NEW GLOUCESTER — Selectmen on Monday tabled action on a revised building permit fee schedule that would be in line with nearby communities.

The Maine Uniform and Building and Energy Code will be implemented in July for towns with no previous building code, Code Enforcement Officer Deb Parks-Larrivee wrote.

“This is a good time for the town of New Gloucester to become consistent with the norm for permit fees as well,” she said.

A draft plan will be clarified for approval at the board’s March 19 meeting.

Currently, New Gloucester uses square-foot calculations, value calculations and flat fees to determine fees. Only square-foot numbers will be used to calculate the new fee schedule.

Commercial construction fees will be set at 35 cents per square foot; residential and additions at 10 cents per square foot unfinished areas where a basement is considered, and 25 cents per square foot for finished areas and mobile homes.

In other business, the board agreed to send an ordinance exempting eligible active duty military personnel from vehicle excise tax to the town meeting in May for approval.

On Jan. 1, the Maine Legislature provide tax relief to residents deployed for military duty or stationed outside of Maine. Vehicles owned by a resident on active duty in the United States armed forces and who is either permanently stationed at a military or naval post, station or base outside the states, or deployed for military service for more than 180 days is exempted from the vehicle excise tax.

Selectmen appointed Nichole Stevens and Mabel Ney to the Economic Development Committee. Nat Berry IV was appointed to the Community Fair Committee plus the remaining term on the Public Safety Committee that expires in 2013.

After the board adjourned, it met with the town planner, code enforcement officer, Planning Board and Land Management Planning Committee to discuss a recommendation made from the Land Management Planning Committee.

The town’s zoning ordinance would change the process of administrative appeal.

If the three boards recommend the change, it will go to voters for final approval at the annual town meeting in May.

Currently, any administrative appeal requires parties file to Superior Court.

The change would allow the town Board of Appeals to hear and decide administrative appeals where it is alleged an error or failure to act by the code enforcement officer in his or her review.

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