Asheville for All

November 26, 2023 Updated: December 13, 2023

Asheville City Council voted to approve the conditional zoning as well as the Land Use Incentive Grant (LUIG) for the proposed apartments at 115 Fairview Road on December 12th, 2023.

On December 12th, Asheville City Council is slated to take up a conditional zoning request for 115 Fairview Road.

If this request is approved, nearly 300 homes, from one-bedroom flats to three-bedroom townhomes, will be built just east of Biltmore Village.

(You may view a city staff presentation about these proposed apartments from earlier this year here.)

Additionally, the council will be considering a supplemental request from the apartment builder, for a Land Use Incentive Grant (LUIG). If this request is approved too, a greater number of the homes at 115 Fairview will be available for below-market rents and set aside for lower-income Ashevilleans.

Courtesy: Catalyst Capital Partners/BB+M Architecture

Asheville For All will send the open letter below to Asheville City Council in support of the proposed apartments at 115 Fairview Road, and in support of the LUIG request as well.

We’ll send the letter on Friday, December 8th. Read the letter and then add your name as a signatory before then!

Why Should I Sign On?

Maybe you can’t picture yourself, or family members or friends, ever living in multi-family homes like these. You should still sign the letter as a means to fight for housing abundance in Asheville.

The city is growing, and the only way that we can keep it a place for ALL kinds of people is by adding to our multifamily housing stock, especially in close-in, high-demand, high-opportunity neighborhoods. Approving more homes to be built such as those proposed on Fairview Road is one of the most important tools that we have in our toolbox to limit or reverse rent and home price increases across the city and region.

Open Letter to Asheville City Council

Dear Asheville City Councilors,

We write in support of the conditional zoning requested for new apartment construction at 115 Fairview Road. We also write in support of the use of the city’s Land Use Incentive Grant (LUIG) for the project. Both the conditional zoning and the grant are on the agenda for the December 12th council meeting.

Asheville faces a severe housing shortage, which in turn is driving up rents and home prices across the spectrum of lower- to middle-class residents. Any and all multi-family housing that we can add to our city will go some ways towards relieving this scarcity.