5960-A REGULATING ENCROACHMENT ON PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY IN THE CITY OF DECATUR, MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

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, M � _ • \ . � � � �'r. \�� ��. ��lb � , � � � �� ORDINANCE NO. � U - � AN ORDINANCE REGULATING ENCROACHMENT ON PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY IN THE CITY OF DECATUR� MAO�N COUNTY, ILLINOIS� WHEREAS, the City of Decatur, Illinois, hereinafter known as the CITY, and S at toaft ois, acting by and through its De aYtment of ��x��s��x� p �, Division of Highways, have entered into an agreement relative to the improvement of East William Street Road (FAS 540, SBI 10, II,L. RT. 105, State Sect ion 12R; City Section 147 C.S. ) from a point 940 feet west of the intersection of East William Street Road and East E1 dorado Street to approximately the southeast oorner of Section 9, Township 16 North, Range 3 East of the 3rd P.M. ; and, WHEREAS, in order to facilitate said improvement, it is necessary for the CITY to adopt an ordinance regul ating encroachments on the right-of-way for said improvement in accordance with the following de- finition: Roadway Right-of-Way is define d as those areas existing or ac- quired by dedication or by fee simple for highv�y purpose s; also, the areas acquired by temporary easement during the time the easement is in effect; Project Right-of-Way is defined as those areas within the pro- ject right-of-way lines established jointly by the CITY, STATE, AND Federal Highway Administration �ich will be free of encroach- ments except as hereinafter defined; Encroachment is defined as any building, fence, sign, or any other structure or object of any kind (with the exception of utilities and public road signs ), which is placed, located or maintained in, on, under or over any portion of the project right-of-way or the roadway right-of-way where no p roject right-of-way line has been established; Pexmissible Encroachment is defined as any existing awning, mar- quee, advertising sign or similar overhanging structure supported from a building i�ediately adjacent to the limits of the platted street where there is a sidewalk extending to the building line and which does not impair the free and safe flow of traffic on the highway; the permissive retention of overhanging signs is not to be construed as being applicable to those signs supported from poles constructed outside the project right-of-way line and not confine d by adjacent buildings;