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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Salt Lake City council members ended seven years of wrangling with approval for a nearly $23 million soccer complex along the Jordan River in the city's northwest corner.
A 5-2 council vote on Tuesday calls for use of a $15.3 million bond that voters approved in 2003, plus $7.5 million donated by Utah's Major League Soccer team, Real Salt Lake.
The complex at 2200 North near Rose Park is scheduled to be built by fall 2011.
The plan calls for 16 soccer fields, including a championship facility with seating for 2,000.
The effort was delayed by environmental concerns, court fights and cost overruns.
The Salt Lake Tribune says critics claim the complex was part of a secret city agenda to create an elite academy for Real Salt Lake.
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