We oppose the Madison Planning Board’s Article No. 5 proposed definition of “Short-Term Rentals.” Although that term is mentioned nowhere in the Madison Zoning Ordinance, the apparent purpose of adding the definition is to carve out a drastic exception to prohibitions of commercial uses in Madison’s residential districts. In particular, the definition would define short-term rentals as:
Oh Nick...We have grown so weary of your misunderstanding of zoning use as it applies to Madison. If, as you say, there is no need to change the Madison zoning definition in order to copy the Portsmouth zoning ordinance, then why have you been wasting our time all these many months? We know why. Because they are different and you have been misleading us these many months. And Judge Amy Ignatius as much as said so in her court ruling on the Conway vs. Kudrick case. As a former Planning Board member, I can tell you clearly have no understanding land use as it pertains to zoning. Just because you say STRs are a commercial use of a property does not make it so. It's a residential use, and the court has ruled it as such. Your "hotel-motel" rants did not hold up in court and your poorly written attempt to ban STRs will fail again.
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Oh Nick...We have grown so weary of your misunderstanding of zoning use as it applies to Madison. If, as you say, there is no need to change the Madison zoning definition in order to copy the Portsmouth zoning ordinance, then why have you been wasting our time all these many months? We know why. Because they are different and you have been misleading us these many months. And Judge Amy Ignatius as much as said so in her court ruling on the Conway vs. Kudrick case. As a former Planning Board member, I can tell you clearly have no understanding land use as it pertains to zoning. Just because you say STRs are a commercial use of a property does not make it so. It's a residential use, and the court has ruled it as such. Your "hotel-motel" rants did not hold up in court and your poorly written attempt to ban STRs will fail again.
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