Sec. 307.102. - Definitions.

As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall mean: (a) Administrative Review means Planning and Development Department staff level review for approval, approval with conditions and/or denial of COA applications for routine alterations and minor repairs or other work as set forth in Section 307.107 of this Part. Staff shall have the discretion to refer an application to the Commission for consideration for any reason. (b) Alteration means any act that changes the exterior features of a building or structure. (c) Certificate of appropriateness means a written document approved by the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission or administratively approved by the Planning and Development Department pursuant to Section 307.107 allowing an applicant to proceed with approved alteration, demolition, relocation or new construction of a designated landmark, landmark site or property in an historic district, following a determination of the proposal's suitability to applicable criteria. (d) Certified local government means government meeting the requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1980 (P.L. 96-515) and the implementing regulations of the United States Department of the Interior and the State of Florida. A government which becomes certified will review all nominations to the National Register within its jurisdiction before reviews at the State and federal levels. (e) Commission means the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission. (f) Contributing structure means a building or structure which is at least 50 years old and which is within the boundaries of a designated historic district and which contributes to the historic or architectural character of the district and which is identified by the City Council in its designation of the historic district. (g) Decision or recommendation means, when referring to the Commission, the executive action taken by the Commission on an application for a designation or a certificate of appropriateness regardless of whether that decision or recommendation is immediately reduced to writing. (h) Demolition means any act that destroys in whole or in part a landmark, a building or structure on a landmark site or a contributing structure in an historic district. (i) Hardscape means any non-vegetative elements of landscaping, especially any masonry work or woodwork, including but not limited to retaining walls, driveways, parking pads, patios, walkways, decks, trellises, arbors, pergolas and water fountains. (j) Historic district means an area which meets at least two of the criteria contained in Section 307.105 (j), Ordinance Code, and has at least 50 percent of its structures identified as contributing structures, and has been so designated by the Council. (k) Historic District Design Regulations means those historic district design guidelines established pursuant to the historic district designation procedures specified in this Chapter. (l) Landmark means a building or structure which is at least 50 years old and meets at least two of the criteria contained in Section 307.104 (j), Ordinance Code, and which has been so designated by the City Council, and has significant archaeological or architectural features or the location of an historical event. (m) Landmark site means (1) a parcel of real property containing either an improvement, landscape feature or archaeological site, or an historically related complex of improvements, landscape features or archeological sites that are at least 50 years old and meets at least two of the criteria contained in Section 307.104 (j) or (2) the site of an historic event without any architectural or landscape features. (n) Majority for purpose of this Chapter means a simple majority consisting of one over half of the members present and voting if a quorum is established. (o) Mothballing or to mothball is defined as a method used to stabilize, prevent deterioration from weather damage and protect from vandals a vacant structure in order to preserve it for future use. (p) Potential landmark means a building or structure which is identified by the Commission as being a building or structure which may be a landmark or a building or structure which is nominated to be designated as a landmark pursuant to Section 307.104 . (q) Potential landmark site means a parcel of real property which may be a landmark site and which is nominated for designation as a landmark site pursuant to Section 307.104 . (r) Quorum means a majority of the membership of the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission. (s) Significant architectural feature means an architectural feature of a landmark, landmark site or historic district which contributes significantly to identifying a landmark, landmark site or historic district. (t) Undue economic hardship means an onerous and excessive financial burden, as determined by the Commission, that would be placed upon a property owner by the denial of a certificate of appropriateness or a similar burden which would be placed on a property owner by conditions which the Commission seeks to place on the granting of a certificate. In any case where undue economic hardship is claimed, the Applicant shall demonstrate and the Commission shall make those findings established in Section 307.106 (p). (Ord. 90-706-486, § 3; Ord. 94-337-183, § 6; Ord. 2004-482-E, § 2; Ord. 2011-408-E, § 2; Ord. 2011-539-E, § 1)