Florissant, MO Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

460 lays out how a Landmark or Historic District nomination reaches designation. An application can come from an LHDC member, a City Council member, or the property's owner of record, filed on a form available from the City Clerk. If the LHDC or a Council member initiates the nomination rather than the owner, the Commission must hand-deliver or send certified mail to every owner of record on file with the St. Louis County Recorder of Deeds at least twenty-one days before the public hearing, and post notice at City Hall.

Where the owners themselves do not apply or consent, an individual Landmark nomination can still proceed only with a five-sevenths vote of the LHDC and an eight-member vote of the City Council; a Historic District needs the same two votes unless sixty percent of the district's property owners consent. " The other criteria reach architectural style, craftsmanship, association with significant people or events, and archaeological potential, and, for districts, whether the area forms a definable, historically or aesthetically linked grouping. A property with no building or gravesite, such as a historic battle or meeting site, can still qualify if the LHDC and Council find it historically significant enough to justify keeping it undeveloped.

From the date a nomination is first presented to the LHDC until the City Council issues a final decision, the Building Commissioner may not issue a building or demolition permit for the nominated property, capped at one hundred eighty days, unless the Commission itself authorizes the work.