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•	Security/crime prevention programs.
•	Guarantee of adequate revenues to City.
•	Well designed zoning controls.
•	Limiting negative impacts on schools and churches.
•	Protection from storms and hurricanes.
•	Protection of existing wetlands/valuable underwater areas.
(b) Response from General Audience Key concerns:
(1)	Increase traffic and parking (i.e. as (1) above)	(23)*
(2)	Potential conflicts with existing residential areas	(17)
(3)	Impacts on historic quality/scale of downtown	(1 6)
(4) Impacts on local schools and churches	(13)
(5)	Adequacy of security and crime prevention	(1 2)
(6) Provision of adequate emergency services	(9)
Other concerns noted from the questionnaires included:
•	The need to ensure that downtown businesses would gain increases in trade from visitors.
•	The need to protect the natural environment (oyster beds, marshes, underwater, areas, etc.)
Question 2: If dockside gaming can be demonstrated to be feasible, how many facilities/sites should be considered for Bay St. Louis?
(a)	Round Tables
Most participants favored between one and three sites, including the Bay Cove location on the assumption that the site would be annexed by the City. A few of the responses suggested that the number would in fact be determined by what the market can bear.
(b)	General Public
Responses to this question showed the following preferences:
Two sites	(14)
One site	(12)
Three-four sites	6)
None within City limits	(6)
Let market decide	(6)
Five or more sites	(5)
*	A total of 58 questionnaires were completed by the general audience.
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