C. Definitions.
2. “Applicant” means an individual or an organization (private or public) submitting an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness for any proposed work on any designated historic landmark, or on any building, structure, or improvement on private or public property within a designated Historic District.
3. “Certificate of Appropriateness” is a certificate issued by the Historic Preservation Commission approving such plans, specifications, statements of work, and any other information which is reasonably required by the Commission to make a decision on any proposed exterior alteration, restoration, rehabilitation, construction, removal, relocation, or demolition, in whole or in part, of or to a designated resource, designated site, or to a building or structure within a Historic District.
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“Commission” shall mean the Historic Preservation
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5. “Conservation Zone” means an area within the City of Pomona, whether commercial, residential, or institutional, including streets, sidewalks, public parks, public streetscape, public buildings, and public structures with a majority of buildings and structures fifty (50) years or older, which the City of Pomona wishes to maintain and revitalize so as to emphasize such buildings’ and structures’ importance to the past, present, and future of the City of Pomona.
6. “Construction” shall mean the act of construction an addition to an existing building or structure or the erection of a new principal or accessory structure or building on a lot or property.
7. “Contributor” shall mean any property which contains an improvement or natural feature included in the application for an historic district which provides substance to the district’s character. A contributor shall be considered an Historic Landmark in all respects.
8. “Cultural Resource” means improvements, buildings, structures, signs, features, sites, scenic areas, views and vistas, places, areas, landscapes, trees, or other objects of scientific, aesthetic, educational, cultural, architectural, archeological objects, or historical significance to the citizens of the City of Pomona, the State of California, the Southern California region, or the nation which may be eligible for landmark status, and therefore, appropriate for historic preservation by the Historic Preservation Commission and the City Council, pursuant to the provisions of this section.
9. “Demolition” means any act or process that destroys in part or whole an individual cultural resource, a contributor to an Historic District, or any other primary structure legally constructed prior to 1945.
10. “Design Guidelines” are the principles contained in a document which illustrate appropriate and inappropriate methods of rehabilitation and construction. The purpose of using a set of Design Guidelines is to aide design and decision-making with regard to retaining the integrity of scale, design intent, materials, feeling, patterns of development, and historical character of a landmark building or Historic District. The principles are listed in the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, set forth by the United States Department of the Interior.
11. “Designated Historic Landmark” means any improvement or natural feature that has special historical, cultural, aesthetic, or architectural character, archaeological importance, interest, or value as part of the development, heritage or history of the City of Pomona, the Stat of California, or the nation, that has been designated a Historic Landmark of the city of Pomona and placed on the Pomona Historic Register.
12. “Development Standards,” as set forth in Section .5809-12-G-4 F-5 are standards or regulations for new construction in historic districts or in areas where several Historic Landmarks exist in close proximity.
13. “Economic Hardship” shall mean a substantial economic burden placed upon the property owner in order to comply with a Certificate of Appropriateness. Such a hardship shall be determined by the Commission/Council based upon a showing of extreme financial impact or deprivation in accordance with the procedures and findings of this Section.
14. “Exempted Properties” –properties which are specifically exempted by the City Council during consideration of a historic district designation. For purposes of determining district boundaries, such properties shall be considered part of the subject historic district. Property owners at the time of exemption shall be exempt from the provisions of the Historic Preservation Ordinance so long as they retain ownership of the property. Transfer of ownership between relatives shall constitute a change of ownership.
15. “Historic District” means any area containing a concentration of improvements that has a special character, architectural importance, historical interest, or aesthetic value, which possesses integrity of location, deign, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association or which represents one or more architectural periods or styles typical to the history of the City of Pomona and that has been designated an Historic District pursuant to this section or has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
16. “Improvement” means any fixture or emblements affixed to public or private real property such a s a building, structure, fence, gate, landscaping, tree, wall, parking facility, streetscape, sidewalk, paving, street light, street sign, bollard, park furniture, work of art, or other object constituting a physical feature of real property or part of such feature.
17. Natural Feature” means any tree, plant life, or geographical or geological site or feature to the provisions of this section.
18. “Non-Contributing Structure” means any building or structure which is located within a designated Historic District but does not contribute nor add to the district’s historic character.
19. “Ordinary maintenance and repair” means any work for which a building permit is not required by law, in which the purpose and effect of such work is to correct any deterioration of or damage to a structure or any park thereof and to restore the same to its condition prior to the occurrence of such deterioration of damage.
20. “Potential Historic Landmark or Historic District” means a building or district which is listed o the Pomona Historic Resources Survey as having the potential for achieving landmark status, but which has not been officially placed on the Pomona Historic Register. It may also mean a building or district that could be placed on the register when: (1) more research becomes available regarding its eligibility; or (2) the resource is restored to its original condition and integrity; or (3) the resource becomes one of the few remaining examples of its type in the City.
21. “Preservation” means the identification, study, protection, restoration, rehabilitation, or acquisition of Historic Landmarks.
22. “Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation” means the guidelines prepared by the National Park Service of the United states Department of the Interior for rehabilitating historic buildings.
23. “Significant Feature” means the natural or man-made elements which are indicative or representative or an Historic Landmark’s exterior style, type, design, or general arrangement including, but not limited to, the kind, and texture of the building materials, and the type and style of all windows, doors, lights, signs, and other fixtures which are a part of such improvement.
24. “Sponsor” means an individual or an organization (private or public) submitting an application for designation of an Historic Landmark or an Historic District to the City’s Planning Division.
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