[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Pomona 12-15-1986 by L.L. No. 3-1986. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 130.
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public welfare, to preserve the historical character of certain areas to be designated within the Village of Pomona, to prevent the impairment of or injury to their architectural and cultural value to the community and to provide that a reasonable degree of control may be exercised over the architectural design, construction, alteration and repair of buildings, signs or other structures erected in the areas designated, as within the purview of this chapter, in order that they may be in harmony with the style and spirit of the historical property presently situated therein.
A. 
The Village Board of Trustees is hereby authorized and empowered to create an Historical Review Board, which shall consist of six members inclusive of the Village Historian who shall serve as an ex officio member. Said members shall be especially qualified by reason of training or experience in art or architecture or by reason of demonstrated interest in the history and historical preservation of sites within the Village of Pomona. The members of the Board shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees, and the Historical Review Board shall elect a Chairman from its own members. The Board of Trustees may provide for compensation to be paid to said members, experts, clerks and a secretary and may provide for such other expenses as may be necessary and proper. The Board of Trustees is hereby authorized to make such appropriation as it may see fit for such expenses.
B. 
Of the five members of the Historical Review Board to be appointed by the Board of Trustees, two such members shall originally be appointed for one-year terms, two shall originally be appointed for two-year terms, and one shall originally be appointed to a three-year term. Thereafter all said members of the Historical Review Board shall be appointed to one-year terms respectively. If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by the expiration of a term, it shall be filled by the Board of Trustees by appointment for the unexpired term.
C. 
Meetings of the Historical Review Board shall be held at such times as the Board may determine and at such other times at the call of the Chairman. Three members of such Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. All meetings of such Board shall be open to the public, and the Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of each member upon any question, and shall also keep records of its examinations and official actions.
D. 
The Board shall have the power to adopt, amend and repeal rules and regulations, after a public hearing by the Historical Review Board and subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees, governing its procedure and the transaction of business.
A. 
The said Board shall have for its purpose the preservation of such buildings and structures in the Village of Pomona as, in the opinion of said Board, shall be deemed to have historical significance and value and which buildings, structures and areas should be preserved for the benefit of the people of the Village of Pomona.
B. 
The Historical Review Board is hereby authorized to recommend to the Board of Trustees the designation of certain areas or structures within the Village of Pomona which, in the opinion of said Board, shall have historical significance and value to the people of the Village.
C. 
The Board of Trustees may in its discretion designate certain areas and/or structures within the Village of Pomona which in the opinion of said Board of Trustees shall have historical significance and value to the people of the Village as historical areas and/or structures. The discretion of the Board of Trustees in so designating can only be exercised after due notice and public hearing as provided by law. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the Board of Trustees to act on recommendation of the Historical Review Board.
[Amended 2-8-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988]
Every application for a building permit in the Village of Pomona within an historical area or upon an historical structure, as designated by the Board of Trustees as such, for construction, reconstruction, alteration or repair of any structure located therein shall be referred by the Code Enforcement Officer to the Historical Review Board. The Code Enforcement Officer shall not issue a building permit for such structure if any permit application has been disapproved by the Historical Review Board as provided in this chapter. The Code Enforcement Officer may approve any application for a permit approved by the Board with modifications when the modifications specified by the Board have been complied with. If the Board shall have approved an application for a building permit or if the Board has failed to act on an application for a building permit within 45 days after it has been referred to the Board, then the Code Enforcement Officer may issue a building permit.
An officer, department or board of the Village, or any person aggrieved by the action of the Historical Review Board in modifying and approving or disapproving an application for a building permit within a designated area and the Code Enforcement Officer for denying such permit because of such action by the Board, may take an appeal therefrom to the Zoning Board of Appeals in the same manner as provided by law for other appeals to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The foregoing provisions of this chapter shall be exclusive within a designated area.