ROCKY MOUNT -- A vote on the controversial LakeWatch Spa and Resort development has been tabled once again.

The Franklin County Board of Supervisors voted 4-3 Tuesday night to table a decision on the proposal until December after apparent discrepancies were found between what was in developer Trey Park's proposal and what was listed on the architectural plans.

Blue Ridge District Supervisor Hubert Quinn made the motion to table the decision on the project and to limit the discussion at the supervisors' December meeting to the alleged discrepancies discovered at Tuesday's meeting. Snow Creek District Supervisor Leland Mitchell seconded the motion.

Supervisors Quinn, Mitchell, Wayne Angell and Charles Wagner voted to table the motion, while supervisors Charles Poindexter, Russell Johnson and David Hurt voted against it.

Although the move sets up a December vote on the project, which has been continued four times already, action could possibly be delayed until 2008, when two new supervisors take office.

Johnson, who found the alleged discrepancies, said the proposal called for a 74-foot distance between houses in the development.

The architectural plans called for a 50-foot distance.

Johnson said there were other discrepancies, such as 23,200 square feet of land in the wakeboard cable park and golf course that is unaccounted for in the proposal.

Johnson said those discrepancies could mean more commercial use would be put back into the project.

"We are stretching our new comprehensive plan too far," Johnson said. "We have a new comprehensive plan, and it is very clear as to what it said is allowable."

Angell said the alleged discrepancies created a problem, and that he couldn't vote until the county's planning staff had a chance to examine them.

"There is a clear difference in paperwork," said Angell, who is chairman of the board. "It bothers me a little bit. I have to have someone explain it to me."

Park's lawyer, Clyde Perdue, said there weren't any discrepancies and the problem could be cleared up easily.

"I foresee them [supervisors] voting on the plan in December," Perdue said.

But if discrepancies are found by the county's planning staff to create additional commercial use or to require special use permits, then the proposal would have to go back to the county's planning commission before it could go back to the supervisors, according to County Attorney James Jefferson.

In that case, the commission would not meet to decide on the proposal until 2008, when supervisors-elect David Cundiff and Bobby Thompson will have replaced Poindexter and Quinn on the board.

"I'm not prepared to say it does or it does not" have to go back to the planning commission, Jefferson said. "I didn't anticipate it would have to fall to me."

The 576-acre project would be near the already approved LakeWatch Plantation development.

The two LakeWatch projects are on opposite sides of Virginia 122, west of Hales Ford Bridge and east of the Westlake shopping area, and are estimated to cost more than $1 billion.

Under Park's original proposal, the development would have included shopping centers and restaurants along Virginia 122 and a seven-story rental-condominium building, a conference center, a golf course and a wakeboard cable park within the property, as well as 190 motor coach lots and more than 1,300 single- and multifamily residential units.

But public opposition to the project has forced Park to revise his proposal three times.

The first revision, in August, changed the proposal from a planned commercial development to a residential planned development and reduced its size from 605 acres to 576 acres.

The revision also eliminated commercial development along Virginia 122 and changed the number of stories in the condominium unit from seven to five.

A second revision in September included 15 deviations from the residential planned development project, including the addition of a restaurant to the five-story condominium unit; a 2,000-square-foot spa facility; a 24,000-square-foot for-profit community center; and a 6,000-square-foot boat and golf storage building.

But just before the board of supervisors was set to vote on the project in October, Perdue introduced additional revisions.

Five alterations were made to the proposal, the most significant being the removal of the proposed 190 motor coach lots and the changing of the community center from "for profit" to "not for profit."