§ 10.5-3. Definitions.

[The following terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed herein, except where context clearly indicates a different meaning:]

Building means a structure created to shelter any form of human activity, such as a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar structure. ``Building'' may refer to a historically related complex such as a courthouse and jail or a house and barn.

Certificate of appropriateness means a document evidencing approval by the historic preservation commission of an application to make a material change in the appearance of a designated historic property or of a property located within a designated historic district.

Exterior architectural features means the architectural style, general design and general arrangement of the exterior of a building, structure or object, including, but not limited to, the kind or texture of the building material and the type and style of all windows, doors, signs and other appurtenant architectural fixtures, features, details or elements relative to the foregoing, as more fully described in the design guidelines for the city, on file in the office of the director of community development, and is incorporated as a part of this chapter by specific reference.

Exterior environmental features means all those aspects of the landscape or the development of a site which affect the historical character of the property.

Historic district means a geographically definable area, possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united by past events or aesthetically by plain or physical development. A district may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history. ``Historic district'' shall further mean an area designated by the city commission as a historic district pursuant to the criteria established in section 10.5-11 of this chapter.

Historic property means an individual building, structure, site, or object, including the adjacent area necessary for the proper appreciation thereof, designated by the city commission as a historic property pursuant to the criteria established in section 10.5-11 of this chapter.

Material change in appearance means a change that will affect either the exterior architectural or environmental features of a historic property or any building, structure, site, object, or landscape feature within a historic district, such as:

(1)

A reconstruction or alteration of the size, shape or facade of a historic property, including relocation of any doors or windows or removal or alteration of any architectural features, details or elements;

(2)

Demolition or relocation of a historic structure;

(3)

Commencement of excavation for construction purposes;

(4)

A change in the location of advertising visible from the public right-of-way; or

(5)

The erection, alteration, restoration or removal of any building or other structure within a historic property or district, including walls, fences, steps and pavements, or other appurtenant features.

Object means a material thing of functional, aesthetic, cultural, historical or scientific value that may be, by nature or design, movable yet related to a specific setting or environment.

Site means the location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historical occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself maintains historical or archaeological value of any existing structure.

Structure means a work made up [of] interdependent and interrelated parts in a definite pattern or organization, constructed by man; it is often an engineering project large in scale.

(Ord. No. 0-94-25, § II, 12-6-94)