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

DATE: FRIDAY, July 13, 1990                   TAG: 9007140416
SECTION: SMITH MOUNTAIN TIMES                    PAGE: SMT-8   EDITION: BEDFORF/FRANKLIN 
SOURCE: MONICA DAVEY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BEDFORD                                LENGTH: Short

BEDFORD LAND USE PROPOSALS

Resort Properties wants to build a 60-room hotel, a fast-food restaurant and a shopping center on 22 acres near Hales Ford Bridge on Virginia 122.

Stanley Danburg, owner of the Huddleston company, has said he envisions a moderately priced hotel, offering lake visitors who do not own property a way to stay near the water.

But a meeting between the company and residents near the project ended without agreement. Property owners say the project would be an end to quiet lakeside living.

Under Bedford County's Land Use Guidance System, the Board of Supervisors takes into account the neighbors' reaction when considering a project. Compatibility hearings are part of Bedford County's 8-month-old zoning ordinance, which is the first of its kind in Virginia.

The ordinance allows development proposals to be considered individually. It takes into consideration a point score, which attempts to judge a project's compatibility to the county's comprehensive plan and neighbors' reaction to it. Project scores are not available until a project is advertised for public hearing.

Projects go though a compatibility meeting with neighbors and a public hearing with the Planning Commission and either the county supervisors or the Board of Zoning Appeals. The Planning Commission makes a recommendation, and the supervisors or zoning board make a final decision.