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2000-1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 40 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA (1988) BY AMENDING SECTION 40-53 THEREOF PERTAINING TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL OF CERTAIN CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS IN HISTORIC DISTRICTS. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth. Virginia: 1. That Section 40-53 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia (1988) be amended and reordained to read as follows: Sec. 40-53. Application for certificate of appropriateness. Application for a certificate of appropriateness to externally repair, maimain, paint, locate, construct, reconstruct, alter or demolish a building, structure or any other improvement in the historic district shall be made to the secretary of the commission of architectural review or the secretary's designee in writing by the owner of such building, structure or property. None of the acts may be carried out without a certificate of appropriateness. The application for a certificate of appropriateness shall be accompanied by plans and specifications of the part or parts of the building, structure or other improvement which are or will be subject to public view from a public street, public way or public place. Such plans and specifications shall show the proposed exterior architectural features of such building, structure or improvement which shall include, but shall not necessarily be limited to, the general design, arrangement, texture, materials, planting and color proposed to be used in the external repair, maintenance, painting, location, construction, reconstruction or alteration of the building, structure or improvement and the type of windows, exterior doors, lights, landscaping, parking signs and other exterior fixtures and appurtenances which will be subject to public view fi:om a public way or other public place. The secretary of the commission of architectural review may issue in accord with the provisions of this chapter certain certificates of appropriateness. The secretary's failure to issue such certificate within thirty (30) days shall forward the application to the commission of architectural review. A written report shall accompany any such applicatiom The commission of architectural review may issue a certificate of appropriateness. The secretary shall, in writing, report to the commission of architectural review at each regular meeting on all certificates so issued. The secretary of the commission of architectural review may approve the following items (when colors, materials, types and designs conform with those defined by the commission of architectural review): (a) Paint colors; (b) Exterior doors; (c) Windows;