PARIS — Residents will get a second crack at influencing the recommendations made in a study about the downtown’s future at a public meeting Wednesday. 

The town has commissioned local business owner Sandy Swett to compile and analyze the responses from an exhaustive list of community groups and residents into a comprehensive study of Market Square. 

That study, which is due at the end of October, is expected to help guide town officials as they line up future entertainment programming and policy-making. 

Wednesday’s public hearing, which will scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Paris Town Office, is a second opportunity for residents who didn’t make August’s meeting to help shape that study. 

The idea for the study is over a year in the making, borne from a cadre of business owners brainstorming how to improve the economic fortunes of the town.

The proposition has drawn a small, steady stream of criticism from a few residents who are skeptical the money awarded to conduct the study will have a major impact. 

Swett, who completed a similar study in Kentucky, has said that the key to any economic or cultural revival must begin with invigorating downtown — the “nucleus.” 

The scope of the plan roughly extends from Billings Dam to  Moore Park, up to the train tracks near the McLaughlin Garden & Homestead.