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County discusses visitor management: short-term rental enforcement, shooting ranges, trailhead parking and grants
Summary
Commissioners and staff discussed steps to manage visitor impacts, including new authority to regulate short-term rental platforms, cooperation with Airbnb, a federal grant-funded shooting-range opening schedule, and exploring paid parking and trailhead maintenance to capture more visitor spending.
Clear Creek County elected officials and staff described several ongoing and planned efforts to better manage visitor impacts and capture more visitor spending in local towns.
Commissioner Jody Hartman Ball said the county has engaged with short-term rental platforms and that an updated county ordinance and a recent state law now allow counties to directly regulate platforms such as Airbnb and VRBO. She said Airbnb has begun cooperating and that the county hopes to bring other platforms on board to reduce unlicensed short-term rentals.
Hartman Ball and other…
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