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Director's Report
October 10, 2005
1. Staff has met with
representatives of the neighborhood adjoining the Torrence Lytle School to
explain the consequences of historic landmark designation.
2. Staff met with
Huntersville town officials to discuss the prospective designation of a
portion of McAuley Road and surrounding land as a historic landmark.
Staff anticipates that a joint public hearing with Huntersville to consider
this issue will occur sometime in early 2006.
3. Staff has received word
that the information included in the Center City Survey will be entered into
the County G.I.S. System, so that planners will learn at the outset of
planning for any development which properties in the Center City qualify as
local historic landmarks.
4. Congratulations to
Historic Charlotte for hosting a most impressive awards banquet at the
Palmer Fire School.
5. UNCC graduate students
continue to prepare draft Survey and Research Reports on prospective
historic landmarks in Davidson.
6. Grubb Properties will be
moving ahead with the development of an interpretive program for the St.
Lloyd Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
7. Stewart Gray and I will be
attending the Annual Historic Preservation Conference in Gastonia and Shelby sponsored by
Preservation North Carolina.
8. Staff continues to have
discussions with various parties involved with the sale of Grace A.M.E. Zion
Church.
9. Staff has learned that
Crescent Resources does intend to exercise its option to purchase the former
trolley barn property from the County. Staff has contacted Crescent
Resources to ascertain how the Commission shall be involved in determining
the ultimate fate of the building.
10. The Commission has joint
public hearings scheduled as follows.
a. Town of Huntersville --
November 7th (Torrence Lytle)
b. Town of Matthews --
November 28th (Renfrow-Lemmond House, McLaughlin-Bost House, Rowland-Clay,
Former Matthews Post Office)
c. City of Charlotte --
December 19th (Neel House Boundary Change, McQuay House)
Respectfully submitted
Dan L. Morrill |