ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayor Kim Norton vetoed the City Council’s award of a $53 million contract to build Phase One of a sports and recreation complex. Norton said the Far Southeast site is too far from downtown hotels and restaurants to boost tourism. Tourism was the original talking point of promoters for new taxes to finance the project, the mayor said. The seven-member City Council could override Norton’s veto with five votes.
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