Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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16 HISTORIC PRESERVATION 16.2 HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS
16.2.1 Categories of historic designations
16.1 PURPOSE A. Landmark. A discrete building, structure,
The purpose of this article is to promote the object, or site and any associated area found to
educational, cultural, economic, and general welfare have particular or individual significance or
of the City of Portland by: prominence. Landmarks may be in or outside of
A. Creating a mechanism to survey, identify, historic districts or historic landscape districts.
historically designate, and protect buildings, B. Historic district. A geographically defined area
structures, objects, sites, and areas of historic, possessing a significant concentration, linkage,
cultural, architectural, and archaeological or continuity of buildings, structures, sites, or
significance consistent with the National objects united by past events, culturally, or
Register of Historic Places and the Secretary of aesthetically by design, plan, or physical
the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for development. The defined area may comprise
Archeology and Historic Preservation. individual elements separated geographically
Attention will be given to the preservation of but linked by association or history.
sites of cultural significance to marginalized C. Historic landscape district. A geographically
communities and Indigenous peoples, including defined area possessing a significant
the Wabanaki people, to ensure their cultural concentration, linkage, or continuity of natural
legacy is recognized and protected; or man-made landscape components including
B. Establishing standards for review of alterations buildings, structures, sites, or objects which are
and new construction affecting historic united by past events, culturally, or aesthetically