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Breckenridge zoning rewrite sparks debate over manufactured‑home districts and affordability
Summary
Consultants presented a proposed citywide zoning ordinance that renames single‑family districts, creates retail, downtown and recreational districts, and concentrates manufactured housing into designated areas; residents urged broader manufactured‑home mapping and asked staff to provide percentage comparisons and three alternative maps before the next public hearing.
Breckenridge planning consultants on Dec. 15 presented a draft rewrite of the city’s zoning ordinance that would replace R‑1–R‑4 with SF5, SF6, SF7.5, SF10 and SF15 (numbers indicate minimum lot size in thousands of square feet), add a retail buffer district and a recreational district for short‑term RV/park stays, and expand an explicitly defined downtown district. The proposal would also consolidate manufactured‑home (mobile‑home) uses into distinct brown‑shaded districts rather than leaving them scattered among single‑family neighborhoods.
Caitlin Higgins, identified in the meeting as a planner with Public Management, said the new naming scheme is intended to make lot‑size requirements easier to understand and to align comparable densities across neighborhoods. She said the recreational district is intended to concentrate short‑term RV and recreational uses in one area (near the existing floodway) with time‑limited permits…
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