PARIS — The X-Tra Mile ATV Club received permission Tuesday to use East Oxford Road and Parsons Road to access both sides of a trail through the woods, after submitting a form for nonstandard use of a town road. This led to a discussion on which events should be grandfathered and exempted from the non-standard use policy.

Cliff Goodwin of the ATV club said the trail was mostly mud, and that club members would be hauling gravel in so that ATV riders could use the trail. Members of the ATV club would be hauling gravel in by ATV on Parsons Road, according to John Goodwin, Cliff Goodwin’s son and the club’s trail master.

The club is allowed to use the roads until the end of June.

Selectman Gerald Kilgore warned the club that residents of Parsons Road and East Oxford Road shouldn’t feel harassed by the ATV riders passing their homes. If there are complaints, Kilgore said, the club might have a harder time getting permission to use the roads in the future.

Selectmen also granted permission to a Relay for Life team to set up a fundraising booth in front of Moore Park on June 1 and gave after-the-fact permission to American Legion Foster Carroll Post No. 72 for Monday’s Memorial Day Parade.

At the May 13 meeting, members of the X-Tra Mile ATV Club pointed out that parade organizers weren’t completing the nonstandard use form to hold parades, and said the policy was unfairly targeting the ATV club.

Town Manager Amy Bernard said she asked the Legion to fill out the form. She said the town wasn’t going to block the long-standing Memorial Day parade from taking place, but filling out the form would adhere to the policy.

Selectmen discussed whether long-standing events such as the Memorial Day parade should be exempt from the nonstandard use policy.

Vice Chairman Robert Kirchherr said that part of the problem was there was no definition of a standard or nonstandard use of a town road or property. “Maybe we could just define standard as ‘regularly, recurring events,’” Kirchherr said.

Chairman Sam Elliot said the policy required more discussion at a later meeting.

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