The Ann Arbor Planning Commission has given conditional approval to a major affordable housing project. It will be going up on the site of the old YMCA on Fifth Street.
The city bought the parcel across the street from the downtown library from the YMCA in 2003. The hope was always to see a mixed-use housing project, but various plans never materialized.
The new plan is a 20-story building with ground floor retail and 330 affordable one and two-bedroom units…