In order to promote and enhance the public safety, general welfare
and convenience, it is necessary that highway setback lines be established
in the Town of Holland, outside the limits of incorporated cities
and villages, along all public highways, at the intersections of highways
with highways and highways with railways as hereafter provided. If
a highway in the future is located on a Town boundary, this article
is not intended to be effective on the side within the city or village,
nor on the side within another county where the highway is located
on a county boundary.
As used in this article and for its purposes, the following
words have the meanings indicated:
CENTER LINE
A line connecting points on highways from which setback lines
shall be measured, at any point on the highway.
JUNCTION
The point upon which two highway center lines, as herein
established, or a highway center line and the center line of a railway
right-of-way, meet.
SETBACK LINES
Lines established along highways at specified distances from
the center line, which buildings or structures shall be set back of,
or outside of, and within which they may not be placed except as hereinafter
provided. "Within the setback line" means between the setback line
and the highway.
SURVEYS (also PLANS)
Surveys and plans as referred to hereinafter shall be considered
as accepted by the County or Town Board if County or Town funds have
been used in the improvement carried out with such plans.
TO PLACE
The locating of a building or structure in a particular situation,
whether by original construction or erection or by moving a building
or structure to the particular site.
TRAFFIC LANE
A strip of roadway intended to accommodate a single line
of moving vehicles.
Highways are classified and the position of the center line
shall be determined as follows:
A. Class A highways: state and federal highways that have been improved
according to the surveys and plans of the State Highway Commission
or plans accepted by the County Board. The center line is the center
of the pavement or surfacing or, if there is none, the center of the
graded roadbed, or the center of the directional separator if the
highway is to be paved as a double-divided road.
B. Class B highways. For county highways that have not been improved
according to engineering surveys or plans accepted by the County Board
or its agent, the County Highway Committee, the center line is at
the midway point between fences or other markers indicating the boundary
on opposite sides thereof. For county highways that have been improved
according to engineering surveys and plans accepted by the County
Board or its agent, the County Highway Committee, the center line
is the center of the surfacing or pavement or, if there is none, the
center of the graded roadbed.
C. Class C highways. For Town roads not otherwise classified that have
not been improved in accordance with engineering surveys and plans
accepted by the County or Town Board, the center line is the midway
point between fences or other markers indicating the boundaries of
the highway on opposite sides thereof. For Town roads not otherwise
classified that have been improved in accordance with engineering
surveys and plans accepted by the County or Town Board, the center
line is at the center of the surfacing or pavement or, if there is
none, the center of the graded roadbed. For roads and streets in platted
subdivisions not otherwise classified, the center line is at the midpoint
between the right-of-way lines as shown on the recorded plat.