(A) An historic district is a geographically defined area possessing a concentration of contributing historic resources that relate to each other and are unified by physical development or historical context.
(B) A defined area shall be eligible for listing on the Corona Register as an historic district if the City Council finds that all the following criteria are satisfied:
(1) The defined area is a unified geographical area with precisely defined boundaries;
(2) The defined area contains a significant concentration of individually recognized contributing historic resources united in character by an historic plan, physical development, cultural heritage, past events, an historic period or prehistory era, aesthetics design or architectural traditions;
(3) At least 75% of the contributing historic resources in the defined area are 50 years of age or older and retain their original architectural character;
(4) The civic and historic value of the contributing historic resources is greater as a collective whole than as individual historic resources;
(5) The defined area has significant historic, cultural or architectural value and its designation as an historic district promotes, preserves and furthers the purposes and intent of this chapter.
(C) Upon the listing of an historic district on the Corona Register, all identified contributing historic resources in the historic district shall be individually listed on the Corona Register, along with notation of the historic district’s noncontributing resources.
(`78 Code, § 17.63.060.) (Ord. 2522 § 1, 2001.)