Charlottesville’s Rose Hill neighborhood is the second-least-populous neighborhood in the city, according to a fact sheet produced by Neighborhood Development Services, but that might change if a proposed apartment building at 601 Albemarle St. makes it through the city’s review process.
Woodard Properties filed a development plan with the city to build a seven-story apartment building on land zoned Corridor Mixed Use 3. But the structure is also within the city’s Core Neighborhood Overlay District, which requires additional steps, including permission from City Council.
“Charlottesville’s Core Neighborhoods have special significance to the City as historic neighborhoods that provide workforce housing serving important job centers of Charlottesville’s Downtown and the University of Virginia,” read section 2.9.6 of the Development Code. “These racially diverse and affordable neighborhoods historically met their day-to-day needs on adjacent corridors.”…