Page 157 - MFB State Annual Meeting 2018 -- RESOLUTIONS BOOK

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Highway maintenance and changes within the existing right-of-way should not have to complete a new environmental impact study before performing the work.
Wetlands mitigation not be required if improvements to the road are within the existing road right-of-way.
Every effort be made to select alignments that preserve productive farmland, wetlands and historical sites.
Every consideration be given to landowners adjacent to the roadway to provide for safe travel for farm machinery and products.
Further, we believe:
Hardtop roads of adequate width should be marked
with highly-reflective center lines and sidelines as
an aid to safer nighttime driving.
The designated maintenance authority should clear and maintain roadsides, roadways and intersections of hazards that obstruct the view of motorists or impede travel, road drainage, or cropland drainage. This would include dead and dying trees within the right-of-way. In the event the authorized authority is unable to fulfill their maintenance obligations, landowners should be allowed to perform such work. Property owners should maintain proper visibility of intersection views by using the triangular sight-line system.
Individuals, pursuant to reasonable regulations, should be allowed to harvest existing forages and trees along roadways without a permit.
Proper grading and bank reseeding should be completed where road construction occurs to improve road safety and reduce erosion. Renewed emphasis should be directed toward the placing of crossroad, yield or stop signs at unmarked rural intersections.
All rural roads should be marked with a name or number.
Mail and newspaper boxes should be placed on the same side of the road and as far from the traveled portion of the road as safety allows.
With increasing height and width of farm and custom application equipment, any traveled portion of the road and shoulder should have trees and overgrowth trimmed to a minimum height of 15 feet. Also, a reasonably safe condition should be provided by the respective road agency. Engineering and design of roadways be required to have at least 20 feet clearance between obstacles. Reflectorized material should be on the outer edge
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