Residential taxes going way up in Conway

This makes absolutely no sense. The commercial development of the Valley keeps expanding, so you shift the tax burden to the residence? What is wrong with you people? Meanwhile, school taxes keep rising and academic scores keep falling.

There is something seriously wrong with how things are being administrated in this Town. Maybe it's time for a State Audit/Investigation or a Class-action Lawsuit.

Thats great people !

Keep turning New Hampshire into massachussettes....

Keep falsely inflating home prices by allowing STRs as investments for rich people from massachussettes....

Our kids dont need a place to live, they will just bunllk with us, forever....

Keep letting massachussettes impose their liberalness upon us and turn our state real blue...

Great job folks !

The more blue we go the more its gonna cost us.

Keep adding layers of beaurocracy...

Lets get councils and due away with selectmen...

Before you know it they will be spending our money before we even make it....

Never mind live free or die...

Its gonna be pay your taxes, die, and pay more taxes....

Great job people !

Deeper reporting on the recent assessment and the background/need for the tax increase, including any consideration by town leaders of other options to protect residential property owners long term, would be helpful. This tax increase will likely cause more departures of residents who are employed in the thriving year round tourism industry. I think it is accurate to state that a significant portion of town, county, local and precinct bureaucracy, infrastructure and services (and costs) are scaled to serve and respond to matters involving tourists and tourism? Your article states the rate increase "shifts the burden" of these costs from commercial property to residential based on property values. Was that discussed any further? If the tax rate on commercial property serving the tourism industry is not proportionally higher than residential, it should be.

One-time, or non-recurring, revenue should not be used to fund operating expenses. This inevitably leads to permanently higher taxes as the bureaucracy expands. As voters and the Selectmen make local government larger, taxes will need to be permanently raised...or we need to make different spending choices. Using a temporary band-aid to reduce the impact of these spending decisions fools people into thinking that you really can have a "free lunch" for some period of time. Unfortunately, no. Empowering local government to get more and more involved in our lives means sacrificing more and more private resources to pay for the overhead.