Politics

Meadows moves to South Asheville

U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, shown in a file photo from August 2015, is now a resident of the city of Asheville.

By Bill Moss, Published: February 22, 2017

U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows has been a resident of South Asheville since last summer even though his official website biography still lists his home as Jackson County.
Meadows and his wife, Debbie, are renting an apartment in South Asheville while they look for a home in the area. The third-term Republican registered to vote in Buncombe County on Aug. 5.
“We’d had our house on the market for a long time. It finally sold,” Meadows told the Franklin Press, for a story it published on Jan. 20. “We’re renting until we figure out where we ultimately want to go.”
The couple sold their Glenville home and surrounding 5.96 acres in an exclusive gated community in June for almost $1.3 million, the Franklin Press reported. The couple moved to Western North Carolina in the mid-1980s from Tampa, Fla., and lived in Highlands until about 2003, when they moved to southern Jackson County.
The move puts the third-term congressman close to the district headquarters in Hendersonville and near the center of the 11th Congressional District, which stretches from Catawba County to the Tennessee line.
“If they were going to pick me up it was an hour and half drive,” he said of the time the district aides spent shuttling him home from the Asheville Regional Airport. “It allows me really to fit in a few more constructive meetings. I essentially pick up another three hours of work time.”