Timeshare not welcome at Dewey Beach
DEWEY BEACH -- Dewey Beach may no longer welcome timeshare ownership in the resort.Hotels and motels, too, could lose the ability to convert to condominiums.
Dewey commissioners will consider the options at a Friday meeting at 6 p.m. at the Lifesaving Station on Dagsworthy Avenue.Commissioners normally would not try to regulate property ownership, said Dewey Mayor Courtney Riordan. But in this case, timeshare owners could tilt town elections.
Commissioner Dale Cooke proposed stopping the part-ownership setups as a way to block that possibility. A single unit's several part-owners -- a group that may spend little time and harbor no real concern for the town -- could alter elections in mobilized group efforts on certain issues, Cooke said.
That's a situation that happened a few years ago, Riordan recalled, noting the more than 100 votes from the 48-unit Royal Surf Club condominium complex."
Nothing but a headache and a heartache for the town of Dewey Beach," Cooke agreed.Yet Dewey needs its nonresident voters to fairly represent a town with 1,300 properties and only about 100 voting residents, Riordan said.
...we'll wait and see the verdict...
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