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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 creating a second short-term rental unit on the property.
However, Truckey said many new home plans include areas that could be used as apartments but technically aren’t required to be deed restricted because they don’t include a separate kitchen. Truckey said that while staff plans to clarify what constitutes an accessory dwelling unit that must be deed restricted, he doesn’t think the is
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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 that are meant to accommodate the church’s social services. Town planner Chris Kulick noted that the expansion area has a sunken terrace that is not compliant with the town code, and the proposed development agreement also asked for other waivers of policies in the code, including for density guidelines, certain design standards, off-street parking requirements, and all fees associated with 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 spirit” in a town of kindreds and so he never left. He grew up with Breckenridge, jumped into the restaurant business in ‘81, married Cathy, his wife of 27 years, had three kids, became a city councilman.
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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 members whether they would be interested in executing an ordinance to change the law in lieu of petitioning residents.
“This is a can of worms for the council if we put this on the ballot ourselves,” Breckenridge Mayor Eric Mamula said. “… You have the right to go to the electors and get a 650-name petition, and let the voters in town decide. That’s 15% of the electorate.”
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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 25% capacity at the restaurant during what is prime season in the high country of Colorado. Despite all the challenges of owning a restaurant in these times Carleton said he’s thankful to be surrounded by the mountains in Summit County as a way to find peace and escape during these tough times. | MARC PISCOTTY PHOTO