The Commission has the following powers and duties:
(A) To adopt its own procedural regulations;
(B) To conduct an ongoing survey to identify historically and architecturally significant properties, structures, and areas;
(C) To investigate and recommend to the City Council to adopt procedures to protect properties or structures having special historic, community, or architectural value;
(D) To determine an appropriate system of markers and make recommendations for the design and implementation of specific markings of properties or structures which have special historic, community, or architectural value;
(E) To advise property owners on physical and financial aspects of preservation, renovation, rehabilitation, and reuse, and on procedures for inclusion on the State or National Register of Historic Places;
(F) To inform and educate the citizens of the city concerning the historic and architectural heritage of the city by publishing appropriate maps, newsletters, brochures, and pamphlets, and by holding programs and seminars;
(G) To accept and administer on behalf of the city, upon designation by the City Council, such gifts, grants, and money as may be appropriate for the purpose of this chapter;
(H) To call upon available city staff members as well as other experts for technical advice;
(I) To testify before all boards and commissions, including the City Plan Commission, on any matter affecting historically and architecturally significant properties; and
(J) To periodically research the zoning ordinance, as set forth in Appendix A of this title, and to recommend to the City Plan Commission and the City Council any amendments appropriate for the protection and continued use of historically or architecturally significant properties.
(Ord. 1999-46, passed 12-13-1999)