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A septic leak in July is reigniting a festering conflict between Park County residents who opposed a waste transfer station near their homes, the business owner who put it there and the county that approved the station. Park County commissioners approved the rezoning for the controversial site — owned by Adam Shirley 's business, ASKAG LLC— in February.
He also said he believed Shirley owed his neighbors an apology.This issue first bubbled up last year when residents came to Denver7 Investigates with concerns that Shirley was receiving preferential treatment from county leadership while going through the application process for his waste transfer station. One former county planner called the application a 'guaranteed success.
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