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F. Determination of Compliance – Other Historic Structures: For applications regarding “other historic structures” as outlined in Section 15.11.4.A.2 above, the Administrator shall review the application to ensure that it is complete and assign a Demolition Approval System Score (DASS) as described below. If, according to the DASS table on the following page, a Certificate of Appropriateness is required to authorize the demolition, removal or destruction of a designated landmark or a building, structure or site within a historic district, the Administrator shall schedule
the matter for a public hearing before the HPC. G. Public Notification: Level 1 & 3 required.
H. Public Hearing: The HPC shall hold a hearing on the proposal. The applicant and other property owners likely to be materially affected by the applications shall be given an opportunity to be heard. I. HPC Review – Locally Designated Historic Structures: An application for a Certificate of Appropriateness authorizing the demolition, removal or destruction of a “locally designated historic structure, “ as outlined in Section 15.11.4.A.1 above, may be denied or delayed except as provided below: 1. The effective date of such a certificate may be delayed for up to 365 days from the date of approval. The period of delay should be reduced by the HPC if it finds that the owner would suffer extreme hardship or be permanently deprived of all beneficial use or return from such property by virtue of the delay. 2. During the delay period the HPC shall negotiate with the owner in an effort to find a means of preserving the building, structure or site. 3. If the HPC finds that a building, structure or site has no special significance or value toward maintaining the character of a district, it shall waive all or part of such period of delay and authorize earlier demolition and removal. 4. If the HPC has voted to recommend the designated of a landmark or the designation of an area as a historic district, and final designation has not been made by the Board of Commissioners, the demolition or destruction of any building, structure or site in the proposed district or of the designated landmark may be delayed by the commission for up to 365 days after the Board of Commissioners takes final action the designation. 5. An application for a Major Certificate of Appropriateness authorizing the demolition of a building, structure or site determined by the State of North Carolina’s Historic Preservation Officer as having statewide significance as defined in the criteria of the National Register of Historic Places may be denied except where the HPC finds that the owner would suffer extreme hardship or be permanently deprived of all beneficial use or return by virtue of the denial. J. HPC Review – Other Historic Structures: An application for a COA authorizing the demolition, removal or destruction of “other historic structures” as outlined in Section 15.11.4.A.2 above, shall be evaluated by the HPC based on four standards which will be weighed using a point scale of 0 to 2, where 0 means that the structure
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