Residents of the Railyards neighborhood of Sacramento successfully stopped the city from expanding a special taxing district and allocating $92 million toward stadium infrastructure; however, their protests and lawsuit were not enough to halt stadium construction entirely.
According to CBS News, the residents submitted letters opposing the financing agreement to the city council in June. California state law dictates that if half the residents of a district protest a special tax creation, then that special tax must be set aside for at least a year. But residents of the Railyards allege that is not what happened in this situation. They accuse Sacramento’s city council of not counting the letters, but moving forward anyway…