MINOT – The Planning Board Tuesday night heard a proposal to amend plans for the recently approved Grange Homestead subdivision, expanding it from three lots to four.

Plans for the subdivision, on Thelma Verrill’s property at 140 Grange Ave., were first submitted in September, with approval coming after the Planning Board’s October meeting. At the time, more than nine acres were being retained by the owner who, in the meantime, has decided to sell an additional lot.

The board agreed to hold a public hearing on the addition of the fourth lot to the Grange Homestead subdivision at the board’s January meeting.

The owner of a wood lot off Woodman Hill Road told the board that Hemond’s moto-cross track had been built across the right-of-way to his lot.

Unsatisfied with the response from track owner Donald Hemond, he said he was seeking the board’s advice on what he should do to maintain access to his land.

At the Planning Board’s suggestion, he said he would attend the Board of Selectmen’s next meeting to get that board’s opinion.

The Planning Board also completed its review of the town’s ordinance governing minimum street requirements and agreed to a series of recommendations that would change specifications for turnarounds.

The recommendations, which townspeople will act on at the March town meeting, would effectively ban the use of T-shaped turnarounds at the end of dead-end streets. The recommendations would allow only circular, cul-de-sac turnarounds, large enough to allow emergency vehicles and plows to proceed around the turnaround without having to shift into reverse.