When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings set forth below.
A. Alteration. Alteration means any exterior change or modification of a structure, site, or resource on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory or within a landmark overlay zoning district that requires the issuance of a building permit, demolition permit, grading permit, new construction, relocation of a structure onto, off of, or within, a designated property or site, or other changes to the property or site affecting the significant historical or architectural features of the resource. Alterations are divided into either minor or major alterations as follows:
1. Minor alteration. Minor alterations are those which, because of their limited size and scope, have been determined by the Director to involve only minor or negligible impacts to the historic integrity of a resource and may include the following:
a. Additions to existing structures;
b. Addition or modification of signs, fences, or walls;
c. New construction on existing, partially developed parcels;
d. Replacement-in-kind;
e. New satellite dish antennas;
f. Minor grading activities; and
g. Addition or modification of accessory residential units.
2. Major alteration. A major alteration is a physical change that does not meet the definition of a minor alteration and that has the potential to affect the historic integrity of the resource such that the resource no longer meets one or more of the designation criteria established by section 19.37.040 of this chapter.
B. Architectural feature. Architectural elements embodying style, design, general arrangement, and components of all the outer surfaces of an improvement including, but not limited to, the architectural style, design, arrangement, massing, texture, painted and unpainted surfaces, and materials.
C. Board. The Architectural Review and Historic Preservation Board.
D. California Historical Building Code (“CHBC”). The most recent version of the California Building Code that regulates alterations to qualified historic structures.
E. California Register of Historical Resources, California Historical Landmarks, and California Points of Historical Interest. Buildings, sites, features, or events that are of local (city or county) significance and have anthropological, cultural, military, political, architectural, economic, scientific or technical, religious, experimental, or other historical value as designated and listed by the State Historical Resources Commission.
F. Certificate of Appropriateness. A certificate issued by the board which approves specified exterior alterations to a property listed on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory.
G. Certificate of Demolition. A certificate issued by the board which authorizes the demolition, removal, or relocation of a designated historical resource listed on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory.
H. Certified Local Government (“CLG”). A local government which has been certified by the National Park Service to carry out the purposes of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The CLG program is administered by the State of California Office of Historic Preservation.
I. Cultural Landscape. A geographic area (including both cultural and natural resources) associated with an historic event, activity, or person, or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic qualities.
J. Demolition. Any act or failure to act that destroys, removes, modifies, or relocates, in whole or in part, an historical resource such that its historic character and significance is materially altered.
K. Historic Resource. Improvements, buildings, structures, objects, signs, features, sites, cultural landscapes, places, areas, or other improvements of scientific, aesthetic, educational, cultural, archaeological, architectural, or historical value which are designated as landmarks on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory or located within a landmark overlay zoning district.
L. Historic Resources Inventory. The City of Chico Historic Resources Inventory as adopted by the City Council.
M. Landmark Overlay Zoning District. A defined geographic area with a concentration of historic resources which are related historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development and which can be distinguished from surrounding properties by characteristics such as density, scale, type, age, architectural styles and periods or objects, or by documented differences in patterns of historic development or associations.
N. Integrity. The ability of an historical resource to convey its significance.
O. Landmark. Buildings, structures, objects, signs, features, sites, places, areas, cultural landscapes or other improvements of scientific, aesthetic, educational, cultural, archaeological, architectural, or historical value and designated as such by the City Council.
P. National Register of Historic Places. The nation's official list of buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts worthy of preservation because of their significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture.
Q. Object. Constructed features or elements that are distinguished from buildings and structures as being artistic, simply constructed, utilitarian in nature, or relatively small in scale. Although they may be movable, objects are associated with a specific setting or environment. Examples of historic objects in the City of Chico would include hitching posts and rock walls.
R. Ordinary maintenance and repair. Any work for which a building permit is not required, where the purpose and effect is to prevent or correct any deterioration or damage to the exterior of any structure or property.
S. Period of Significance. The length of time that a property was associated with important events, activities, or persons, or attained the characteristics that qualify it for designation.
T. Relocation. The removal of an historical resource from its original site to a new site.
U. Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. Guidelines and standards for preserving, rehabilitating, restoring and reconstructing historic buildings, as established by the National Park Service and the Secretary of the Interior that guide treatment of historic properties (36 CFR Part 68).
V. State of California Department of Parks and Recreation Survey Forms. The current official State of California forms that contain information about an historical resource and utilized as the basis of information for the City of Chico Historic Resources Inventory.
(Ord. 2410 §18, Ord. 2511, §11)