While I don't support towns restricting small business I also understand the desire to keep 25 from becoming a unbroken line of strip malls.
One question I have is how much flexibility does a town have to throttle business growth. It seems most of what I read about these type of problems is that the tools the towns have are pretty crude. They either allow growth or they don't. It seems many laws written to attempt to tailor growth to a certain pace or a certain type get tossed out.
In the end this leaves the towns stuck. Either stop all commercial growth or allow all.
Am I all wet here? What could Moultonborough do to keep growth to a reasonable pace?
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