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It shall be the duty of the department to provide for the preparation and storage of current plats and descriptions of all city roads and of such other highways as the city may from time to time locate upon public lands within the city. The plats and descriptions shall be kept on file with the department. (1999 Code)
The city council is authorized to enter into agreements with other governmental entities with respect to the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation or vacation of limited access facilities or other public ways to facilitate the purposes of this section. (1999 Code)
The city may acquire private or public property or property rights for limited access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation, in the same manner as it now or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire such property or property rights in connection with highways, roads and streets within the city. All property rights so acquired may be in fee simple or in any lesser estate or interest. In connection with the acquisition of property or property rights for any limited access facility or portion thereof or service road in connection therewith, the city may, in its discretion, acquire an entire lot, block or tract of land if, by so doing, the interests of the public will be best served, even though said entire lot, block, or tract is not immediately needed for the right of way proper. (1999 Code)
The highway authorities of the city are authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain and provide limited access facilities for public use whenever such authorities are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future, will justify such special facilities. The highway authorities of the city may also exercise, relative to limited access facilities, any and all additional authority now or hereafter vested in them relative to public highways within their respective jurisdictions. Such authorities may regulate, restrict or prohibit the use of such limited access facilities by pedestrians, animals or the various classes of vehicles or traffic. (1999 Code)
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