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Despite strong urging from city planners to deny the proposed plan, a project that would add 180 apartments for renters below the area median income passed through city council and is set to go forward.

Norfolk-based developer The Lawson Cos. was granted a special-use permit to build the apartment complex, called Refuge, on 10 acres at 5015 Snead Road in South Richmond’s Piney Knolls area.

The one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments will be targeted to renters earning below 60% of the area median income, making them more affordable than the 80% AMI originally specified when Lawson submitted its plans last year .

According to Lawson’s website, the AMI for that part of the city was $113,500 as of April 1, putting 60% AMI at $47,700 for a single-perso

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