Scarborough town councilors say they’re fed up with the beachfront neighbors group that has challenged nearly every proposed change in Pine Point over the past few years.

While the Town Council voted 5-2 on Aug. 20 to add another resident to the ad hoc committee recently formed to study what town officials say is a standard road repair project in Pine Point, some councilors say their patience is wearing thin.

“I’m troubled by the fact that this has been (going on) for three or four years,” said Councilor Michael Wood. “I’m interested in seeing (the road project) initiated and completed.”

The neighbors group had asked councilors to add the member so the committee would be more representative of the community. Otherwise, the group said on its Web site, members Elaine Richer and Jack Callahan would alternate as the group’s reprentative. Other seats are held by town officials, town employees and representatives of the controversial Lighthouse Inn motel.

The Pine Point Residents Group formed several years ago after the owners of the Lighthouse Inn proposed converting it to a condominium building.

Highly vocal and well-organized, the group members have also opposed Jersey barriers installed to improve the safety of pedestrians, a traffic island the town built and, most recently, the road improvement project.

Wood said the neighbors’ nitpicking has kept the town from getting much of anything done, punishing virtually all of Pine Point’s other residents.

“We could have built four or five Cabela’s in that period of time,” Wood said, referring to the recently completed, multi-million dollar store and shopping complex on Haigis Parkway.

He read an e-mail he recently received from a Pine Point resident, not a member of the neighbors’ group, irritated by the town’s slow movement on things as simple as road repairs due to the group’s opposition.

“This will go right down to the argument of where the last blade of grass will be planted and who will pay for it,” the resident wrote.

“I don’t see how adding this individual is bringing any efficiency or value to getting this done,” Wood said.

Councilor Sylvia Most and Wood opposed the additional member in the 5-2 vote.

Councilors also voted to appoint Councilor Carol Rancourt to the committee, over the objections of Nicholas Truman, who owns the controversial lighthouse motel.

Truman said Rancourt is the only councilor who has completely ignored his calls and invitations to visit the site of controversy. He said he was considering making voluntary improvements to his property that would satisfy some of his neighbors’ concerns, adding that “if Councilor Rancourt is a member, all of that will be off the table.”

Rancourt said she did not get his messages because she does not know how to access her Town Hall voice mail, and does not have an answering machine at home.

“I want to assure you that I will make every effort to be as fair as one human being can be,” she said.