CONWAY — More answers about how the town plans to move forward with its ban on short-term rentals will be coming next week, Town Manager Tom Holmes said Tuesday.
He also said the town has filled an assistant building inspector position in
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LIVE FREE OR DIE! But with caveats as long as the "not in my backyard" locals agree. I've watched Conway, through four chairman of the Select boards, claim that the valley needs to remain aesthetically pleasing. Really! While locals complain about STR impacting their neighborhoods, the entire tourism concept perpetuates environmental suicide. My neighborhood wreaks of fossil fuels, trees are being cut at an alarming rate to make way for developments, factory farmed animals are still being consumed causing zoonotic and environmental disease...but no stop short term rentals??? That makes as much sense as the weeks of debate and discourse regarding no parking at Diana's bath for safety and "overuse" of the "resource" complaints, resulting in a mile long lines of cars spewing carbon molecules into the compromised atmosphere! Not in my backyard?
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