Richmond Heights, a city near Euclid, in Cuyahoga County, has changed its zoning code so that Skillz Zone, a skilled-game parlor, which operates much like an Internet caf\u00e9, can open its doors for business.\u00a0City Council felt that Skillz Zone was small enough and out of the way enough not to be a distraction to local residents.<\/p>\n
By law, games of skill are permitted.\u00a0Cash payouts are prohibited and prizes awarded, such as gas or gift cards, must be $10 or less in value.\u00a0State officials believe such parlors don\u2019t abide by the law.\u00a0The Ohio Casino Control Commission only oversees such operations.\u00a0They have no authority to license or regulate such businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richmond Heights, a city near Euclid, in Cuyahoga County, has changed its zoning code so that Skillz Zone, a skilled-game parlor, which operates much like an Internet caf\u00e9, can open its doors for business.\u00a0City Council felt that Skillz Zone was small enough and out of the way enough not to be a distraction to local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[32,31,33],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions","tag-internet-cafes","tag-ohio-casino-control-commission","tag-skill-game-arcades"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87ey3-B1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}