House File 2126 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  QUIRK


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate, Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the location of advertising devices within the
  2    adjacent area of a primary highway.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 5414YH 82
  5 dea/nh/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 306C.10, subsection 19, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    19.  "Unzoned commercial or industrial area" means those
  1  4 areas not zoned by state or local law, regulation, or
  1  5 ordinance, which are occupied by one or more commercial or
  1  6 industrial activities, and the land along the interstate
  1  7 highways and primary highways for a distance of seven hundred
  1  8 fifty nine hundred feet immediately adjacent to the
  1  9 activities.  All measurements shall be from the outer edge of
  1 10 the regularly used buildings, parking lots, storage, or
  1 11 processing areas of the activities and shall be parallel to
  1 12 the edge of pavement of the highway.  Measurements shall not
  1 13 be from the property line of the activities unless that
  1 14 property line coincides with the limits of the activities.
  1 15 Unzoned commercial or industrial areas shall not include land
  1 16 on the opposite side of the highway from the commercial or
  1 17 industrial activities.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  Section 306C.13, subsection 3, Code 2007, is
  1 19 amended to read as follows:
  1 20    3.  Advertising devices located within the adjacent area of
  1 21 primary highways shall not be erected or maintained closer to
  1 22 another advertising device facing in the same direction than
  1 23 three hundred two hundred seventy=five feet if outside the
  1 24 corporate limits of a municipality.  No advertising device,
  1 25 other than those excepted or permitted by subsections 4, 5, or
  1 26 6 of this section, shall be located within the triangular area
  1 27 formed by a line connecting two points each one hundred feet
  1 28 back from the point where the street right=of=way lines of the
  1 29 main=traveled way and the intersecting street meet, or would
  1 30 meet, if extended.
  1 31                           EXPLANATION
  1 32    This bill eases restrictions on the erection of outdoor
  1 33 advertising devices within the adjacent area of a primary
  1 34 highway.  Current law permits the erection of advertising
  1 35 devices within an unzoned commercial and industrial area,
  2  1 which is defined as an area not zoned by state or local law
  2  2 that is occupied by one or more commercial or industrial
  2  3 activities, and the land along the highway for a distance of
  2  4 750 feet immediately adjacent to such activities.  The bill
  2  5 amends that definition to include the land along the highway
  2  6 for a distance of 900 feet from a commercial or industrial
  2  7 activity.  The bill also decreases the minimum required
  2  8 distance between advertising devices facing in the same
  2  9 direction from 300 feet to 275 feet if located in an
  2 10 unincorporated area.
  2 11 LSB 5414YH 82
  2 12 dea/nh/14