DEVELOPER CHANGES PLANS TO GET APPROVAL

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

DATE: TUESDAY, February 11, 1992                   TAG: 9202110293
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: DAVID M. POOLE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT                                LENGTH: Short
DEVELOPER CHANGES PLANS TO GET APPROVAL
When developers sought permission last year to build 105 patio homes at Smith Mountain Lake, the plan was shot down by powerful neighbors, among them Dominion Bankshares President Warner Dalhouse.
So it comes at no surprise that a revised site plan goes to great lengths to sooth adjoining property owners.
The most objectionable feature, patio homes strung along the shoreline on individual, narrow lots, has been moved to a cove out of sight of the lake homes owned by Dalhouse and other opponents.
Alouf Construction and Development Co. of Roanoke also would reduce the number of patio homes from 105 to 46 and eliminate large boat-slip clusters.
"It sounds like an improvement," said William Rakes, a Roanoke lawyer who owns a summer home on the Blackwater River adjacent to the project.
Rakes, however, said he would like to study the revised site plan before deciding if he would continue to fight it.
Dalhouse could not be reached for comment Monday.
The Franklin County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the proposal at 7 p.m. Feb. 25 at the county courthouse.
Alouf Construction is seeking permission to develop 41 single-family building lots and 46 patio homes on 112 acres near Bernard's Landing.
This would be Alouf Construction's first project at Smith Mountain Lake. Ray Alouf, a consultant to the company, was a principal in Windward, a condominium project near Tanglewood Mall beset by zoning problems.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB