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HAWKEYE OUTDOOR ADVERT. v. BD. OF ADJUSTMENT

No. 83-955.

356 N.W.2d 544 (1984)

HAWKEYE OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC., Appellant, v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT OF the CITY OF ALGONA, Iowa, Appellee. HAWKEYE OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC., Appellant, v. CITY OF ALGONA, Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice C. Breen of Price, Goode, Breen & Breen, Fort Dodge, for appellant.

Eric J. Thomsen and Gregg A. Buchanan, Algona, for appellee.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P.J., and McGIVERIN, LARSON, SCHULTZ, and WOLLE, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves a request for a variance to allow billboards to exceed a height limitation in a sign ordinance of the City of Algona, Iowa.

Plaintiff Hawkeye Outdoor Advertising, Inc. owned two billboards in Algona. The billboards were less than twenty feet in height. In 1979 a tornado destroyed both of them, and in 1980 Algona officials issued Hawkeye a permit to reconstruct them. The permit stated in part, "The owner agrees that...

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