(A) The Historic Review Board shall be concerned with those elements of development, redevelopment, rehabilitation, and preservation that affect visual quality in an historic or conservation district. However, the Board may not consider details of design, interior arrangements, or building features, if those details, arrangements, or features, are not subject to public view, and may not make any requirement except for the purpose of preventing development, alteration, or demolition in the historic or conservation district obviously incongruous with the historic or conservation district.
(B) The Board shall conduct a survey to identify historic buildings, structures, and places located within the city; however, neither the survey nor any other action of the Board shall affect any property not located within the city limits.
(C) Based on its survey, the Board shall submit to the Common Council a map describing the boundaries of an historic district(s) or historic district(s). A district may be limited to the boundaries of a property containing a single building, structure, or site. The map may divide a district into primary and secondary areas.
(D) The Board shall also classify and designate on the map all buildings and structures within each historic district described on the map. Buildings and structures shall be classified as historic or nonhistoric, in the following manner.
(1) Historic buildings and structures must possess identified historic or architectural merit of a degree warranting their preservation. They may be further classified as:
(a) Outstanding;
(b) Significant; or
(c) Contributing.
In lieu of the further classifications set forth in divisions (a) through (d), the Board may devise its own system of further classification of historic buildings and structures.
(2) Non-historic. Those buildings and structures classified on the map as non-contributing.
(Ord. 6-C-81, passed 4-14-81; Am. Ord. 13-C-95, passed 6-13-95)