Historic Landmark. A historic resource designated by the city according to EC <br /> 9.8165 Historic Landmark - Designation Approval Criteria in this land use code. <br /> Historic Landscape Feature. A decorative or functional change to land or <br /> vegetation, including trees, gardens, hedges, arbors, canopies, walkways, fences, <br /> retaining walls, water features, gazebos, pavilions, and similar site features. <br /> Historic Preservation. The process of applying measures necessary to sustain the <br /> existing form, integrity, and materials of a historic property. <br /> Historic Property. A historic resource that is <br /> (A) Designated by the city as a historic landmark; or <br /> (B) Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, or within a National Register <br /> historic district. <br /> Historic Property Alteration. To remove significant historic building materials, or <br /> significantly change the physical appearance of any part of the exterior of a historic <br /> resource or to change the appearance of historic landscape features that are identified <br /> as a significant part of the historic resource in the historic property application. <br /> Maintenance is not considered alteration of a historic property. <br /> Historic Property Demolition. To raze, destroy, dismantle, deface or, in any other <br /> manner, cause significant partial or total ruin of a historic property. <br /> Historic Property Mitigation Report. A report containing photographs of the <br /> historic property and its site and additional graphic history, data, and commemorative <br /> materials. The documentation materials will become the property of the city. The <br /> planning director may require that certain specific artifacts, architectural features, <br /> materials, or equipment be preserved or documented through measured architectural <br /> drawings. <br /> Historic Property Moving. The relocation of a historic resource. <br /> Historic Rehabilitation. The return of a historic resource to a state of utility, through <br /> repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient contemporary use and preserves <br /> the property's historic value. <br /> Historic Resource. Includes, but is not limited to, districts, ensembles, thematic <br /> groups, corridors, structures, bridges, buildings, sites, cemeteries, landscape features, <br /> signs, plaques, archaeological sites or artifacts, or other objects that have historic, <br /> cultural and/or architectural significance, locally, regionally, or nationally. A historic <br /> site is the location of a historic or archaeological event, activity, occupation, structure, <br /> object, or landscape feature, including existing buildings or structures on the site, <br /> Ordinance - 20 <br />