SHALLBETTER	Zoning Board. A split vote,
Staff Writer	Thursday left everyone
The fate of a hotel/casino wondering, project slated for Clermont Commissioner C.A. Russ Harbor is still officially up made a motion to approve in the air, but still one step
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the project, a 14-story, multi-tower hotel and 1,200 car, ten story parking garage at the foot of Poinset Ave., with a beach front casino across the street. Commissioner Lynn Bell seconded the motion when board attorney John Scaflde advised the motion would die without a second.
Commissioners Mark Cumella and Ray Ladner voted against the proposal bringing the vote to a tie with the absence of Commissioner	Alan
Dedeaux. Scafide advised that the motion did not pass and did not fail.
Board president Lynn Bell called for a re-vote on the issue, she said, when a quorum (at least three members), or an odd number of Commissioners can be present to vote to assure the tie is broken. Tentative date for the re-vote is set for December 16, when hopeful-
ly all five members will be present, allowing Dedeaux to break the tie.
Bell questioned project owners Kirk Ladner and Russell Elliot about their plans to make the ten story concrete wall, that will be created by the parking garage, more attractive to the residents who live in the quiet residential neighborhood directly behind the site.
The two said they had made no definite plans. Bell suggested hiring a muralist to paint the wall. Ladner said several residents had expressed an interest in selling their property should the project be approved.
The casino structure will include a concrete breakwater that will serve as an addition to the .Clermont Harbor Pier, said Ladner. An Indian Mound, located at the site will not be dis-
turbed by construction, he said.
Another casino project, this one proposed by a different set of investors at nearby Bayou Caddy, recently received approval by the state gaming commission.
The Silver Slipper will be built on 30 acres at the Bayou Caddy site in unincorporated Hancock County near Lakeshore, according to the Silver Slipper Casino Venture LLC attorney Scott
Andress.
There will be 19	table *
games and 750	slot
machines, Andress	said
recently. He said there also will be a 45,000-square-foot, land-based facility	with
entertainment, buffet restaurants, private dining and administrative offices.
The $40 million project should take about 11 months to complete and Andress said construction crews hope to break ground within a month.	j
rendering of the Silver Slipper Gaming Hall and Saloon that has been proposed for the Bayou Caddy area. The state gaming commission last month green-lighted the project.
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