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By Viana Davila
Express-News
March 1, 2012
A group of local and state politicians asked Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff on Thursday to reconsider the use of advanced transportation district funds for a downtown streetcar system, arguing that voters who approved the tax district were led to believe the money would not be spent on rail.
Their letter to Wolff also said paying for streetcars with ATD money — a tax increase created in a 2004 election — “compromises our ability to leverage local funding to build much needed transportation projects throughout our community.”
The officials who signed the opposition letter were state Rep. Lyle Larson, who was a county commissioner when the ATD was created; state Sen. Jeff Wentworth; San Antonio District 8 Councilman Reed Williams and District 9 Councilwoman Elisa Chan; and County Commissioner Kevin Wolff, the county judge's son who twice voted against the use of ATD funds for streetcar.
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