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NFL stadium plan near L.A. gets council OK

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A new NFL stadium near Los Angeles moved closer to reality when the Inglewood City Council approved plans for an 80,000-seat venue.

The development plan that includes St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke would possibly return an NFL team — or teams — to the Los Angeles area for the first time in two decades.

The Inglewood City Council approved the $2 billion plan with a 5-0 vote late Tuesday night. The vote adopts the plan without calling a public vote.

“It’s the one, best chance for the NFL to come back here,” Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts said after the four-hour council meeting.

The plan adds the 80,000 seat, 60-acre stadium to an existing 2009 plan to redevelop the former Hollywood Park racetrack site with homes, offices, stores, parks and open space and a hotel.

Kroenke is part of the development group that is promoting the project, but a plan is also in the works in St. Louis in hopes of keeping the team.

A stadium task force appointed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is working on finalizing details for an approximately $1 billion, 64,000-seat downtown St. Louis stadium to replace the Edward Jones Dome, the Rams’ current home.

“St. Louis is an NFL city and I am committed to keeping it that way,” Nixon said last month.

New urgency for Inglewood came when the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers announced they are teaming up to propose a shared stadium in Carson, Calif., near Los Angeles.

The teams continue to seek publicly funded stadiums in their current cities, but as a backup plan, they are considering building a $1.7 billion, privately funded stadium in Carson.

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