CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Westhaven residents and activists turned out to Tuesday’s Board of Architectural Review pre-application meeting to voice their opposition to the scaled-down development plans they say would cut the primarily Black neighborhood off from the rest of the city.
LV Collective presented a revised plan for a multi-story luxury student housing building on three parcels of property on the north side of West Main, but about two dozen people showed up to express their continued resistance to the project.
“There are still ongoing conversations with the community, not everybody’s concerns have been met,” LV Collective Vice President Brittani Sanders said. “But LV is at the table and I think we’ve made some productive progress and we hope to continue that progress.”…