[jmen24]

SAMIAM, thanks for the perspective of an effected business and the consideration of value needs to be on the main burner (pun intended) for you and the other business' next to you.

TomC, I am not sure about the exact structure of these two towns in regard to government planning. Most of the zoning changes that occur in the town where my office is located go through one of two channels, first the Zoning Administrator presents the change to the Zoning Board of Adjustments or the ZBA creates the change on there own. The selectmen are not apart of the process to create the changes (on the record) and when these changes make it to their desk they are acting on the strong recommendation of the ZBA and they just sign away, unless they have a personal reason to not like what is proposed. This does seem like a large enough issue that it would need to be presented to the town for a vote. Even though you cannot vote on the issue you can protest the action and put in a phone call to the town, by saying that there is nothing you can do for the residents of the town is just a bad as the town saying they don't want to hear from you. A town that relies so much on seasonal tourism needs to know that the seasonal tourist does not want to see this happen.

Sorry for all the long winded responses,

jmen