Petitions for Great Park at El Toro Submitted
Great Park supporters hauled 175,000 petition signatures in the back of a rented armored truck Wednesday, delivering double the number needed to let Orange County voters decide whether to create an urban preserve rather than build an airport at the former El Toro Marine base.
But the validity of the signatures remains in doubt pending a state appeals court decision on whether the language of the proposed March 2002 ballot measure is misleading.
Banking on a favorable court decision, initiative backers were racing to meet a Sept. 17 deadline to qualify the measure for the March ballot.
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