Littleton voters defeat Wal-Mart plan

Rocky Mountain News

Published June 20, 2007 at midnight

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Littleton voters on Tuesday defeated a proposal that would have rezoned three parcels of land on South Santa Fe Drive and allowed the building of a 24-hour Wal-Mart superstore.

The vote, released just before midnight Tuesday, was 7,878 to block the rezoning, with 5,128 votes to allow it.

Last March, a group called Littleton Against Wal-Mart gathered enough signatures — more than 10 percent of registered voters in the city — for a ballot measure asking to reverse the council's decision to rezone the land for the superstore.

The store would have been built next to the South Platte Park, but Kelli Narde, a spokeswoman for the city, said there would have been a 20-acre buffer between the store and the park.

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