Only projects which lay within the Historic District Zoning Areas and which involve new construction or additions to existing structures and any changes that affect the exterior of a building. Exterior changes include windows and window treatments, doors, building trim and any building element that changes in kind, form or shape.

If your project is affected by one of these changes, you must file a separate HDC application and submit drawings and / or photographs of the work element. Manufacture's cut sheets also must be submitted. All information shall be submitted with eleven (11) copies. The Commission meets once month and the meetings are publicly posted and advertised. So plan ahead, it adds at least an extra month to the review process!

That depends.... Many factors enter into the length of time a permit application takes. Accuracy and completeness of information have a major effect on application review time, as well as the fluctuations in the seasonal workload. Incomplete zoning information can hold up an application for days, and this is the first review done on virtually every application. 

Interior renovations to single-family dwellings (SFD) bypass a zoning review, so with adequate building information, a permit should be ready in within a short period of time. Electric, plumbing and mechanical permits are submitted online.