Chapter 17.146 — HISTORIC RESOURCES DEFINITIONS

The purpose of this chapter is to provide definitions for unique terms used throughout this title that relate to historic resources.

(Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022)

"Alteration" means any act or process that modifies a historic landmark or contributing resource that either:

• Requires a building permit and changes one or more of the features of a landscape or structure including, without limitation, the erection, construction, reconstruction, or relocation of any structure or any part of a structure; or

• Significantly changes any feature of a landscape or exterior of a structure that relates to its status as a historic landmark or contributing resource, regardless of whether such act or process requires a building permit.

"Commission" means the city historic preservation commission.

"Conservation district" means an area of the city designated as a conservation district pursuant to this chapter.

"Contributing resource" means any site, sign, structure, building, landscape, object, area, place, or feature within a conservation district that is either a separately designated historic landmark or designated as a resource that contributes to the district's historic, cultural, or architectural significance.

"Demolition" means any act or process that destroys, in whole or in part, a building, structure, or site or permanently impairs its structural integrity.

"Historic landmark" means any structure any site, sign, structure, building, landscape, object, area, place, or feature designated as a historic landmark pursuant to this chapter.

"Inventory of historic resources" means the inventory adopted by the commission of potentially historic sites, structures, buildings, landscapes, areas, and places in the city.

"Ordinary maintenance and repair" means any work for which a building permit is not required by law the purpose and effect of which is to correct any deterioration of or damage to an improvement or natural feature or any part thereof and to restore the same to its condition prior to the occurrence of such deterioration or damage.

"Point of historic interest" means a location designated as a point of historic interest pursuant to this chapter.

"Register of historic resources" means the inventory adopted by the commission of historic landmarks, points of historic interest, and conservation districts designated pursuant to this chapter.

"Rehabilitation" means the act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural significance.

"Restoration" means the act or process of accurately depicting the form, features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period, which may include the limited and sensitive upgrade of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make the property functional.

cting the form, features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period, which may include the limited and sensitive upgrade of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make the property functional.

"Secretary's standards" means the standards for the treatment of historic properties adopted by the United States Secretary of the Interior, and all guidelines adopted for the implementation of the same.

"Small business" means any office-type use that does not exceed 2,500 square feet, with no more than five employees.

"State Historical Building Code" means the California Health and Safety Code § 18950 et seq., and the California Historical Building Code, codified at part 8, title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, as either of these may be amended from time to time. (Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022)