Sec. 54-63Designation criteria for a historic property or historic district

In evaluating a building, site, structure, object, or district for historic designation, the following criteria shall apply to each building, site, structure, object, or district:

(1) Was constructed or achieved its significance during the period of historic significance as delineated in the National Register of Historic Places guidelines or as established in the nomination pursuant to those guidelines;

(2) Has a quality of significance in American, state, or local history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture, which is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association:

a. Is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history (otherwise known as criterion "A" of the National Register Criteria);

b. Is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past (otherwise known as criterion "B" of the National Register Criteria);

c. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction (otherwise known as criterion "C" of the National Register Criteria);

d. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history (otherwise known as criterion "D" of the National Register Criteria).

(3) Properties within historic districts shall be evaluated and classified as contributing or noncontributing resources.

History: (Ord. No. 07-08, § IV(C), 6-7-2007)