FARMINGTON — Three buildings on the University of Maine at Farmington campus are slated for demolition and the sites left as gravel parking areas for now.

Ben Pratt, director of facilities management at UMF, updated town planners Monday on the parking plans.

A building on Prescott Street, near Rollo Pond, most recently used for a child daycare program, will be taken down and additional parking created, he said. There are already two university parking areas located on Prescott.

Campus police are moving to 112 Maguire St. in about a month. The Public Safety building at 248 Main St. is on the list for demolition.

A former private home that has served as the university’s recycling center at Quebec and Perkins streets will also come down, he said.

As of June, there was a total of 1,227 parking spaces on campus, including 33 handicap spaces.

Near the outdoor performing space at the new Emery Community Arts Center, five new handicap spaces will be created. These are located at the center of campus, he told the board.

Only one of two proposed handicap slots at the Merrill Hall lot off Academy Street developed from the art center work. Pratt told the board he was looking to add a handicap space in the church parking lot on Academy Street used by the college during the week.

Pratt said the demolition would begin with the Public Safety building at 248 Main St. in about a month, followed by the Prescott Street building and Quebec Street site within three to four months.

In other business, the board unanimously approved Franklin Savings Bank’s site review plan for a 14-slot parking space available for public use on Front Street.  

Robert Perry of Main-Land Development described the proposed lot for the board.

The plans were previously sanctioned by selectmen and voters at town meeting, Town Manager Richard Davis told the board.

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