CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – If approved, several developers will bring major change to the modest Charlottesville skyline. Two luxury apartment buildings, proposed to the City’s Board of Architectural Review by two separate development companies, one on Seventh and another on West Main Street, would require a change to the city’s zoning code in order to halt.
That is exactly what a group of Fifeville neighbors and allies are lobbying city councilors to do.
Neil Williamson, president of the Free Enterprise Forum, understands why people in Fifeville do not want more student housing in their backyard, but noted the same people advocating for an amendment that would allow more community involvement in proposal approval originally supported the current code…