An eleventh-hour effort to stop the creation of a small subdivision in the foothills outside Morrison hinges on tentative and uncertain findings of a Native American burial site.

Two contractors, Damien Davis and Ken Hoyt, plan to subdivide 30 undeveloped acres south of the North Turkey Creek Road and Starlight Drive intersection into three 10-acre home lots. Richard Finney, a spacecraft engineer who lives to the west, has long opposed that idea.

After losing one legal case against Davis and Hoyt and being ordered Oct. 20 to pay them $88,000 in attorney fees, Finney sued again one week later. He is also suing Jefferson County planners and commissioners for approving the Davis-Hoyt development in September.

“The suit is as meritless as Mr. Finney’s other actions taken against my client a

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