After a three-hour meeting in a room packed with supporters of the Indy Eleven, a City-County Council committee on Tuesday narrowly advanced a proposal for a taxing district on the east side of downtown to support a potential Major League Soccer stadium.
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The 19-5 vote, which followed party lines, creates an economic enhancement district or EED bound by North, East, South and West streets the Mile Square that would see increases to property taxes within those boundaries.
All five Republicans and the City-County Council's lone independent joined Democrats in approving the record-setting budget proposed by Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett.