FARMINGTON -- For the second time in three months, town meeting voters have sent a revised shoreland zoning ordinance back to the drawing board.

Tom Eastler, a member of the Farmington Planning Board, asked a special town meeting audience Tuesday night not to adopt the ordinance revisions developed by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

He said not all the changes recommended at public meetings in Farmington had been made.

The sections Eastler questioned related to the number, length of stay and definitions relating to the repeated use of private campsites by recreational vehicles on a 30,000-square-foot shoreland lot.

Code Enforcement Officer Steve Kaiser on Wednesday said that since 2008, the Board of Selectmen and the Planning Board had each reviewed the draft ordinance.

Each board also held public hearings and then met again to review the revised draft.

In addition, a memo was sent to all landowners affected by the changes to the wetlands sections, Kaiser said.

"We will continue to work to find a middle ground and come up with a revised draft that will include modifications that are reasonable," Kaiser said Wednesday.

He said the draft ordinance does not make many changes but clarifies the regulations in the existing ordinance and leaves less to question. The town has the authority to modify the state draft.

The DEP set a July 1, 2009 deadline for all municipalities to adopt the modifications in order to maintain consistency with state regulations. The original deadline was July 2008 but that was extended after many towns either did not complete the revisions or they were voted down.

Kaiser said he will request the DEP extend Farmington's deadline one more time with the hope the ordinance can eventually get the full backing of the townspeople at the annual town meeting in March.

He plans to invite Eastler to serve on a small committee to come up with compromise wording.

Kaiser said since last fall, dozens of modifications have been made to the draft ordinance to incorporate public and town officials' comments.

"I incorporated all the suggestions. Since town meeting in March, I had not heard a peep from anyone," said Kaiser, who added he was unaware of Eastler's concerns until Tuesday morning.