Section 2.2.8: “An application shall be submitted to the Planning Director pursuant to the application submittal schedule established by the Planning Director and made available to the public, along with a fee established pursuant to Sec. 2.2.5, Fees. Applications for master subdivision plans, planned developments, site plans, and construction plans shall be reviewed and commented on by the Technical Review Committee (TRC). Provided, however, that the Town shall not accept any such applications relating to any property within the Town’s municipal corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction on which an historic structure (as defined in Article 12) has been demolished (as defined in Article 12) within the immediately preceding forty-eight (48) months, measured from the date of the Town’s final inspection of such demolition activities pursuant to the North Carolina State Building Code.”
Section 12.2 gives the definition of historic structure as:
“Any structure that is:
1) Individually listed
Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places (a listing maintained by the U.S. Department of Interior or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register);
2) Listed as a contributing structure
Listed as a contributing structure in the National Register of Historic Places as identified in the National Register Nomination for the Apex Historic District (1994); the National Register Nomination for the Apex Historic District Boundary Increase (1995); and the National Register Nomination for the Apex Historic District Boundary Increase II (2001);
3) Certified
Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the significance of a registered district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district;
4) State inventory
Individually listed in the state inventory of historic places;
5) County register
Listed in the Wake County Register of Historic Places;
6) Local inventory
Individually listed in a local inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs that have been certified:
a) By an approved state program as determined by the Secretary of the Interior; or
b) Directly by the Secretary of the Interior in states without approved programs.”
Section 12.2 gives the definition of demolition as: “The act of razing, dismantling, removing, or otherwise altering a building or structure, or portion thereof, to the ground level.”