WILTON – Following a site review and public hearing Thursday, the Planning Board voted 6-1 to give Richard Lafrance of Westport, Mass., a permit to build a 90-room Comfort Inn on Route 2.

The permit was granted pending issuance of all state permits, including a storm-water permit, a construction permit from the fire marshal, an entrance permit from the Maine Department of Transportation and elevator permits.

Construction will begin after the permits are secured with the project taking nine to 12 months to complete, said Dana Adams from Opechee Construction.

The inn’s site on Route 2 east, the next to last lot before the Farmington line, is the former property of Robert Bowering.

The three-story Comfort Inn hotel, a franchise of Choice Hotels, will offer a business center, meeting space, indoor pool, exercise room, guest laundry and space for continental breakfasts.

Planners raised concerns about the lack of a traffic light or turning lane into the motel, but Adams said the DOT did not require that after consideration of peak traffic hours.

This will be the first location within Maine for LaFrance Hospitality Co., which will own and operate the motel. LaFrance owns several motels in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

In other business, the board also unanimously approved a permit for Robert and Antoinette Bowering to operate an antiques and collectibles store on Route 2 at the site of the former Curves exercise salon.

Along with antiques, Bowering told the board collectibles would be items from the 1940s and up that are not antiques, but with nothing newer than five years.

The Bowerings also plan to have booths for dealers to rent.

The board rejected a request from Christi James for a use permit/site plan review for a physician’s office home occupation at 145 Lake Road due to insufficient information in the application.