Despite community opposition, plans for an eight-story luxury student housing building on West Main Street move forward

Charlottesville is probably getting more luxury student housing.

Tuesday evening, the city’s Board of Architectural Review (BAR) issued a certificate of appropriateness for an eight-story building of luxury student apartments located at 835, 843 and 847 West Main St., near the Drewary Brown Bridge.

The approval, which came with some conditions, is for the exterior of the building — the design and the materials. The developer, Texas-based LV Collective, will have to submit a separate landscaping plan for BAR approval in the future…

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