National Advertising Co. v. Department of Highways

QUINN, Chief Justice.

The two questions raised in this appeal are (1) whether the control of outdoor advertising signs located within a home-rule municipality along roads of the state highway system is a matter of exclusively local or exclusively statewide concern, or is a matter of mixed local and statewide concern, and (2) whether the State Department of Highways (department) should be es-topped from denying a permit for an outdoor advertising sign because a home-rule municipality already had issued a building permit for the sign. The district court held that the control of outdoor…