ASPEN – — The Aspen City Council decided Monday that voters will be allowed on Nov. 6 to settle the question of whether the city can build a hydroelectric plant using water from Castle and Maroon creeks.
Officially, the council’s unanimous vote rescinded an ordinance it passed Dec. 12 that gave land-use approval and rezoned open space property for the Castle Creek Energy Center hydroelectric plant off Power Plant Road. But council members said they would work this year to craft language for an Election Day referendum that would leave the project’s fate up to city voters.
City Clerk Kathryn Koch said the deadline to pass a resolution with the ballot language would come in the first week of September. Under city law, the ballot language must be made available to voters at least 60 days before the election.
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