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69 Landmarks Commission 165.02 (o) "Historic Register buildings" means those buildings listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. (p) Infill buildings means any new building to be constructed on a site with one or more of its walls adjoining buildings on adjacent sites. (q) Landmark means any individual building or structure determined by the Commission as historically or architecturally significant. (r) "Landmark District" means any Historic or Landmark District as established by the Commission pursuant to Chapter 165 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North Olmsted, Ohio, as amended from time to time. (s) "Landmarks" means those things set out in Section 165.05. (t) "Maintenance" means repair or replacement of an existing product, finish or material without making any alteration. (u) "Massing" means the interaction of height, width, depth, and proportion, thus forming a visual image of size. (v) "Materials" means brick, wood, stone, metal, glass, etc., which can represent themselves or can be formed to represent another material; e.g., vinyl siding is typically formed to reference wood clapboard. (w) "Member" means a person who has been appointed to serve as a member of the Landmarks Commission. (x) "Orientation" means the juxtaposition of components and elements to each other as well as the juxtaposition of the image as a whole to its environment. (y) "Ornamentation" means an applied and incorporated decoration used to embellish the building. Examples of ornamentation are cornices, window hoods, columns, quoins, etc. (z) "Owner" means a person or persons who are the legal owners of record of a building site, landmark, building or other structure. (aa) "Pattern/rhythm" means the repetition of forms, materials, texture, elements, etc. in the image. (bb) "Preservation" means the process of sustaining, restoring or reconstructing the form and extent of a landmark, building or other structure essentially as it now exists or as it existed in the past. While significant rebuilding is not contemplated, owners of buildings or other structures in Landmark Districts should be encouraged to restore or reconstruct landmarks which have been lost to the City and its residents. As a minimum, further deterioration should be controlled and provisions for the continued structural stability of landmarks is a primary goal. (cc) "Proportion" means the relationship in size, dimension, scale, etc. of the various elements of the building to themselves and the image as a whole. (dd) "Rationale" means the process of logical reasoning in preparing correct procedures in establishing criteria for preparation and presentation of documented evidence for properties designated as landmarks. (ee) "Reconstruction" means the process of rebuilding a replica of a certain building or facility no longer in existence. (ff) "Recycling" means the process of adoptive reuse or new functions for older structures that would otherwise be demolished. July 2018 Replacement