FARMINGTON – Overnight parking in the town lot at Exchange and Pleasant streets will no longer be allowed year-round.

Changes to the parking ordinance were unanimously approved by the Board of Selectmen this week and take effect immediately. Formerly known as the Bjorn lot, the area has been renamed the Exchange Street parking lot to avoid confusion over a Bjorn lot across the street, Town Manager Richard Davis explained to the board.

The other change in the ordinance prohibits parking in spaces in front of 138-140 Pleasant St. for more than two hours between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

In other matters, the board heard a request from an environmentally conscious University of Maine student who asked members to consider changing the skateboarding ordinance.

Senior Scott Grigg said he uses a skateboard for get to school so he can limit the use of fossil fuels with a car and avoid the problems of parking around the university.

The current ordinance restricts skateboarding and roller skating on Broadway and Main from Anson Street to Academy, and on Church Street and the Wilton Road.

Grigg asked the board to reconsider the reasoning of the restrictions, especially safety.

“The safety issues of a skateboard . . . are no more dangerous than that of a common bicycle,” he said.

Davis told the board they could not amend the ordinance but could make a recommendation on it for the annual town meeting.

Police Chief Richard Caton opposed an ordinance change due to traffic and pedestrian congestion.

“The few streets where these modes of transportation are banned are minimal. High Street is not banned and runs parallel to Main Street,” he wrote in a memo to the board. “A short jaunt from Main to High carrying a skateboard and then traveling . . . via High Street is a minimal inconvenience.”

The board voted 3-2 against recommending a change.