§ 13.2. Definitions.

Words not defined herein shall be construed to have the meaning given in Article II of the zoning ordinance of the City of Cartersville, or, by Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. The words "shall" and "must" are mandatory, and the words "may" and "should" are permissive. As used in this article, the following terms shall be defined as follows:

Appearance. The outward aspect that is visible to the public.

Appropriate. Fitting to the context of a site, neighborhood or community.

Appurtenances. The visible, functional, or ornamental objects accessory to and part of buildings.

Architectural concept. The basic aesthetic idea of a structure, or group of structures, including the site, signs, building and landscape development that produces the architectural character.

Architectural feature. A significant element of a structure or site.

Attractive. Having qualities that give satisfaction to numerous, but not necessarily all, observers.

Building. A building is a structure created to shelter any form of human activity, including, but not limited to, a house, store, barn, church, and hotel.

Building massing. The visual and physical mass of a building.

Directory signs. A freestanding sign containing a directory for multiple commercial businesses.

External design feature. The general arrangement of any portion of structures or landscaping, including the type, and texture of the materials, the type of roof, windows, doors, lights, signs and fixtures of portions which are open to the public view.

Exterior architectural features. The architectural style, general design and general arrangement of the exterior of a structure and site, including, but not limited to, the kind or texture of the building material and the type and style of all windows, doors, signs, facade, landscaping and other architectural fixtures, features, details, or elements relative thereto.

Harmony. A quality that represent an attractive arrangement of parts, as in an arrangement of various architectural elements.

Landscape. Plant materials, topography and other physical elements combined in relation to one another and to structures including pavement.

Logic of design. Widely accepted principals and criteria in the solution of design problems.

Main Street overlay district. The boundaries of this overlay district include the areas outlined in Exhibit "A" in Article XXV.

Material change in appearance. A change in a structure or a parking lot within said districts that exceed ordinary maintenance or repair or requires either a sign permit, building permit or land disturbance permit such as, but not limited to: the erection, alteration, restoration, addition, or removal of any structure, sign or parking lot.

Monument sign. A freestanding sign supported by an internal structure framework or integrated into landscaping or other solid structural features other than support poles.

Ordinary maintenance or repair. Exempt from inclusion in "material change in appearance" defined above. Ordinary maintenance or repair of any exterior of any structure, parking lot or sign in or on an overlay district property to correct deterioration, decay, damage, or to sustain the existing form, and that does not involve a material change in outer design, material or appearance thereof. Painting, reroofing, resurfacing, replacement or a broken sign face and other similar types of ordinary maintenance shall be deemed ordinary maintenance and repair.

Overlay district. A geographically definable area, possessing a significant concentration or linkage of sites, buildings, structures, object of landscapes, including the adjacent area necessary for the property treatment thereof, united by plan and/or physical development. An overlay district shall further mean an area designated as such by the mayor and city council of the City of Cartersville.

Proportion. Balanced relationship of parts of a building, signs and other structures, and landscape to each other and to the whole.

Scale. Proportional relationships of the size of parts to one another and to humans.

Street hardware. Objects other than buildings that are part of the streetscape. Examples are: street light fixtures, utility poles, traffic lights and their fixtures, benches, litter containers, planting containers, fire hydrants, etc.

Underlying zoning. The zoning category established with respect to a parcel of property by the mayor and city council of the City of Cartersville.

Where any existing zoning within the overlay district allows for mining use or any other specific use, such allowed use shall continue until such time as the owner of the real property applies to change the zoning and then the only portion of the real property that will change its existing zoning use will be the specific portion of any real property that is included within any approved application.