1. The term “controlled access facility” means a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a controlled right or easement of access, light, air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such controlled access facility or for any other reason.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 306A.2)
2. “Points of access” shall consist of access ways from abutting property to the adjacent traffic lane or roadway and their location shall be expressed in terms of “stations,” each representing a distance of 100 feet measure along the centerline of the controlled access facility from the points of reference stated in Section 140.04. Such measurements shall refer to the center of the access ways which shall be a maximum of 18 feet for agricultural purposes and a maximum of 35 feet in width for commercial purposes, and 80 feet in width for public street purposes.
3. There are four “types of access” to Iowa Highway 965 allowed, as follows:
A. Agricultural Entrance – an entrance into a farm for the purpose of doing agricultural work, but it is not the intention of the Council to allow any future access points to fields, only to grant a modification of existing access, if the applicant is able to combine a proposed access with another access.
B. Commercial Entrance – an entrance into commercial area, which will be allowed only under circumstances that will combine the said entrance with a special public road connection.
C. Residential Access – an entrance into a residential property, but it is not the intent of the Council to allow any more of these, except under such circumstances as the entrance could be combined with another special public road connection.
D. Special Public Road Connection – a connection to Highway 965 which allows for maximum use of access points to enable adjoining subdivisions to enter onto Highway 965.