The following definitions shall apply only to the provisions of the Preservation and Design Review Regulations:
(a) "Alter" or "alteration" means any material changes in the external architectural features of any property which lies within a preservation district or has been listed under the provisions of this chapter, as a landmark, not including demolition, removal or construction, but including the landscaping of real property.
(b) "Applicant" means any owner, owners, person, persons, association, partnership or corporation who or which applies for a certificate of appropriateness in order to undertake any change in property subject to this chapter.
(c) "Certificate of appropriateness" means the official document issued by the Design Review Board approving and/or concurring in any application for a permit for the construction, erection, alteration, removal, moving or demolition of property, archaeological or historic site, or sign, in a preservation district or a landmark.
(d) "Change" means any alteration, demolition, removal or construction involving any property subject to the provisions of this chapter including signs, landscaping and tree removal. "Change" includes any new construction. "Change" shall not relate to ordinary maintenance or repair of any property, providing such work involves no change in material, design, texture, color or outer appearance.
(e) "Exterior architectural feature" means the architectural style and general arrangement of the exterior of the structure including the type and texture of building materials, all windows, doors, lights, signs and other fixtures appurtenant thereto.
(f) "Historical significance" means the attributes of a district, site or property that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association and:
(1) That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or
(2) That are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or
(3) That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
(4) That have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
(g) "Historic site" means the real property:
(1) On which property having historic significance is located; or
(2) On which there is no structure but which is itself of historic significance and has been designated as a landmark pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(h) "Landmark" means any property or site which has special character, archaeological, historical, aesthetic or architectural value as part of the heritage, development or cultural characteristics of the City, State or the United States designated as a "landmark" pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and all property located in the City listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(i) "Landscaping" means only such major landscaping work that is to be on open tracts of land, parking lots, streets, alleys and other large open areas, but not including the planting or arrangement of flowers and plants incidental to the enhancement of single properties.
(j) "Member" means any member of the Design Review Board.
(k) "Owner" means the owner or owners of record.
(l) "Preservation district" means any area so designated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(m) "Property" means any place, building, structure, work of art, fixture or similar object, but shall not include real property unless expressly provided.
(n) "Review Board" means the Design Review Board established under the provisions of this Planning and Zoning Code.
(o) "Sign" means any object or device or part thereof situated outdoors which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct or attract attention to an object, person, institution, organization, business, product, service, event or location by any means including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, motion illumination or projected images. "Sign types" are further defined in Section
1121.48
.
(p) "Site" means an archaeological or historic site.
(Ord. 19, 1989. Passed 4-3-89.)