Chapter 18.26 - Historic Preservation Design Guidelines

Sections:

18.26.010 - Purpose of Chapter
18.26.020 - Applicability

18.26.010 - Purpose of Chapter

The Historic Preservation Overlay District Design Guidelines are provided in Volume III of the Downtown Specific Plan and are intended to assist property owners and project designer in understanding the Town's goals for attaining high quality development that is sensitive to and compatible with the historic character of the Downtown area. The guidelines will be used as criteria against which to review projects in the -HP overlay district.

18.26.020 - Applicability

A. The provisions of this Chapter and the Historic Preservation Overlay District Design Guidelines shall apply to all projects (additions, modifications, alterations, rehabilitation, reconstruction, relocation, or new construction), including single family dwellings and accessory structures and projects that do not require a building permit, in the -HP overlay district. The design elements of each project (including site design, architecture, landscaping, signs, parking design) will be reviewed on a comprehensive basis. Design guidelines in other Chapters of this Development Code (general design guidelines, specific design guidelines, signs, landscaping, parking) shall also be addressed whenever applicable. Where these other chapters are particularly applicable, they have been cross-referenced in the Historic Preservation Overlay District design Guidelines.

B. The review authority may interpret the Historic Preservation Overlay District Design Guidelines with some flexibility in their application to specific projects as not all design criteria may be workable/appropriate for each project. In some circumstances, one guideline may be relaxed to facilitate compliance with another guideline determined by the review authority to be more important in the particular case. In any instance, such determinations shall be made by the review authority on a case-by-case basis. The overall objective is to ensure that the intent and spirit of the Historic Preservation Overlay District Design Guidelines are followed.