The following words, as used in this chapter, still have the meanings herein prescribed for them:
CEQA: The California Environmental Quality Act, contained in California Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq., as amended from time to time.
CHARACTER DEFINING FEATURES:The distinctive physical forms, elements, material, details, and/or characteristics that convey the significance of a designated historic resource.
COMPLETE DEMOLITION: Removal of all above-grade portions of a building, structure or object that is a designated historic resource, or of a resource that is pending designation as a historic resource.
CONTRIBUTOR: A historic resource in a designated or pending historic district, as defined in Chapter 2.62 of this Code, which was built within the period of significance and/or retains enough historic integrity to contribute to the overall character and significance of other buildings and structures within the historic district which are unified aesthetically by plan or physical development.
DEMOLITION: The act or process of destroying, knocking down, pulling down, tearing down, flattening, razing, or leveling a building, structure, or object. For purposes of this chapter, demolition can be either complete or partial.
DIRECTOR: Shall mean the City's Development Services Director, or his or her designee.
ELIGIBLE HISTORIC RESOURCE: A resource that is either: (1) on the register of properties compiled and maintained by the City's Historic and Scenic Preservation Commission as described in Section 2.24.060 D of this Code; or (2) is determined by the City to be a historic resource pursuant to Public Resources Code section 21084.1, or (3) otherwise satisfies the definition of a Historic Resource as described in this chapter.
HISTORICAL RESOURCE: All buildings or structures listed in, or determined to be eligible for listing in, the California Register of Historical Resources. Buildings or structures actually designated as historically significant in any local register of historic resources, or identified as significant in a historical resource survey meeting the requirements of the State Historical Resources Law, are presumed to be historically or culturally significant. The City shall treat any such resource as significant unless the preponderance of evidence demonstrates that this resource is not historically or culturally significant.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: A building or structure shall be determined to be of "historical significance" if it satisfies any of the following criteria:
A. The building or structure is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of California's history and cultural heritage;
B. The building or structure is associated with the lives and persons important in our past;
C. The building or structure embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region or method of construction, or represents the work of an important creative individual, or possesses high artistic values;
D. The building or structure has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history;
E. The building or structure is significant in the "cultural annals of California" as demonstrated by substantial evidence in light of the whole record presented to the City regarding an application for a demolition permit; or
F. The building or structure qualifies as a historical resource.
NON-CONTRIBUTOR: A resource in a designated or pending historic district that was either not built within the historic district's period of significance or does not retain enough historic integrity to contribute to the overall character and significance of the historic district.
PARTIAL DEMOLITION: The removal, alteration, or destruction of one or more character-defining features of a designated historic resource, of a resource that is pending designation as a historic resource, or of an eligible historic resource, that have been identified as character-defining in a property-specific historic assessment, in a historic resource assessment prepared by a person meeting the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards in Historic Architecture or Architectural History, or by the Director.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR'S PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION STANDARDS: The set of requirements issued by the US Department of the Interior, National Park Service (36 CFR Part 61) that define minimum education and experience required to perform identification, evaluation, registration, and treatment activities.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR'S STANDARDS FOR REHABILITATION: The set of standards issued by the US Department of the Interior, National Park Service (36 CFR Part 67) and the publications of the National Park Service (NPS), Preservation Assistance Division, Guidelines for Rehabilitation Historic Buildings (1992, NPS) and the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring and Reconstructing Historic Buildings (1995, NPS), and any subsequent publication on the Secretary's Standards by the NPS.
STATE HISTORICAL RESOURCES LAW: The State laws governing historical structures contained in Public Resources Code sections 5020 et seq., as amended from time to time. (Ord. 2899 §5, 2019)