(A) Procedure.
(1) The owner or authorized agent of the owner of a property or properties may apply to the Historic District Commission for inclusion in (or removal from) the local historic district. An application shall be filed with the Department of Development Services and a public hearing held at a special or regularly scheduled meeting of the Historic District Commission.
(2) The Historic District Commission shall make a recommendation in writing to the Planning Commission regarding the creation of any local historic landmarks or local historic district. A rezoning application (for the addition of the historic district overlay) shall be submitted to the Planning Commission. The designation of such landmarks or districts will follow the rezoning process.
(3) The Board of Mayor and Aldermen shall review and consider the recommendations of the Historic District Commission and Planning Commission prior to the establishment of any local historic landmark or district. Any action to rezone historic property shall be subject to the requirements of this chapter.
(B) Criteria. The following criteria shall be used by the Commission in considering a property for inclusion in (or removal from) the local historic district:
(1) The presence of qualities significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, and culture.
(2) The subject district, site, building, or structure possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and:
(a) Are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or
(b) Are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or
(c) Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or that represent the work of a master, or that posses high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
(d) Have yielded, or may be likely to yield archaeological information.
(`00 Code, § 11-1303) (Ord. 2003-03, passed 2-10-03)