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ASHEVILLE - In a highly emotional meeting at which residents and elected officials talked about their religious faith, fears about safety and personal experiences with discrimination, Buncombe County commissioners voted unanimously to enact new protections for transgender people.
With the one Republican member, District 3 Commissioner Robert Pressley of Bent Creek absent, the Board of Commissioners voted 6-0 for the protections, formally titled an Ordinance Prohibiting Discrimination in Employment and Public Accommodations.
It bans discrimination based on gender identity as well as multiple other characteristics, including race, natural hair or hairstyles, ethnicity, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, marital or familial status, pregnancy, veteran status, religious belief or non-belief, age or disability.
ASHEVILLE Buncombe County does not own the Vance Monument or the prominent downtown spot on which it sits, but elected county leaders said April 6 that they have a stake in what will replace it.
Buncombe s Board of Commissioners voted 6-1 at a regular meeting to pay half the estimated $70,000 to gather community input and plan for what will go on the western edge of Pack Square Plaza, the spot now occupied by the monument to locally-born Civil War governor and slave owner Zebulon Vance.
Asheville owns the site under the 75-foot granite obelisk, and after a March 23 City Council vote, plans to remove the monument. The decision came after years of calls by activists and unprecedented racial justice protests in 2020.