ST. LOUIS • The city has filed a counterclaim against the public board that owns and operates the Edward Jones Dome. It argues first that the city’s ordinance requiring a public vote in order to spend city tax dollars on a new stadium is valid — that state law isn’t inconsistent with the city ordinance.
Then the filing alleges that the Dome authority can’t build a new stadium on the north riverfront anyway.
The state law that allowed for the building of the Jones Dome — and is being used to authorize construction of a new stadium — required the dome to be located “adjacent to an existing convention facility,” the counterclaim says.