Hawkeye Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Board of Adjustment of City of Algona

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 the improvements and use of the property will be in accordance with the Ordinances of the City of Algona....” City officials specifically…