OXFORD – Selectmen agreed Thursday to consider ordinance changes that would spell out whether new subdivision roads must be paved.

Rodney Smith, the code enforcement officer, said the paving issue came up when the Planning Board approved a subdivision on the Town Farm Road without requiring that it be paved.

Several selectmen agreed that new subdivision roads should be paved, but Smith said, “We need to have it in writing.”

He urged the board to get a legal opinion on whether the board erred in not requiring the paving and, if so, what could be done about it.

Resident Joyce Reiner suggested the town impose a road impact fee on developers who create subdivisions in town. Developers are already required to pay a $400 impact fee, which is set aside for recreational use.

Reiner said a road impact fee would more fairly reflect the increase in traffic on all roads because of subdivision development.

Selectmen Mike Thompson agreed.

“Anybody who does a subdivision is not going to do it for three or four houses. They’re going to do more lots and sell them for $40,000 apiece,” Thompson said. Development pressures are moving up Route 26 from Gray, he added.

Smith also asked the board to consider adopting performance standards for mobile homes in town.

The new standards proposed by Planning Board member John Palmer would allow only mobile homes constructed after June 15, 1976, and require that they comply with federal manufactured housing standards.

Selectmen discussed whether the town should go one further and limit the number of mobile homes that can be put on individual lots in a given year. The limit would not apply to mobile home parks, where the homes come and go.

Selectmen agreed that the proposed ordinances would be subject to a public hearing and must be approved by voters at a town meeting.