UPDATED at 2 p.m. with comments from task force member Dave Peacock.
ST. LOUIS • The construction of a riverfront football stadium does not need voter approval in the city before using city tax dollars, a judge ruled on Monday — prompting pleas for regional support from stadium planners.
St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Thomas Frawley declared invalid the city ordinance requiring a public vote. Moreover, Frawley ruled, the placement of the new stadium, along the riverfront just north of downtown, does not break a state law requiring the building to be “adjacent” to the convention center — it is close enough, he wrote.