FARMINGTON – Monday night’s town meeting voters decided they needed more time to consider proposed changes to the shoreland zoning ordinance.

The changes include revisions in the state model.

William Crandall said there hadn’t been enough time for voters to read and digest the amendments, said Code Enforcement Officer J. Stevens Kaiser.

Planning Board member Tom Eastler took issue with one requirement that he felt the board may not have read thoroughly. He objected to a rule that would place a limit of parking one recreational vehicle for up to 120 days annually for someone owning 30,000 square feet of property, or less within 250 feet of a frontage on a pond or river.

He told voters that if he owned shore property and his three children who live out-of-state visited with their recreational vehicles, they couldn’t stay on his property, according to the ordinance.

“My thoughts are … the current proposed additions to the shoreland zoning are very acceptable and should be supported, but there is one aspect that ought to be waived,” Eastler said.

He also questioned a state regulation that would restrict a property owner from having more than 10 people on the property. When his daughter married, they had 150 people there, which would have meant that he broke the law, he said.

“Why is the Department of Environmental Protection mandating day use or the number of people? It has nothing to do with pollution or health and safety,” he said. “It’s not right or constitutional nor within the realm of what DEP does.”

Kaiser said there is nothing in the town ordinance that regulates numbers of people. It calls for one campsite per lot, limited to one RV, and sets rules for clearing vegetation and a sewage disposal plan, he said.

He said Tuesday that there is time for the town to revisit the plan and make changes. While it should be voted on by July 1, he said, if the state knows the town has drafted a plan and is working on it, it would rather let the town deal with issues rather than drop the whole thing.

While the town has not amended the ordinance since the early 1990s, the proposed amendments give property owners more flexibility, Kaiser said.