CHARLESTON — A long-running dispute over a requirement that apartments be part of a proposed downtown hotel has been settled with a compromise after years of back-and-forth, denials and an appeal that’s been dropped.

The property at 411 Meeting St. was grandfathered into a zoning approval that mandated housing units be incorporated into the project. The requirement has been a point of contention for years, but times have changed since it was initiated in 2016, according to the developer.

The original approval of the 300-room hotel nearly 10 years ago mandated the construction of 159 residential units built on the site. The condition was drafted because of a concern of diminished housing stock on the peninsula and questions of whether, and when, planned residential developments would come

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