OTISFIELD — The Planning Board will meet Tuesday night to set down the facts and cite the law it used in approving a 180-foot telecommunications tower on Scribner Hill.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Aug. 7 in the Otisfield Community Hall on Route 121.

The meeting is to satisfy a mandate by Oxford Superior Court Justice Robert Clifford to back up the board’s Jan. 17 approval for the U.S. Cellular tower.

The decision does not mean the Planning Board will hear further evidence but it does allow the board to open the record to gather more evidence from others, such as abutters, if the board chooses.

On July 9, The Friends of Scribner Hill and individual plaintiffs James Gregory, Kristin Roy, Joseph Brown and John Poto attempted to have the court remand the permit decision back to the Planning Board for another full hearing. They said the town did not follow its telecommunications ordinance and that some abutters to the project were not notified of the hearings and had no input into the project.

The town has conceded that the notification process may have had some problems. At a meeting in May, the board members said the town’s definition of an abutter is someone within 1,000 feet of the proposed project. But in the appeals ordinance, abutter is defined as being someone living within 500 feet of the project. According to the board’s minutes of their May 15 meeting, members agreed at the time to notify anyone within 1,000 feet of a proposed project in the future, “to err on the side of caution.”

Town officials have said they will return to Superior Court after the Planning Board’s fact-finding work is done and ask the judge to rule on the thoroughness of the process to prevent the plaintiffs from coming back with another lawsuit. Meanwhile, the court retains jurisdiction of the matter.

Construction of the tower set to start in June and take five weeks to complete. It is to accommodate space for other cellular companies and the Otisfield Fire Department’s communications equipment.

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