The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings as set forth below:
Act or Act 169 means the Local Historic Districts Act, 1970 PA 169.
Alteration means work that changes the detail of a resource but does not change its basic size or shape.
Center means the Michigan Historical Center.
Certificate of appropriateness means the written approval of a permit application for work that is appropriate and that does not adversely affect a resource.
Commission means the historic district commission created by the city council pursuant to this ordinance.
Committee means the historic district study committee appointed by the city council pursuant to this ordinance.
Demolition means the razing or destruction, whether entirely or in part, of a resource and includes, but is not limited to, demolition by neglect.
Demolition by neglect means neglect in maintaining, repairing, or securing a resource that results in deterioration of an exterior feature of the resource or the loss of structural integrity of the resource.
Denial means the written rejection of a permit application for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource.
Emergency moratorium means a declaration by the city council that all work on a district resource or a resource located within a proposed historic district must immediately cease for a period or periods not to exceed six months.
Historic district means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that contains one resource or a group of resources that are related by history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture.
Historic preservation means the identification, evaluation, establishment, and protection of resources significant in history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture.
Historic resource means a publicly or privately owned building, structure, site, object, feature, or open space that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture of this state or a community within this state, or of the United States.
Notice to proceed means the written permission to issue a permit for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource, pursuant to a finding by the commission under section 31-5(f)(3) of this chapter.
Open space means undeveloped land, a naturally landscaped area, or a formal or man-made landscaped area that provides a connective link or a buffer between other resources.
Ordinary maintenance means keeping a resource unimpaired and in good condition through ongoing minor intervention, undertaken from time to time, in its exterior condition. Ordinary maintenance does not change the external appearance or historic nature of the resource except through the elimination of the usual and expected effects of weathering. Ordinary maintenance does not constitute work for purposes of this chapter.
Proposed historic district means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that has delineated boundaries and that is under review by a committee or a standing committee for the purpose of making a recommendation as to whether it should be established as a historic district or added to an established historic district.
Repair means to restore a decayed or damaged resource to a good or sound condition by any process. A repair that changes the external appearance of a resource constitutes work for purposes of this ordinance.
Resource means one or more publicly or privately owned historic or non-historic buildings, structures, sites, objects, features, or open spaces located within a historic district.
Restoration means the process of accurately recovering the form and appearance of a resource as it existed at a particular period of time by removing later work, replacing missing elements, and restoring the appearance and function of the original resource.
Standing committee means a permanent body established pursuant to section 14 of Act 169 to conduct the activities of a historic district study committee on a continuing basis.
Stop work order is a written order given by the zoning official to immediately cease all work on a district resource proceeding without a certificate of appropriateness or notice to proceed. Such orders may be served by hand delivery to any person actively engaged in work on the work site, or may be served upon an owner or occupant of the resource by posting a copy on the land or attaching a copy to the building or structure and, in addition, mailing a copy of the order by first-class mail to the owner of the resource at the owner's last known address as shown on the city's most current tax roll.
Work means construction, addition, alteration, repair, moving, excavation, or demolition.