City Council OKs plan for NFL stadium near Los Angeles -- but who is going to pay for it?

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — The Carson City Council on Tuesday cleared the path for a proposed stadium near Los Angeles that could become home to the NFL's San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders.

The 3-0 vote by the Carson City Council marks a significant step forward for plans to lure the NFL back to the Los Angeles area after a two-decade drought without a team in the nation's second-largest media market.

Council members could have opted to put the issue before Carson voters, but instead chose to approve it outright themselves.

Specifics of the $1.7 billion proposal, first unveiled in February, have been scarce, at least publicly.

The 26-page initiative petition proposing the stadium says little about how it would be paid for, other than a promise that city tax dollars won’t be used.

The Carson project is one of two stadium proposals to surface in the Los Angeles area this year: St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke is part of a group planning to build an 80,000-seat stadium in Inglewood, roughly 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles.