Development Standards | Definitions
8. Designation report. A report issued by the commission after a public hearing setting forth its determination to designate a landmark and specifying the significant feature or features thereof. 9. Director. The director of the Sammamish department of community development or his or her designee. 10. District. A geographically definable area, urban or rural, possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united by past events or aesthetically by plan or physical development. A district may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history. 11. Historic preservation officer. The King County historic preservation officer or his or her designee.
Examples of economic incentives include but are not limited to tax relief, conditional use permits, rezoning, street vacation, planned unit development, transfer of development rights, facade easements, gifts, preferential leasing policies, private or public grants-in-aid, beneficial placement of public improvements, or amenities, or the like. 15. Interested person of record. Any individual, corporation, partnership or association which notifies the commission or the council in writing of its interest in any matter before the commission. 16. Landmark. An historic resource designated as a landmark pursuant to SDC 21.06.080E.
Nomination. A proposal that an historic resource be designated a landmark.
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Historic resource. A district, site, building, structure or object significant in national, state or local history, architecture, archaeology, and culture.
18. Object. A material thing of functional, aesthetic, cultural, historical, or scientific value that may be, by nature or design, movable yet related to a specific setting or environment. 19. Owner. A person having a fee simple interest, a substantial beneficial interest of record or a substantial beneficial interest known to the commission in an historic resource. Where the owner is a public agency or government, that agency shall specify the person or persons to receive notices under this chapter. 20. Person. Any individual, partnership, corporation, group or association. 21. Person in charge. The person or persons in possession of a landmark including, but not limited to, a mortgagee
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13. Historic resource inventory. An organized compilation of information on historic resources considered to be significant according to the criteria listed in SDC 21.06.080C. The historic resource inventory is maintained by the historic preservation officer and is updated from time to time to include newly eligible resources and to reflect changes to resources.
Incentives. Such compensation, rights or privileges or combination thereof, which the council, or other local, state or federal public body or agency, by virtue of applicable present or future legislation, may be authorized to grant or obtain for the owner or owners of designated landmarks.
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396 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code
Effective | January 1, 2022
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