Contra Costa County |
Ordinance Code |
Title 8. ZONING |
Division 82. GENERAL REGULATIONS |
Chapter 82-12. SETBACKS |
§ 82-12.406. Outdoor advertising.
(a)
Prohibition. No structure used for outdoor advertising, including fences or gateways on which advertising is placed, shall be constructed or maintained between the highway setback lines and the boundary line of any state highway or public road. All structures and all outdoor advertising now in existence between any highway setback lines and the boundary line of any highway or public road shall be removed and placed beyond the highway setback lines within twelve months after the effective date of this section; the maintenance of any structure used for outdoor advertising between highway boundary lines and highway setback lines after that time shall be a violation of this section. No outdoor advertising structure or sign shall hereafter be erected, located on, moved into, or maintained in any single-family residential district, multiple family residential district, agricultural district, residential suburban district, transition residential-agricultural district, or forestry recreation district.
(b)
Exception. The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to advertising signs placed on a bus shelter in accordance with the outdoor advertising ordinance (Chapter 88-6) and with an encroachment permit.
(Ord. 93-30 § 3, 1993: prior code § 8111(c): Ord. 382).