NAC410.730. Unacceptable commercial or industrial zones: Conforming areas within unacceptable zones.

     1. The Department will allow existing outdoor advertising signs to remain and new outdoor advertising signs to be erected in a conforming area within an unacceptable commercial or industrial zone.

     2. Except as provided in subsection 3, the Department will determine the extent of a conforming area by applying the Department’s criteria for unzoned commercial or industrial areas as set forth in NAC 410.320 to those areas within the unacceptable commercial or industrial zones having existing or contemplated commercial or industrial activities.

     3. A conforming area will not be extended beyond the commercial or industrial zone.

     4. The Department will not consider a commercial or industrial activity established within or as an adjunct to a residence to be a commercial or industrial activity for purposes of defining a conforming area if the Department determines that the activity is insubstantial.

     (Added to NAC by Dep’t of Transportation, eff. 12-16-82)