The Scarborough Planning Board Monday night gave its approval to developer Gene Beaudoin to begin building Fairchild Semiconductor’s new corporate headquarters.

With two members absent, two recused due to potential conflicts of interest and Chairman Allen Paul abstaining, the remaining two members of the planning board, John Chamberlain and alternate Jeff Thomas, cast votes in favor of approving the application.

Planning board members Charles Callahan and alternate Ron Mazer were absent. Board members Ann Littlefield and Cory Fellows recused themselves. Paul indicated he did not feel the application was ready for approval before abstaining for the vote.

Beaudoin and Barry Feldman, who created Cabela’s and the Scarborough Gateway project, announced in June that they had signed an agreement with Fairchild to build a three-story, 90,000-square-foot office building for Fairchild on the Gateway Square property, which is adjacent to the Haigis Parkway and across Payne Road from the developers’ Gateway Shoppes.

The building will incorporate state-of-the-art technologies to reduce the company’s carbon footprint, lower operating costs and improve the comfort and well-being of its associates, the developers said. The building will be seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, a recognition that it meets high standards for energy efficiency.

Fairchild’s current corporate headquarters is a leased building in South Portland.

The Planning Board approved the office park where Fairchild Semiconductor will be located about 18 months ago, but needed to approve amendments to the site plan Aug. 4 for Beaudoin to build a structure customized for Fairchild.

The original approved site plan was for four buildings, a hotel, a bank, a restaurant and a retail building. One of those buildings has been eliminated to accommodate the larger Fairchild building on the 32-acre parcel.

Beaudoin also plans to build an 8,700-square-foot Kindercare building and a hotel.

Conditions of the baord’s approval included that Beaudoin pay traffic assessment fees – likely in the $100,000-$200,000 range – and get Planning Board approval before constructing the planned hotel.

Beaudoin said construction on the Fairchild building would begin this fall. The building is expected to be ready to occupy by the fall of 2009.