A. Property Acquisition: The highway authorities of the county 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 such authorities are now or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire such property or property rights in connection with highways, roads and streets within their respective jurisdictions. 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 county 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 the entire lot, block or tract is not immediately needed for the right of way. (1988 Code § 9.04.050)
B. Control And Maintenance: The highway authorities of the county 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 county may also exercise these powers relative to highways, roads or streets 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. (1988 Code § 9.04.060; amd. 2005 Code)