(a) For purposes of this Historic Preservation Code, the following terms shall have the meanings provided in this section:
(1) "Addition" means any act or process that changes one or more of the exterior architectural features of a building or structure by adding to, joining with, or increasing the size or capacity of the building or structure.
(2) "Alter" or "alteration" means any material change in the external, architectural features of any building, structure or site, including, but not limited to, landscaping, demolition, construction, reconstruction, erection, or removal. This will not include ordinary repair or maintenance activities.
(3) "Applicant" means any owner, owners, person, persons, association, partnership or corporation who applies for a Certificate of Appropriateness in order to undertake any alteration or demolition of property subject to this chapter and/or applies for the consideration of the designation of a Historic District, Historic Landmark, Historic Building, or a Historic Site.
(4) "Building" means any structure created for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, or property of any kind and which is permanently affixed to the land.
(5) "Certificate of Appropriateness" means the official document issued by the Canton City Landmark Commission indicating, authorizing, and concurring that a proposed change, alteration, construction, erection, removal, moving or demolition of any property designated as a historic landmark, building, or structure, or within a historic site or is a contributing factor to a historic district or is listed on the "City of Canton Register of Historic Places" or the "National Register of Historic Places" or for which such listing is pending and in process of approval, is in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and local design guidelines.
(6) "Change" means any alteration, demolition, removal, or construction involving any property subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(7) "City of Canton Register of Historic Places" means the official list of the City of Canton's historic resources, including places, districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects, worthy of preservation and significant in the City's or American history. This Register is authorized by chapters contained herein, and compiled by the Canton City Landmark Commission, with approval of the Canton City Planning Commission and Canton City Council.
(8) "The Commission" means the City of Canton Landmark Commission existing pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(9) "Construction" means the act of constructing an addition to an existing structure or the erection of a new principal or accessory structure on a lot or property.
(10) "Demolition" means any act or process that destroys or razes in whole or in part any landmark, building, object, site or structure located within the City.
(11) "Exterior architectural features" means the architectural style and general arrangement of the exterior of a structure including the type and texture of building materials, windows, doors, lights, signs and other fixtures appurtenant thereto.
(12) "Historic District" means any area designated by ordinance of the City Council which may contain within definable geographic boundaries, buildings, structures, or sites of historic, architectural, archaeological or cultural significance.
(13) "Historic Significance" means the significance of a district, site, structure, or property to the history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture of a community, state, or the nation. It may possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association and may further be achieved in several ways:
A. Are associated with broad pattern of our history, events, activities, or patterns that have made a significant contribution to the history of the City; or
B. Are associated with the lives of persons significant or important to our past; or
C. Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction, design, or form that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
D. Have yielded, may be likely to yield, or has potential to yield important information of historic or prehistoric interest.
(14) "Historic site" means the real property on which a building, structure, or property having historic significance is located; or on which there is no structure but which is itself of historic significance and has been designated as a historic site pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or is registered on the "City of Canton Register of Historic Places" or the "National Register of Historic Places".
(15) "Historic structure" means any building, site, or property that has historic, architectural, or archaeological significance and has been so designated according to the provisions of this chapter.
(16) "Historic landmark" means any building, property or site, and which may include any accessory buildings, structures, landscaping, sites, or properties, which has special character, archaeological, historic, aesthetic or cultural value, as part of the heritage, development or cultural characteristics of the City, State or the United States, and has been designated as a historic landmark pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or which is listed as a historic landmark on the "City of Canton Register of Historic Places" or the ''National Register of Historic Places" or for which listing upon such lists or registers have been applied for with or without the owner's consent and is pending, that is worthy of preservation, restoration, or rehabilitation because if it's historic, architectural, or archaeological significance.
(17) "National Register of Historic Places" is the official list of the Nation's historic resources, including places, districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects, worthy of preservation and significant in American history. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and compiled by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America. The National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.
(18) "Owner" means the owner or owners of record.
(19) "Preservation" means the act or process of applying measures necessary to sustain the existing form, integrity, and materials of an historic property.
(20) "Property" means any place, building, structure, work of art, fixture or similar object, but shall not include real property unless expressly provided.
(21) "Reconstruction" means the act or process of depicting, by means of new construction, the form, features, and detailing of a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure or object for the purpose of replicating its appearance at a specific period of time and in its historic location.
(22) "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 values.
(23) "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. The limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make properties functional is appropriate within a restoration project
(Ord. 103-2017. Passed 5-8-17.)