MINOT — Town Administrator Arlan Saunders told selectmen Monday that the town’s lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss developer Chuck Starbird’s appeal of a Superior Court order that would have required Minot’s Board of Appeals to re-examine its ruling on whether Starbird could build on his lot located along an unaccepted portion of York Road.

“I have received a copy of the motion to dismiss that Norm Rattey has filed with Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court. As this unfolds, I’ll keep you posted,” Saunders said.

This action is the latest in a long string of appeals and counter appeals that began on June 11, 2010, when the town’s Code Enforcement Officer, Ken Pratt, rejected a building permit Starbird filed May 14.

At that time, Starbird said he wanted to build on a piece of land he owned that was just a short distance from the improved, and town-accepted, portion of York Road.

Later, when it appeared the appeals process was swinging in his favor, Starbird filed three additional building permits with Pratt to build houses on other parcels along the unaccepted portion of York Road, only to have them denied as well.

The case going before the Maine Supreme Court deals directly only with Starbird’s original request to build a single house on his own lot, but will affect whether he will build houses for other property owners along the road as well.

Saunders also reported that the town, with paving work completed on Shaw Hill and Center Hill roads, still has some money leftover in the summer paving account and sought permission to use the money to put a shim coat down on Hunter Avenue, if that proves feasible.

Selectmen had no problem with Saunders finding out what it would cost.

Hunter Avenue runs from Auburn into Turner, with a 700-foot piece across a corner of Minot.

Selectmen also met with Sean Galipeau, cross-country coach at Poland Regional High School, and gave hearty approval to Galipeau’s request to hold the school’s home meets on the town’s new walking trail system.

“A great idea, the more use we can get out of those trails the better,” Selectman Dan Callahan said.

The trail system, built for nonmotorized use only, links the town’s new ball fields, the old ball fields, the Minot Consolidated School and the town office-garage-fire station complex with a 2.7-mile web of packed crushed stone 8 feet wide.

The trail system cost a little under $70,000 to complete, thanks to considerable volunteer help and some bids by local contractors that Recreation Committee members described as “very favorable.”

“It’s a perfect venue for a cross-country race. The trails are wide and flat with good footing,” Galipeau said.

Selectmen also authorized approval of “round 2” of impact fee refunds. A month ago selectmen approved refund checks in the amount of $2,000 to some 71 residents who had paid the $2,800 development impact fee when they took out building permits. The amount being refunded had been set aside for schools.

Saunders noted that, with the exception of only another property owner or two, he has now figured out who is owed the impact fee refund.