courthouse national historical park. ron wilson talks about the terms of the surrender. this is about an hour. thank you. it s indeed a pleasure to be here. i think this is the 16th seminar. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it s time for lunch i believe. one thing that s probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn t come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. they selected him as their spokesman. william nelson for episcopalian. he approached general lee
how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it s time for lunch i believe. one thing that s probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn t come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. they selected him as their spokesman. william nelson for episcopalian. he approached general lee that day. he would not hear that suggestion. he said there were too many brave and good men. general grant and most of the federal forces moved in. general lee moved the army of northern virginia north of the appomattox river. general grant establishes his headquarters at the prince edward hotel also known as the ran randolph house which no longer sta
and they put out notices but the community didn t have is a chance to give input. without incriminating positively or negatively on the proposal an observation would be this is a low rise neighborhood of small businesses and homes. this is a one hundred and 50 foot tower in the middle of the block that will cast a significant amount of shadows. it seems 40 to be out of scale with the small businesses and mobile homes homes on this block of bush street. the project sponsors want to retain their city car rental in there which is a positive thing but the scope and scale of the proposed tower is disconcerting. i would personally urge the commission to not approve at this time but to request a continuous from the project sponsor so we the surround neighborhoods association and homeowners and merchants can meet with them and give feedback as to some of the elements of this project. so thank you very much. linda chapman. i was kajtd by an alarmed jean about the size and bulk and a
of the changes but we need design changes i think it takes 4 months this is a difficult site and . maybe i can talk to the architect. can you talk about how those designs that we re proposing would you say take 90 days? that depends on the extent of changes you can hear it s extent i have. we re now in september we re saying january is fine with me. second and a can you give us something in december or january. well, your december and january dates are still wide open. december 5th would be your earliest date and the first hearing in january assuming we school january 2nd january 19th. well, i m going to move it to january 19th. we can continue a second time commissioner more and more. i look the zoning administrator to help kind of frame the issues properly and the issues are the recommendation for live ability to bedroom windows and the absolute need for compromise cinnamons of the court yard and it does and does not meet the court yard it s 70 feet short of
they seem to be able to put in 26. i don t know what the appropriate time is to make some of the changes but we need design changes i think it takes 4 months this is a difficult site and . maybe i can talk to the architect. can you talk about how those designs that we re proposing would you say take 90 days? that depends on the extent of changes you can hear it s extent i have. we re now in september we re saying january is fine with me. second and a can you give us something in december or january. well, your december and january dates are still wide open. december 5th would be your earliest date and the first hearing in january assuming we school january 2nd january 19th. well, i m going to move it to january 19th. we can continue a second time commissioner more and more. i look the zoning administrator to help kind of frame the issues properly and the issues are the recommendation for live ability to bedroom windows and the absolute need for compromise cinn