Chapter 18.05
GENERAL STANDARDS
Sections:
18.05.010 Title.
This title shall be known and may be cited as the “Historic Preservation Ordinance of the City of Fairview”. (Ord. 3-1990 § 1)
18.05.020 Purpose.
To promote the historic, educational, cultural, economic and general welfare of the public, and to safeguard the city’s historic and cultural heritage, through the preservation, restoration and protection of buildings, structures and appurtenances, sites, places and objects of historic interest within the city. (Ord. 3-1990 § 2)
18.05.030 Definitions.
A. “Alter” means to remove, add to, or otherwise change the appearance of any part of an historic property. Maintenance is not considered alteration of a property.
B. “Board” means the historic review board of the city.
C. “Demolish” means raze, destroy, dismantle, or in any other manner cause significant partial or total destruction of an historic property.
D. “District” means a geographic area possessing a significant concentration, linkage, continuity or design relationship of historically significant sites, buildings, structures, landscape features, or objects unified by past events or physical development.
E. “Ensemble” means a small district.
F. “Exterior” means all outside portions of an historic structure or building.
G. “Historic landmark” means a building, and/or site, structure, object, ensemble, landscape feature, thematic group or district designated as an historic landmark.
H. “Historic property” means any building, site, structure, object, ensemble, landscape feature, thematic group or district that:
1. Is an historic landmark;
2. Is the subject of a formal application of initiation for historic landmark designation;
3. Is listed on the National Register of Historic Places or recommended for nomination to the National Register by the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation; or
4. Is on the same tax lot as a structure or building either designated as an historic landmark or listed on the National Register of Historic Places and contributes to its historic character.
I. “Interior” means all portions of an historic structure or building that are not part of the exterior and which normally are accessible to the public.
J. “Landscape feature” means a decorative or functional alteration to land or vegetation, including trees, gardens, hedges, arbors, canopies, walkways, fences, retaining walls, water features, gazebos, pavilions, and similar site features.
K. “Maintenance” means upkeep or repair of historic property that does not change the property’s composition or appearance that is important to maintaining its historic significance, consistent with FMC 18.15.070(B).
L. “Major new landscaping” means a new structural landscape feature or significant planting on the site of an historic property. Significant plantings cover more than 25 percent of the area, or grow to over 10 feet in height and are located within 25 feet of an historic building or structure.
M. “New construction” means a new building, structure, parking area, or other improvement, on the same tract as an historic landmark, or structure or property listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
N. “Noncompatible property” means property in an historic district or ensemble that contains uses or improvements that detract from or are not harmonious with historic properties in that district or ensemble.
O. “Planning director” means the city manager, or the person designated to supervise development and implementation of the city’s historic preservation programs or his/her designee.
P. “Rehabilitation” means the return of property to a state of utility, through repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient contemporary use and preserves or restores the property’s historic value.
Q. “Restoration” means the process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property and its setting as they appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of later work or the replacement of missing earlier work.
R. “Site” means the location of an historically or archaeologically significant event, activity, occupation, structure, object, or landscape feature, including existing buildings or structures on the site.
S. “Thematic group” means a group of resources linked through a common theme, not necessarily geographical. Examples include buildings designed by a famous architect, common landscape features, resources related by a significant development theme, and rare buildings of the same architectural style or era. (Ord. 8-2021 § 1; Ord. 3-1990 § 3)