A Buxton woman hopes someday to attract business to a large parcel she has under contract to buy on Narragansett Trail.

As an initial step, Patricia Leavitt, owner of PMT Properties, asked the Buxton Planning Board this week for a zoning change, which would extend the business/commercial zone to include the rear of the parcel. The property is now mostly zoned business commercial, but the back is zoned rural. She didn’t offer any specific plans Monday to develop the site.

“It could contribute to new economic growth in this community,” Leavitt told the board about her parcel.

Jeremiah Ross, a Planning Board member, said rezoning would require approval of voters in town meeting. Ross said if the board could recommended approval, it would put it on the ballot in June. But, if planners fail to recommend the change, it would take a citizens’ petition to go to voters.

Ross said it’s technically spot zoning and not generally a good practice. But Buxton Code Enforcement Officer Fred Farnham said, “It’s extending one (zone) that’s already there.”

The board asked Leavitt, who attended the meeting with her husband, Pat Leavitt, a Buxton businessman, to provide a survey map of the site.

Patricia Leavitt is director of Leavitt’s Mill Health Center, which operates with support of local businesses in donated space in a building at another location on Narragansett Trail. The clinic serves those not covered by health insurance on a pay-what-you-can basis.

In other action, the board set a time of 1 p.m. on Sunday to visit the site of the proposed Blueberry Ridge subdivision, off Church Hill and Webster roads. Buxton residents Stephen Joffe and his wife, Julia Colpitts, are seeking permission to develop their land, divided by the Buxton and Gorham town line. Joffe said the land has been in his wife’s family since 1954 and they bought it in 1986.

Two entrances into the development are in Buxton. With development roads in both towns, Planning Board member Keith Emery said the two towns would have to reach an agreement about plowing snow.

Plans call for a clustered development on the 77-acre site. Project manager Bill Thompson of BH2M in Gorham said before the meeting seven lots would be in Buxton with 22 in Gorham.

Besides Gorham and Buxton, the project needs approval from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and Thompson plans to apply in January.