MADISON — Planning board members admitted Wednesday they unwittingly created a zoning definition that may have the effect of banning short-term rentals in town if voters pass it next Tuesday.
Board members, STR supporters and those wanting to ban short-term rentals in town disagree as to what effect passing various articles will have on short-term rentals, but planners say it is too late to change the articles on the warrant.
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