The following words, terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE. A site that contains prehistoric or historic artifacts, relics, or structures which represent a particular culture, historic event or epoch and which are of local, regional or statewide significance.
BUILDING. A structure created to shelter any form of human activity. This may refer to a house, barn, garage, church, hotel, or similar structure. Buildings may refer to a historically or architecturally related complex, such as a courthouse and jail, or a house and barn.
DISTRICT. A geographically definable area possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, objects, or areas, which are united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development. A district may be comprised of individual resources that are separated geographically but are linked by association or history.
HISTORIC PROPERTY. Any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, object or other real or personal property, of historical, architectural or archaeological
value. These properties or resources may include, but are not limited to, monuments, memorials, Indian habitations, ceremonial sites, abandoned settlements, engineering works, treasure troves, artifacts, or other objects with intrinsic historical or archaeological value, or any part thereof, relating to the history, government, or culture of the city.
OBJECT. A material thing of functional, archeological, aesthetic, cultural, historical, or scientific value that may be by nature of design, movable, yet related to a specific setting or environment.
SITE. The location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or building, or structure, whether standing, reined, or vanished, where the location itself maintains a historical or archaeological value regardless of the value of any existing structures.
STRUCTURE. A structure is anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a fixed location on the ground or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground.
(Ord. 2000-32, passed 1-25-00; Am. Ord. 2013-35, passed 1-8-13)