Jefferson County commissioners table proposed settlement with Chapo family in long-running shooting‑range litigation

Jefferson County commissioners on Aug. 7 voted to table consideration of a proposed settlement that would resolve nearly a decade of litigation over a property operated as a shooting range, saying they would not execute the settlement until the Chapo family formally signs the agreement.

County legal staff summarized the case history at the meeting, saying the county filed a zoning enforcement action in May 2016 over the property, and that subsequent state-court proceedings produced injunctions and monetary judgments in the county's favor. "Over the course of the last 9 years, state court has issued preliminary injunctions in favor of the county, grant summary judgment in favor of the county, and eventually ordered a permanent injunction for preventing the Chafos from operating the shooting range on the property," the…