OSSIPEE — A Carroll County Superior Court judge ruled against the town of Conway in a lawsuit the town brought against short-term rental owner Scott Kudrick.
The town's attorney, Russ Hilliard of Upton & Hatfield LLP, argued in November that non-owner occupied STRs are prohibited in residential zones due to their being a commercial use.
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It's the only way she could have ruled. Of course they are residential. As for the town's assertion that hotels could buy up homes and rent out rooms, that is just dumb. Individuals can make money that way, hotels would not be interested in such an arrangement.
And that's that.
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