Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 120 - Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission › Chapter 10 - Zoning Regulations for the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning District › Subchapter 11 - Historical Preservation And Landmark Board Of Review › Section 120:10-11-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in OAC
				  120:10-5-10.2,
				  OAC
				  120:10-5-10.1
				  and this Subchapter shall have the following meaning, unless the context
				  clearly indicates otherwise.
"Adaptive use"
means the restrained alteration
				  of a historical or architectural resource to accommodate uses for which the
				  resource was not originally constructed but in such a way so as to maintain the
				  general historical and architectural character.
"Archaeological resources"
means areas or
				  locations occupied as residences or utilized by human (historic or prehistoric)
				  for a sufficient length of time to construct features or deposit artifacts,
				  which may remain in greater or lesser degrees of preservation in order and
				  which may lend to the increase of knowledge of man about his own
				  development.
"Board"
means Historical Preservation and
				  Landmark Board of Review of the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning
				  Commission.
"Building materials"
means the physical
				  characteristic which create the aesthetic and structural appearance of the
				  resource, including but not limited to a consideration of the texture and style
				  of the components of their combinations, such as brick, stone, shingle, wood,
				  concrete, or stucco.
"Certificate of appropriateness"
means the
				  official document issued by the Historical Preservation and Landmark Board of
				  Review approving and/or concurring in the application for permission to
				  construct, demolish, relocate, reconstruct, restore, or alter any structure
				  designated by the authority of these regulations.
"Conservation"
means the sustained use and
				  appearance of a resource essentially in its existing state.
"Detail"
means architectural aspects which, due
				  to a particular treatment, draw attention to certain parts or features of a
				  structure.
"Height"
means the vertical dimension of a given
				  structure, building or monument.
"Historical district"
means a geographically
				  definable area with a concentration of linkage of significant sites, buildings,
				  structures, or monuments that are unified historically, architecturally or
				  archaeologically.
"Historical resources"
means sites, districts,
				  structures, buildings or monuments that represent facets of history in the
				  locality, state or nation; places where significant historical or unusual
				  events occurred; places associated with a personality or group important to the
				  past.
"Landmark"
means the individual structure,
				  building, site, or monument which contributes to the historical, architectural,
				  or archaeological heritage of the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning
				  District or State of Oklahoma.
"Ordinary maintenance and repair"
means any work
				  performed in an historical zoning district that does not require a Certificate
				  of Appropriateness by law, where the purpose of the work is to correct any
				  deterioration or damage to any part of a structure and to restore the structure
				  as near to its condition prior to the occurrence of the damage.
"Preservation"
means the adaptive use,
				  conservation, protection, reconstruction, restoration, rehabilitation, or
				  stabilization of sites, buildings, districts, structures, or monuments.
"Proportion"
means the relative physical sizes
				  within and between buildings and building components.
"Protection"
means the security of a resource as
				  it exists through the establishment of the mechanisms of these
				  regulations.
"Reconstruction"
means the process of recreating
				  or reproducing by new construction of all or part of the form and detail of a
				  vanished resource as it appeared at a specific period of time.
"Rehabilitation"
means the process of returning
				  a historical or architectural resource to a state of efficiency or soundness by
				  repair or alteration designed to encourage its continued use but without
				  noticeable changing the exterior appearance of the resource.
"Restoration"
means the process of accurately
				  recovering all or part of the form and detail of a resource and its settings as
				  it appears at a particular period of time by means of removal of later work and
				  the replacement of missing earlier work.
"Rhythm"
means a regular pattern of shapes
				  including, but not limited to, windows, doors, projections, and heights, within
				  a building, structure, or monument, or a group of same.
"Scale"
means the harmonious proportion of parts
				  of a building, structure, or monument to one another and to the human
				  figure.
"Setting"
means the surrounding buildings,
				  structures, or monuments, or landscaping which provides visual aesthetic, or
				  auditory quality of the historic or architectural resources.
"Shape"
means the physical configuration of
				  structures of buildings, or monuments and their components parts including, but
				  not limited to roofs, doors, windows, and facades.
"Significant characteristics of historical or
				  archaeological resources"
means the artifacts present, the information
				  to be gathered or the potential for revealing hitherto unknown or unclear
				  details of a culture, period or structure.
"Significant characteristics of historical or
				  architectural resources"
means those characteristics which are important
				  to or expressive of the historical, architectural, or cultural quality and
				  integrity of the resource and its setting, and which include, but are not
				  limited to building materials, detail, height, mass, proportion, rhythm, scale,
				  set back, setting, shape, street accessories and workmanship.
"Stabilization"
means the process of applying
				  measures designated to halt deterioration and to establish the structural
				  stability of an unsafe or deteriorated resource while maintaining the essential
				  form as it presently exists without noticeably changing the exterior appearance
				  of the resource.
"Street accessories"
means those sidewalk or
				  street fixtures which provide cleanliness, comfort, direction or safety, are
				  compatible in design to their surroundings, and include but are not limited to,
				  trash receptacles, benches, signs, lights, hydrants, and landscaping, including
				  but not limited to trees, shrubbery and planters.
"Structures"
means anything constructed or
				  erected the use of which requires permanent location on the ground or which is
				  attached to something having a permanent location on the ground. This includes
				  but is not limited to, building, fences, walls, driveways, sidewalks and
				  parking areas.
Added at 26 Ok Reg 2819,
				  eff 6-22-09 (emergency); Added at 27 Ok Reg 912, eff
				  5-13-10