Portland Land Use Code

Citation: Portland Land Use Code
Parent Document: Portland Land Use Code
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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historic district or historic landscape district determined by the Planning Authority to
nomination, the City Council shall approve or represent an immediate hazard to the
reject the historic designation. public health or safety, which hazard
B. The designating order shall include a map of cannot be abated by reasonable measures
the location and boundaries of the historic specified by the Planning Authority,
designation, and be accompanied by a list of including without limitation securing
buildings, structures, objects, and sites within apertures and/or erecting fencing.
the historic designation including their location 3. Any building, structure, object, site, or
or address and classification as contributing or portion thereof which was approved for
noncontributing under Subsection 16.2.3. demolition under a certificate of economic
C. Notice of City Council action shall be sent to all hardship under Section 16.7.
owners of property within the boundaries of a
historic designation within 30 days following 16.3.7 Amendment or rescission of designation
the City Council action. A. Amendment shall be defined as a change to the
D. A record of the historic designation, maps of historic designation boundary or
the historic designation boundary, and copies reclassification of a building, structure, object,
of all nominations and reports shall be or site as contributing or non-contributing in its
maintained by the Planning Authority and be entirety.
made available to the public online and during B. Rescission shall be defined as the complete
ordinary business hours. removal of a historic designation.
C. Amendment or rescission of any historic
16.3.6 Designation designation shall be upon the request of a
A. Upon designation, all buildings, structures, person or persons authorized to nominate the
objects, and sites within the boundary of the property or properties affected as set forth in
historic designation shall be subject to the Subsection 16.3.2, or upon request of the City
provision of this article. Council. Such requests shall be submitted in
B. Demolition, including any act or process that writing to the Planning Authority.
totally destroys any contributing building, D. Amendment or rescission shall follow the
structure, object, or site shall be prohibited, procedure set forth in Section 16.3 for
with the exception of: designation. The standards for rescission or
1. Any building, structure, object, or site amendment applied by the Historic
which has been ordered demolished by the Preservation Board, Planning Board, and City
municipal officers or a court, in Council shall be limited to those provided in
accordance with 17 M.R.S. § 2851 et seq., its Subsection 16.2.2 (A) and (B). Amendments
equivalent, as it may be amended from may include reclassification of a portion of a
time to time, or contributing property to noncontributing
2. Any building, structure, object, or site status, refinement or correction of design
which has been partially destroyed and is CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 16-5 HISTORIC PRESERVATION

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