BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 8, 2022
Jackson residents, tired of being cut out of decisions about ATVs in their town, are taking a new route: writing their own ordinance on ATVs. The ordinance was submitted last month to municipal officials with a petition signed by 54 residents. Maine law allows municipal governments to designate public roads as ATV access routes but when Jackson selectmen signed a permit in 2020 to open five municipal roads to all terrain vehicles, they did it without posting it to a public agenda and without public input. A meeting attended by only one town selectman resulted in the permit to allow all terrain vehicles to be operated on five municipal roads. That didn’t sit well with many residents.