ARTICLE IV. CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BY THE HPC
Newest change 2007
Plain English: what this chapter covers
This chapter creates the Ashburn Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) and the Ashburn Local Historic District. If your property is a designated historic property or sits in the district, you need a 'certificate of appropriateness' from the HPC before making exterior changes, demolishing or moving a building. Ordinary repairs, interior work and paint colors don't need one.
What's in here
- Sec. 54-81 Material changes to historic properties or to properties within historic districts1
- Sec. 54-82 Application requirements
- Sec. 54-83 Review criteria1
- Sec. 54-84 Additional criteria for new construction
- Sec. 54-85 Demolition or relocation of a historic property or property within a historic district
- Sec. 54-86 Entities exempt from application requirements
- Sec. 54-87 Submission of plans for HPC
- Sec. 54-88 Denial
- Sec. 54-89 HPC decision on application for certificate of appropriateness
- Sec. 54-90 Public hearings on applications for certificate of appropriateness, notices, and right to be heard
- Sec. 54-91 Approach taken by the HPC in reviewing a certificate of appropriateness application
- Sec. 54-92 Technical advice
- Sec. 54-93 Deadline for approval or rejection of application for certificate of appropriateness
- Sec. 54-94 Necessary actions to be taken by HPC upon rejection of application for certificate of appropriateness
- Sec. 54-95 Undue hardship
- Sec. 54-96 Requirement of conformance with certificate of appropriateness application
- Sec. 54-97 Certificate of appropriateness application void if construction not commenced
- Sec. 54-98 Recording of applications for certificate of appropriateness
- Sec. 54-99 Acquisition of property
- Sec. 54-100 Appeals
- Secs. 54-101—54-120 Reserved
This is a plain-English guide, not legal advice. The official code is on Municode and at City Hall. Our copy is from April 30, 2026.
Online: https://jamesburgessleads.com/city-code/PTIICOOR_CH54HIPR_ARTIVCEAPARREHP
Official version: https://library.municode.com/GA/Ashburn/codes/Code_of_Ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH54HIPR_ARTIVCEAPARREHP
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