Saturday, December 15, 2012

Kansas City voters approve streetcar plan


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A pool of 550 Kansas City voters approved tax and property assessments that could make a two-mile streetcar line in Downtown a reality as soon as 2015.
Officials at the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners released the results of the special mail-in election Wednesday afternoon.

Voters granted the Kansas City Downtown Streetcar Transportation Development District the authority to levy a 25-year, 1-cent sales tax on all retail sales made in the district, as well as a series of property reassessments in a special tax district composed of the River Market, Downtown and the Crossroads Arts District to finance the two-mile Main Street streetcar line

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