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ASPEN — — Call it a major score for the group opposed to the city’s Castle Creek hydroelectric project.
On Tuesday, Aspen City Clerk Kathryn Koch certified the petition that aims to overturn a recent City Council decision to rezone land off Power Plant Road south of Aspen for the hydropower facility.
Needing at least 594 valid signatures from Aspen voters — the figure represents 10 percent of the city’s electorate — anti-project forces had gathered 953 signatures when they turned them in to Koch’s office on Jan. 17. Koch’s letter to petition co-organizer Maurice Emmer, a “statement of sufficiency,” does not say how many of the signatures were valid but notes that the minimum requirement was met.
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