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The following words and terms shall, when used in this chapter, be defined as follows unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

“Alteration” means any construction, demolition, removal, modification, excavation, restoration or remodeling of a landmark.

“Board” means the Landmarks and Heritage Advisory Board.

“Building” means a structure created to shelter any form of human activity, such as a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar structure. Building may refer to a historically related complex, such as a courthouse and jail or a house and barn.

“Certificate of appropriateness” means written authorization issued by the Board or its designee permitting an alteration to a significant feature of a designated landmark.

“Community landmark” means a historic resource which has been designated pursuant to this chapter but which may be altered or changed without application for or approval of a certificate of appropriateness.

“Council” means the Lakewood City Council.

“Designation” means the act of the Board determining that a historic resource meets the criteria established by this chapter.

“Designation report” means a report issued by the Board after a public hearing setting forth its determination to designate a landmark and specifying the significant feature or features thereof.

“District” means a geographically definable area, urban or rural, possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united by past events or aesthetically by plan or physical development. A district may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history.

“Heritage” means a discipline relating to history, ethnic history, traditional cultures, folklore, archaeology and historic preservation.

“Historic Preservation Officer” means the Lakewood Historic Preservation Officer or his or her designee, as provided in LMC 2.48.030(F) or its successor provision.

“Historic resource” means a district, site, building, structure or object significant in American and/or local history, architecture, archaeology and/or culture.

“Incentives” means such compensation, rights or privileges or combination thereof, which the Council or other local, state or federal public body or agency, by virtue of applicable present or future legislation, may be authorized to grant to or obtain for the owner(s) of designated landmarks. Examples of economic incentives include but are not limited to tax relief, conditional use permits, rezoning, street, vacation, planned unit development, transfer of development rights, facade easements, gifts, preferential leasing policies, private or public grants-in-aid, beneficial placement of public improvements or amenities, or the like.

“Interested person of record” means any individual, corporation, partnership or association which notifies the Board or the Council in writing of his/her/its interest in any matter before the Board.

“Landmark” means a historic resource designated as a landmark pursuant to this chapter.

“Nomination” means a proposal that a historic resource be designated a landmark.

“Object” means a material thing of functional, aesthetic, cultural, historical, or scientific value that may be, by nature or design, movable yet related to a specific setting or environment.

“Owner” is a person having a fee simple interest, a substantial beneficial interest of record or a substantial beneficial interest known to the Board in a historic resource. Where the owner is a public agency or government, that agency shall specify the person or persons to receive notices hereunder.

“Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, group or association.

“Person in charge” means the person or persons in possession of a landmark, including, but not limited to, a mortgagee, or vendee in possession, an assignee of rents, a receiver, executor, trustee, lessee, tenant, agent, or any other person directly or indirectly in control of the landmark.

“Preliminary determination” means a decision of the Board determining that a historic resource which has been nominated for designation is of significant value and is likely to satisfy the criteria for designation.

“Significant feature” means any element of a landmark which the Board has designated pursuant to this chapter as important to the historic, architectural or archaeological value of the landmark.

“Site” means the location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself maintains a historical or archaeological value regardless of the value of any existing structures.

“Structure” means any functional construction in addition to that which is described as a “building” hereinabove. [Ord. 578 § 1, 2014; Ord. 251 § 1, 2000.]