WILTON – The Planning Board on Thursday reviewed the application for construction of a Tractor Supply Co. store on Routes 2 and 4.

Finding the application complete, the board chose to walk the property and then hold a public hearing June 4. The board will meet at the site at 6 p.m. and then reconvene at the town office at 7 p.m. for the hearing.

With plans to start construction on Aug. 1, the projected date for opening the store, located across from Bryant Road, is April 1, 2010, said Senior Project Manager Stephen Bradstreet of Oak Engineers of Portland.

Bradstreet was there to present the plan for developer, DMK Development of Muskegon, Mich.

Plans for the 19,000-square-foot building with a 15,000-square-foot, fenced-in sales area have been altered within the past week, Bradstreet told the board.

Initially, an entrance was planned for the east side of the property adjacent to a three-acre lot owned by Dr. Joseph Caldwell, who has a permit from the town to build a medical office on the site. The permit expires in November but an entrance has recently been established on his property. It’s an entrance that he does not want to share with the new development, Bradstreet said.

The Maine Department of Transportation requires at least a 350-foot separation for entrances on roads such as Route 2, he said. The initial plans meant the Tractor Supply entrance was only about 100 feet away from Caldwell’s entrance. The plan has been adjusted to bring the entrance to the west side of the property on to the discontinued McCrillis School Road.

The entrance leads to a 28-foot driveway large enough to handle the largest of tractor-trailers on the road, he said.

The actual lot is 16.6 acres with the developer planning to use only about five acres. The extra acres behind the store could eventually be sold or left as unused property, Chris Kettler from Muskegon, Mich., told the board.

Kettler was at the meeting representing Tractor Supply Co., which owns 800 stores nationwide, he said. One is being built in Lewiston and another opened recently in Oxford. Other stores in Maine are located in Augusta, Scarborough and Skowhegan.

“The store name is a slight misnomer,” he said. “The largest tractor they carry is a riding lawn mower.”

The stores specialize in apparel, western and work wear, as well as animal feed and health products along with lawn and gardening equipment, he said.

The site, presently under contract with owner Scott Fisher, will require some leveling and a lot of earth moved, Bradstreet said. An elevation of 484 feet on one side and 420 feet on the other side of the property will be leveled for a flatter area, he said.