(A) Notable cultural resources may be designated to the Cultural Landmark Register for the purposes of recognizing their value and providing incentives and guidelines for their preservation.
(B) Any activity, business, district, building, structure, object, resource, scenery, or site may be designated to the Cultural Landmark Register if it meets the following criteria:
(1) It is located within the official boundaries of the county;
(2) It is currently listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and a copy of the approved National Register form has been placed in the public record;
(3) A property not yet listed in the National Register must:
(a) Retain its historic integrity; and
(b) Meet at least one of the following National Register criteria:
1. Be associated with events that have made a notable contribution to the broad patterns of the county’s history;
2. Be associated with the lives of persons notable in the county’s past;
3. Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a notable and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
4. Have yielded, or be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
(4) It has been documented according to the State Historic Preservation Office standards for intensive level surveys or National Register standards, and a copy of that documentation has been placed in the public record; and
(5) No resource shall be included on the County Cultural Landmark Register unless private property owner or manager with ceded jurisdiction approval is obtained as follows.
(a) The owner of a private resource must approve the action to designate the resource on the County Cultural Landmark Register.
(b) Seventy percent of the resource owners in a proposed district must be in favor of the designation. Written objections from at least 30% of the resource owners will constitute lack of approval.
(c) Public land managers must concur for public resources within their ceded jurisdiction to be included on the County Cultural Landmark Register. Failure to concur with such designation constitutes a determination of lack of significance on behalf of the agency.
(Ord. 2013-1, passed 7-8-2013)