CONWAY — It was only a conceptual review and not a formal site-plan review but after preliminary discussions before the Conway Planning Board on June 23, it’s back to the drawing board on several aspects of the design for developers of a proposed four-story, 90-room Hilton Garden Inn in North Conway.
Members of the Conway Planning expressed their dissatisfaction with the design — including its proposed closeness to Route 16, use of metal building materials, destruction of old-growth trees to the back of the lot to make way for parking, plans for a retaining wall and required fill on the pitched lot — when Opechee Construction of Belmont representatives came before the board.
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