<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 38-62. - Ordinance procedure.</div>
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               (a)
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               The governing body may, as part of a zoning ordinance enacted or amended pursuant
               to this division, designate (and from time to time amend) one or more historic districts
               within the area subject to the ordinance. Such ordinance may treat historic districts
               either as a separate use districts classification or as districts which overlap other
               zoning districts. Where historic districts are designated as separate use districts,
               the zoning ordinances may include among permitted uses those uses found by the resources
               commission to have existed during the period sought to be restored or preserved, or
               to be compatible with the authentic restoration or preservation of the district. No
               historic district shall be designated until:
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               (1)
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               The local planning board shall have made an investigation and report on the historic
               significance of the buildings, structures, features, sites or surroundings, evidence
               of which is above or below the surface of the ground or water, included in any such
               proposed district, and shall have prepared a description of the boundaries of such
               district.
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               (2)
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               The department of cultural resources, acting through such agent or employee as may
               be designated by its secretary, shall have made an analysis of and recommendations
               concerning such report and description of proposed boundaries. Failure of the department
               to submit its analysis and recommendations to the municipal governing body within
               30 days after a written request for such analysis has been mailed to it shall relieve
               the governing body of any responsibility for awaiting such analysis, and such body
               may at any time thereafter take any necessary action to adopt or amend its zoning
               ordinance.
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               (b)
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               The governing body may also, in its discretion refer the planning board's report and
               proposed boundaries to the resources commission or other interested body for its recommendations
               prior to taking action to amend the zoning ordinance.
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               (c)
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               On receipt of these reports and recommendations, the governing body may proceed in
               the same manner as would otherwise be required for the adoption or amendment of any
               appropriate zoning ordinance provisions.
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               (Ord. No. 18594, Â§ 3(A)(2), 12-2-86)
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