MINOT — A last-minute maneuver by developer Chuck Starbird’s lawyer, Scott Lynch, canceled Tuesday’s Board of Appeals meeting that had been called to resolve issues stemming from the town’s code enforcement officer’s refusal to grant Starbird a building permit for his property off the end of York Road.

“We got word late this afternoon that Scott Lynch had filed an appeal in Superior Court. It’s an appeal of an appeal of an appeal and maybe more, if you can figure it out,” Dean Campbell, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said.

Word of the move didn’t get around fast enough to prevent Knud Hermansen, an expert on roads and easements called in by Lynch, and Edward Cormier, from the town’s law firm of Skelton, Taintor and Abbott, from appearing at the town office ready to argue their points.

Cormier pulled out his copy of Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice Mary Gay Kennedy’s order directing the Board of Appeals to reconsider its decision allowing Starbird to build a home on an unaccepted portion of York Road.

“It said we haven’t gone through all the conditions in the ordinance, but now it seems they’ve filed some appeal blocking us from doing our job,” Cormier said.

The permit wrangle began on May 14, 2010, when Starbird submitted a building permit application, which Code Enforcement Officer Ken Pratt denied on June 11.

Starbird appealed on July 6, and, on Sept. 15, the Board of Appeals rejected his appeal, but then agreed to reconsider its denial and, on Nov. 9, reversed itself and granted Starbird’s appeal, whereupon, on Nov. 15, town selectmen appealed to Superior Court, asking the Court to order the Appeals Board to reconsider its Nov. 9 decision. On June 20 Kennedy issued her order to the Appeals Board, which was scheduled to meet Tuesday — and apparently that order has been successfully appealed.