18.175.090 Obtaining landmark status.
A. Properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including all properties within any National Register historic district boundaries, are eligible for automatic listing on the Talent landmarks register provided the owner of such a property requests such listing. As resources of statewide significance, all such properties are subject to the regulations in this chapter, pursuant to OAR 660-023-200 whether included in the landmarks register or not. However, only properties listed on the landmarks register shall be eligible for public incentives and code considerations pursuant to this chapter.
B. Any individual or group, including the commission acting on its own initiative, or upon the advice and recommendation of the architectural review committee, may nominate a historic resource for inclusion on or removal from the landmarks register by submitting a complete application to the city planner. The burden of proof lies with the applicant. No property shall be so designated without the written consent of the owner or, in the case of multiple owners, a majority of the owners.
C. The city planner shall establish standards for a complete application. Upon acceptance of a complete application the city planner shall schedule a public hearing pursuant to applicable local and state laws.
D. In order to be included on the landmarks register the commission must find that the historic resource has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places or is over 50 years of age, possesses sufficient historic integrity, and meets at least one of the following standards:
1. Is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local, state, or national history;
2. Is associated with the lives of persons, or groups of people, significant in local, state, or national history;
3. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of an architectural type, style, period, or method of construction or that represents the work of a master craftsman or technician, or that possesses high artistic values, or that represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
4. Has yielded or is likely to yield information which is important in local, state, or national history.
E. Resources of less than 50 years of age must be of extraordinary historic significance, retain sufficient integrity, and successfully meet one of the criteria in subsections (D)(1) through (D)(4) of this section.
F. The commission shall develop findings to support its decisions. These findings shall indicate those elements of a property, including interior, landscape, and archaeological features, that are included in the designation and subject to regulation under the provisions of this chapter. [Ord. 851 § 3; Ord. 817 § 8-3L.744, 2006.]