The Denver Post
July 15, 2010, Carlos Illescas

A group of Castle Pines North residents is collecting signatures in an attempt to abolish the newly created Urban Renewal Authority, which blighted agricultural land to allow for a massive development. So far, Blight's Not Right has collected about 300 signatures on its petitions, more than is needed to force the City Council, which acts as the authority, to abolish the URA or put the matter to voters. Doing that, the group says, would slow down the project and allow more time for public input — something it says residents were not given. But city officials say the project was debated for two years. The petition drive is the latest controversy for The Canyons, a 3,300-acre planned development east of Interstate 25. At build-out, it would have about 225 acres of commercial property and 2,500 homes. "Our intent is to really vet it through the community properly," said Stacie Sneider, one of the leaders of the petition drive. "I certainly don't believe the community was well-informed on this." The City Council took some heat in May for blighting the land a week before a new state law kicked in that would have, in most cases, prevented it from doing so....

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