CONWAY — A 54-unit, 13-building housing development proposed by River Run Company and located near the Nereledge Inn in North Conway has gotten a preliminary thumbs up by the Planning Board.
If approved, construction will start next year. Fourteen of the units, or 25 percent of the total, is dedicated to workforce housing.
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Seems like "JoeTown" just keeps on getting bigger. River Road is so overrun now with summer tourists (each year worse than the one before) so I can only imagine adding to that traffic snarl with multiple buildings/parking lots. And building in a floodplain?! Oh not the buildings, just the parking area and the driveway, well okay, that's not a problem. The whole project seems environmentally detrimental especially given the close proximity of the Saco River...ahh, 5 special exceptions from the zoning board...no surprise there. Then there is the matter of 25% being allotted for workforce housing which is nothing more than a tokenism (pathetic at best).
How much will it cost to rent a workforce unit? Who are the "workforce"? Just trying to figure out if it will help out, we do need some cheaper housing.
14 units for workforce and 40 units for AirBnB. Just what the valley needs.
If you wanted to do something different with it , you should have bought it. Joe Berry and his sons own the land they should be able to do whatever they want. As a business owner on West side road I’m excited about their project and wish them the best of luck!
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