Me-Wuk Indians Want Slot Machine Approval

The Buena Vista Band of Me-Wuk Indians wants to build a slot machine casino and is seeking public comment on their drafted Tribal Environmental Impact Report. The TEIR has been submitted before by the tribe, but it needed additional information so the tribe had to redo the report.

The tribe wants to build a slot machine casino and entertainment facility on the Buena Vista Rancheria, but needs approval first. When their first TEIR was found to be lacking certain elements, the tribe chose to start the process over and redid the entire document.

The tribe said that they redid the documents not only to make sure that they got all of the aspects correct, but also to show the state that they were making a “gesture of good faith” and that they wanted to do what was right, not just what would be easy. They are considering a smaller area for their slot machine casino, so that there would be less of an impact on the surrounding areas.

The new project shows the casino coming together in three parts. The first would be 1,150 slot machines and 40 table games. The second would bring the casino up to 1,650 slot machines and 60 table games. The third would round it out at 2,000 slot machines and 80 table games.

The slot machine casino would be called the Flying Cloud Casino and would make up 17.06 acres when completed. It would have a slot machine casino as well as an entertainment facility, parking garage, wastewater treatment facility, water supply system, etc. They are hoping to have it open by 2008.

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