Titusville, FL Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Titusville Code § 29-116, LDR Ch. 29 Art. VI
- Commemorative properties
- Excluded unless exceptionally significant on their own
- Designation moratorium
- 120 days, no permits, alterations or demolition
- Owner consent
- Required for individual designation, § 29-117(b)(1)
- Program
- Titusville Register of Historic Places, Certified Local Government
Summary
Titusville's Historic Preservation Board can add a building, site or landscape feature to the Titusville Register of Historic Places under Sec. 29-116, and a property that is "primarily commemorative in nature" ordinarily does not qualify unless its design, age, tradition or symbolic value gives it exceptional significance on its own.
Sec. 29-116. - Historic designation criteria.Consistent with the criteria established by the National Register of Historic Places, the Historic Preservation Board shall recommend for designation places, buildings, structures, objects, landscape features, archaeological sites, archaeological zones, and other improvements as historic sites, archaeological sites or zones. ... (g)Other criteria considerations. Ordinarily cemeteries, birth places, or graves of historical figures, properties owned by religious institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have been moved from their original locations, reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily commemorative in nature and properties that have achieved significance within the past fifty (50) years shall not be considered eligible for the Titusville Register of Historic Places. However, such properties will qualify for designation if they are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria, or if they fall within the following categories: ... (5)A property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its own exceptional significance; or
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 54 Update 1 | Land Development Regulations: Supplement 19 Update 1 | Technical Manuals: Supplement 10 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 29-116 of Titusville's Land Development Regulations sets the criteria the Historic Preservation Board applies before recommending a place, building, structure, object, landscape feature or archaeological site or zone for local historic designation, consistent with the National Register of Historic Places framework. A property has to be significant in Titusville's history, architecture, archaeology or culture, retain integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship or association, and meet at least one of several criteria: association with a historically significant event, association with a significant person, distinguished design and construction, or the potential to yield important historical or archaeological information.
" Any of those can still qualify, though, if they are an integral part of a district that otherwise meets the criteria, or if they fall into specific listed exceptions: a commemorative property whose design, age, tradition or symbolic value has invested it with exceptional significance on its own, a birthplace or grave with no better-associated site, or a property achieving significance within the past fifty years if that significance is exceptional. Once a designation report is filed, Sec. 29-117 imposes an immediate moratorium: the property owner cannot erect, alter, restore, move or demolish any structure on the site, and the City will not issue permits for it, until final action on the designation or one hundred twenty days passes, whichever comes first.
Violations & Fines
Altering, moving or demolishing a structure that is the subject of a pending designation report before the City completes its review, or before the 120-day moratorium under Sec. 29-117(e)-(f) expires, is prohibited, and the City will not issue a building permit for the work in the meantime. Work on an already-designated historic resource without an approved certificate of appropriateness is a separate violation handled through the Historic Preservation Officer's review process.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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