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Survey Committee Meeting Minutes

 

July 5, 2000

 

 

Location: HLC Office, 2100 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC 28207

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:50 p.m.

Present:

Deborah Cox, Committee Chair

John Misenheimer, Committee V. Chair

Barry Miller, HLC Chair

Louis Asbury

Jack Boyte

Joe Brickey

Allen Brooks

Keat Chambers

Randy Penninger

Ross Richardson

Dave Ritch

Dan Morrill, HLC Consulting Director

Mary Lynn Morrill, HLC Recording Consultant

Mary Beth Gatza, Survey & Research Reports Consultant

Absent:

Jeff Bradsher

Lindsay Daniel

Marcia Hart

Grier Martin

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. MR. RITCH PRESENTED A MOTION SECONDED BY MR. MILLER TO RECOMMEND TO THE HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION THAT $6200 OF THE $21,200 APPROPRIATED FOR SURVEY AND RESEARCH REPORTS IN THE HLC’S FY2001 BUDGET BE ALLOCATED FOR THE INDUSTRIAL/INSTITUTIONAL SURVEY GRANT AND THAT, IF NECESSARY, AN ADDITIONAL $3800 BE ALLOCATED FROM THE HLC’S CURRENT OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE AFORESAID GRANT, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WOULD BE PREFERABLE TO ALLOCATE $3800 FROM NEXT YEAR’S HLC BUDGET IF POSSIBLE. THE COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE MOTION.

 

2. MS. BRICKEY PRESENTED A MOTION SECONDED BY MR. RITCH TO RECOMMEND TO THE HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION THAT THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NEELY SLAVE CEMETERY BE ESTABLISHED AS RECOMMENDED BY THE HLC’S DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE ON JUNE 21, 2000. THE COMMITTEE APPROVED THE MOTION WITH THE FOLLOWING VOTE: FAVOR: MISENHEIMER, RICHARDSON, RITCH, BRICKEY, COX OPPOSE: BOYTE, BROOKS ABSTAIN: ASBURY, PENNINGER, CHAMBERS

 

3. MS. BRICKEY PRESENTED A MOTION SECONDED BY MR. RITCH TO RECOMMEND TO THE HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION THAT THE HELMS-BELL HOUSE, 2021 EUCLID AVENUE, CHARLOTTE, N. C., (INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR OF A PORTION OF THE HOUSE (SEE ATTACHMENT) AND THE TAX PARCEL ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE), IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STANDARD MOTION, BE APPROVED BY THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR SUBMISSION TO THE NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, AND THAT THE COMMISSION SCHEDULE A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING WITH THE APPROPRIATE GOVERNING BODY UPON RECEIPT OF A FAVORABLE COMMENT FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY. THE COMMITTEE APPROVED THE MOTION WITH THE FOLLOWING VOTE: FAVOR: COX, RICHARDSON, PENNINGER, MISENHEIMER, ASBURY, BOYTE, CHAMBERS ABSTAIN: BRICKEY, RITCH, MILLER OPPOSE: NONE. (It should be noted that Mr. Brooks, the owner of the property, and Ms. Gatza, the consultant who prepared the Survey and Research Report, were not present at the time of the vote).

Attachments:

- Letter / Neely Slave Cemetery

- Letters / Helms-Bell House

- Floor plan/ Helms-Bell House