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San Juan Capistrano fights anew to preserve the past.(The Orange County Register)
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. _ In a storefront across the street from the historic Spanish mission, advocates of a new high school set up a command post, stocking it with campaign fliers and dioramas of the development they hope the town will approve.
A few miles away in the clubhouse of a mobile-home park, opponents of a Home Depot store proposed for the vacant land next door stored rows of their own campaign signs, these urging residents to reject the Home Depot and the high school for the effects they might have on the town.
In this old-fashioned place where the past is revered, both proposals _ the Home Depot and the high school with 175 homes clustered around it _ are headed for a showdown on Election Day.
Debates over the two projects _ and the ballot measures that soon will decide their fate _ have created a stir in the neighborhoods and meeting places of San Juan Capistrano, and the street corners and lawns around town have blossomed with gardens of colorful campaign placards urging yes or no votes.
"I've been here for 29 years, and I've never seen such a boiling kettle as we have now in San Juan," said Jack Heath, a leader of the opposition to Home Depot. "There's a lot of sparks going around the city, ...
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