To the editor:
I am writing this letter to the developer of the hotel/restaurant in what was the Intervale Motel, owned by the Cannell family. I will not be able to attend the public comment meeting on Aug. 26, but this is what I would say.
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Once again outside influences with deep pockets will continue to transform and market the MWV into some kind of grotesque, tourist-driven, Shangri la until all that made it so is completely destroyed.
And the town leadership will blithely sit back and say, "We had no choice in the matter. You can't stop progress".
Whatever happened to the "Master Plan"? At what point is the Valley finished "developing"?
What about those who actually live here, have roots here and history here? Do they just have to watch as their Village becomes just another investment opportunity for a small group of individuals that don't even live here?
How nice for the tourists to be able to gaze at Mt. Washington from their temporary digs while the rest of us have to deal with the newly blocked view, increased traffic, and continued over-crowding.
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