A small group of Atlanta residents filed a legal challenge this week against the city’s plan for partial public financing of the new Falcons stadium.
Four residents of neighborhoods near the site of the proposed $1.2 billion stadium filed the motion to intervene in Fulton County Superior Court.
The Rev. William Cottrell, Mamie Lee Moore, Tracy Bates and John H. Lewis III allege a long list of legal flaws in the stadium financing plan, including the use of bonds that would be repaid with hotel-motel tax revenue, and ask for the proposed bond issuance to be rejected and declared unconstitutional.
The residents are among those who have been critical of stadium negotiations, most recently decrying how the city plans to spend millions in community benefit funds intended to offset disruptions to their communities.
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