(a) Designation and prohibition on alteration. A property owner or tenant is prohibited from defacing, demolishing, adding to, altering, relocating or removing the specified portion of any structure, land formation or other item that is designated a landmark or point of historic interest, except as provided in this article.
(b) Landmark alteration; Certificate of appropriateness. If a property owner desires to demolish, add to, alter, relocate or remove the specified portion of any structure, land formation or other item that is designated a landmark or point of historic interest, he or she must apply to the City for a Certificate of Appropriateness. The issuance of any other City entitlement permit for the parcel on which the structure or land formation designated a landmark or point of historic interest shall be conditioned upon the City Council’s acting upon such a Certificate, and the required one hundred eighty (180) day waiting period.
Upon a filing of a request for a Certificate, the City Council shall have ninety (90) days from the date of filing for review of the application and to set a noticed public hearing on the matter. If the request for a Certificate is disapproved by the City Council, the property owner shall be prohibited from demolishing, adding to, altering, relocating or removing the specified portion of the structure or land formation designated as a landmark or monument, or any plaque or other aesthetic marker identifying the point of historic interest, for one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of the Council’s disapproval action.
During such Certificate review and one hundred eighty (180) day period, the City Council may take steps necessary to preserve any structure or land formation designated as a landmark or point of historic interest, such as, but not limited to, the creation of civic and citizens preservation committees, the establishment of private and/or public funding efforts for acquisition or restoration of the declared landmark or point of historic interest, or the requesting of grant monies for acquisition or restoration.
(§ 2, Ord. 1015-NS, eff. December 6, 1988, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1420-NS, eff. December 17, 2003)