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🏜️ The Town of Marana just rejected two referendum petitions 🚫🗳️ that would have let Southern Arizona residents vote on whether a massive data center campus should be built on 600 rezoned desert acres 🏗️💾—and the reason isn’t what you’d expect. 😲
📋 Community organizers collected nearly 6,000 signatures ✍️ (almost twice the legal minimum! 📈), but the filings were missing one required element under Arizona law: a formal legal description of the rezoned properties. 📄🗺️
⚖️ The town clerk had no discretion to overlook the omission 🙅♀️, and the sponsoring group—Worker Power and Arizonans for Responsible Development—acknowledged the error 🤦♂️ and withdrew the petitions on February 17. 🗓️🔙…