A proposal to build more than 500 apartments in the floodplain of the Swannanoa River cleared its first hurdle this week.
On Monday, Asheville’s Technical Review Committee gave an initial green light to the $75 million Britt Drive Multi-Family Development. It’s the first step of a lengthy process that will require a flood permit, several rounds of review and a public comment period before the project can come to fruition.
City planner Sam Starr-Baum called this initial review a “pre-flight checklist.”…