For the purpose of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT. That area lying between the project right-of-way limits and the roadway right-of-way limits. The village will permit the state and the county to enter within this area to perform all necessary construction operations in connection with this improvement.
ENCROACHMENT. Any building, fence, sign, or other structure or object of any kind (with the exception of utilities, public road signs, and municipally-owned parking meters) which is placed, located, or maintained in, on, under, or over any portion of the roadway right-of-way.
PERMISSIBLE ENCROACHMENT. Existing awnings, marquees, advertising signs, and similar overhanging structures supported from buildings immediately adjacent to the roadway right-of-way at locations where there is a continuous sidewalk extending to and through the frontage of the building line, and which do not impair the free and safe flow of traffic on the highway, may be permitted, upon the approval of the State Department of Public Works and Buildings, to remain under a permit issued by the State Department of Public Works and Buildings.
ROADWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY. Those areas existing or acquired by dedication or by fee simple for highway purposes; also the areas acquired by temporary easement during the time the easement is in effect.
('79 Code, § 912) (Ord. 1983-O-6, passed 4-19-83)