Chapter 19.37
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Section:
19.37.010   Purpose.
19.37.020   Applicability.
19.37.030   Definitions.
19.37.040   Historic resource designation criteria.
19.37.050   Initiation of designation process.
19.37.060   Public hearings and decision.
19.37.070   Landmark designations for properties listed on national or state historic registers.
19.37.080   Amendment or removal from the Historic Resources Inventory. 
19.37.090   Stay of work.
19.37.100   Certificate of appropriateness and certificate of demolition.
19.37.110   Economic hardship.
19.37.120   Exemptions.
19.37.130   Relocation as alternative to demolition.
19.37.140   Incentives for maintenance or development of landmark property.
19.37.150   Required maintenance for historic resources.
19.37.010   Purpose.
   The purpose of this chapter is to promote the general welfare by providing for the identification, designation, protection, enhancement, perpetuation, and use of historical resources including improvements, buildings, structures, objects, signs, features, sites, cultural landscapes, places, and areas within the city that reflect special elements of the city's historical, architectural, archaeological, cultural, or aesthetic heritage. It is also the purpose of this chapter:
   A.   To implement the policies and goals of the city’s General Plan related to cultural resources and historic preservation;
   B.   To identify, protect, and encourage the preservation of significant architectural, historic, prehistoric, and cultural structures and sites, resources, landmarks, and properties within the city;
   C.   To establish incentives for property owners to maintain, protect, and rehabilitate historic structures, sites, and other historic objects or features such as rock walls or hitching posts;
   D.   To encourage development that preserves and re-uses historic and cultural resources;
   E.   To safeguard city-owned historic and cultural resources through public projects;
   F.   To provide for consistency with state and federal preservation standards, criteria, and practices; and
   G.   To increase the economic benefits of historic preservation to the city, business owners, and residents.
(Ord. 2410 §18)
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