(a) "Alter" or "alteration" means any material change in external architectural features of any property which lies within an historic preservation district or has been listed under the provisions of this chapter, not including demolition, removal or construction.
(b) "Applicant" means any owner, owners, person, persons, association, partnership or corporation who applies for a certificate of appropriateness in order to undertake any environmental change on property subject to this chapter.
(c) "Board" means the Portsmouth Design Review Board established under the provisions of this chapter.
(d) "Commission" means the Planning Commission.
(e) "Environmental change" or "change" means any alteration, demolition, removal or construction involving any property subject to the provisions of this chapter, including signs.
(f) "Property" means any place, building, structure, work of art, or similar object constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of such betterment, but not including real property unless expressly identified as such.
(g) "Landscaping" means the design and arrangement by planting or removal, of the effects of natural scenery, including trees, flowers, shrubs and grass, together with man-made materials or other nonliving materials or objects over a given tract of land for the purpose of creating the best practicable appearance to the land considering the use to which the land is to be put. For the purposes of this chapter, landscaping includes the design and arrangement of parks, parking lots, vacant lots and other open areas, but shall not include the incidental planting and arrangement of flowers and shrubs as they relate to any single property.
(h) "Listed property" means any property which has special character, historical, aesthetic or architectural value as part of the heritage, development or cultural characteristics of the City, State or the United States and which has been designated as a listed property pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(i) "Preservation District" means the Boneyfiddle Preservation District as designated by this chapter, or any other district established by Council for the purpose of maintaining and fostering a distinctive historical, architectural, cultural or environmental character.
(j) "Member" means any member of the Board.
(k) "Commissioner" means any member of the Planning Commission.
(l) "Owner" means the owner of record and includes the plural as well as the singular.
(m) "Sign" means any object or device or part thereof situated outdoors which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct or attract attention to an object, person, institution, organization, business, product, service, event or location by any means including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, motion, illumination or projected images. Signs do not include the following:
(1) Flags of nations, or an organization of nations, states and cities, fraternal, religious and civic organizations;
(2) Merchandise, pictures or models of products or services incorporated in a window display;
(3) Time and temperature devices not related to a product;
(4) National, state, religious, fraternal, professional and civic symbols and crests;
(5) Works of art which in no way identify a product.
(n) "User" means any applicant legally using any property subject to the terms of this chapter that is not owned by the user.
(Ord. 1976-134. Passed 10-26-76.)