§ 110-437. Definitions

Alteration: A physical change to the exterior appearance of a historic landmark as seen from the public right-of-way. A change to the exterior of a historic landmark, building, object, structure or site within a designated district. For buildings, objects, sites or structures, alteration shall include the changing of roofing or siding materials; changing, eliminating, or adding doors, door frames, windows, window frames, shutters, fences, railings, porches, or balconies.

Building: A building, such as a house, barn, church, hotel, accessory building or similar construction that is created to shelter any form of human activity or personal property. Buildings may also be used to refer to a historically and functionally related unit, such as a courthouse and jail or a house and barn.

Commercial: Any structure or resource that is used for a business, multifamily dwelling, or combination business and dwelling.

Demolition: The intentional destruction of any building, structure, object or site, designated landmark or located within a historic district.

Design standards: A set of predetermined guidelines approved and made part of this subdivision by reference for the construction, design, color, and architectural elements of buildings within the historic zoning district and for designated historic landmarks.

Historic district: A district as designated by the Llano City Council that possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of buildings, structures, objects or sites, including open spaces, that unite historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development. A historic district has outstanding historical, cultural, architectural or archaeological significance in the state, nation, region or community. Properties and resources within the Llano Historic Districts are shown on the map attached to the ordinance from which this subdivision derives.

Historic landmark: A historic landmark, as accepted by the Llano City Council only at the request of the property owner, is a building, structure, object or site which has outstanding historical, cultural, architectural or archaeology significance in the state, nation, region or community; embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction; represents the work of a master designer, builder, or craftsman; or has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important to history. The designation "historic landmark" recognizes that the accessory building (s), fences, or other appurtenances at the site, maybe equally and vitally important to the preservation of the property or resource. Properties and resources accepted and designated as a historic landmark by the Llano City Council are shown on the map attached to the ordinance from which this subdivision derives and are required to comply with this subdivision as though they are within the historic zoning district.

Historic preservation permit: A permit obtained from the City of Llano that certifies that the proposed plans, alteration, construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation have met with the approval of the historic preservation review board and/or the City of Llano Design Standards. A sketch of plans is required to obtain a permit but plans do not require professional architectural drawings except in the case of new commercial construction.

Historic preservation priority rating: Three-tier rating system used in the Llano Historic Resource Survey, attached to the ordinance from which this subdivision derives and made part of the subdivision by reference, used to evaluate every property and resource within the city's historic district. Ratings are based upon current determinations of architectural value and integrity and if known, historical and cultural value, and may be altered from time to time as additional intimation is discovered or circumstances change. Reference: "Guidelines For Local Surveys: A Basis For Preservation Planning Texas Historical Commission.

Structures may have more than one rating (i.e., the main structure may have high but an addition may be medium or low).

Llano Historic Resource Survey: A comprehensive architectural survey of all properties within the city's historic district and adjoining areas, as updated is made part of this subdivision by reference, which may be amended from time to time as allowed by this Code. Reference: "Guidelines For Local Surveys: A Basis For Preservation Planning" from the Texas Historical Commission — 106 page "How To" Book).

New construction: Any building, object, or structure which is relocated, assembled, produced or erected that alters the appearance of a property or resource, including the replacement of a building or structure or a portion thereof that has been removed or destroyed.

Object: The term object is used to distinguish from buildings and structures those constructions that are primarily artistic in nature or are relatively small in scale and simply constructed. Although it may be, by nature or design, movable; an object is associated with a specific setting or environment, such as statuary in a designed landscape.

Ordinary maintenance and repair: Replacement or repair of like kind and quality of the original resource that does not involve a significant change in design, material or outward appearance.

Overlay zones: A set of zoning requirements that are described in the ordinance text, is mapped, and is imposed in addition to those of the underlying district. Development within the overlay zone must conform to the requirements of both zones or the more restrictive of the two.

Property: Property shall, include buildings, structures, objects, open spaces and sites.

Rehabilitation: The act or process of returning a building, object, or structure 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 or resource which are significant to its historical, cultural or architectural values.

Residential: A structure or resource that is used for single-family dwelling only.

Resource: Any property, building, structure, object, site, or open space within the confines of a historic district or historic landmark that has been approved and adopted by the City of Llano.

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

Sign: Any letters, figures, symbols, trademarks, or devices designed to inform people or attract the attention of persons or to an individual, firm, profession, business, commodity or service, and which is recognizable from any public right-of-way. A sign erected for more than 60 days shall be considered a permanent sign.

Site: A site is the location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure where the location itself possesses historical, cultural, or archaeological value.

Structure: The term structure is used to describe structures functionally constructed for purposes other than creating shelter for human activity.

(Ord. No. 1187, § 2(exh. A), 7-25-2011)