Boonville Definitions ordinance (§ 17-52)

Words or phrases in this article shall be interpreted so as to give them the same meaning as they have in common usage and so as to give this article its most reasonable application, unless specifically defined below:

Alteration: Any act or process that changes the exterior architectural features of a structure or an archaeological site.

Archaeology: The scientific study of material remains (such as fossils, relics, artifacts and monuments) of past human life and activities.

Architectural and decorative details: Details such as windows, doors, chimneys, porches, wall cladding, roofing, patterned masonry, trim, window and door surrounds, cornices, brackets, moldings, columns, pilasters, etc. that enhance a structure.

BHPAC: The Boonville Historic Preservation Advisory Commission.

Boonville historic district: One of the seven historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places as well as other neighborhoods that apply for historic district status.

Boonville historic property: A property listed on the National Register of Historic Places that lies outside a Boonville historic district, or a property or structure designated under this article as worthy of rehabilitation, restoration and preservation because of its historic, architectural and/or archaeological significance to the city.

Boonville landmark: A property, structure or site worthy of special distinction because of its historic, architectural and/or archaeological significance to Boonville. Construction: The act of adding an addition to an existing structure or the erection of a new principal or accessory structure on a lot or property.

Contiguous properties: Properties that are next to, behind or across from each other, excluding public right-of-ways.

Cultural resources: Districts, sites, structures or objects of importance to a culture or a community that are significant in providing resources or data necessary for the study and interpretation of the past.

Demolition: Any act or process which destroys in part or in whole an historic property covered under this article.

Demolition by neglect: Any act or process which threatens to destroy an historic property covered under this article by failure to maintain it in a condition of good repair and maintenance.

Design guidelines: Suggestions for the preservation of historic structures.

Economic feasibility: Capable of being done, performed or executed economically; when the cost of the exterior project does not exceed 50 per cent of current appraised value of structure.

Historic property construction permit: A permit approved by the BHPAC and issued by the building inspector indicating approval of plans for alteration, construction, removal or demolition of an historic structure covered under this article.

National Register of Historic Places: Districts and properties designated as historically significant by the Department of Interior/National Park Service certification program.

Owner of record: The person, corporation or other legal entity listed as owner on the records of the county recorder of deeds.

Preservation: Saving old and historic buildings, sites, structures and objects from destruction or deterioration and providing for their continued use by means of restoration, rehabilitation or adaptive use.

Public improvement project: Any project under the jurisdiction of the City of Boonville or any of its departments or agencies.

Reconstruction: The act or process of reproducing by new construction the exact form and detail of a vanished building, structure or object, or a part thereof, as it appeared at a specific period of time.

Rehabilitation: The act or process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions or features of the property which are significant to its historical, architectural and cultural values.

Removal: Any relocation of a structure or its parts. Repair: Any change that is not construction, removal or alteration.

Restoration: The act or process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property and its setting as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of later work or by the replacement of missing earlier work.

Site: Any area or location occupied as a residence or utilized by humans for a sufficient length of time to construct features, or deposit a number of artifacts, or any place with evidence of past human activity. Sites include, but are not limited to, occupation, location, work areas, evidence of farming or hunting and gathering, burial remains, artifacts and structures of all types.

Stop work order: An order of the city administrator directing an owner, occupant, contractor or subcontractor to halt an action for which an historic property construction permit is required, and notifying the owner, occupant, contractor or subcontractor of the application process for such permit.

Structure: Anything constructed or erected which requires a location on or in the ground.