The following definitions shall apply specifically and exclusively to this chapter.
“Adaptive reuse” means the re-purposing of historic buildings to new economically viable uses.
“Alteration” means any construction or change of the exterior of a building, object, site or structure designated a landmark, or located within a historic district. For buildings, objects or structures, “alteration” shall include, but is not limited to, the changing of roofing or siding materials; changing, eliminating or adding doors, door frames, windows, window frames, shutters, fences, railings, porches, balconies, swings or other ornamentation, and the changing of paint color. “Alteration” shall not include “ordinary repair and maintenance” as defined below.
“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.
“Cemetery” means any site that contains at least one burial, marked or previously marked, considered a dedicated cemetery under Arizona State Statutes, even though suffering neglect or abuse.
“Construction” means the act of adding an addition to a structure or the erection of a new principal or accessory structure on a lot or property.
“Contributing” means a classification applied to a building. site, structure or object signifying the individual contribution the resource brings to the community in representation of the qualities that give the community cultural, historic, architectural or archeological distinction. A contributing classification can be applied to either a landmark or to those properties within a historic district that are of individual importance.
“De-listing” means removing a landmark status from a building, site, sign, structure or object, or the elimination of a historic district.
“Demolition” means any act or process that partially or totally destroys a landmark or a structure within a historic district.
“Department” means the planning and development department of the city of Casa Grande.
“Design guideline” means a specific type of design criteria approved by the historic preservation commission, to be used to inform owners of landmark buildings, and buildings located within a historic district of the construction techniques that can be used in alteration, construction or demolition activities to achieve compliance with required certificate of appropriateness review criteria.
“Director” means the director of the planning and development department, or his or her designee.
“Historic district” means an area with definable boundaries designated as a “historic district” by the city council, and in which a substantial number of the properties, sites, structures or objects have a high degree of cultural, historic, architectural or archeological significance and integrity.
“HPC” means the historic preservation commission.
“Landmark” means a property, site, structure or object that is individually designated by the city council to be worthy of rehabilitation, restoration and preservation because of its exceptional cultural, historic, architectural or archeological significance to the city.
“New floor area” refers to any change in use to an existing eligible building proposed for adaptive reuse, located within the confines of the existing interior portion of the exterior walls and roof.
“Non-contributing” means a designation applied to a site, structure or object within a historic district, indicating that it is not a representation of the qualities that give the historic district cultural, historic, architectural or archeological significance as embodied in the criteria for designating a historic district.
“Ordinary maintenance and repair” means regular, customary or usual care, reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building, structure or object, for the purposes of preserving the property and maintaining it in safe and sanitary condition.
“Owner” means the property owner of record or their designated representative.
“Property” means land and improvements identified as a separate lot for purposes of city subdivision and zoning regulations.
“Structure” means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a permanent or semi-permanent location on or in the ground, including, without limitation, buildings, garages, fences, gazebos, advertising signs, billboards, antennas, satellite-sending or -receiving dishes, and swimming pools.
(Ord. 1397.17.47 § 3 (part), 2017; Ord. 1397.17.32 § 2 (part), 2004)