39:24 → 43:56(4m 32s)
Chair (identified in-room as the meeting chair) opened the BAR meeting, explained order of business and public-comment rules, and said the board would review two COA applications and a consent agenda item (front landscape alteration at 422 2nd Street NE). The chair announced limits for public comment and the applicant presentation time limits.
The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review heard two major items: a certificate of appropriateness request to demolish the building at 210–216 West Market Street (approved with conditions) and a larger proposed new-development on the 200 block of 7th Street SW adjacent to two individually protected properties (denied). Public comment was extensive, focusing on scale, historic context, trees and potential displacement in the Fifeville neighborhood.
