For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING. A structure created to shelter any form of human activity, such as a house, barn, church, hotel or similar structure (may refer to a historically related complex such as a courthouse and jail or a house and barn).
CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS. Document evidencing approval by the Historic Preservation Commission of an application to make a material change in the appearance of a designated historic property or of a property located within a designated historic district.
EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES. The architectural style, general design and general arrangement of the exterior of a building, structure or object, including but not limited to the kind or texture of the building material and the type and style of all windows, doors, signs and other appurtenant architectural fixtures, features, details or elements relative to the foregoing.
EXTERIOR ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES. All aspects of the landscape or the development of a site which affect the historic character of the property.
HISTORIC DISTRICT. Pursuant to G.S. § 160D-944, a geographically definable area, possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures or objects united by past events or aesthetically by plan or physical development. A HISTORIC DISTRICT may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history. A HISTORIC DISTRICT shall further mean an area designated by the Board of Commissioners as a HISTORIC DISTRICT pursuant to the criteria established in this chapter.
HISTORIC PROPERTY/LANDMARK. Pursuant to G.S. § 160D-945, an individual building, structure, site, or object including the adjacent area necessary for the proper appreciation thereof designated by the Board of Commissioners as a historic property pursuant to the criteria established in this chapter.
MATERIAL CHANGE IN APPEARANCE. A change that will affect either the exterior architectural or environmental features of a historic property or any building, structure, site, object, or landscape feature within a historic district, such as:
(1) Reconstruction or alteration of the size, shape or façade of a historic property, including relocation of any doors or windows or removal or alteration of any architectural features, details or elements;
(2) Demolition or relocation of a historic structure;
(3) Commencement of excavation for construction purposes;
(4) Change in the location of advertising visible from the public right-of-way; or
(5) The erection, alteration, restoration or removal or any buildings or other structure within a historic property or district, including walls, fences, steps and pavements, or other appurtenant features, except exterior paint alterations.
OBJECT. A material thing of functional, aesthetic, cultural, historical or scientific value that may be, by nature or design, movable yet related to a specific setting or environment.
SITE. Location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historical occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself maintains historical or archaeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure.
STRUCTURE. Work made up of interdependent and interrelated parts in a definite pattern of organization. Constructed by man, it is often an engineering project large in scale.
(Ord. passed 6-7-2021)