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G.S.160A-400.14 permits a delay of up to 180 days where <br /> a historic site or structure is threatened with demolition. A <br /> delay is permissible even in those situations where a <br /> landmark or district has been recommended for designation, <br /> but the Board of Commissioners has not yet acted. The delay <br /> period may be reduced in hardship cases. The delay period is <br /> to be used to see if there is any ways of saving a site or <br /> structure. <br /> 2 . , The Board of Commissioners may enact an ordinance <br /> to prevent the demolition by neglect of any designated <br /> landmark or any structure or building within the <br /> established historic district. Such ordinance shall <br /> provide appropriate safeguards to protect property <br /> owners from undue hardship. <br /> G.B.160A-400.14 permits the Board of Commissioners to <br /> take preventive action, via an ordinance, to keep property <br /> owners from deliberately allowing a site or structure to <br /> deteriorate to the point that he/she achieves its removal <br /> through the natural forces of aging. <br /> 3 . An application for a Certificate of Appropriateness <br /> authorizing the demolition of a building, structure or <br /> site determined by the N.C. State Historic Preservation <br /> Office as having statewide significance as defined in <br /> the criteria of the National Register of Historic Places <br /> may be denied except where the Commission finds that the <br /> owner would suffer extreme hardship or be permanently <br /> deprived of all beneficial use or return by virtue of <br /> the denial. <br /> If a site or structure of statewide significance is <br /> proposed for demolition, the Commission may deny the <br /> application for a Certificate of Appropriateness, provided <br /> the owner would not suffer extreme hardship (G.S.160A- <br /> 400.14) . <br /> Article S. Remedies and Legal Status Provisions <br /> Section 5.1 Remedies <br /> In case any building, structure, site, area or object <br /> designated as a landmark or within a historic district is <br /> about to be demolished, whether as a result of deliberate <br /> neglect or otherwise, materially altered, remodeled, removed <br /> or destroyed, except in compliance with this ordinance, the <br /> Board of Commissioners or the Commission, with the approval <br /> of the Board of Commissioners, may institute any appropriate <br /> action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful demolition, <br />