WILTON – A proposal to allow ATV riders access to the boat landing on Wilson Lake from the Whistle Stop Trail near Rick’s Market via Village View Road and part of Prospect Street comes back to selectmen when they meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the town office.

Proposed in December by Western Maine ATV Club member Mike Lee, the plan would allow ATV riders to exit the rail bed near Rick’s Market and start up Village View Road then on to Prospect Street and down to Main street near the former shoe shop.

After some people and police Chief Dennis Brown raised concerns about safety issues over use of the streets at the previous meeting, the board voted to hold a discussion in January with the town contacting residents on streets involved.

Lee, who has been promoting the idea for the approximately 65-member club that rides trails from Jay to Farmington, has been overwhelmed with support for the idea.

“I can’t believe how much support I’ve received,” he said Monday. “I talked with as many residents on Village View as I could and got them to sign whether they were in favor or opposed … 64 were in favor and only six opposed.”

Lee plans to give selectmen an altered proposal Tuesday. The route would be the same as the town’s Historical Society’s for riders allowing them to park in the society lot before going downtown to purchase lunch and take it to the lake to eat, he said.

Changes to his proposal from last month include not allowing anyone under 16 to ride without a helmet and limiting times for riding the route to the lake. The plan would include from May 15 to Nov. 1 and only during daylight hours, which limits the time when children are in school yet lengthens the summer hours, he said.

Lee has invited Jim Lane, president of ATV Maine and game Warden Dave Chabot to speak to selectmen. While the game wardens oversee ATV trail riding, the club would help monitor problems.

“If there’s a problem with a rider, I want the residents to let me know when and where,” he said, adding that club members would help patrol riders on the streets.

The plan was touted as a way to give downtown businesses an economic boost as riders had done in other small towns with only minor problems arising from speed and irresponsible riding.

Five downtown businesses have also promised to either come to the meeting or write letters to the selectmen, he said.

Brown raised concerns involving the mixed use of the streets for children, pedestrians and vehicles as well as lacking a way to enforce a speed limit.

A Prospect Street resident told the board the street is also narrow, hilly and winding with poor visibility in some portions.

Riders would not be traveling the length of Prospect Street but only using part of it, Lee told the board.

The board will also discuss direction for the coming budget process and budgeting for the county’s six-month budget.