(a) The owner of any property designated as a landmark shall make no substantial change to any part of the landmark property or within a designated Landmark District without a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Landmark Commission, if such proposed change adversely affects any significant historical or aesthetic feature of the property, including but not limited to alterations and demolitions, thereby making it inappropriate for such property to continue to be designated a landmark.
(b) Nothing herein contained would prohibit the owner of such property from making corrections to such property to remedy a condition dangerous to life, health, or property.
(c) When the owner of a landmark property wishes to make a change in the exterior appearance of such property, then he or she shall apply to the Landmark Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness, stating in detail the change(s) he or she wishes to make in such property, submitting such written material to the Landmark Commission, together with appropriate drawings, plans and other information necessary to explain the proposed change(s).
(d) Applications for the Certificate of Appropriateness shall be filed with the Building Department in such form as may be prescribed by the Landmark Commission prior to the issuance of any building or demolition permit.
(e) The Landmark Commission shall include the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and the Advisory Council of Historic Preservation's Treatment of Archeological Properties: A Handbook as guidelines for approving the Certificate of Appropriateness application for any proposed changes to a landmark property or within a designated Landmark District.
(f) The Landmark Commission may approve the request for change as described in the Certificate of Appropriateness application submitted by the owner or modify the change requested by the owner, or reject the proposed change, all in accordance with its original criteria describing indicia for landmark designations, and the criteria set forth in the Certificate of Appropriateness.
(g) If the owner determines to proceed with the proposed change against the rulings of the Landmark Commission, then the Commission may, after 60 days notice of such intent to the owner of the subject property, remove the designation of the subject property as a landmark in the City of Euclid.
(h) An owner of a landmark property who, without applying to and/or appearing before the Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness, makes substantial changes to the property, which may adversely affect any significant historical or aesthetic feature of the property, shall be in violation of this provision. The Commission may, after 60 days notice of such intent to the owner of the subject property, remove the designation of the subject property as a landmark in the City of Euclid.
(i) Nothing herein contained shall obviate compliance by the owner of such property with all other applicable ordinances, rules and regulations of the City.
(Ord. 19-2003. Passed 2-3-03; Ord. 214-2007. Passed 11-5-07.)