(A) Pursuant to SDCL § 1-19B-20, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association are eligible for inclusion on the city local register of historic places if they satisfy at least one of the following criteria:
(1) The property is associated with events that have made significant contributions in the broad patterns of local, regional, or state history, including settlement, agriculture, commerce, and transportation;
(2) The property is associated with the lives of persons significant in the past of the city or state, or the past of a region of the state;
(3) The property represents distinctive types, periods, or methods of construction, they represent the work of a master, they possess high artistic values, or they represent cultural or regional building patterns;
(4) The property is associated with prehistoric or historic archaeology;
(5) The property has historical, architectural, archaeological, and cultural significance;
(6) The property is suitable for preservation or restoration; and/or
(7) The property has educational value.
(B) In addition, the following items shall be considered:
(1) The property’s cost of acquisition, restoration, maintenance, operation, or repair; and
(2) The administrative and financial responsibility of any person or organization willing to underwrite all, or a portion of, such costs.
(Prior Code, § 153.09)