KINGFIELD — The newly reorganized Village Enhancement Committee on Monday presented selectmen with three of its improvement projects, with one to be completed by the end of the year.  

Committee Chairman Mervin Wilson and member John Goldfrank reviewed three projects the group has determined are the most important. The first, according to Wilson, will be a public parking space between the wastewater treatment plant and the snowmobile club’s sled shed on Route 27.  The plan is to carve out a large parking lot that will be set apart from the rest of the nearby fields and buildings, he said. The parking space will serve multiuse recreational groups and individuals, with a clearly defined entrance and exit.  

“We hope to arrange an agreement with the contractor who does the project that will let us exchange the loam from the field for the gravel that will go in its place,” Wilson said.  

The plan also includes a line of boulders to keep vehicles from going into a ditch near the parking area. The field is next to the Carrabassett River, and people walk, cross-country ski, snowmobile and ride all-terrain vehicles there. The field also has been used for sledding parties and the recent Civil War re-enactments.  

“We could have this done before the snow flies,” he said. 

The other two projects are still in the planning stages. One will have street lights through the downtown and as far north on Main Street as the Tranten’s Two store.

The committee representatives suggested the plan would involve different financing options and phases of construction.

The third project would revisit the option to pave the parking lot behind John Goldfrank’s Longfellow Restaurant and the private road owned by several property owners.  

In other matters, selectmen reviewed steps to formalize roads and traffic standards. For example, the town posts its roads during the spring, when they are soft and the frost creates potholes or bumps. The road commissioner has the authority to do it, but having an ordinance in writing ensures which roads are subject to the regulations.

The Maine Department of Transportation must do a survey before the town can change any speed limits, but the procedure and any steps to make changes is important to have in writing, according to Administrative Assistant Leanna Targett.

Targett has done research and compared several other municipalities’ ordinances and will draft something for selectmen to review later.