More than 1, 500 residents of BenedictCanyon signed a petition expressing their opposition to the project as it was originally proposed, according to a representative of the coalition.
Actress Tate, 26, famed hairstylist Jay Sebring, 35, coffee fortune heiress Abigail Folger, 25, and two others died shortly after midnight on August 9, 1969, at a rambling house overlooking BenedictCanyon.