PARIS — When the Board of Selectmen meets Monday, the ATV road use issue is set to come a step closer to resolution.

The board plans to craft questions to the Maine Municipal Association seeking advice on whether barring ATV use on Parsons Road is legal.

Cliff Goodwin, an East Oxford Road resident who uses the contested Parsons Road to access his club’s trails, said he might file a lawsuit against the board if they vote to bar ATV use.

“If it comes back that in fact, legally, we have the right to be there, and they make a decision that’s totally contrary to the law, then by all means I will sue,” Goodwin said. “If the Maine Municipal says that I’m wrong, I’ll certainly go along with their ruling and that’ll be the end of it.”

Goodwin said he’s been considering a lawsuit for months. He said that when the board voted to open the road up to ATV use last summer, he sold his tiny ATV and bought a two-seater for himself and his wife to ride.

He said the board’s vote in January to rescind access to those roads would make the new ATV a waste of money.

The X-tra Mile ATV Club would also be wasting money — they improved and built a section of trail to connect the existing trail system to the Parsons Road and, beyond it, the Oxford ATV club’s trail system.

The ATV club has expressed an aversion to bringing legal action. Goodwin said he’d be suing personally, not as a member of the ATV club.

Tension around the ATV issue has been ramping up since the board’s vote to rescind. At the Feb. 14 meeting so many residents attended that not everyone could fit into the room. The next two meetings will be held at the Paris Fire Station to accommodate the expected larger crowds.

The Board of Selectmen will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28.

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