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October 14, 2002 Page 28 of 35 you have again the requirement if you intend to demolish to also comply and get a Certificate of Appropriateness before we can issue a demolition permit. In both instances you are required to hold public hearings; grant or deny; there is an appellate process set out later in the ordinance; ultimately the City Council. In this instance there is language about grant or denial. To deny the application, if the application is denied then the commission must participate in the process of seeking alternatives that may result in the preservation of the structure. There is a time limitation of that process if after 180 calendar days the Commission has not successfully found a purchaser or otherwise determined a process by which the property can be preserved the building official shall issue the demolition permit. 7-160 talks about, Steve what you asked about, procedure for adopting an ordinance to establish or amend a historic landmark. Basically what you will see if you look at it in there is that what the process is. If an area is designated for consideration by this commission. The process starts and then later in the ordinance it provides that the, that it goes from there to, earlier, back to the earlier part, it goes from there to the Planning & Zoning Commission and subparagraph (b), the procedure is considered to be initiated immediately when the city council or Planning and Zoning Commission or Historic Preservation Commission votes to authorize the filing of a designation case. And then under (a) it says, I am assuming that it starts with historic preservation, then it goes from there on to P&Z and then to council. So the difference is that the Building and Standards Commission cannot issue something close to permits. It issues orders for tear down, repair or removal. This commission, the Historic Preservation Commission, is the one that gives you Certificates of Appropriateness with regard to changes or modifications to property only in those areas that are designated as historic. If again, the property is outside the area of historic designation then the process is very straight forward for Building and Standards. Once an area is designated as historic, once we are certified, then for those properties in those areas, it involves a first review of the Historic Preservation Commission before it can back to the Building Commission. Mr. Denney: Right now we only have three historical districts? Mr. Malone: We have none. Mr. Schenk: We have none. Woman: We have three on the national register. Mr. Schenk: Right, but none of that has been officially designated by the Historic Commission. Mr. Denney: So we have to survey and then do the district and any landowners.