16.26.030 Definitions.
   "Adaptive Re-use" means converting a building to a use other than that for which it was originally designed.
   "Alteration" means any exterior change or modification, through public or private action, on any cultural re-source, or structures located in any historic preservation district, including but not limited to. exterior changes to or modification of structure. architectural details or visual characteristics such as paint color and surface texture, grading, surface paving, new structures, cutting or removal of trees and other natural features, and the placement or removal of any exterior objects such as signs, plaques, light fixtures, street furniture, walls, fences, steps, plantings, and landscape accessories affecting the exterior visual qualities of the property.
   "Archaeological district" means any associated archaeological resources whose composite content affords in-formation about the past.
   "Archaeological resource" refers to any prehistoric Native American resource situated above ground or in a subsurface context. Archaeological resources include, but are not limited to, habitation and material processing sites, rock art, and artifact scatters.
   Certificate of appropriateness is the permit granted after an approval issued by the city council, which grants permission for the demolition or relocation of a designated cultural resource or contributing resource within the city.
   "Contributing resource" means a cultural resource that does not warrant designation on its own merits but is designated as a contributing element to a historic preservation district.
   "Cultural resource" means improvements, buildings, structures, signs, features, sites, scenic areas, places (including vacant land), trees or other objects of aesthetic, educational, cultural, architectural or historical significance to the citizens of Murrieta.
   "Demolition" means any act or process that destroys in part or in whole a designated cultural resource or contributing resource within the city.
   "Design guidelines" means the design principles/criteria contained in a document which illustrate appropriate and inappropriate methods of rehabilitation and construction. The purpose of using design guidelines is to aid design and decision-making with regard to retaining the integrity of scale, design intent, materials, feeling, patterns of development and historical character of a cultural resource.
   "Designated cultural resource" means any archaeological resource or cultural resource that has been designated in compliance with the ordinance codified in this chapter and placed on a city register of cultural resources.
   "Designated site" means a parcel or part thereof on which a designated cultural resource is or has been situated and which has been designated a cultural resource under the provisions of the ordinance codified in this chapter.
   "Development plan approval" means a development review process conducted by the planning division in compliance with the provisions of any applicable specific plan and the development code.
   "Historic preservation district" means any geographic area containing a concentration of cultural resources which have a special character, historical interest or aesthetic value, which possess integrity of location, design, setting. materials, workmanship and feeling, or which represent one or more architectural periods or styles typical to the history of the city and that has been designated a historic preservation district pursuant to the ordinance codified in this chapter and the provisions of the development code.
   "Improvement" means any building, structure, fence, wall, parking facility, work of art or other object constituting a physical man-made improvement or any part of such improvement.
   "Inventory" is the list of cultural resources in the city identified through a survey of such resources. It includes a physical description and a photograph of each historic resource. legal information from title or assessment re-cords, statements of significance according to the criteria in the ordinance codified in this chapter, and a statement of any threat to the integrity or continued existence of the cultural resource. The information for each cultural re-source is recorded on the appropriate community services district forms.
   "Natural feature" means any tree, plant life, geographical or geological site or feature subject to the provisions of the ordinance codified in this chapter.
   "Ordinary maintenance and repair" means any work, for which a building permit is not required, where the purpose of the work is to correct any deterioration of or damage to an improvement and to restore it to its condition prior to the deterioration or damage.
   "Qualified professional" means an individual meeting the Secretary of the Interior Qualification Standards. For archaeological resources, in addition to this qualified professional, a Native American representative shall provide input.
   "Register of cultural resources" means a working list of designated cultural resources.
   "Rehabilitation" means to restore the fabric of a building or structure to its original state.
   "Relocation" means to move any archaeological resource or cultural resource to a new location.
   "Secretary of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation" means the guidelines prepared by the National Park Service for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings and the Standards for Historic Preservation Projects prepared by the National Park Service with guidelines for applying the standards.
   "Significant feature" means the natural or man-made elements embodying style or type of cultural resource, design or general arrangement and components of an Improvement, including, but not limited to, the kind, color and texture of the building materials, and the type and style of windows, doors, lights. signs and other fixtures appurtenant to such improvement.
(Ord. 237 (part), 2001)