§ 30-1694. Criteria for the designation of a historic landmark or historic district.  


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  • (a)

    The HPC shall investigate and make a determination as to whether a nominated landmark, property, building, structure, district or area meets one or more of the following criteria:

    (1)

    Significance in the history of the village, the county, the state, or the United States, or association with events that are significant in the history of these entities;

    (2)

    Association with lives of individuals significant in the past;

    (3)

    Embodiment of the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or representation of the work of a master, or possession of high artistic values, or representation of a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or

    (4)

    Yielding or likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.

    (b)

    Ordinarily cemeteries, birthplaces, or graves of historic figures, properties owned by religious institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have been moved from their original locations, reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily commemorative in nature, and properties that have achieved significance within the past 50 years may not be recommended for designation as historic properties by the HPC. However, such properties may be recommended if they fall within one or more of the following categories:

    (1)

    A religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or artistic distinction, or historic importance;

    (2)

    A building or structure removed from its original location but which is significant primarily for architectural value, or which is the surviving structure most importantly associated with a historic person or event;

    (3)

    A birthplace or grave of a historic figure of outstanding importance if there is no appropriate site or building directly associated with his productive life;

    (4)

    A cemetery which derives its primary significance from the graves of individuals of transcendent importance, from age, from distinctive design features, or from association with historic events;

    (5)

    A reconstructed building, when done in accordance with this division;

    (6)

    A property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its own exceptional significance; or

    (7)

    A property achieving significance in the past 50 years, if it is of exceptional importance.

(Ord. No. 02-14, § 1(7.6.4), 2-7-2002; Ord. No. 07-21, § 1, 7-26-2007)