20170608_MET_RICH

In a small room filled with 100 supporters and opponents to a proposed 301-unit apartment complex next to the Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Va., Zoning Administrator William Davidson pleads his case in front of the Board of Zoning Appeals as attendants listen. The Board voted 4-1 in favor of the project. Opponents to the project used a 1953 land rezoning ruling, citing that the land was only to be used for educational purposes.