NORWAY – Town officials will begin a review of the vacant house and property on Danforth Street to determine what role it might play in the town’s needs for space.

“We need to know what we’re dealing with,” Town Manager David Holt said of the house the town acquired from the late Herbert Roberts, who died in May.

Holt said the building will first undergo an inspection to determine a variety of issues such as whether it is handicap accessible. One potential problem that immediately jumps to mind is the doors and whether they are too narrow to meet handicap accessibility law, he said.

Robert Prue of Pine Tree Engineering in Bath, a firm that has contracted with the town on a dozen previous jobs, will look at the property to see how it might be used for parking purposes. The house is between the town hall and the Norway Savings Bank.

“There are lots of options,” Holt said, including offices and parking.

One idea is space for the Police Department.

Police Chief Robert Federico said earlier this summer that the department is in need of additional space for interviewing, a detective’s office and more space for his office that is in the west end of Town Hall. Additionally, Federico said there is a need to consolidate the Police Department’s other functions, such as storing abandoned bicycles and equipment for cars now housed at a local garage, removing the police officer’s locker room from the Fire Station and relocating evidence storage from the town hall’s large meeting room.

“It’s nothing I want to rush into,” Holt said of the project.