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October 14, 2002 <br />Page 25 of 35 <br />historic districts. What this attempts to do is to first give you the general <br />responsibility of initiating the process to designate those sites, building structures, <br />landscapes and objects as landmarks. So this can be a whole area or a street or a <br />single building. It can be anything of that nature that can be considered historic. <br />Now, it says by adopting, the city council designates those by adopting zoning <br />districts which are designated as HD, very innovative on my part, Historical District. <br />And let me try to explain to you conceptually how this is going to work as we go <br />through the ardinance. <br />You have right now zoned areas of the city and you are probably very familiar with <br />those: residential, commercial, retail, industrial, light industrial, neighborhood <br />services that are based on the kinds of uses that are permissible in those particular <br />areas for the property located in that area. And we regulate that. We have changes. <br />We have a master plan. It became an issue the other night, didn't it Steve? <br />This is what I refer to, it is referred to as many things, it is the process that we have <br />here will create what is called an overlay district or overlay sites or areas. You can <br />have a historical district that has a multitude of permissible uses within it. It can be <br />retail; it can be commercial; it can be industrial. It can certainly be residential. If <br />you visualize a map of several different colors, yellow, green, etc. for the uses that <br />I just mentioned before and suddenly for want of a better choice you are going to <br />have a chartreuse color that goes over parts of those other colors. Those areas are <br />now designated as historical. The goal of this process here is to get us to that point. <br />This commission is to begin to screen those things that I enumerated, site, areas, <br />locations, landmarks, that are, that should be designated as historical and ultimately <br />to be so designated through that whole process. To get there you have to apply your <br />criteria which you find on page six of the ordinance, significance and history <br />associated with certain events, associated with lots, significant persons, etc. etc. And <br />then you have to in so doing, and we will get to that point in a minute, but you then <br />have to call public hearings and under subparagraph (d) on page 7 up at the top <br />notice must be given to property owners, to all property owners, of a proposed <br />historic district designation prior to the commission's hearing on this designation. <br />So if you have a large area, all property owners are going to have to receive this <br />notice because you are rezoning that property. That is why I emphasize this. But we <br />do a rezone on a lot that is a fairly small matter with regard to notice, isn't it Steve? <br />You have the surrounding people within 200 feet? <br />Mr. Methven: Yes. <br />Mr. Schenk: That we have to provide notice to and the property owner themselves. In this <br />instance if you have a street, three streets, that you intend to designate historical, you <br />rezone that property. It is now going to be residential historic district. <br />Mr. Methven: Is this still going through P&Z, though? <br />