It’s official: voters will get a say this November on whether tax dollars are used to build the San Antonio Spurs basketball team a new downtown arena.

The team’s owners pushed to put such a measure on the ballot last May and were rebuffed by Bexar County leaders who said they first needed a plan for what would happen to the county-owned Frost Bank Center, which the Spurs would be vacating.

On Tuesday — after much deliberation on how to protect that asset — Bexar County Commissioners voted 4-1 to put a venue tax increase on the Nov. 4 ballot.

If voters approve them, the measures would bump up Bexar County’s portion of the taxes collected on hotel rooms from 1.75% to 2%, as well as increase taxes on rental cars, creating $503 million in revenue over 30 years.

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