The planned $30 million, 117-room Ambassador hotel at Douglas Place should give Project Downtown a real boost. But critics of the proposed letter of intent on today’s Wichita City Council agenda have a point: “Endorsing a letter of intent regarding a matter, and then later on holding a public hearing on the very same matter, reduces the public hearing to a meaningless exercise,” said Bob Weeks of the Wichita Liberty website. Even City Manager Robert Layton acknowledged, “It’s definitely not our normal order.” Even though the letter of intent will be nonbinding, it risks making the Sept. 13 public hearing on tax-increment financing seem like a pointless afterthought.
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