Fayette Powers and Duties ordinance (§ 415.130)

A. The FHPC shall have the following powers and duties:

1. To adopt its own bylaws and procedural regulations, provided that such regulations are consistent with this Chapter and the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri. A copy of the FHPC rules of procedures shall be available to the public in the office of the City Clerk.

2. To conduct an ongoing survey for the identification of historically, archaeologically and architecturally significant properties, structures, sites and areas that exemplify the cultural, social, economic, political or architectural history of the nation, State or City and to maintain the research information in an inventory accessible to the public.

3. To investigate and recommend to the Planning and Zoning Commission and to the Board of Aldermen the adoption of ordinances designating properties or structures having special cultural, historic, archaeological, community or architectural value as "landmarks."

4. To investigate and recommend to the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Aldermen the adoption of ordinances designating areas as having special cultural, historic, archaeological, community or architectural value as "historic districts."

5. To keep a register of all properties and structures which have been designated as landmarks or historic districts, including all information required for each designation.

6. To confer recognition upon the owners of landmarks and property or structures within historic districts by means of certificates, plaques or markers and to make recommendations for the design and implementation of specific markings of the streets and routes leading from one landmark or historic district to another.

7. To advise and assist owners of landmarks and property or structures within historic districts on design guidelines, physical and financial aspects of preservation, renovation, rehabilitation, and reuse and on procedures for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

8. To nominate landmarks and historic districts both to the City of Fayette's Historic Registry and to the National Register of Historic Places and to review and comment on any nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.

9. To inform and educate the citizens of the City of Fayette concerning the historic, archaeological and architectural heritage of the City through publication or sponsorship of maps, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, programs and seminars by the City, the FHPC or other appropriate parties.

10. To hold public hearings and to review applications for construction, alteration, removal or demolition affecting proposed or designated landmarks or structures within historic districts and issue or deny certificates of appropriateness for such actions. Applicants may be required to submit plans, drawings, elevations, specifications and other information as may be necessary to make decisions.

11. To hold public hearings on each proposed nomination of a landmark and of a historic district and on the guidelines developed for each nomination.

12. To request the City Administrator or Building Inspector to issue stop work orders for any construction, alteration, removal or demolition undertaken without a certificate of appropriateness or to stop work that violates the conditions of a certificate.

13. To review all applications for building and demolition permits within a historic or proposed historic district or landmark(s) within the corporate limits of the City to determine impact to significant cultural resources, including those not yet nominated as landmarks or as contributing properties within a historic district.

14. To provide the City with a zoning overlay map identifying historic districts, proposed historic districts, and landmark(s). This map shall be available to the public for review.

15. To consider applications for certificates of economic hardship that would allow the performance of work for which a certificate of appropriateness has been denied.

16. To develop specific design guidelines based on the Secretary of the Interior's standards for rehabilitation for the alteration, construction or removal of landmarks or property and structures within historic districts.

17. To review proposed zoning amendments, applications for special use permits or applications for zoning variances that affect proposed or designated landmarks or historic districts.

18. To administer on behalf of the City of Fayette any property of historic significance or full or partial interest in real property, including easements, that the City of Fayette may have or accept as a gift or otherwise, upon approval by the Board of Aldermen.

19. To accept and administer on behalf of the City of Fayette, upon approval of the Board of Aldermen, such gifts, grants and monies as may be appropriate for the purposes of this Chapter. Such money may be expended for publishing maps and brochures or for hiring staff persons or consultants or performing other functions for the purpose of carrying out the duties and powers of the FHPC and the purposes of this Chapter.

20. To call upon available City staff members as well as other experts for technical advice.

21. To retain within budget such specialists or consultants or to appoint such citizen advisory committees as may be required from time to time.

22. To testify before all boards and Commissions, including the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Adjustment, on any matter affecting historically, archaeologically, culturally and architecturally significant property, structures, sites and areas.

23. To make recommendations to the Board of Aldermen concerning budgetary appropriations to further the general purposes of this Chapter.

24. To develop a preservation component in the master plan of the City of Fayette and to recommend it to the Planning and Zoning Commission and to the Board of Aldermen.

25. To review periodically the zoning ordinance and to recommend to the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Aldermen any amendments appropriate for the protection and continued use of landmarks or properties, sites and structures within historic districts.

26. Preservation Incentives. In order to carry out more effectively and equitably the purpose of this Chapter, the members of the FHPC shall develop and recommend to the Board of Aldermen a program of economic and other incentives to support the preservation, maintenance and appropriate rehabilitation of the City's cultural resources.

27. To undertake any other action or activity necessary or appropriate to the implementation of its powers and duties or to the implementation of the purpose of this Chapter.