Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman will tour the Laurel Park racetrack Friday following concerns raised by a Baltimore delegate regarding worker living conditions.

Pittman announced Thursday he will tour the racetrack at 10:30 a.m. and meet with workers living and working on site. He also will speak with track managers and talk with news media attending the tour.

The county executive’s announcement was made after Del. Nick Mosby, D-Baltimore, called on Anne Arundel County lawmakers to withdraw legislation that changes how the state funds upgrades to horse racing tracks.

Mosby held a press conference Thursday again calling for the withdraw of the legislation as well as freezing Racetrack Facility Renewal Account funding. He was joined by representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union and Casa de Maryland. He will attend the tour Friday alongside Pittman.

“We call on the Maryland General Assembly to do away with the additional mechanism through the (Maryland Economic Development Council) to provide an additional $120 million to this institution, and ask that they immediately fix up the living quarters for these Marylanders,” Mosby said. “As a country and a state, we are better than this.”

The Stronach Group owns Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course. Baltimore officials have been concerned The Preakness Stakes event will be moved from Pimlico to Laurel Park as Stronach continues to invest in the Laurel site. Mosby denied his calls to stop the additional funding is about the Preakness. He sent a letter to Sen. Pam Beidle, D-Linthicum, and Del. Mark Chang, D-Glen Burnie, calling the housing “concrete cells.”

It is about the living conditions, he said.

The legislation has not been withdrawn, but Beidle said in a previous interview that any poor living conditions should be improved. Neither Beidle or Chang’s legislation — SB 883 and HB 990 — have been voted out of committee.

Stronach officials called Mosby’s complaints political as Baltimore elected officials fight to keep the Preakness, a Triple Crown Race, in Baltimore.

The Canadian company has been primarily investing in Laurel Park and that’s seen as table setting for the Preakness to move from Pimlico Race Course to Laurel. Beidle and Chang’s legislation would allow Stronach to invest $80 million in Laurel, funded equally from video lottery money and from the company.

The Baltimore Sun contributed to this report.