§ 27-9. Procedure for review of applications and plan.

A. 

Applications for a building permit to construct, alter, move or demolish any place, designated as an historic landmark site or located within an historic landmark district, shall be made to the Department of Buildings pursuant to Chapter 2 of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, except as provided hereafter. A location map and plan drawing shall be submitted with the application. The application shall identify the structure as either a designated historic landmark, an historic site, or a structure within an historic landmark district, and shall include the following information:

(1) 

Name, address and telephone number of applicant;

(2) 

Location and photographs of the subject property and properties within the immediate vicinity;

(3) 

Elevation drawings of proposed changes, if any;

(4) 

Perspective drawings, including relationship to adjacent properties, if available;

(5) 

Samples of materials to be used;

(6) 

Where the proposal includes signs or lettering, a scale drawing showing the type of lettering to be used, all dimensions and colors, a description of materials to be used, method of illumination, and a plan showing the sign's location on the property, and

(7) 

Any other information as requested by the Building Commissioner.

B. 

The Commissioner shall not issue a building permit until the Commission has issued a certificate of appropriateness. If the Commission denies a certificate of appropriateness, no building permit shall be issued.

C. 

If the Commission issues a certificate of appropriateness, the Building Department shall review the application for a permit in accordance with its usual procedures and standards and shall make its determination based on same.

D. 

Every owner or other person in charge of a landmark building, structure, site or object or a building, structure, site or object in an historic landmark district shall keep in good and proper repair the property and all portions thereof which, if not so maintained, may cause or tend to cause the property to deteriorate, decay or become damaged or otherwise to fall into a state of disrepair.