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The Inn’s owners, Chef Patrick O’Connell and . Reinhardt Lynch, were praised by several speakers for the effort and vision they have shown in the 12 years since they opened The Inn in a former garage. “There is nothing you guys can’t do,” Laurie Marshall told them.
But others questioned whether the success and world-wide renown which has made the expansion necessary has not also signalled the time when The Inn has outgrown its present location. And others questioned the implications for the future of the town, if a precedent is set by allowing The Inn to expand under the proposal currently on the table.
David Konick suggested that the first issue “is whether this kind of project is something you’d like to see on every lot in town zoned the same. If you say ‘Yes’ to them,” the former zoning administrator said, “you have to say ‘Yes’ to any other similar proposal.”
He called the project “a nightmare, and an even bigger one when you consider its impact down the road.”
Mr. Konick was only one of several speakers who targeted the proposal’s probable conflict with the town’s comprehensive plan. Former mayor and council member Newbill Miller said that it is in conflict with “eight to 10” of the plan’s goals. For the proposal as submitted to be approved, Mr. Miller maintained,
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