Clay Chastain is a former Kansas City resident who gathered enough signatures to put a sales tax increase for light rail on the city ballot. The Kansas City Star reports the proposal sought a three-eighths-cent sales tax increase for 25 years to pay for a 22-mile light rail line, 19-mile commuter rail line and an 8-mile streetcar line.

The City Council says the measure violated the Missouri Constitution by failing to provide full funding for construction.

Chastain’s attorney, Jeffrey Carey, on Thursday told the court the voters should be allowed to decide the issue.