As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) “Alteration” means any change in the external architectural features of a structure or building, visible from a public way or from adjoining property, in the Downtown Historic District.
(b) “Applicant” means any person who applies for permission to undertake any construction, erection, alteration, painting, signing, re-signing, removal, moving or demolition.
(c) “Board” means the Village Architectural and Historic Board of Review established in Section 146.02.
(d) “Certificate of appropriateness” means the official document issued by the Board approving and/or concurring in any application for permission for the construction, erection, alteration, removal, painting, signing, re-signing, moving or demolition of any structure or building in the Downtown Historic District.
(e) “Downtown Historic District” means that area described as follows:
Lincoln Way from the alley on the west boundary of the American Legion Building, east to the alley that runs from East Chestnut Street, south to East Washington Street along the east boundaries of 216 East Lincoln Way and 217 East Lincoln Way; Market Street from the middle of Washington Street, north to the middle of Chestnut Street; all of South Park Avenue; all of North Park Avenue and Nelson Street, from Lincoln Way north to and including the Village Hall.
(f) “Exterior architectural feature” means the architectural style and general arrangement of the exterior of a structure, including the type and texture of building materials, all windows, doors, lights, paint and signs and other fixtures appurtenant thereto.
(g) “Historic and/or architectural significance” means having a special historic or aesthetic interest or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural character of the Village, region, State or nation.
(h) “Historic landmark” means any individual building or structure determined by the Board and approved by Council as historically and/or architecturally significant.
(i) “Neighboring structure” means any existing structure, or any structure for which permission has been issued for construction, which is situated on any one of the following lots:
(1) Any lot within three lots on the same side of the street on either side of the proposed construction, without regard to intersecting street lines;
(2) Any lot within three lots of the property directly across from the proposed construction on the opposite side of the street, without regard to intersecting street lines; or
(3) Any lot within two lots of the proposed construction, provided such lot is abutting a street intersecting the street upon which the proposed construction will be located and provided, further, that the front elevations of the subject structures will be at an angle of approximately ninety degrees to each other.
(j) “Owner” means the owner of record, and the term includes the plural as well as the singular.
(k) “Re-signing” means the replacing or identifying business signs on a building.
(l) “Signing” means the placing of identifying business signs on a building.
(Ord. 1316. Passed 8-25-88.)