For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Terms not defined have their commonly construed meaning:
ALTERATION. An addition, removal, or reconfiguration that changes the appearance of a Landmark. Painting, when color is not specifically noted in Landmark’s Record of Designation, and ordinary maintenance are excluded from this definition.
BUILDING. A house, barn, church, hotel, or similar construction created principally to shelter any form of human activity.
BUILDING OFFICIAL. Qualified professional delegated by the City of Union to do building control activities.
CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS (COA). A document issued by the Historic Preservation Officer indicating that the applicant has satisfactorily met the provisions of this chapter for the alteration, relocation, or demolition of a Landmark.
DEMOLITION. The complete destruction or dismantling of 65% of, or greater, of the entirety of a landmark.
DISTRICT. A significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development.
ELIGIBLE/CONTRIBUTING. A building, structure, object, or site originally constructed within the applicable period of significance that retains and exhibits sufficient integrity (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association) to convey a sense of history. These properties strengthen the historic integrity of an existing or potential historic district.
ELIGIBLE/SIGNIFICANT. A building, structure, object, or site originally constructed within the applicable period of significance that retains and exhibits sufficient integrity (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association) to convey a sense of history. These properties strengthen the historic integrity of an existing or potential historic district, and are likely individually eligible for listing in the local landmark register.
EXCEPTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. The quality of historic significance achieved outside the usual norms of age, association, or rarity.
HISTORIC INTEGRITY. The quality of wholeness of historic location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and/or association of a historic resource, as opposed to its physical condition.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION. The Commission shall have all the powers that are now or thereafter granted to it by the ordinances of this city or by general laws of the State of Oregon. The Commission shall control the Historic Preservation Ordinance and may make recommendations to the City Council, to public officials and to individuals regarding historic properties. The Commission may develop studies, hold hearings, and prepare reports and recommendations, on its own initiative or at the request of the City Council.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER. The city official responsible for the administration of this chapter.
HISTORIC RESOURCE. A building, structure, object, site, or district that is at least 50 years old or is of exceptional significance and potentially meets the age, integrity, and significance criteria for listing in the Local Landmark Register, but may not necessarily be recorded in the Historic Resource Survey.
HISTORIC RESOURCE SURVEY. The record of buildings, structures, objects, and sites recorded by the City of Union used to identify historic resources potentially eligible for listing in the Local Landmark Register.
HISTORIC RESOURCES OF STATEWIDE SIGNIFICANCE. Buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that are listed in the National Register.
HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE. The physical association of a building, structure, site, object, or district with historic events, trends, persons, architecture, method of construction, or that have yielded or may yield information important in prehistory or history.
LANDMARK. A building, structure, site, object, or district listed in the City of Union Local Landmark Register.
LOCAL LANDMARK REGISTER. The list of historic resources officially recognized by the City of Union as important to its history and afforded the protection under this chapter.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS. The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. The official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.
NON-CONTRIBUTING. A building, structure, object, or site originally constructed within the applicable period of significance that does not retain or exhibit sufficient integrity (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association) to convey a sense of history. These properties do not strengthen the historic integrity of an existing or potential historic district in their current condition.
NOT IN PERIOD. A building, structure, object, or site that was originally constructed outside the applicable period of significance.
OBJECT. A construction that is largely artistic in nature or is relatively small in scale and simply constructed in comparison to buildings or structures, including a fountain, sculpture, monument, milepost, and the like.
ORDINARY MAINTENANCE. Activities that do not remove materials or alter qualities that make a historic resource eligible for listing in the Local Landmark Register, including cleaning, painting, when color is not specifically noted in landmark’s record of designation, and limited replacement of siding, trim, and window components when such material is beyond repair and where the new piece is of the same size, dimension, material, and finish as that of the original historic material. Excluded from this definition is the replacement of an entire window sash or more than 20% percent of the siding or trim on any one side of a landmark at any one time within one calendar year.
PERIOD OF SIGNIFICANCE. The time period, from one to several years or decades, during which a landmark was associated with an important historic event(s), trend(s), person(s), architecture, or method(s) of construction.
RECORD OF DESIGNATION. The official document created by the Historic Preservation Officer that describes how a Landmark meets the criteria for listing in the Local Landmark Register.
REHABILITATION. The process of returning a landmark to a state of utility through repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient use while preserving those portions and features of the landmark and its site that convey its historic significance.
RELOCATION. The removal from or moving of a Landmark from its original location noted in the record of designation.
SITE. The location of a significant event, prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself possesses historic, cultural, or archeological value regardless of any existing building, structure, or object.
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE (SHPO). State organization that manages and administers programs for the protection of the state’s historic and cultural resources.
STREETSCAPE. The physical parts and aesthetic qualities of a public right-of-way, including the roadway, gutter, tree lawn, sidewalk, retaining walls, landscaping and building setback.
STRUCTURE. A functional construction made usually for purposes other than creating human shelter, such as an aircraft, bridge, barn, fence, dam, tunnel, and the like.
(Ord. 526, passed 6-11-2012)