
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 2, 1990                   TAG: 9007020156
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WINCHESTER                                LENGTH: Short

FREDERICK LAKE DEVELOPMENT UNDER SCRUTINY

The U.S. Interior Department has warned developers that restricting public access to a Frederick County lake would violate an agreement that poured $700,000 into improving the 132-acre fishing lake.

Developers who plan to build 1,800 houses surrounding Wheatlands Lake have not violated the grant agreement so far, Interior officials said. But developers' plans to use a state access road for both the lake and private houses raise "several serious concerns."

When those developers sold the site last year to Intergate, a Loudoun County company, the new owner proposed the 1,800-house development. Critics said the dense development would turn the public lake into a private pond.

by CNB