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guest rooms and the other added spare which means that a variance to the town's setback regulations must la* granted, Hinckley said.
“So you’re saying this is a hardship based on financial need? asked Mayor Miller.
“It’s not that they (Lynch and O’Connell) are trying to make more money,” the architect replied. "Hut they have to pay for these things that they Must have.”
Roofs are ’frequently replaced in large buildings without first erecting a new roof on top of the old, countered I'oter Labovitz, former owner of The Inn’s building and still owner of Middle St. (Jallery next door.
“The beams, the rafters, the whole structure must be replaced. It's a mess. You ought to know. You owned it!” Hinckley responded.
Labovitz argued that t Isold roof could be replaced in sections, an approach he's seen used hundreds of times on construction projects, lie also questioned whether the existing staircase doesn't already provide adequate safety and maintained that the “? l(" fire rating for the floor bet ween the restaurant and proposed guest rooms doesn’t meet state requirements.
If an emergency occurs while guests are sleeping, “we’ll have people waking up, in their night clothes, a little inebriated — trying to get down a five-foot wide staircase,” said Hinckley, insisting that narrower stairs in two flights would be safer. He also maintained that he’d been told by the county’s building inspector that the floor doesn’t have to have a “2 R” rating.
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