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Breckenridge Grand Vacations Grand Colorado property allows fractional owners to use the property’s amenities on a day-use basis as parking and other availability allows. As Breckenridge prepares code amendments to address amenity clubs, fractional ownership models will also be addressed. Photo by Liz Copan / Studio Copan The Breckenridge Town Council has been working on code amendments to help regulate day-use amenity clubs in town, and officials determined last week that restrictions for da...

Photo by Hugh Carey / Summit Daily archives Breckenridge Town Council is working to alleviate a housing shortage for residents but is losing units to the short-term rental market faster than new ones can be built. At the Town Council work session Tuesday, March 9, Housing Manager Laurie Best talked about the pressure on the local housing market. “The market is crazy and locals trying to get units is extremely difficult, and I think the employers are feeling it with not being able to hire,” ...

Photo by. Liz Copan / Studio Copan Breckenridge town staff estimates that there are more than 100 residences in town where a room or lock-off unit is rented out short-term, and the town council plans to do something about it. Community Development Director Mark Truckey explained during a Breckenridge Town Council work session Tuesday, Feb. 23, that the town planning commission is concerned about an increasing number of short-term rental units in town. He explained that new single-family residen...

Photo from Breckenridge Town Council work session packet The Father Dyer United Methodist Church is getting an update. The church is set to add a 2,728-square-foot addition to the existing structure. The expansion will be modeled on the historic church, and would connect to a previous addition built onto the church after it was moved to its current location on Breckenridge’s Wellington Road in 1977. The Breckenridge Town Council agreed to move forward with a development agreement for the proj...

Marc Piscotty In part two of the series On Edge, we meet Dick Carleton of Breckenridge. Hes watched the pandemic tear away at the social fabric of the town. On Edge is an ongoing online series on the growing mental health challenges in Colorado, featuring the work of more than 100 news organizations statewide. Dick Carleton came to Breckenridge from Virginia when he was 24. He had a business degree from Virginia Tech, a ‘69 Volkwagen bug, $100 and three friends willing to share a crappy tw...

Photo by Hugh Carey / Summit Daily archives It could be left to voters whether the town of Breckenridge will permit cannabis lounges. The Breckenridge Town Council on Tuesday suggested medical marijuana attorney Jeff Gard circulate a petition to see if a “citizens-initiated ordinance” can gain enough signatures to put the legalization of so-called “marijuana hospitality businesses” on the ballot in Breckenridge. On behalf of his client, Breckenridge Organic Therapy, Gard asked council m...

Listen to this post BRECKENRIDGE | Dick Carleton came to Breckenridge from Virginia when he was 24. He had a business degree from Virginia Tech, a ‘69 Volkswagen bug, $100 and three friends willing to share a crappy two-bedroom condo with no insulation. It was awful. It was glorious. Dick Carleton, 64, of Breckenridge is a Breckenridge Town Council member and owns two restaurants in Summit County including the Hearthstone Restaurant in Breckenridge. New rules in Summit County have allowed for...

Dick Carleton came to Breckenridge from Virginia when he was 24 years old. He had a business degree from Virginia Tech, a ’69 Volkswagen bug, $100 and three friends willing to share a crappy two-bedroom…

Breckenridge Town Council has finalized plans for a business rent relief program. Town staff hopes to have applications available for businesses by Monday, Jan. 4. As businesses continue to struggle with the financial impacts of COVID-19 restrictions, Breckenridge Town Council is rolling out a grant application process to help keep businesses afloat. The grants are designed to help cover January and February rent in a tiered format based on how much of a decrease in sales a business has experie...

Photo by Elaine Collins Breckenridge Town Council is planning another round of rent relief for business owners in any industry who can show a certain amount of revenue loss over the course of the year. The grant was discussed at a special council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 22, and is intended to be a bridge that helps to pay January rent before businesses can apply for the next installment of the Paycheck Protection Program. The town so far has issued $356,000 in rent relief to 82 approved restauran...