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This Section 146-2.6.4 provides a process to evaluate and protect only those sites, buildings, structures, neighborhoods, and districts deemed to have historical, architectural, or archaeological significance.

A. Purpose. The purpose of this Section 146-2.6.4 is to establish historic areas and landmarks for the educational, cultural, and economic benefit of Aurora’s citizens. Due to the pressures resulting from population growth and development, which may result in the destruction, impairment, or alteration of historic resources that reflect elements of the City's cultural and architectural heritage, the following policies and responsibilities are established:

1. Preserve, protect, enhance, regulate, and use buildings, structures, sites, and areas that are reminders of past eras, events, and persons important in local, state, or national history that are landmarks in the history of architecture or that provide significant examples of architectural styles of the past.

2. Preserve, protect, enhance, regulate, and use buildings, structures, sites, and areas that are unique or irreplaceable assets to the City and its neighborhoods, that provide examples of the physical surroundings in which past generations lived, or that are archaeologically significant for present and future generations.

3. Enhance property values through the stabilization of neighborhoods and areas of the City, increase economic and financial benefits to the City and its inhabitants, and promote tourist trades and interests.

4. Develop and maintain the appropriate environment for such buildings, structures, sites, and areas, reflecting varied architectural styles and distinguished phases of the City's history and prehistory.

5. Stimulate an enhancement of human life by developing educational and cultural dimensions, provide for spiritual as well as physical needs by fostering knowledge of the City's heritage, and cultivate civic pride in the accomplishments of the past.

6. Empower the Historic Preservation Commission in its administration and enforcement of the City's historic preservation management program.

7. Cooperate with state and federal historic preservation efforts as defined by the bylaws, policies, and procedures of the commission.

B. List of Landmarks, Landmark Sites, and Historic Districts. The Planning Director shall maintain a current record of all designated landmark properties, sites and districts, and pending designations.

C. Procedures Related to Landmarks, Landmark Sites, and Historic Districts.

1. Procedures for Historic Preservation Commission recommendations for City designation of a landmark, landmark site, or historic district are in Section 146-5.4.1.D (Historic Designation or Loss of Designation).

2. Inclusion of any area or property within the City in the National Register of Historic Places, as provided in the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, shall be construed as local historic landmark or landmark site designation and subject to the same protections as any local landmark or landmark site.

3. Procedures for development applications for landmarks and landmark sites and within historic districts are in Section 146-5.4.3.D (Historic Landmark/District Development Application). (Ord. No. 2019-49 § 1, 08-19-2019)