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San Diego Mayor Poses Hard Questions To Chargers About Stadium Ballot Initiative

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer in a letter to the Chargers on Friday "posed hard questions about cost, taxpayer risk and other aspects of the team’s ballot initiative, which would raise hotel taxes to help finance a joint-use stadium and convention center," according to Dan McSwain of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. Faulconer said the letter was sent in a spirit of "openness and collaboration." Yet Faulconer also "acknowledged the team would have trouble providing definitive answers to some of the questions." On April 2, the team "published a 110-page ballot initiative that would change aspects of the city’s financing and land-use policy." After a 21-day waiting period, the team said that it will "begin gathering signatures required to place the initiative on the November ballot." Many of Faulconer’s major questions "flow from uncertainty over the design of the stadium and convention center." Chargers Special Advisor Fred Maas said that the team expects to "release initial architectural drawings and some engineering details in several weeks." The mayor’s letter "notes that the ballot initiative omits information about the cost of the project." He "requested a long list of design details, along with overall cost estimates for construction and operation of the stadium and convention center." A response from the team before an election "wouldn’t necessarily give the city options for repayment beyond those described in the initiative itself." Chargers advisers last month "outlined a financing plan and concept for the stadium and convention center." However, most of the outline "was not included in the initiative’s language" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 4/16).

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