WILTON – Residents overwhelmingly decided Tuesday to create a tax increment financing district for a three-story Comfort Inn on routes 2 and 4. The vote was 89-21.

The article also approved a credit enhancement agreement negotiated by selectmen.

Some of the 110 residents attending voiced concerns as well as support during the two-hour public hearing before the meeting.

Great Maine Hospitality, a company created by LaFrance Hospitality Co., requested the eight-year TIF agreement.

Benefits to the town include that the value of the motel will not be added to the state valuation, town attorney Lee Bragg said, so there will be less county tax and more state subsidy for SAD 9.

Developer Richard Lafrance of Westport, Mass., was given a permit in June to build the 84-room inn on six acres next to the Farmington line. It is expected to be completed in a year.

The inn, a franchise of Choice Hotels, will offer a business center, meeting space, indoor pool, exercise room, guest laundry and space for continental breakfasts. The building and parking lot will cover approximately 75 percent of the lot.

The building design will blend with New England architecture.

LaFrance said previously that with Franklin Memorial Hospital and the University of Maine at Farmington, both in Farmington, and tourists, he expects success.

The hotel will offer up to 25 jobs including 10 to 15 full-time positions and a local management team. Benefits are available for most employees and salaries will be competitive with local wages, he has said.