The purpose of this chapter is to provide definitions for unique
terms used throughout this title that relate to historic resources.
(Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022)
"Alteration"
means any act or process that modifies a historic landmark
or contributing resource that either:
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Requires a building permit and changes one or more of the features
of a landscape or structure including, without limitation, the erection,
construction, reconstruction, or relocation of any structure or any
part of a structure; or
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Significantly changes any feature of a landscape or exterior
of a structure that relates to its status as a historic landmark or
contributing resource, regardless of whether such act or process requires
a building permit.
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"Commission"
means the city historic preservation commission.
"Contributing resource"
means any site, sign, structure, building, landscape, object,
area, place, or feature within a conservation district that is either
a separately designated historic landmark or designated as a resource
that contributes to the district's historic, cultural, or architectural
significance.
"Demolition"
means any act or process that destroys, in whole or in part,
a building, structure, or site or permanently impairs its structural
integrity.
"Historic landmark"
means any structure any site, sign, structure, building,
landscape, object, area, place, or feature designated as a historic
landmark pursuant to this chapter.
"Inventory of historic resources"
means the inventory adopted by the commission of potentially
historic sites, structures, buildings, landscapes, areas, and places
in the city.
"Ordinary maintenance and repair"
means any work for which a building permit is not required
by law the purpose and effect of which is to correct any deterioration
of or damage to an improvement or natural feature or any part thereof
and to restore the same to its condition prior to the occurrence of
such deterioration or damage.
"Register of historic resources"
means the inventory adopted by the commission of historic
landmarks, points of historic interest, and conservation districts
designated pursuant to this chapter.
"Rehabilitation"
means the act or process of making possible a compatible
use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while
preserving those portions or features which convey its historical,
cultural, or architectural significance.
"Restoration"
means the act or process of accurately depicting the form,
features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular
period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods
in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration
period, which may include the limited and sensitive upgrade of mechanical,
electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make
the property functional.
"Secretary's standards"
means the standards for the treatment of historic properties
adopted by the United States Secretary of the Interior, and all guidelines
adopted for the implementation of the same.
"Small business"
means any office-type use that does not exceed 2,500 square
feet, with no more than five employees.
(Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022)