Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 120 - Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission
Chapter 10 - Zoning Regulations for the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning District
Subchapter 11 - Historical Preservation And Landmark Board Of Review
Section 120:10-11-1.1 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in OAC 120:10-5-10.2, OAC 120:10-5-10.1 and this Subchapter shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Adaptive use" means the restrained alteration of a historical or architectural resource to accommodate uses for which the resource was not originally constructed but in such a way so as to maintain the general historical and architectural character.

"Archaeological resources" means areas or locations occupied as residences or utilized by human (historic or prehistoric) for a sufficient length of time to construct features or deposit artifacts, which may remain in greater or lesser degrees of preservation in order and which may lend to the increase of knowledge of man about his own development.

"Board" means Historical Preservation and Landmark Board of Review of the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission.

"Building materials" means the physical characteristic which create the aesthetic and structural appearance of the resource, including but not limited to a consideration of the texture and style of the components of their combinations, such as brick, stone, shingle, wood, concrete, or stucco.

"Certificate of appropriateness" means the official document issued by the Historical Preservation and Landmark Board of Review approving and/or concurring in the application for permission to construct, demolish, relocate, reconstruct, restore, or alter any structure designated by the authority of these regulations.

"Conservation" means the sustained use and appearance of a resource essentially in its existing state.

"Detail" means architectural aspects which, due to a particular treatment, draw attention to certain parts or features of a structure.

"Height" means the vertical dimension of a given structure, building or monument.

"Historical district" means a geographically definable area with a concentration of linkage of significant sites, buildings, structures, or monuments that are unified historically, architecturally or archaeologically.

"Historical resources" means sites, districts, structures, buildings or monuments that represent facets of history in the locality, state or nation; places where significant historical or unusual events occurred; places associated with a personality or group important to the past.

"Landmark" means the individual structure, building, site, or monument which contributes to the historical, architectural, or archaeological heritage of the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning District or State of Oklahoma.

"Ordinary maintenance and repair" means any work performed in an historical zoning district that does not require a Certificate of Appropriateness by law, where the purpose of the work is to correct any deterioration or damage to any part of a structure and to restore the structure as near to its condition prior to the occurrence of the damage.

"Preservation" means the adaptive use, conservation, protection, reconstruction, restoration, rehabilitation, or stabilization of sites, buildings, districts, structures, or monuments.

"Proportion" means the relative physical sizes within and between buildings and building components.

"Protection" means the security of a resource as it exists through the establishment of the mechanisms of these regulations.

"Reconstruction" means the process of recreating or reproducing by new construction of all or part of the form and detail of a vanished resource as it appeared at a specific period of time.

"Rehabilitation" means the process of returning a historical or architectural resource to a state of efficiency or soundness by repair or alteration designed to encourage its continued use but without noticeable changing the exterior appearance of the resource.

"Restoration" means the process of accurately recovering all or part of the form and detail of a resource and its settings as it appears at a particular period of time by means of removal of later work and the replacement of missing earlier work.

"Rhythm" means a regular pattern of shapes including, but not limited to, windows, doors, projections, and heights, within a building, structure, or monument, or a group of same.

"Scale" means the harmonious proportion of parts of a building, structure, or monument to one another and to the human figure.

"Setting" means the surrounding buildings, structures, or monuments, or landscaping which provides visual aesthetic, or auditory quality of the historic or architectural resources.

"Shape" means the physical configuration of structures of buildings, or monuments and their components parts including, but not limited to roofs, doors, windows, and facades.

"Significant characteristics of historical or archaeological resources" means the artifacts present, the information to be gathered or the potential for revealing hitherto unknown or unclear details of a culture, period or structure.

"Significant characteristics of historical or architectural resources" means those characteristics which are important to or expressive of the historical, architectural, or cultural quality and integrity of the resource and its setting, and which include, but are not limited to building materials, detail, height, mass, proportion, rhythm, scale, set back, setting, shape, street accessories and workmanship.

"Stabilization" means the process of applying measures designated to halt deterioration and to establish the structural stability of an unsafe or deteriorated resource while maintaining the essential form as it presently exists without noticeably changing the exterior appearance of the resource.

"Street accessories" means those sidewalk or street fixtures which provide cleanliness, comfort, direction or safety, are compatible in design to their surroundings, and include but are not limited to, trash receptacles, benches, signs, lights, hydrants, and landscaping, including but not limited to trees, shrubbery and planters.

"Structures" means anything constructed or erected the use of which requires permanent location on the ground or which is attached to something having a permanent location on the ground. This includes but is not limited to, building, fences, walls, driveways, sidewalks and parking areas.

Added at 26 Ok Reg 2819, eff 6-22-09 (emergency); Added at 27 Ok Reg 912, eff 5-13-10