Lake County Zoning Code § 38.5 Site selection criteria

• (a) A cultural resource is any material remains of past human life or activities which are of historical, archeological or cultural value or interest, or of special character or special historic interest or value. Such remains are from prehistoric or historic periods and occur either below or above ground.

• (b) Historical sites and structures are areas where artifacts, features, or structures can be tied to a particular time period. The types of sites in this category include, but are not limited to, historic structures and buildings representing mining, farming, residential and industrial uses; bridges, wagon roads, and other historic transportation routes, and other areas, without structures, which provide evidence of historic cultural use.

• (c) Prehistoric cultural sites include, but are not limited to: Native American village sites; seasonal campsites; hunting or butchering sites; quarries or tool manufacturing sites; various types of rock paintings and carvings; and resource collection sites used today for the gathering of traditional Native American resources.

These sites usually contain some or all of the following characteristics: obsidian and/or chert flakes, evidence of stone tool making; dietary remains such as fishbone, animal bone, and shells; artifacts; darkened soil, stained by charcoal from cooking fires; depressions in the ground which may be ruins of house or ceremonial structures; and Indian burial grounds which can occur by themselves or within village or campsite areas.

• 38.6 Findings required for rezoning: The Review Authority shall only approve a rezoning to “HP” when it finds that the registered cultural resource or site has one or more of the following qualities as defined by the U.S. Department of Interior (36 CFR 800.10):

  • (a) Identification or association with persons, eras or events that have contributed to local, regional, state, or national history in a distinctive or important way; or

  • (b) Identification as, or association with, a distinctive or important work or vestige:*

    1. Of an architectural style with historic value, design, or method of construction, or notable architect, engineer, builder, artist or craftsman; or

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2. The totality of which comprises a distinctive or important work or vestige whose component parts may lack the same attributes; or

3. That has yielded or is likely to yield information of value about history, archaeology or culture, or that provides for existing and future generations an example of the physical surroundings in which past generations worked.

   • The factor of age alone does not necessarily confer a special historical, cultural, architectural or archeological value or interest upon a resource, but it may have such effect if a more distinctive or important example thereof no longer exists.

• 38.7 Designation of districts: Sectional district maps approved pursuant to this article shall take one of the following forms:

  • (a) The designation “HPD” Historic Preservation district for entire lots or aggregations of lots, where the intent is to regulate all uses on a lot; or

• (b) The designation “HPS #” Historic Preservation Site, for individual structures or buildings or small areas of lots, where the intent is to regulate uses of individual buildings, structures or small portions of lots and not entire lots or aggregations of lots. The assigned number (#) shall represent the site on the Lake County Cultural Resource Commission Registry of Cultural Sites. The regulations of this Article shall apply to those structures or areas as identified in the zoning file of the Planning Department; or

  • (c) A combination of “HPD” and Historical Preservation Site numbers (#). In this case, regulation of development shall be as set forth in Subsection (a) above.