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Stadium Plan Is Quite the Shutout: Taxpayers, $1.1 billion; Spanos, $0

8/30/2016

By Tim O'Reiley

With a ho-hum answer to a basic question, Fred Maas left me awestruck.

Someone in the audience at the July 15 Spirit of the Barrio luncheon asked about parking for the downtown stadium/convention center annex proposed by Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos. After all, the ballot initiative, officially Measure C, mentions only 1,300 spaces, compared with the 19,000 at Qualcomm Stadium.

Read the full article on Voice of San Diego...

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Taxpayers Group Backs Sales-Tax Hike for $18B in Transit Repairs

8/3/2016

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The San Diego County Taxpayers Association on Wednesday endorsed a November ballot measure to raise the region’s sales tax by a half-cent to pay for infrastructure projects.

The San Diego County Road Repair, Transit, Traffic Relief, Safety and Water Quality Measure would raise an estimated $18 billion over 40 years to improve freeways, fund municipal road repairs and build a trolley line between San Ysidro and Kearny Mesa, among other things.

Read the full article on Times of San Diego...

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Stadium Plan Is Quite the Shutout: Taxpayers, $1.1 billion; Spanos, $0

Taxpayers Group Backs Sales-Tax Hike for $18B in Transit Repairs

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