The political action committee that helped to nix CodeNext has a new target: the stadium deal brokered to bring the MLS franchise in Columbus, Ohio, to Austin.

The group IndyAustin announced Thursday that it has launched a petition effort to challenge the City Council-approved stadium deal to bring Columbus Crew SC to Central Texas, where the pro soccer franchise would compete as Austin FC. IndyAustin, along with another political action committee, successfully put a proposition on the November ballot that’s tied to CodeNext and possible future large-scale rewrites of the city’s land-use rules.

The group’s latest petition calls for an ordinance that would require an election on any sale or lease of city-owned land for a sports stadium or concert venue as well as the approval of the plan by a supermajority of then City Council. IndyAustin is pushing to gather 20,000 signatures to force an election in May, according to a news release issued by the PAC.

On Aug. 15, the City Council voted to lease the McKalla Place tract to the Crew’s ownership group, Precourt Sports Ventures, for the construction of a 20,000-seat MLS stadium in North Austin near the Domain. The contract has not been finalized.

"This publicly subsidized private stadium deal will collapse when enough people smell the stench of frittering away public dollars and public land in the middle of an affordability crisis," said David Jones, the co-founder of IndyAustin, in the statement.