CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Steele Creek neighbors won't be the primary users of the light rail if voters agree to raise the sales tax to complete future transportation projects; they're not even primary users now.

But the referendum still affects them.

"I want them to be really looking at the funding model and how this is being funded and being pushed down to tax taxpayers, individual taxpayers, instead of the traditional ways of funding infrastructure," said Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-McDowell.

The meeting was held in Rodriguez-McDowell's district. She wanted to make sure voters had as much information as possible to make the best decision.

"Sales tax, about 70 percent of that, or $13.6 billion, is generated from us. From people who live here, from busin

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