Clooney was among some 300 townspeople who signed the petition against the planned construction in the town of Laglio on Lake Como, according to organizers.
"My concern is that this village that has stood for hundreds of years would be destroyed simply because I happened to have lived there for the last six years. I told my neighbors that I would do what they wanted. And it seemed that they didn't want to demolish the harbor where all the local fishermen keep their boats,'' Clooney wrote in an e-mail.
Clooney said the petition appeared to have had the desired effect, and that the mayor had announced that at least some of the plans - which opponents say would damage the environment as well as the 18th century old harbor - had been scrapped.
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