To the editor:
There are many reasons we should stop the building of a four-story hotel on the site of the Intervale Motel.
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(3) comments
You don't know anything about traffic studies. They can't possibly take into account the labor day weekend. You don't use anomalies or outliers for statistical studies. I am not an expert but you don't have to be one to know that hotels do not have a lot of in/out traffic like a restaurant or drive thru. That isn't how hotels work. Also, the hotel should not impact the road you live on since guests will largely navigate Route 16. Most tourists still don't know about North South road for getting around. As for the tree, it's a shame but its a tree. And it isn't yours.
DavefromConway - the traffic study has numerous flaws, including the fact that there is a Restaurant planned for this project that the study did not take into account. A hotel on its own is not a major traffic generator, but a hotel and/or a wedding receptions location absolutely drives traffic, and it will do so throughout the weekends of the summer and fall (at a minimum). The traffic study did not account for a functioning, full-service restaurant. That is but one of its many flaws.
This hotel proposal is endemic of everything wrong that is happening in the Valley.
Its approval will be the moment we have literally turned a corner from which there will be no return, and the Town "Planners" can own that decision and the consequences.
It is past time for all residence to make this their "Red Line" that won't be crossed and attend the meeting to make their voices heard.
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