CONWAY — Selectmen are taking their case against local short-term rental owner Scott Kudrick to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
The appeal comes about a month after Kudrick defeated the town after it sued him in Carroll County Superior Court, hoping to get a declaratory judgment from Judge Amy Ignatius that would hold their zoning ordinance banning all but owner-occupied STRS in residential zones legal.
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Does anyone have a ball-park estimate as to what it is going to cost Conway if the town is successful, and the courts find the ban on STRs is a regulatory taking?
Fat chance.
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