§ 71.047 LIMITED ACCESS FACILITY SYSTEM.
   (A)   A system of limited access facilities, consisting of the streets, avenues, boulevards, and ways and parts of streets, avenues, boulevards, and ways hereinafter described is established and created within the corporate limits of the city as now existing or as the same may be hereafter extended, and in recognition of the general use the streets, avenues, boulevards, ways, and parts thereof, and of the wear and destruction of the same by heavy general traffic thereon, including passenger automobiles, buses, trucks, and other vehicles and to the extent that the costs of acquisition of rights-of-way and property necessary in the establishment of the limited access facilities exceed the benefits to property abutting thereon, such limited access facilities are declared to be improvements of a general nature, and such costs, to the extent that they exceed the benefits to property abutting thereon, are declared to be costs of a general nature.
   (B)   The following streets, avenues, boulevards, and ways and parts of streets, avenues, boulevards, and ways within the corporate limits of the city, as now existing or as the same may be hereafter extended, are designated as limited access facilities and as arterial highways. The limited access facilities are streets or highways especially designed for through traffic, entrance into which at intersections may be limited, by requiring all entering vehicles to be brought to a complete stop, and the City Council may otherwise protect the right-of-way of vehicles thereon, the arterial highways being described as follows:
      (1)   Beginning at the south side of the intersection made by the conjunction of North 12th Avenue and Waco Street running west therefrom, thence south on 12th Avenue to Mississippi Street;
      (2)   Beginning with the intersection of South 12th Avenue and West Mississippi Street, thence east on West Mississippi Street to South 4th Avenue;
      (3)   Beginning with the intersection of West Mississippi Street and South 4th Avenue, thence south on South 4th Avenue to West Alabama; and
      (4)   Beginning with the intersection of South 4th Avenue and West Alabama Street, thence east on West Alabama Street to the M-K-T Railroad track.
   (C)   The use of limited access facilities within the city shall be regulated and controlled by the traffic ordinances of the city as now existing or hereafter enacted or amended.
   (D)   Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to affect any zoning ordinances or a part thereof relating to the construction or use of improvements on property abutting on any limited access facility.
(Prior Code, § 71.046)