The Chapel Hill Town Council recently opened a public hearing to review a potential multifamily development at 701 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Located at the corner of Longview Street and MLK Boulevard, the proposed seven-to-eight story project from Landmark Properties aims to provide up to 200 units near downtown and UNC’s campus, while also encouraging multimodal travel. “It’s located right on the future Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line,” Landmark Properties Development Manager Bryan Boyles said at the September 10 meeting. “It will really help promote the use of public transit. So we really feel like this is an ideal location for a multifamily use development. “We’ve tried to incorporate as much of staff, and council, and planning feedback and offer as much as we could while still trying to maintain the density we need to make the property feasible,” he continued. The meeting largely focused on updates to the project since the council first reviewed a concept plan last Novemb...