Every nonconforming structure or use shall be completely removed or altered to conform to the regulations of this chapter within the following specified periods of time:
(A) Where the property is unimproved, one year.
(B) Where the property is developed only with structures of a type for which the Building Code does not require a building permit, three years.
(C) Where the property is developed only with structures which contain less than 100 square feet of gross floor area, three years.
(D) Static billboard structures, five years.
(E) Static billboard structures within 500 feet of freeway, 90 days after the freeway becomes a landscaped freeway as defined in this chapter.
(F) A nonconforming use of a conforming structure, five years; provided, however, that for a nonconforming adult business use, an amusement, entertainment or burlesque use, a dance hall or pavilion use, a nightclub use, or for the storage use of firearms, ammunition or explosives, of a conforming structure, the period shall be one year. Specific provisions pertaining to the one-year amortization period for adult businesses and potential extension of the one-year amortization period are found at §§ 155.401, 155.603, and 155.604.
(G) All other nonconforming structures, including oil and gas wells, 20 years.
(H) Signs, which move or which have moving parts, or flashing lights, five years.
(I) All other nonconforming signs, 15 years, excepting as provided in Cal. Bus. and Prof. Code §§ 5497 and 5498 of Chapter 2.5 (commencing with § 5490) is added to Cal. Bus. and Prof. Code Division 3.
(J) Open storage yards, two years.
(K) Notwithstanding the time periods set forth in this section, as to parcels with frontage on Telegraph Road, any use on any such parcel, which existed and was conforming as of the effective date of Ordinance 952, which use became nonconforming as a result of the adoption of Ordinance 952, may remain in place indefinitely.
(L) Notwithstanding the time period set forth in this section, as to parcels with frontage on Telegraph Road, any uses on any such parcel, which existed and was conforming as of the effective date of Ordinance 967, which use became nonconforming as a result of the adoption of Ordinance 952, may remain in place indefinitely.
(M) Notwithstanding the time period set forth in this section, a static billboard previously approved through a conditional use permit, which existed and was conforming as of the effective date of Ord. 1092, which then became non-conforming as a result of the adoption of Ord. 1092, may remain in place and removal shall not be required on the basis of this nonconformity.
('64 Code, § 51.14) (Am. Ord. 358, passed 7-10-69; Am. Ord. 700, passed 9-11-86; Ord. 732, passed 6-9-88; Am. Ord. 801, passed 10-3-91; Am. Ord. 952, passed 2-26-04; Am. Ord. 967, passed 3-24-05; Am. Ord. 979, passed 12-14-06; Am. Ord. 978, passed 1-11-07; Am. Ord. 1092, passed 5-24-18; Am. Ord. 1118, passed 9-7-21) Penalty, see § 10.97