Posted Wednesday, November 27, 2019 3:00 am
Lily Haight
lhaight@ptleader.com
Jefferson County’s volunteer planning commission has advised the County Commission to block all new outdoor shooting ranges.
The planners voted 7-0, with one abstention, on Nov. 20 to recommend the county’s ordinances be amended to require that all new shooting ranges be built indoors, grandfathering in the Jefferson County Sportsmen’s Association range, which leases country property.
“There is a lot of community support around this position,” said planning commissioner Lorna Smith, who worked with fellow commissioner Cynthia Koan to draft the new language. “The main factor behind that support is the many benefits of indoor shooting ranges.”