TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Topeka City Council has voted down a plan to buy the Heartland Park Topeka racetrack.

The council Tuesday night rejected a resolution to allow the city manager to reissue STAR bonds with an estimated value between $4.8 million and $5.5 million to buy the track.

The vote apparently ends a controversy that began when the city voted in 2006 to issue $10.46 million in STAR bonds to finance improvements at Heartland Park, expecting that revenue from around the park would help pay off the bonds. That never happened and the city was facing millions of dollars in debts on the bonds.

Last August, the council voted to buy racetrack to try and develop it but that decision was criticized and caused months of controversy, leading to Tuesday’s vote.