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CHAPTER 2

10 Historic Preservation Regulations

2.10.010 Policy

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City of Dallas in carrying out the historic sites and structures goal and policy of the City of Dallas comprehensive plan to identify Significant Historic Resources and to encourage and promote their restoration and preservation.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.020 Purpose

The City of Dallas adopts Chapter 2.10 to identify, designate, and preserve Significant Historic Resources associated with the community's history and prehistory; encourage the rehabilitation and ongoing viability of designated Signficiant Historic Resources, archaeological objects, sites, and sites of archaeological significance strengthen public support for historic preservation efforts within the community; foster civic pride; and encourage cultural heritage tourism.

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.030 Applicability

a. Sections 2.10.060 to 2.10.140 apply to all Locally Significant Historic Resources.

b. Sections 2.10.090, 100, and 110 of these regulations apply to National Register Resources listed after February 23, 2017.

c. No provision of Sections 2.10.060 to 2.10.140 may be construed to prevent the ordinary maintenance of a Significant Historic Resource when such action does not change the design, materials, or appearance of the resource.

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.040 Conflicts With Other Laws

If any provisions of Sections 2.10.090 to 2.10.140 are found to be in conflict with federal or state laws the federal or state law shall prevail. In cases of conflict other city orfinances the previously established ordinances shall take precedence.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.050 Definitions

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in Sections 2.10.060 to 2.10.140, have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

a. Alteration: means a physical modification of the exterior of a Significant Historic Resource and the interior of a Significant Historic Resource owned by the City of Dallas identified as significant in the record of Designation. Alterations do not include painting, color selection, or ordinary maintenance or repair of a Significant Historic Resource unless such activity alters a character-defining feature.

b. Archaeological Object: means an object that is at least 75 years old; is part of the physical record of an indigenous or other culture found in the state or waters of the state; and is material remains of past human life or activity that are of archaeological significance including, but not limited to, monuments, symbols, tools, facilities, technological by-products and dietary by-products.

c. Archaeological Site: means a geographic locality in Oregon, including but not limited to submerged and submersible lands and the bed of the sea within the state’s jurisdiction that contains archaeological objects and the contextual associations of the archaeological objects with each other; or biotic or geological remains or deposits. Examples of archaeological sites include but are not limited to shipwrecks, lithic quarries, house pit villages, camps, burials, lithic scatters, homesteads and townsites.

d. Building: means a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar structure created principally to shelter any form of human activity.

e. Certificate of Appropriateness: means a document issued by the Historic Preservation Officer indicating that a building, structure, object, site, or district satisfactorily meets the provisions of Chapter 2.10 for the preservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alteration, relocation, or demolition of a Significant Historic Resource, or new construction within the designated boundary of a Significant Historic Resource.

f. Character-Defining Feature(s): means the visual and physical aspect(s) of a Locally Significant Historic Resource that convey its historic integrity and historic significance.

g. Demolition: means any act that destroys, removes, or relocates, in whole or part, a significant historic resource such that its historic, cultural, or architectural character and significance is lost.

h. District: means a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development.

i. Eligible/Contributing: means a historic resource in existence within the applicable period of significance that retains and exhibits sufficient integrity (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association) to convey a sense of history. These properties strengthen the historic integrity of an existing or potential historic district.

j. Eligible/Significant: means a historic resource in existence within the applicable period of significance that retains and exhibits sufficient integrity (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association) to convey a sense of history. These properties strengthen the historic integrity of an existing or potential historic district, and are likely individually eligible for designation to the Resource List.

k. Historic Context Statement: means an element of the City of Dallas comprehensive plan that describes the important broad patterns of historical development in the City of Dallas and the region and identifies historic resources representative of the important broad patterns of historic development. The Historic Context Statement also identifies Historic Resources that are representative of the important broad patterns of historical development.

l. Historic Integrity: means the quality of wholeness of historic location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and/or association of a historic resource.

m. Historic Preservation Officer: means the appointed official responsible for the administration of Chapter 2.10.

n. Historic Preservation Plan: means an element of the City of Dallas’s comprehensive plan and ordinances implementing the comprehensive plan that contains the city’s goals and policies for historic resource preservation and the processes for creating and amending the program to protect Significant Historic Resources.

o. Historic Resources: means those buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts that potentially have a significant relationship to events or conditions of the human past.

p. Historic Resource Inventory: means the record of buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts recorded by the City used to identify historic resources that may be determined significant and designated to the Resource List.

q. Historic Significance: means the physical association of a building, structure, site, object, or district with historic events, trends, persons, architecture, method of construction, or that have yielded or may yield information important in prehistory or history

r. Locally Significant Historic Resource: means a building, structure, site, object, or district designated to the City Resource List.

s. National Register Resource: means buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (PL 89-665; 16 U.S.C 470).

t. Non-Contributing: means a historic resource in existence within the applicable period of significance that does not retain or exhibit sufficient integrity (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association) to convey a sense of history. These properties do not strengthen the historic integrity of an existing or potential historic district in their current condition.

u. Not in Period: means a building, structure, object, or site that was originally constructed outside the applicable period of significance.

v. Owner, as it relates to the ownership of property, means:

i. The owner of fee title to the property as shown in the deed records of the county where the property is located;

ii. The purchaser under a land sale contract, if there is a recorded land sale contract in force for the property

iii. If the property is owned in the name of a revocable trust, the trustee of the trust;

iv. For an historic resource with multiple owners, including a district, a simple majority of owners as defined in (i)-(iii).

v. For National Register Resources, those individuals, partnerships, corporations or public agencies holding fee simple title to property. Owner or owners does not include individuals, partnerships, corporations or public agencies holding easements or less than fee interests (including leaseholds) of any nature.

vi. Owner does not include individuals, entities or public bodies that hold easements, a security interest or less than fee interests, including leaseholds, of any nature.

w. Period of Significance: means the time period, from one to several years or decades, during which a Significant Historic Resource was associated with an important historic event(s), trend(s), person(s), architecture, or method(s) of construction.

x. Preservation: means the act or process of applying measures necessary to sustain the existing form, integrity, and materials of a Significant Historic Resource.

y. Record of Designation: means the official document that describes how a Locally Significant Historic Resource meets the criteria for designation to the Resource List.

z. Reconstruction: means the act or process of depicting, by means of new construction, the form, features, or detailing of a non-surviving building, or structure for the purpose of replicating its appearance at a specific period of time and in its historic location.

aa. Rehabilitation: means the process of returning a Significant Historic Resource to a state of utility through repair or alteration, which makes possible a use while preserving those portions and features of the Significant Historic Resource and its site that convey its historic significance

bb. Relocation: means moving of a Significant Historic Resource from its location described in the Record of Designation.

cc. Restoration: means the act or process of accurately depicting the form, features, and character of an historic-contributing resource or historic-non-contributing resource as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period. The limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make properties functional is appropriate within a preservation project.

dd. Resource List: The list of Locally Significant Historic Resources adopted by City of Dallas pursuant to its comprehensive plan as important to its history and afforded the protection under Chapter 2.10.

ee. Significant Historic Resource: means a Locally Significant Historic Resource and/or a National Register Resource.

ff. Site: means the location of a significant event, prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself possesses historic, cultural, or archeological value regardless of any existing building, structure, or object.

gg. Structure: means a functional construction made usually for purposes other than creating human shelter, such as an aircraft, bridge, fence, dam, tunnel, etc.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.060 Inventorying, Evaluating, And Determining Significance Of Historic Resources

The following procedures must be used to identify Historic Resources that may be considered for designation as a Locally Significant Historic Resource on the Resource List.

a. The Historic Resource Officer shall maintain the Historic Resource Inventory and Resource List as a public record with the exception of archaeological sites, the publication of which is prohibited by state law.

b. Historic Resources shall be evaluated for their historic integrity and significance and recorded in the Historic Resource Inventory as Eligible/Significant (ES), Eligible/Contributing (EC), Non-Contributing (NC), or Not in Period (NP). Evaluation and documentation of properties in the Historic Resource Inventory must follow the document “Guidelines for Historic Resource Surveys in Oregon, 2010” or most recent guidance for such efforts published by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and be supplied to the agency within six (6) months of the completion of the study.

c. Historic Properties added to the Historic Resource Inventory are not subject to the regulations described in Sections 2.10.080, 090, 100, 120, 130 and 140.

d. The objection of an owner shall not prevent a property being inventoried, evaluated, or determined significant for placement on the Historic Resource Inventory.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.070 Designation Historic Resources To The Resource List; Amendment Of Record Of Designation

Historic Resources, including buildings, structures, sites, objects, historic districts may be designated to the Resource List and Records of Designation may be amended as provided in this section.

a. The Commission may, on its own motion or upon application by the City and any person, group, or government agency, recommend that the City Council designate a Historic Resource to the Resource List to provide recognition of its significance, provided that the proposed Historic Resource is not the subject of a pending application for alteration, relocation, or demolition.

b. An application to designate a Historic Resource to the Resource List shall include a description of the boundaries of the proposed nominated area and the buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts contained therein; a description of the historic resource(s)’ Character-Defining Features and how these reflect the Historic Resource(s)’ Historic Significance and Historic Integrity; a statement explaining how the historic resource(s) meet(s) the criteria under provisions of this section; photos, maps, drawings, and other appendices to support the assertions made in the submitted documentation. The Historic Preservation Officer may establish additional standards for a complete application.

c. Upon acceptance of a complete application, the owner(s) must be notified in writing of the designation process and their right to support or object to the designation of the Historic Resource to the Resource List under the provisions of ORS 197.772. Written notice shall be delivered in person or by first class mail addressed to the owner’s address as shown on the records of the Polk County Assessor. In the case of multiple owners, notice by mail shall be addressed to the owners whose names and addresses appear on the records of the Polk County Clerk and to any other owners whose names and addresses are known to the Historic Preservation Officer.

d. An owner may object to the designation of the Historic Resource to the Resource List at any time prior to the addition of the property to the Resource List. Such an objection must be submitted on the public record and shall terminate consideration of the Historic Resource for designation to the Resource List.

e. A permit to demolish or modify an Historic Resource under consideration for recommendation for designation to the Resource List must not be issued for 120 days from the date of the owner’s refusal to consent to designation or the application to alter, relocate, or demolish the Historic Resource, whichever occurs first.

f. An owner’s objection to the designation of an Historic Resource to the Resource List shall not remove the Historic Resource from the Historic Resource Inventory.

g. The Commission may recommend additional protections to supplement the provisions of Sections 2.10.060 to 2.10.140, to the City Council as part of the designation process necessary for the protection of an Historic Resource recommended for designation to the Resource List.

h. In making a recommendation to the City Council under this section, the Commission shall evaluate and must determine that an historic resource has sufficient historic integrity and historic significance to merit designation to the Resource List as a Locally Significant Historic Resource using the following criteria:

i. The Historic Resource is located within the boundaries of the City of Dallas.

ii. The Historic Resource is over fifty (50) years of age or is of exceptional significance, or in the case of a district, the majority of the properties are over fifty (50) years old or have exceptional significance

iii. The Historic Resource possesses sufficient historic integrity to convey its significant relationship to events or conditions of the human past.

iv. The Historic Resource has historic significance as demonstrated by meeting at least one of the following criteria:

1. Association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local, regional, state, or national history; and/or

2. Association with the lives of persons significant to local, regional, state, or national history; and/or

3. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction;

4. Yielding, or being likely to yield information important in prehistory or history; or

5. Relevance within the local Historic Context and priorities described in the Historic Preservation Plan when such documents exist.

v. The Commission shall consider the factors described in Section 2.10.090(d)(2)(a-f) when recommending designation of a National Register Resource to the Resource List.

i. The City and any person, group, or government agency recommend to the City Council an amendment of a Record of Designation for a Significant Historic Resource on the Resource List, provided the proposed Significant Historic Resource is not the subject of a pending application for alteration, relocation, or demolition. The Historic Resource Officer may establish standards for a complete amendment application. Notice shall be given to the applicant and owner or owners of the Significant Historic Resource in the manner provided in Subsection d, above, and an owner may object to the proposed amendment in the manner provided in Subsection f, above, provided, that an owner’s objection to a proposed amendment to the Record of Decision shall not prevent the amendment. An amendment to a Record of Designation must be processed as a Type IV land use procedure. To support a recommendation for amendment of the Record of Designation, the Commission must find that the amendment meets the Criteria described in Section 2.10.070(h).

j. Designation Procedure. Upon receiving a recommendation from the Commission for designation of an Historic Resource to the Resource List or to amend a Record of Decision, the City Council shall, after notice to the applicant and owner or owners of the subject Resource, given in the manner provided in Subsection c, hold a hearing to consider the recommendation, at which hearing the applicant and owner shall have the opportunity to testify and may object to the recommendation as provided in this section. In making its decision to approve or disapprove a recommendation of the Commission, the Council shall apply the same criteria as the Commission considered and any other applicable criteria identified by the Historic Resource Officer or owner. A decision by the City Council to designate a Historic Resource to the Resource List or to amend a Record of Decision shall be memorialized in an ordinance adopted by the City Council.

k. Following designation of a Historic Resource, the Historic Preservation Officer must prepare a Record of Designation that includes a description of the boundaries of the proposed nominated area and the buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts contained therein; a description of the historic resource(s)’ Character-Defining Features and how these reflect the Historic Resource(s)’ Historic Significance and Historic Integrity; a statement explaining how the historic resource(s) meet(s) the criteria under provisions of this section; photos, maps, drawings, and other appendices to support the assertions made in the submitted documentation.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.080 Design Review For Locally Significant Historic Resources Designated To The Resource List

No exterior portion of a Locally Significant Historic Resource or Non-Contributing or Not in Period resource, ot new construction within the boundary of a Locally Significant Historic Resource shall be constructed, preserved, rehabilitated, or altered without a Certificate of Appropriateness signed by the Historic Preservation Officer as provided in this section. Certificates must be presented to the Building Official before a permit may be issued.

a. Activities not subject to the provisions of this section.

i. Alterations to building interiors.

ii. Application of exterior paint.

iii. Alterations to vegetative landscape features, including tree removal.

iv. Construction of detached accessory structures of 800 square feet or less in floor area.

b. The Historic Preservation Officer shall prepare a staff report that summarizes the proposed project, notes the criteria specified in Section 2.10.080(f-g) under which the application must be considered, and provides an analysis in response to the applicable criteria. Materials that may be used in the preparation of the staff report include the Record of Designation; and/or National Register nomination document; and/or other archival photos, maps; and/or other documentary evidence specific to the subject property; and/or observations from on-site inspections to document its historic appearance or alteration over time; and/or documents and publications of the National Park Service or Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.

c. The Commission shall review and make a recommendation to the Historic Preservation Officer upon applications for the alteration, relocation, and/or demolition of a Locally Significant Historic Resource. Applications for the alteration of a Locally Significant Historic Resource may be approved, approved with conditions, or denied. Applications for the relocation or demolition of a Locally Significant Historic Resource may be approved, approved with conditions, or denied. The Historic Preservation Officer must develop written findings to support the decision. The Historic Preservation Officer shall include any conditions imposed in the Certificate of Appropriateness pursuant to this section.

d. A Certificate of Appropriateness issued for the alteration, relocation or demolition of a Locally Significant Historic Resource shall be effective for a period of one (1) year from the date of its issuance.

e. A Significant Historic Resource may be altered, relocated, or demolished without a Certificate of Appropriateness when the Building Official finds that the condition of a Significant Historic Resource poses a clear and immediate hazard to public safety. The written comments of the Building Official shall be provided by the Historic Preservation Officer to the Commission at their next regular meeting.

f. To approve an application for the alteration of a Locally Significant Historic Resource the Historic Preservation Officer must find that the proposal meets the following standards:

i. The historic integrity of a property must be retained and preserved. The relocation of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize a property must be avoided; and/or

ii, A property must be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, must not be undertaken; and/or

iii. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right must be retained and preserved; and/or

iv. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property must be preserved; and/or

v. Deteriorated historic features are encouraged to be repaired rather than replaced. If the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature must match the old in design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features must be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence; and/or

vi. Chemical and physical treatments, if appropriate, must be undertaken using the gentlest means possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials must not be used; and/or

vii. Archeological resources must be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures must be undertaken; and/or

viii. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction must not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work must be differentiated from the old and must be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment; and/or

ix. New additions and adjacent or related new construction must be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.

g. In addition to meeting the applicable guidelines in 2.10.080(f)(i-ix) of this section, to approve an application for the alteration of a Locally Significant Historic Resource the Historic Preservation Officer shall find that the proposal meets the following design standards as applicable:

i. New additions must be subordinate to the original building, meaning lower in height, attached to the rear or set back along the side, smaller in scale, and have less architectural detail; and/or

ii. Height, width, setback, roof shape, and the overall scale and massing of new buildings within historic districts and on lots with existing Historic Resources, or additions to Historic Resources must be compatible with the existing historic building(s) and, in the case of historic districts, the overall streetscape; and/or

iii. In historic districts and on lots with existing Locally Significant Historic Resources, materials on at least the primary façade(s) of new buildings must be compatible in size, shape, color, and texture to the original materials on the facades of surrounding historic buildings; and/or

iv. Architectural details on new construction (including wood or metal trim, porches, cornices, arches, and window and door features, etc.) must be complimentary, but must not replicate historic features on surrounding historic buildings; and/or

v. Window and door opening should be similar in size and orientation (vertical to horizontal) to openings on historic buildings and should take up a similar percentage of the overall façade as those on surrounding historic buildings; and/or

vi. In historic districts and on lots with existing Locally Significant Historic Resource the relationship of the width to the height of the principal elevations for new buildings and additions to existing Locally Significant Historic Resources must be in scale with the surrounding structures and streetscape. Wider new building can be divided into segments that more closely resemble the façade widths of historic buildings; and/or

vii. In historic districts and on lots with existing Locally Significant Historic Resources, the roof shape of new buildings and additions to existing Locally Significant Historic Resources must be visually compatible with the surrounding structures and streetscape. Unusual roof shapes, materials, and pitches are discouraged.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.090 Additional Protections For National Register Resources

The Commission may recommend that the City Council adopt, amend, or remove additional protections for a National Register Resource, provided the National Register Resource is not the subject of a pending application for alteration, relocation, or demolition. Application of additional protections to a National Register Resource shall be processed as set forth in this section. A National Register Resource need not be designated to the Resource List for additional protections to be applied.

a. National Register Resources within the corporate boundaries of the City of Dallas may be designated to the Resource List using the procedures outlined in Section 2.10.070 and made subject to the regulations of Sections 2.10.080, 090, 100, 110, and 120 as a means of providing additional protections. Application of additional protections must be processed as set forth in this section and subject to the specific provisions of 2.10.090(b-d) of this section.

b. Regulations adopted prior to February 23, 2017 regarding the alteration, preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, reconstruction, relocation, and/or demolition of a National Register Resource may be amended or removed when the proposed National Register Resource is not the subject of a pending application for alteration or demolition. The action must be processed as set forth in this section.

c. Additional protections may be applied to National Register Resources without owner consent under the provisions of OAR 660-023-0200(8)(b).

d. The City of Dallas and any person, group, or government agency may propose that a National Register Resource be considered for additional protections. The process for applying additional protections is as follows:

i. The proposal for adding additional protections to a National Register Resource must include the National Register nomination document and a complete list of the additional protections proposed. The Historic Preservation Officer may establish additional standards for a complete application.

ii. Upon acceptance of a complete application, the owners must be notified of the application and the process for designating additional protections in the manner for the giving of notice provided in Section 2.10.070.c.

iii. In making a recommendation to the City Council under this section, shall hold a hearing on the application at which the applicant and owner or owners may testify, and must consider all of the following factors:

1. The historic characteristics identified in the National Register nomination document; and

2. The historic significance of the resource; and

3. The relationship to the historic context statement and historic preservation plan contained in the comprehensive plan, if they exist; and

4. The goals and policies in the City of Dallas Comprehensive Plan; and

5. The effects of the additional protection measures on the ability of Significant Historic Resource owners to maintain and modify features of their Significant Historic Resource; and

6. Any other relevant factors.

7. Designation Procedure. Upon receiving a recommendation from the Commission to add additional protections to a National Register Resource, City Council shall, after notice to the applicant and owner or owners of the subject Resource, given in the manner provided in Subsection c, hold a hearing to consider the recommendation, at which hearing the applicant and owner shall have the opportunity to testify. In making its decision to approve or disapprove a recommendation of the Commission, the Council shall apply the same criteria as the Commission considered and any other applicable criteria identified by the Historic Resource Officer or owner. A decision by the City Council to designate an Historic Resource to the Resource List or to amend a Record of Decision shall be memorialized in an ordinance adopted by the City Council.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.100 Demolition And Relocation Of Significant Historic Resources

The Historic Preservation Officer shall approve, approve with conditions, or deny an application to demolish or relocate a Significant Historic and National Register of Historic Places listed Resource. A Certificate of Appropriateness signed by the Historic Preservation Officer shall be required to demolish or relocate a Significant Historic Resource.

a. The definition of “demolition” for Significant Historic and National Register Resources means any act that destroys, removes, or relocates, in whole or part, a National Register Resource such that it’s historic, cultural, or architectural character and significance is lost.

b. In addition to the criteria stated in Section 2.10.100(d-e), the Historic Preservation Officer must consider the following factors when reviewing an application for the demolition or relocation of a National Register Resource: Condition, historic integrity, age, historic significance, value to the community, economic consequences, design or construction rarity, and consistency with and consideration of other policy objectives in the acknowledged comprehensive plan.

c. Accessory structures and buildings and non-contributing buildings, structures, objects and sites included within the boundary of a designated National Register Resource shall be excluded from review under Sections 2.10.080 to 2.10.140.

d. The Historic Preservation Officer must find the following when approving or approving with conditions the demolition of a Significant Historic Resource:

i. The applicant completed a replacement plan for the site, including drawings approved by the Building Official. If the property is located within an historic district, plans must be submitted for review and approved by the Commission prior to the application to demolish the Significant Historic Resource pursuant to Sections 2.10.060 to 2.10.140 as they relate to new construction; and

ii. The Building Official determines and states in writing that the Significant Historic Resource cannot be safely removed from the site; and

iii. The value to the community of the proposed use of the Significant Historic Resource outweighs the value of retaining the Significant Historic Resource. Public testimony must be considered when making this determination.

e. The Historic Preservation Officer must find the following when approving or approving with conditions the relocation of a Significant Historic Resource:

i. If the Significant Historic Resource is located within an historic district, the owner completed a replacement plan for the site, including drawings approved by the Building Official. Plans must be submitted for review and approved by the Historic Preservation Officer prior to the application to demolish the Significant Historic Resource pursuant to Section 2.10.080 as they relate to new construction; and

ii. The value to the community of the proposed use of the Significant Historic Resource outweighs retaining the Significant Historic Resource in its original location; and

iii. The relocated Significant Historic Resource remains within the limits of the City of Dallas; and

iv. The new site provides a suitable setting and ensures the Significant Historic Resource’s long term preservation; and

v. The owner has an approved plan for the new site.

f. In approving an application for the demolition or relocation of a Significant Historic Resource, the Historic Preservation Officer may impose the following conditions:

i. Completion of photographic, video, textual and/or drawn recordation of the subject property in its original location; and/or

ii. A Significant Historic Resource be relocated to a new site when demolition is proposed, and that, to the extent feasible, the new location is similar to the original site and that the original setback and orientation of the building is replicated on the new lot; and/or

iii. The owner obtain permission from the National Park Service to move the National Register Resource in order to retain the property’s listing in the National Register of Historic Places and/or assume all responsibility and cost of removing the property from the National Register of Historic Places if permission cannot be obtained; and/or

iv. Delay the demolition of the Significant Historic Resource for up to 120 days in the interest of exploring reasonable alternatives.

v. Other reasonable mitigation measures.

g. Upon issuing a Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition of a Significant Historic Resource, the Historic Preservation Officer must post a legal notice in two public places within the City, and mail notice by first class mail to any persons who have requested notice, announcing the demolition, the criteria under which the demolition was approved, the historic significance of the property, and invite the public to provide alternatives to the demolition for consideration by the Commission.

h. Relocated Significant Historic Resources must remain designated to the Resource List unless removed from the Resource List under the provisions of this section.

i. Demolished Significant Historic Resources must be removed from the Resource List using the procedures described in this section and must not be subject to the provisions of this section.

j. Notice of this relocation or demolition of a Locally Significant Resource or National Register Resource must be provided to the State Historic Preservation Office.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.110 Preservation Of Archaeological Resources

The following provisions apply to the preservation of archaeological resources under Oregon State law.

a. Archeological resources must be protected and preserved in place subject to the requirements of federal, state, and local regulations, including the guidelines administered by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and ORS 358.905—358.962.

b. A person may not excavate, injure, destroy or alter an archaeological site or object or remove an archaeological object located on public or private lands unless that activity is authorized by a permit issued under ORS 390.235. A violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.120 Removal Of Significant Historic Resources From The Resource List

A Certificate of Appropriateness signed by the Historic Preservation Officer is required to remove a Significant Historic Resource from the Resource list.

a. A National Register Resource must first be removed from the National Register of Historic Places before an owner may apply for the National Register Resource to be removed from the Resource List.

b. An application to remove a Significant Historic Resource from the Resource List must not be considered for two (2) years after the date of decision for the denial of an application for the relocation or demolition of the same Locally Significant Historic Resource under Section 2.10.090.

c. Any individual or group, may initiate the removal of a Significant Historic Resource by submitting a complete application to the Historic Preservation Officer. The Historic Preservation Officer may establish standards for a complete application.

d. In order to approve an application for the removal of a Locally Significant Historic Resource from the Resource List the Historic Preservation Officer must find the following:

i. The Locally Significant Historic Resource has lost the qualities for which it was originally recognized; and/or

ii. Additional information shows that the Locally Significant Historic Resource no longer satisfies the criteria for recognition or did not satisfy the criteria for recognition at time of listing; and/or

iii. The Building Official declares that the Locally Significant Historic Resource poses a clear and immediate hazard to public safety and must be demolished to abate the unsafe condition.

iv. The designation of the property to the Resource List was imposed on the property at the time of designation and:

1. The owner has retained ownership since the time of the designation; and

2. The owner can demonstrate that the owner objected to the designation on the public record; or

3. Was not provided an opportunity to object to the designation; and

4. The owner requests in writing that the local government remove the property from the Resource List.

e. Significant Historic Resources destroyed by flood, fire, or other natural or accidental act or demolished under the provisions of this section and meeting the definition of “demolished” as defined in Section 2.10.050 shall be removed from the Resource List by the Historic Preservation Officer. Notice of this action and written and photographic evidence documenting the demolition of the Significant Historic Resource must be provided to the Commission at the next regular meeting. This same documentation must be provided to the State Historic Preservation Office. If a Significant Historic Resource is also listed in the National Register, the Historic Preservation Officer must request that the SHPO remove the property from the National Register if not requiring the owner to do so under the provisions of this section.

f. A Significant Historic Resource removed from the Resource List under the provisions of this section is not subject to the provisions of Sections 2.10.060 to 2.10.140.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.130 Appeal Of Decision By The Historic Preservation Officer

An applicant or owner may appeal a decision of the Historic Preservation Officer to the City Council upon the filing of a notice of appeal in writing with the City Manager not later than 30 days after the date of the decision appealed from. Upon receipt of a notice of appeal, the City Council will schedule a hearing to determine the appeal, and give the appellant, the owner and any other persons who participated or provided written comment in the proceeding before the Historic Preservation Officer written notice, by first class mail, of the date and time of the hearing. At the hearing, the appellant, the owner and any other persons who participated or provided written comment in the proceeding before the Historic Preservation Officer shall have the opportunity to present testimony to the City Council.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

2.10.140 Enforcement

Violation of any provision of Sections 2.10.060 to 2.10.140 will be subject to a civil penalty of $500. Each day that a violation continues shall be considered a seperate violation. The provisions of this section are in addition to, and not in lieu of any other remedy that may be available to the City for enforcement.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. No. 1915 on 10/6/2025

No. 1915