SAUGUS-The Board of Selectmen voted to opt out of taking a stand in a neighborhood dispute over parking.Charnwood Road resident Dennis Toto appeared before Selectmen Tuesday to ask them to drop a legal opinion he said has served him nothing but harm.Nearly five years ago, Toto built a home complete with its own 24-foot wide access road. The trouble, he said, is neighbors insist the road is public and therefore use it for parking, while Toto argues that it’s private and they are not allowed to do so.”It’s not a neighborhood dispute over parking, it’s over public safety and access,” he said.Because the road is narrow and was made narrower when the town put berms in on either side, Toto said it is all but impossible for fire apparatus or an ambulance to make its way to his house.When the issue first came to a head several years ago, Toto said he sought a legal opinion in which it was determined that his roadway was private. He said he also asked the Town Manager to post no parking signs, but he refused. Toto accused town officials of bullying him and siding with one particular abutter.Toto also accused Town Counsel John Vasapolli of issuing an “infamous” legal opinion of his own that claimed the road was in fact public.Toto said when Vasapolli made his opinion he based it on unreliable information from town employees, who he said had no business of getting involved in the first place.Over the years, Toto said the issue has taken on a life of its own, resulting in assaults and out of control name calling between neighbors, “with my family on the receiving end.”Vasapolli told board members Tuesday that he agreed with Toto and his attorney and has all along: the roadway is private.”In my opinion and the two other attorneys involved it is a private way,” he said. “The town has no say in the use of the road in terms of parking accept that public safety should be able to access it.”Vasapolli said the town doesn’t maintain the road or plow it and any parking issues should be between Toto and his neighbors.Selectman Michael Kelleher said that every neighborhood has issues and this is one the board should not get in the middle of. When a neighbor questioned why Toto wasn’t made to make the road larger so it could accommodate both parking and public safety, Kelleher stopped him.”This starts a debate we don’t want to have so I will make the motion now to take no action,” he said.His colleagues agreed with a vote of 5-0.Toto said with the town backtracking out of the issue, he can now focus his “legal team and engineering/traffic experts on the civil aspects of land use, parking and vehicle access in preparation for the next level of conflict with this apparently politically well partnered abutter.”