CONWAY — The Conway Planning board is looking at a proposal that would create a new “commercial core” zone, which would limit hotels and big box stores to the southern end of the North Conway Strip. As currently envisioned, the one would house large commercial buildings greater than 15,000 square feet and hotels in an area that would extend from Village Way, just north of Four Your Paws Only, south to the bottom of Bowling Alley Hill, just south of Burger King.
Motels and smaller stores would be permitted throughout the already existing highway commercial zone — which would encompass mas well as the new commercial core zone.
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