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October 14, 2002 <br />Page 21 of 35 <br />your orders. This is in a compliance mode where again it says "after the owner <br />received notice of this article's provisions, the owner committed acts in violation of <br />this article or failed to take action," then you can impose those kinds of penalties. <br />Subparagraph ( fl on page eleven on the general standards that you apply and civil <br />penalties. <br />7-50 on page twelve is what is called the bridge provision. I think when I go over <br />this with you, I think the rest is fairly straight forward and self-explanatory. This is <br />the provision that will bridge between the Building and Standards Commission and <br />the Historic Preservation Commission. What it provides is that at this time, as the <br />city becomes designated as a Certified Local Government, and the application is <br />pending for that, then when that certification occurs before the Building and <br />Standards Commission can consider a matter brought before you, it must be referred <br />to the Historic Preservation Commission for that commission to review it, as you <br />will see in Paragraph (d) to write a written report to the Building and Standards <br />Commission indicating the results of that review, if the Historic Preservation <br />Commission determines that a structures cannot be rehabilitated and designated a <br />historic property, then the Building and Standards Commission has the green light <br />to go forward with its hearing and take whatever action it deems appropriate. If <br />under paragraph ( fl, the Historic Preservation Commission makes a determination <br />that a structure could be rehabilitated and designated as historic, then it must follow <br />those remaining procedures through a ninety (90) day period attempting to get the <br />owner to be responsible and to respond to bring that property back to code and to be <br />again preserving the historical character of that property. <br />On the next page, page thirteen, after the expiration of ninety (90) or greater calendar <br />day period, if the City of Paris Historic Preservation Commission is unable to <br />identify a feasible alternative, locate an alternative purchaser, or in the absence of the <br />owner or the owner's response, call for the appointment of a receiver, and I doubt <br />that will be done very often, it is very difficult. Then the Building and Standards <br />Commission can resume its review of that property for enforcement. So what it does <br />is buy a window of time to consider and attempt to preserve historic structures that <br />would otherwise be subject to potential demolition orders. I am going to emphasize <br />demolition, as I say again, I think we have such an inventory of structures right now <br />that repair orders are something that we would like to believe that we will get to very <br />quickly but I rather doubt it. I think we will be looking at buildings that are gutted <br />and burned out initially. Tommy don't you agree that we have such an inventory of <br />those to have to go through all these notice requirements that it will be some time <br />before we can work our way down to repair orders? But we will get there. It takes <br />time. I have been there. I have seen it happen. <br />One other thing that you need to be aware of on page fourteen. The Commission's <br />decision is final. You can appeal to district court. That is a provision that you find <br />