Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 660 - LAND CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT › Division 23 - PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLYING WITH GOAL 5 › Section 660-023-0200 - Historic Resources

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) For
			 purposes of this rule, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Demolition" means any act that destroys,
			 removes, or relocates, in whole or part, a significant historic resource such
			 that its historic, cultural, or architectural character and significance is
			 lost. This definition applies directly to local land use decisions regarding a
			 National Register Resource. This definition applies directly to other local
			 land use decisions regarding a historic resource unless the local comprehensive
			 plan or land use regulations contain a different definition.
(b) "Designation" is a decision by a local
			 government to include a significant resource on the resource list.
(c) "Historic context statement" is an
			 element of a comprehensive plan that describes the important broad patterns of
			 historical development in a community and its region during a specified time
			 period. It also identifies historic resources that are representative of the
			 important broad patterns of historical development.
(d) "Historic preservation plan" is an
			 element of a comprehensive plan that contains the local government's goals and
			 policies for historic resource preservation and the processes for creating and
			 amending the program to achieve the goal.
(e) "Historic resources" are those buildings,
			 structures, objects, sites, or districts that potentially have a significant
			 relationship to events or conditions of the human past.
(f) "Locally significant historic resource"
			 means a building, structure, object, site, or district deemed by a local
			 government to be a significant resource according to the requirements of this
			 division and criteria in the comprehensive plan.
(g) "National Register Resource" means
			 buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts listed in the National
			 Register of Historic Places pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act
			 of 1966 ( PL 89-665;
			 16 U.S.C.
			 470).
(h) "Owner":
(A) Means the owner of fee title to the
			 property as shown in the deed records of the county where the property is
			 located; or
(B) Means the purchaser
			 under a land sale contract, if there is a recorded land sale contract in force
			 for the property; or
(C) Means, if
			 the property is owned by the trustee of a revocable trust, the settlor of a
			 revocable trust, except that when the trust becomes irrevocable only the
			 trustee is the owner; and
(D) Does
			 not include individuals, partnerships, corporations or public agencies holding
			 easements or less than fee interests (including leaseholds) of any nature;
			 or
(E) Means, for a locally
			 significant historic resource with multiple owners, including a district, a
			 simple majority of owners as defined in (A)-(D).
(F) Means, for National Register Resources,
			 the same as defined in
			 36
			 CFR 60.3(k).
(i) "Protect" means to require
			 local government review of applications for demolition, relocation, or major
			 exterior alteration of a historic resource, or to delay approval of, or deny,
			 permits for these actions in order to provide opportunities for continued
			 preservation.
(j) "Significant
			 historic resource" means a locally significant historic resource or a National
			 Register Resource.