H-1

Other

• Certificate of appropriateness required for material change

  no material change including construction, reconstruction, exterior alteration, demolition, or relocation that affects the appearance of such historic property, or of a contributing or noncontributing building, structure, site or object within such historic district, shall be made or be permitted to be made by the owner or occupant thereof, unless or until the application for a certificate of appropriateness has been submitted to and approved by the commission.

• Certificate of appropriateness validity period12 months

  Certificates of appropriateness shall be issued for a period of 12 months.

• Time schedule for offers to sell before demolition

  The time schedule for offers to sell shall be as follows: three months when the offering price is less than $25,000; four months when the offering price is $25,000 or more but less than $40,000; five months when the offering price is $40,000 or more but less than $55,000; six months when the offering price is $55,000 or more but less than $75,000; seven months when the offering price is $75,000 or more but less than $90,000; and 12 months when the offering price is $90,000 or more.

• Compliance with Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Staunton Historic DistrictHistoric districtAn area where exterior changes need design review to protect its character. Design Guidelines

  The commission shall issue certificates of appropriateness for the above proposed actions if those actions conform in design, scale, building material, setback and landscaping and to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Properties and the Staunton Historic District Design Guidelines.

• Exception to design guidelines with substantial justification

  The commission may, when there is a conflict between the local zoning ordinance and historic district design guidelines, and there is substantial justification, deviate from the Staunton Historic District Design Guidelines when approving a certificate for proposed alterations if the exception does not change the character of the historic district or historic property.

• Ordinary maintenance and repair exempt from certificate of appropriateness

  Ordinary maintenance or repair of any exterior architectural or environmental feature in or on an historic property or a building, structure, site or object within an historic district to correct deterioration, decay or damage, or to sustain the existing form, and that does not involve a material change in design, material or outer appearance thereof, does not require a certificate of appropriateness.

• Historic districtHistoric districtAn area where exterior changes need design review to protect its character. overlayOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. on underlying zoning

  the districts hereby created, as their boundaries are now shown on the “Map of Staunton’s National Register Historic Districts,” shall be overlaid onto the existing underlying zoning of such areas on the official zoning map of the city of Staunton.

• Items eligible for zoning administrator approval without full commission review

  a certificate of appropriateness may be granted by the zoning administrator without submission to the commission as a whole unless, in the discretion of the zoning administrator, the application should be reviewed by the whole commission for the following: (i) Installation of signage. (ii) Screening of mechanical equipment. (iii) Removal of vinyl or metal siding on a building to expose the original siding. (iv) Removal of gutters to install metal, half round gutters. (v) Replacement of roofing material with in-kind material, when the repair exceeds 50 percent of the roof element.