JERSEY CITY — Jersey City voters will have their say on the controversial relocation of the Katyn memorial on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

That's the date the city has set for the special election that was forced by a group of voters who oppose the city's plan to move the statue from its longtime home at Exchange Place.

The referendum could overturn a City Council action that authorized relocating the statue to York Street.

The referendum cannot be held on Election Day because the deadline to add a question to the Nov. 6 ballot passed in August.

Mayor Steve Fulop proposed moving the monument, which commemorates the 1940 massacre of over 20,000 Polish people by the Soviet Union, so local business group Exchange Place Alliance can create a city park in that location. Critics say the new park can be created around the statue.

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