(a) That the following Design Districts are established in the Village of Millersburg and the construction, replacement, demolition and the exterior repair and maintenance of Protected Property located in any such District shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter:
(1) Design District No. 1: The district bordered by Grant Street on the west; the alleys including Court Street running behind the properties on the south side of Jackson Street on the south; Crawford Street/State Route 241 on the East; and the alleys running behind the properties on the North side of Jackson Street on the north. See attached map.
(2) Design District #2: The district that is not part of Design District Number 1 that is indicated on the attached map.
(3) Future Design Districts or Historic Landmarks may be added through the Village Council’s vote as recommended by the DRB. (Ord. 2010-101. Passed 4-26-10.)
(b) The design review standards to be applicable in any designated design district created in the Village of Millersburg shall be the "Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation" as they exist on the date this provision takes effect and as amended in the future, and such additional standards as Village Council may establish from time to time for all districts or each respective district; provided however that such additional standards must be completely consistent with the aforementioned Secretary of the Interior's Standards. As of the date of this section, the Standards are as follows:
(1) A property will be used as it was historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change to its distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships.
(2) The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
(3) Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken.
(4) Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved.
(5) Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be preserved.
(6) Deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence.
(7) Chemical or physical treatments, if appropriate, will be undertaken using the gentlest means possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials will not be used.
(8) Archeological resources will be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures will be undertaken.
(9) New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment.
(10) New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.
(Ord. 2011-103. Passed 5-9-11.)