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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission Minutes EMERGENCY MEETING September 3, 2002 Note: The purpose of this special meeting was to make a decision regarding the HLC’s role in the fate of the Grier-Rea House located at the corner of Colony and Rea Roads Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Location: 2100 Randolph Rd. Present: Ms. Tattie Bos/Mayor, HLC Treas., Finance Com. Chair., Projects V. Chr. Mr. Jeff Bradsher/County, HLC Chairman Ms. Amy Hockett/City, Design Review Com. Vice-Chair Ms. Yolanda Johnson-Gess/City, Nominating Committee Chair Mr. Joseph B. C. Kluttz/County, Survey Committee V. Chair Mr. John E. Misenheimer/County, HLC Vice-Chair, Rural Hill Schoolhouse Com. Chr. Mr. John J. Parker, III/Mayor, Projects Committee Chair Mr. Michael C. Sullivan/County, HLC Secretary, Education Com. V. Chair Absent: Ms. Deborah Cox/City, Survey Committee Chair Mr. Scott Hirsch/City, Design Review Committee Chair Ms. Ross Richardson/County, Education Committee Chair Visitors: Lynn Wheeler Mike Cuccea Mark Alexander Betsy Rea Blankenship Doris Jean Alexander B. Franklin Alexander Eleanor Bass Hayes Jeffrey A. Pease Caroline Beacham Len Norman Jeff Richardson June Morgan Cameron Blake-Holtz Jack Morgan Allen Brooks Chairman Jeff Bradsher welcomed everyone to the meeting. He told everyone that since the City Council voted last week not to rezone the property across the road from the Grier-Rea house the house would be torn down if it is not removed from its site at the corner of Colony and Rea Roads if it is not moved off the current site by September 9. He explained that the Rea family had told the HLC that it could have the house, built in 1804, and furthermore would sell the HLC a lot across the road currently which had been leased until the last day of July, 2002, to a garden center, all contingent upon the lot’s been rezoned by City Council to residential. Since the rezoning did not occur, the HLC no longer has the authority to move the house without the approval of the Rea family. The purpose of the meeting tonight is for the HLC to decide how to help save the house, built when Thomas Jefferson was president of the U. S., since the lot offered by the Rea family across the road is no longer available. A number of sites have been considered and that three lots may be a possibility considering a number of factors such as land cost, moving costs, availability of the lots, etc.
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