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Petition Delivered For SoccerCity Plan, With Project Now Slated For San Diego Vote

Proponents of San Diego's proposed SoccerCity project "dumped more than 500 boxes of citizens' petitions at the doorstep" of the county registrar of voters yesterday, "setting off a timetable for approving a billion-dollar redevelopment of Qualcomm Stadium," according to a front-page piece by Roger Showley of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. Development group FS Investors said that the boxes "contained more than 112,000 signatures to place their project on a planned Nov. 7 special election ballot." Registrar of Voters Michael Vu "will now have 30 days to verify the signatures and report back to San Diego City Clerk Elizabeth Maland." FS Investors "proposes to build a stadium of up to 32,000 seats" to host a new MLS franchise the group is applying to acquire, as well as San Diego State's football program if the school, city and FS Investors "reach agreement on terms and conditions." But a soccer-only stadium "would contain no more than 22,000 seats" and SDSU has "not supported the plan." The school has said that it "will eventually need to expand the facility to 40,000 seats -- a larger facility that it says the FS design cannot easily accommodate" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 4/25).

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: Univision Deportes President Juan Carlos Rodriguez, who is part of the FS Investors group seeking an MLS team, said, "It's not only an MLS team. This is way bigger than MLS. ... We really want to make the biggest thing that has ever happened to (San Diego)." In San Diego, Kevin Acee notes Rodriguez joined the group after "being convinced not only of the viability of MLS in the market but the capacity for San Diego to become an epicenter for international soccer." Many of Rodriguez' plans for SoccerCity are "preliminary," but his "devotion to the project and connections throughout the world indicate an ability to make big things happen." Rodriguez' belief that an MLS team will be "hugely popular in the 'unique' San Diego market and that the city will become an international soccer mecca present a credible argument that FS Investors and SDSU can work together to create an easy path to stadium expansion" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 4/25).

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