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The historic preservation commission
of the City of Davenport is hereby established. The word "commission",
when used in this chapter, means the historic preservation commission.
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All members of the commission shall
be legal residents of the City of Davenport or own a property within
the City of Davenport, which is a designated Local Landmark or is
listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The commission shall consist of seven
members. Members shall demonstrate positive experience or interest
in historic preservation and/or cultural resource management. Members
shall include, but are not limited to, architects, urban designers,
urban planners, architectural historians, landscape architects, civil
or structural engineers, real estate development professionals and
contractors.
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Members shall serve without compensation.
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Members shall be appointed by the
Mayor, with the approval of the City Council.
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Members shall serve terms of three
years, provided however that all members shall hold over until their
successors are appointed and approved. Appointments shall be staggered
such that no more than three members are appointed and approved each
year. Appointments for non-reappointed members shall begin from the
date of the expired term of the non-reappointed member. Vacancies
occurring on the commission, other than those due to the normal expiration
of term of office, shall be filled only for the unexpired portion
of the former member's term.
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A member shall forfeit his or her
appointment to the commission if he or she changes their legal residence
to outside the City's corporate limits, no longer owns a property
within the City of Davenport, which is a designated Local Landmark
or is listed on the National Register of Historic Places or fails
to attend in person at least two- thirds of all regularly scheduled
meetings during the calendar year.
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Meetings shall be held at regularly
scheduled times and location as determined by the commission. All
meetings shall be open to the public. Special meetings may be called
by the chairperson or upon written request by three members of the
commission. Special meetings shall be held at the time and location
as determined by the chairperson or three requesting members of the
commission. All meetings shall be in accordance with Iowa Open Meetings
Law, Iowa Code, Chapter 21.
A public record of meetings shall
contain the minutes, attendance records, voting results and summaries
of all pertinent action of the commission. A copy shall be filed with
the City of Davenport community planning and economic development
department for public review.
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The presence of a majority of the
official members of the commission shall constitute a quorum to legally
transact commission business.
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The commission shall have and exercise
all the powers and privileges and shall perform the duties and conduct
as established by state law, or as same may be from time to time amended
and the provisions thereof being incorporated herein by reference,
and such other powers and duties as may from time to time be conferred
by or imposed upon it by law.
The historic preservation commission
shall have the following powers and duties:
A.
To adopt its own administrative and procedural
guidelines; and
B.
To maintain an ongoing survey designed
to identify structures and districts potentially qualifying for local
designation. The commission may initiate the nomination process and
shall respond to a petition by the owner(s) of record for local landmark
or historic district designation and placement onto the local register;
and
C.
To maintain an ongoing survey designed
to identify structures and districts potentially qualifying for the
National Register of Historic Places. The commission may initiate
the nomination process, and review and comment on a petition for nomination
from any person, group or association for the National Register of
Historic Places. This subsection is not to be interpreted as meaning
that all structures, sites, objects and districts identified as eligible
for the National Register of Historic Places shall be automatically
approved by the City Council and accepted onto the local register;
and
D.
To recommend to the City Council for consideration
and adoption, ordinances designating architecturally and historically
significant structures and areas as local landmarks and historic districts;
and
E.
To maintain records of all studies and
inventories for public use. This will include listings of all structures
and districts that have been listed on the National Register of Historic
Places and all structures and districts that have been designated
as local landmarks and historic districts by the City Council. This
latter list will be known as the Davenport Register of Historic Properties;
and
F.
To hold public meetings to consider any
action officially before the commission; and
G.
To review and take action on applications
for a certificate of appropriateness, a certificate of economic hardship
and a certificate of public hazard; and
H.
To call upon City staff and/or outside
experts for technical advice; and
I.
To promote and conduct public education
and interpretive programs on local history, including the City's inventory
of architecturally and historically significant structures and districts;
and
J.
To periodically review and make recommendations
to the City Council proposed revisions to the Historic Preservation
chapter of the City's comprehensive plan and to assist in the development
of policies and procedures under the ordinance for Securing of Abandoned
Buildings; and
K.
To testify before all boards and commissions
on any matter involving a local landmark or designated historic district,
such as but not limited to proposed zoning amendments, applications
for special use or applications for zoning variances; and
L.
To develop and recommend to the City Council
for adoption, individual design guidelines for designated landmarks
and historic districts in Addition to the guidelines contained in
the historic preservation ordinance. This includes design guidelines
appropriate for rehabilitation, reconstruction and infill development
specific to each individual designated historic district; and
M.
To provide information upon request to
the owners of local landmarks or to residents in designated historic
districts pertaining to the appropriate preservation, rehabilitation
and reuse options and the available financial assistance programs
for the rehabilitation of designated property; and
N.
To make recommendations to the City Council
regarding the appropriate streetscape improvements, with adequate
technical and public input, for designated historic districts. This
also includes the system of signs used to announce the designated
historic district and the plaques used to identify individual structures.
The commission shall adopt its own
rules of procedure not in conflict with this Chapter or with the Iowa
Code.
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It shall be the duty of all City
officers and employees of the City to provide assistance to the commission
and its members as this will enable the board to most effectively
perform its duties. City officers and employees of the City are authorized
and directed to furnish to the commission, upon its request, records,
documents, other information which the commission may need for its
consideration in connection with its duties.
