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Article: New River developers trying again: Company's proposal very similar to one withdrawn earlier this year

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July 29, 2005
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AMES - Promising to be good stewards of the environment, developers filed a zoning application in Fayette County Thursday and launched a media campaign aimed at paving the way for their housing complex in the New River Gorge.

Officials with LRC Holding LLC want to build more than 2,000 homes on more than 4,000 acres for an upscale community called Roaring River.

The same company filed virtually the same request for a zoning change earlier this year, but withdrew the application after many objections to their proposals, including some from National Park Service officials who feared what it would do to the park. LRC officials said they have worked since then to ...

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