40.530.060    Legal Nonconforming Structures and Signs

A.    Legal nonconforming structures may be altered, expanded or replaced only if such alteration, expansion or replacement is fully consistent with current applicable requirements, except as to those standards related to the legally established nonconformity of the structure, and if one (1) of the following is met:

1.    Such alteration, expansion or replacement does not increase the extent of structural nonconformity; or

2.    Such alteration, expansion or replacement is necessary and required to make the structure safe for occupancy as required by building, health, fire, or other applicable standards.

B.    Legal nonconforming signs may be relocated to a nonresidential zone of equal or greater intensity to the zone within which the sign is currently located when necessary due to the acquisition of land by the public for right-of-way or other public use as follows:

1.    Approval of a Type I site plan review for relocation of a sign from the public land immediately to the rear of its existing location, subject to the provisions of Chapter 40.310. Such approval shall be valid for a period of seven (7) years;

2.    Approval of a Type II site plan review for relocation of a sign from the public land to property up to six hundred (600) feet of the original site along the same roadway, subject to the provisions of Chapter 40.310. Such approval shall be valid for a period of seven (7) years.