FARMINGTON — Following three public hearings on applications for Community Development Block Grants, selectmen agreed Tuesday to add the three applications to the town meeting warrant so voters can decide.

The first grant application would be used to improve accessibility for people with disabilities at Meetinghouse Park, Steve Kaiser, code enforcement officer, said.

Improvements include creating a gradual slope up to the bandstand, adding a curb cut and  improved walkway from the court house into the park along with some parking and drainage work at the back of the park on Pleasant Street.

A previous plan to make the 1928 bandstand handicap accessible with a ramp was changed after the Maine Historical Preservation Commission was consulted and was opposed to the plan. The commission was consulted because the park is in the town’s historic district. Selectman Nancy Porter questioned the ramp plan and historical significance when it was presented in November.

The $40,000 grant for park improvements includes a $10,000 matching amount from the town with $2,000 taken from a town fund for handicap accessibility, Kaiser said.

A second grant application would be used for street light improvements and repaving some streets downtown and work on sidewalks and crosswalks on Front Street, he told the board.

 The grant application is for $150,000 with $90,000 more taken from the town’s Public Works street improvement budget.

Construction work would not begin until 2012, he added.

A third potential grant application would provide funds for roads, sewer and water connections for Brookside Village, a proposed low and moderate income housing project located off the Fairbanks Road.

There’s a real need for this type of housing, Brookside developers William Marceau and Byron (Buzz) Davis told the board.

Brookside would be a 32-unit, state-of-the-art complex similar to Deer Crossing with updated, better design features, Marceau said. Eligibility guidelines for the housing include income and tenants need to be age 62 or above or disabled.

With funding help from Rural Development and Maine State Housing, the housing would be privately owned and maintained creating a taxable property for the town. The $500,000 CDBG funds would create public road and utilities connections.

“It was a real blighted site that we’ve cleaned up and brought back to its natural beauty,” Davis said of the former wood dowel mill property.

The developers have worked seven years and have a condominium project, Willow Springs, planned in addition to the housing making it a retirement community, they said.

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