The San Antonio City Council voted to move forward with negotiations with the San Antonio Spurs for the new arena during its Aug. 21 meeting.

Long story short

Two conflicting resolutions were considered by the City Council during the meeting. One was to authorize negotiations and execute a nonbinding term sheet with the San Antonio Spurs, and the other was a resolution to not consider the proposed terms sheet without further due diligence.

San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones has maintained that the city is moving too fast with a once-in-a-generation project.

The resolution, backed by Jones, would pause any negotiations with the Spurs until the city conducts an independent economic impact study for the proposed Spurs arena, which would be on par with the economic impact the city of P

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