An extension of a half-cent sales tax to fund transportation projects in Arizona’s fast-growing Maricopa County will be up to voters in November 2024 after the governor last week signed a compromise bill into law.The billions of dollars raised by the so-called Proposition 400 tax extension would flow to freeways, roads, and mass transit in and around Phoenix, but would be blocked from funding new light rail projects, which could lead local governments to pitch in more of their own money. Voter approval would also lift a cloud over a regional authority’s bond rating. Arizona Katie Hobbs praised a bipartisan effort to pass a bill allowing Maricopa County voters to decide on a transportation tax extension when she signed the measure into law Aug. 1. Arizona Governor’s Office Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who vetoed a previous measure, hai …
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