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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 day uses at timeshare and fractional-ownership properties should get an update, as well. They’ll li...

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,” Best said. Best brought up the next workforce housing project the town has in the works, which will ...

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 residential proposals include areas that easily could be converted into lock-off apartments, potentially cr...

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 project at the council work session on Tuesday, Jan. 26. The conceptual plans add rooms and facilities t...

Marc Piscotty In part two of the series On Edge, we meet Dick Carleton of Breckenridge. He's 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 two-bedroom condo with no insulation. It was awful. It was glorious.   He was “full of rebel spir...