CONWAY — After hours of presentation and discussion, the Conway Planning Board unanimously granted conditional approval Jan. 13 to the scaled down but still controversial Viewpoint North Conway LLC hotel proposal in Intervale.
First proposed to be four stories and totaling 105,836 square feet with 105 rooms, and then scaled back to 59,412 square feet and 98 rooms, the conditionally approved plan OK’d by the planning board last Thursday was for a three-story, 62,205-square-foot structure with 70 rooms and a footprint of 20,735 square feet.
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