§ 27-80. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Adaptive use means the process of adapting a building to a use other than that for which it was designed, e.g., a piano factory being converted into housing or a mansion into offices. This may involve restoration and/or rehabilitation, and may be accomplished with varying changes to the appearance of a structure from minimal to major.

Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday; provided, however, that for the purposes of section 27-83, the term "day" means every day of the week.

Exterior architectural feature means the general arrangement and components of all of the outer surfaces of a building, structure, or object, including, but not limited to, the kind, color and texture of the building material and the type and style of all windows, doors, lights, signs and other fixtures appurtenant to such building, structure or object.

Historic, cultural or architectural significance means that quality present in districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects having integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association and that:

(1)

Is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history;

(2)

Is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past;

(3)

Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction, that represents the work of a master, that possesses high artistic values, or that as a district represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or

(4)

Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important to prehistory or history.

Historic district means a geographically definable area possessing a substantial concentration, linkage or continuity of sites, buildings, structures or objects united associationally by historic events or physically by historic plan, historic design or historic development within a contiguous configuration of land, designated by the unified government board of commissioners as having particular historic, cultural or architectural significance, and limited in size to that reasonable area needed to sustain the integrity and to maintain the proper identification of the district.

Historic landmark means any single site, building, structure or object designated by the unified government board of commissioners as having particular historic, cultural or architectural significance.

Improvement means any building, structure, wall, fence, steps, paving, work of art, or other object constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of such betterment.

Normal maintenance and repair means any work for which a building permit is not required by law, where the purpose and effect of such work is to correct any deterioration or decay of or damage to a structure or any part thereof and to restore the same, as nearly as may be practicable, to its condition prior to the occurrence of such deterioration, decay or damage.

Preservation means the application of measures designed to sustain the form and extent of a district, site, building, structure or object essentially as existing.

Rehabilitation means the process of returning a building, structure or object to a state of usefulness by repairs or alterations when its significance does not justify full restoration and when its condition or proposed use precludes preservation in its existing form.

Restoration means the process of accurately recovering, by the removal of later work and the replacement of missing earlier work, the form and details of a building, structure or object, together with its setting, as it appeared at a particular period of time.

(Code 1964, § 2-26(2); Code 1988, § 27-76; Ord. No. 49004, § 2, 9-1-1970; Ord. No. 63524, § 1, 11-12-1981; Ord. No. 64598, § 1, 2-2-1984)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.