The now closed Intervale Motel (right), with Cannell's Old Fashioned Country Store and related businesses and Mount Kearsarge North in the backgorund.Developers of a proposed four-story hotel for the site are to return to the Conway Planning Board Aug. 26. (TOM EASTMAN PHOTO)
The now closed Intervale Motel (right), with Cannell's Old Fashioned Country Store and related businesses and Mount Kearsarge North in the backgorund.Developers of a proposed four-story hotel for the site are to return to the Conway Planning Board Aug. 26. (TOM EASTMAN PHOTO)
CONWAY — It probably won’t be enough to satisfy abutters, but revised plans submitted to the Conway Planning Board for its Aug. 26 meeting show Viewpoint North Conway LLC proposal for a new hotel across from the Intervale Scenic Vista has been scaled back from four stories to three.
Plans for full site-plan review posted on the Conway Planning Board's website (conway-nh.org/planning) show that Viewpoint, represented by Josh McAllister of HEB Engineers of North Conway, is now proposing to build a three-story, 98-room hotel totaling 59,412 square feet at 3599 White Mountain Highway on the site of the now-closed 16-room Intervale Motel.
"Sires called for the planning board to spend time making sure the town’s zoning ordinances met the intent and goals of the master plan — something that has been taken up by board members as a goal for the coming year when time permits."
Maybe the Planning Board needs to put a moratorium into effect that would suspend all new development until they publicly present a completed/revised Master Plan for everyone to see and vote on.
If the MWV is currently struggling to find people to fill service industry jobs, just where do they think these people will come from to operate a new Hotel? Also, has there been any kind of study that shows there is a demand for more Hotel space? Or are we just competing for the same dollars from existing Hotels?
Conway residents are sure engaging in every form of 'not in my backyard', aka NIMBYism. It is allowable under building plans so avoid the costly court actions and let it go.
I think that would require people to be saying ‘not in my backyard’ to a hotel, which according to the article (reading is hard!) neighbors are not saying. Seems like they are asking for something scaled back. Although this says it’s 3 floors so … what are we calling that fourth level with a roof and a door…?
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"Sires called for the planning board to spend time making sure the town’s zoning ordinances met the intent and goals of the master plan — something that has been taken up by board members as a goal for the coming year when time permits."
Maybe the Planning Board needs to put a moratorium into effect that would suspend all new development until they publicly present a completed/revised Master Plan for everyone to see and vote on.
If the MWV is currently struggling to find people to fill service industry jobs, just where do they think these people will come from to operate a new Hotel? Also, has there been any kind of study that shows there is a demand for more Hotel space? Or are we just competing for the same dollars from existing Hotels?
Conway residents are sure engaging in every form of 'not in my backyard', aka NIMBYism. It is allowable under building plans so avoid the costly court actions and let it go.
I think that would require people to be saying ‘not in my backyard’ to a hotel, which according to the article (reading is hard!) neighbors are not saying. Seems like they are asking for something scaled back. Although this says it’s 3 floors so … what are we calling that fourth level with a roof and a door…?
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