(a) "Alter" or "alteration" means any change in the external architectural features of any building or structure. These terms include restoration, reconstruction, construction of additions and demolition.
(b) "Architectural features" means the architectural style and visual arrangement of the exterior of a building or structure, including but not being limited to the type, color, and texture of materials, components, and finishes and including but not limited to all windows, doors, lights, signs, and other parts thereof.
(c) "Form" means the geometric shape of the building components and their interaction to create a whole image.
(d) "Maintenance" means repair or replacement of an existing product, finish or material without making any alteration.
(e) "Massing" means the interaction of height, width, depth, and proportion, thus forming a visual image of size.
(f) "Materials" means brick, wood, stone, metal, glass, etc., which can represent themselves or can be formed to represent another material; e.g., vinyl siding is typically formed to reference wood clapboard.
(g) "Preservation" means the process of sustaining, restoring or reconstructing the form and extent of a landmark, building or other structure essentially as it now exists or as it existed in the past.
(h) "Proportion" means the relationship in size, dimension, scale, etc. of the various elements of the building to themselves and the image as a whole.
(i) "Reconstruction" means the process of rebuilding a replica of a certain building or facility no longer in existence.
(j) "Rehabilitation" means the process of returning a property to a state of utility through repairs or alterations and keeping those portions of the property which have historical significance, properly preserved and restored.
(k) "Restoration" means the process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time by removing later work and replacing missing original structures or appurtenances.
(l) "Scale" means the perception of massing in relationship to various indicators such as people, adjoining buildings, the site environment as a whole. Scale is typically observed on many visual levels for the same building or structure.
(m) "Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground.
(n) "Style" means the combination of elements and components in commonly recognized and accepted patterns. Examples of styles are Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Neoclassic, Italian Renaissance, etc.
(Ord. 2018-96. Passed 11-20-18.)