BANGOR – A proposed housing development on New York Street prompted dueling petitions this week, with signatures from residents in all corners of the West Side Fairmount Park neighborhood.

The two petitions – each boasting about 130 signatures – favor one of the competing proposals that would add between nine and 17 homes on the 5.7-acre, city-owned parcel on the northeastern edge of the Bangor Municipal Golf Course.

The City Council is expected to enter into an agreement with one of the two competing developers at its Wednesday meeting. The meeting will begin at 7 a.m. at City Hall.

The first petition, submitted to city officials last week, calls for no more than nine homes on the wooded parcel purchased by the city last year for about $186,000.

“Most people didn’t want any development,” said New York Street resident Charles Eames, who circulated the petition calling for fewer homes in an effort to reduce new traffic in the neighborhood and lessen any effect on the nearby wetland. “Everybody felt the same way but nobody was doing anything about it.”

The Eames petition seems to favor a plan submitted by Fairway Circle Realty Trust of Hampden, which would divide the parcel into nine half-acre lots. Each lot would have a single-family home of between 2,200 and 2,700 square feet.

Under the plan, the developer would pay the city $77,200 for the land and incur $209,000 in development costs.

But a second plan, submitted by real estate developer Jon Dawson, appears to have just as much neighborhood backing, with more than 130 people in the area signing a petition in support of the plan.

The Dawson plan actually has three alternatives, the first of which appealed to City Councilor John Rohman.

“To me the original Dawson proposal mirrors what’s happening in the neighborhood,” Rohman said of the plan that would divide the parcel into 13 lots between 10,000 and 32,780 square feet, each lot with a single-family home. “To me, it offers a lot of opportunities.”

But in a second design, the 13 lots would be smaller and located in the southwestern half of the parcel, leaving the rest of the site – much of which is wetland – undeveloped.

In both the first and second alternatives, the developer would pay the city $68,000 for the land and incur $270,000 in development expenses.

A third design would place 17 small lots, each with a single-family home, on the New York Street end of the parcel and keep roughly half of the parcel under a conservation easement. Under that plan, the developer would pay the city $172,000 for the land.

Considering the quick payback and potential for protecting more of the wetlands, City Councilor David Nealley said Tuesday the council would be wise to consider the unorthodox third design despite the concerns of some neighbors wanting fewer house lots.

“There is some balance but I tend to lean on the side of the taxpayers rather than a group of neighbors in the immediate area,” he said.