The applicant shall be required to file a written request for an appeal with the Clerk of Council within 10 days of the decision of the Design Review Board. The appeal shall be considered at the next regularly scheduled Council meeting, or within 30 days of the receipt of the appeal. The Council may grant an appeal with a three-fourths majority vote of all council members.
APPENDIX A
Design Guidelines For Design Review Overlay District
Standards for rehabilitation/
alterations of older
buildings in the Design Review
Overlay District.
New buildings being built as
in-fill in the Design Review
Overlay District.
STANDARDS FOR REHABILITATION/ALTERATIONS OF OLDER BUILDINGS IN THE DESIGN REVIEW OVERLAY DISTRICT.
(a) Every reasonable effort shall be made to provide a compatible use for a property, which requires minimal alteration of the building, structure, or site and its environment, or to use a property for its originally intended purpose.
(b) The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure, or site and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when possible.
(c) All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier appearance shall be discouraged.
(d) Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the history and development of a building, structure, or site and its environment. These changes may have acquired significance in their own right, and this significance shall be recognized and respected.
(e) Distinctive stylistic features or examples of skilled craftsmanship which characterize a building, structure, or site shall be treated with sensitivity.
(f) Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced, whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture, and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated by historic, physical, or pictorial evidence rather than on conjectural designs or the availability of different architectural elements from other buildings or structures.
(g) The surface cleaning of structures shall be undertaken with the gentlest means possible. Sandblasting and other cleaning methods that will damage the historic building materials shall not be undertaken.
(h) Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant historical, architectural or cultural significance and the design is compatible with the size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood or environment.
(i) Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such a manner that if such additions or alterations were to be removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
(Ord. 98-62. Passed 10-5-98.)
NEW BUILDINGS BEING BUILT AS IN-FILL IN THE DESIGN
REVIEW OVERLAY DISTRICT.
(a) Whenever a new building is planned next to historic buildings, the scale, height, massing and design of the building shall be compatible with the historic buildings.
(b) The primary sheathing of the exterior of new buildings shall be one of the following materials:
Brick that has a similar texture and color as historic buildings in the district. Wooden, vinyl or aluminum siding. All siding shall imitate horizontal wooden lapped siding with no larger than a 2 inch span. Stone or stone facing which emulates a historic pattern of sandstone or field stone.
(c) Details of buildings of the exterior of building can be a variety of materials, including metal. A variety of revival styles are encouraged including Colonial, Tudor, and Italinate. Windows and door opening should be compatible with adjoining buildings.
(d) Painted features will be reviewed for the compatibility with the district. Overall, most colors are acceptable, but bright colors and primary colors shall not ordinarily be used. Colors that blend in with the natural landscape are required.
(e) Roofs must be sheathed in the following materials:
Slate or slate imitation, in natural colors
Asphalt, in a range of gray or brown colors
Metal roofs with vertical standing-seems at least 18 inches apart
Flat roofs that are concealed by a coping
All equipment for air-conditioning or ventilation shall be concealed in appropriate architectural projections, if placed on a flat roof. Pitched roofs should be appropriate to architectural style and/or compatible to adjoining structures.
(f) Wooden shingles are not permitted in the Design Review Overlay District, unless appropriate to the design of the building.
(g) Free-standing signs shall not be permitted within the Design Review Overlay District. (Ord. 98-62. Passed 10-5-98.)