COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Slot machines won't be coming to Ohio bars anytime soon. And the state won't be opening its doors to gambling parlors, or any new casinos or horse racing tracks for 10 years.

At least if Ohio Gov. John Kasich has his way.

In a flurry of activity — beginning three weeks ago with the governor settling a dispute over taxes and fees with casino developers and ending last week with the legislature passing a bill he backed allowing slot machines at Ohio’s horse-racing tracks — the state’s gambling landscape has been set for the next 10 years, officials say.

Here's what we'll have: Four Las Vegas-style casinos in our largest cities. Seven so-called "racinos," horse tracks with slot machines and other amenities, spread throughout the state. Nothing more. Period.

"It's a 10 year moratorium" on any new gambling, said Rob Nichols, a spokesman for Kasich. "It's a chance to catch our breath and monitor how this is working, to make sure that it's been rolled out in the proper manner."

Nichols said the administration was "extremely happy" with the result, calling the plan a "solid win-win" for both the state and emerging gambling industry.

"Finally, we have a gaming plan and operation that makes sense, that is rationale, where the industry can prosper and create jobs," he added.

Executives with the developers of the state's four casinos also are upbeat about the plan, which requires them to pay an additional $220 million in fees over 10 years but also sets boundaries on the state's gambling operations, protecting the billions of dollars they are investing in their casinos and providing them assurances as to what their competition will be.

Developers feared competition at bars

Casino developers were opposed to expanding slot machines to bars and gambling parlors because it would have been a major financial blow to their casinos.

"We said we don't want to see that," one gambling official said. "The governor said we don't really want to do that."

The details of how gambling will look in the state are contained in legislation passed last week in Columbus and in an agreement signed by the Kasich administration and the state's two casino developers – Rock Ohio Caesars and Penn National Gaming Inc.

"It helps us a lot to have this clarity," said Dan Reinhard, a lawyer for Rock Ohio Caesars, which is building casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Rock Ohio Caesars, a joint venture between Dan Gilbert's company, Rock Gaming, and Caesars Entertainment Corp., owns Thistledown, a thoroughbred track in North Randall,

A spokesman for Penn National, which is building casinos in Toledo and Columbus and also owns race tracks in those cities, said it would apply to relocate those tracks if the state's plan is fully implemented.

Spokesman Bob Tenenbaum said Penn National would spend $200 million to build new tracks with slot machines and restaurants near Dayton and Youngstown.

The wishes of the developers, the governor and the legislature will have to be carried out through regulations created by the Ohio Lottery Commission, which will oversee video slot machines at horse tracks, the Ohio Casino Control Commission and the Ohio Racing Commission.

Here's what has been decided:

• For ten years, state officials will not support, either "directly or indirectly," building any new Las Vegas-style casinos.

• The four casinos now being developed will operate under the terms voters approved in a 2009 constitutional amendment. They will be allowed up to 5,000 slot machines and with at least a $350 million investment per casino.

• In addition to a one-time $50 million licensing fee and ongoing 33 percent casino revenue tax, the casino developers will pay an additional $220 million to the state over 10 years that will go into a newly created fund. Kasich has said that in the short term, he would like to spend the money on worker training and hunger programs.

• The state's existing seven horse racing tracks can apply to add video slot machines and, like the casinos, will pay a $50 million licensing fee and 33 percent slot machine revenue tax. If race track owners don't apply for slots by June 30 of next year, their slot license can be given to another company nearby.

• No additional video slot machines beyond those at race tracks will be licensed by the state for 10 years.

• Owners of horse tracks can build their new racinos within 50 miles of their current tracks with state approval, but may have to pay the state additional fees to do so.

• Owners of horse tracks can apply to move their tracks to either Dayton or Youngstown in what has come to be called the "jump ball," because like in basketball, state officials are throwing the opportunity to claim Ohio's last untapped gambling markets up for grabs. State officials say they would like to see racinos in those cities, but add that they expect significant additional fees for the right to these markets.

Voters or lawmakers could change the terms of the current agreement before the ten-year period is up, expanding gambling or charging higher taxes or fees.

But they would have to think twice before doing so because any change would trigger a clause in the agreement that halts the unpaid portion of the $220 million in fees from the casino developers.

"If voters go back to the ballot and say we want eight more casinos, we can't stop that," said Nichols in the governor's office. "But on the things within the control of state government, there's a moratorium for 10 years."