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<br />WHEREA~, THE UREGON LEGISLATURE IN RECOGNITIoN of THE PROBLEMS AND RESPONSIBILITIES WHICH
<br />ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND APERATluN or PUBLIC HIGHWAY, WHETHER
<br />THEY BE STATE HIGHWAYS, COUNTY ROADS, OR CITY STREETS, SAID: "THE KIND, CHARACTER AND VOLUME
<br />OF TRArFIC NOW MOVING OVER PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, THE SPEED AT WHICH SUCH TRArFIC MOVES, THE PRIME AND
<br />ESSENTIAL FACTORS SUCH AS SPEED, SAFETY AND CONVENIENCE To WHICH TRANSPORTATION or PERSONS AND
<br />PROPERTY OVER PUBLIC HIGHWAYS IS ENTITLED, THE RELATioN WHICH SUCH TRANSPORTATION BEARS TO THE
<br />TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS or OTHER STATES AND OF THE NATION AS A WHOLE, AND THE EVER-INCREASING TOLL
<br />OF INJURY TO AND DEATH Of PERSONS, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY CAUSED AND
<br />RESULTING FROM ACCIDENTS ON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS CONSTITUTE AND ARE CONDITIONS AND ELEMENTS WHICH
<br />DEMAND or HIGHWAY orrlCIALS A PROGRAM OF HIGHWay DESIGNING, HIGHWAY REGULATIONS, HIGHWAY USE AND
<br />OPERATION, HIGHWAY CONTROLS AND HIGHWAY SAFEGUARDS WHICH WILL MAKE POSSIBLE AND WILL INSURE A
<br />DEGREE OF SAFETY AND CONVENIENCE AND A TYPE AND CLASS or SERVICE NOT POSSIBLE UNDER EXiSTING LAW";
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<br />WHEREA~, THE CITIZENRY OF THE ~TATE OF UREGON, SPE~ ING THROUGH THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY MADE
<br />THiS SOLEMN PRONOUNCEMENT: "Tu THE END THAT HUMAN LIVES MAY BE SAVED, PROPERTY DAMAGE MINIMIZED,
<br />TRANSPORTATION BY MOTOR VEHICLE PROMOTED, AND HIGHWAY TRAVEL IN GENERAL SAFE-GUARDED, THE LEGiS-
<br />LATURE HEREBY DOES FIND, DETERMINE AND DECLARE THAT THIS ACT IS NECESSARY rOR THE PRESERVATION OF
<br />PUBLIC SArETY, THE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES IN THE STATE, THE
<br />PROTECTION OF HIGHWAY TRArrlC rROM THE HAZARDS or UNRESTRICTED AND UNREGULATED ENTRY FROM ADJACENT
<br />PROPE~TY, THE ELIMINATION OF HAZARDS DUE To HIGHWAY GRADE INTERSECTIONS AND IN GENERAL THE PRO-
<br />MOTION OF PUBLIC WEL.ARE"; AND
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<br />WHEREA~, HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES THROUGHOUT THE NATION HAVE BY EXPERIENCE FOUND THAT THE CAPACITY
<br />OF A HIGHWAY TO ACCOMODATE LARGE VOLUMES or TRArrlC DEPENDS NOT ONLY ON THE WIDTH OF HIGHWAY SURFACE
<br />THE NUMBER OF TRAFFIC LANES, AND THE USE or ~AFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS, BUT DEPENDS WITH EQUAL SIG-
<br />NIFICANCE ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH A THOROUGHFARE IS OPENED AND SUBJECTED TO ACCESS rROM SUCH
<br />THOROUGHrARE TO ABUTTING PROPERTIES AND INTERSECTION STREETS, AND ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH ACCESS
<br />FROM ABUTTING PROPERTIES AND INTERSECTION STREETS, AND ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH ACCESS rROM ABUTTING
<br />PROPERTIES AND INTERSECTING STREETS TO SUCH THORDUGH.ARE IS ALLOWED BY CONSTITUTED AUTHORITY, AND
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<br />WHEREA~, THE USE BY THE HIGHWAY COMMISSION OF FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE ~TATE OF OREGON BY
<br />THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS CONDITIONED IN A LARGE MEASURE ON APPROVAL BY THE PUBLIC ROADS ADMINIS-
<br />TRATION OF THE TYPE AND DESIGN or HIGHWAY, rOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHICH SUCH rEDERAL rUNDS ARE TO
<br />BE USED AND ALLOCATED, AND IN THIS CONNECTION THE PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION WHEN CONSIDERING
<br />THE PLAN AND DESIGN or A HIGHWAY GIVES DUE AND SEARCHING CONSIDERATION TO THE CAPACITY OF SUCH
<br />HIGHWAY, INCLUDING THE FACTORS OF SArETY, WHICH WILL ATTEND AND SURROUND THE HIGHWAY WHEN THROWN
<br />oPEN To TRAF,IC, AND
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<br />WHEREA~, IT IS DEEMED BY THE HIGHWAY COMMISSION APPROPRIATE AND ADVISABLE THAT THE PU~ICY
<br />OF THE STATE, IN SO rAR AS SUCH PO~ICY MAY BE DEFINED AND EXPRESSED BY THE COMMISSION, BE FIXED,
<br />DETERMINED, AND MADE A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD,
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<br />NOW, THEREfORE, BE IT AND IT HEREBY IS RESOLVED BY THIS COMMISSION, ALL MEMBERS BEING PRESENT
<br />AND VOTING ArrlRMATIVELY AS rOLLOWS:
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<br />I. THAT THIS COMMISSION DOES HEREBY RECOGNIZE AND CONrlRM THE PRINCIPLES ANNOUNCED BY THE
<br />LEGISLATURE IN THE ENACTMENT or SAID THROUGHWAY LAW.
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<br />2. THE COMMISSluN DOES HEREBY DISCOURAGE AND DENOUNCE THE INTERRUPTION OF THE ORDERLY MOVEMENT
<br />OF TRAFrIC, THE UNNECESSARY HAZARDS WHICH ARE CREATED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PoINT 0, ACCESS rROM
<br />ABUTTING LANDS TO MAIN ARTERIRES, AND CORRESPUNDING PoiNTS 0, ACCESS .ROM MAJOR TRA"IC ARTERIES TO
<br />ABUTTING PROPERTY, AND THE IMPAIRMENT or THE CAPACITY OF A HIGHWAY WHICH RESULTS rROM UNRESTRAINED
<br />AND PROMISCUoUS ACCESS ,ROM ABUTTING PROPERTY TO H'I:GH.wAY AND FROM HIGHWAY TO ABUTTING PROPERTY.
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<br />3. fULLY RECuGNIZING THE EXTENT To WHICH MAIN THOROUGHFARES ARE IMPAIRED, THE CAPACITY or THE
<br />HIGHWAY DIMINISHED, UNNECESSARY TRArrlC HAZARDS, INTRODUCED AND OTHER DESTRUCTIVE FACTORS AND
<br />AGENCIES IMPOSED ON THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY THE INTRODUCTION or UNCONTROLLED AND IMPERrECTLY REGU-
<br />LATED ACCESS POINTS, THE ESTABLISH~ENT OF CuMMERCIAL ZONES, TOGETHER WITH OTHER PRACTICES WHICH
<br />SERVE PRIMARILY LOCAL AND INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS, THE COMMISSION DOES HEREBY riND AND DECLARE THAT
<br />PUBLIC WELFARE WARRANTS AND DEMANDS COMPLETE, WHOLESOME, AND CONSTRUCTIVE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE
<br />STATE, REPRESENTED BY ITS HIGHWAY COMUlUSION, A~D THE CITIES or THE BIATE, REPRESENTED av THEIR
<br />MUNICIPA~ AUTHORITIES "To THE END THAT HUMAN LIVES MAY BE SAVED, PROPERTY DAMAGE MINIMIZED,
<br />TRANSPORTATION BY MOTOR VEHICLE PROMOTED, AND HIGHWAY TRAVEL IN GENERAL SA,EGUARDED".
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<br />4. THAT THIS PRONOUNCEMENT AND DECLARATION OF POLICY BE GIVEN WIDE PUBLICITY, AND STATE-WIDE
<br />COOPERATION Is REQUESTED TO THE END THAT THE BEST INTERESTS or THE STATE MAY BE SERVED, THE ROAD
<br />USERS' MUNEY WISELY INVESTED, AND THE COMMON GOOD OF ALL MADE THE OBJECTIVE OF HIGHWAY OFrlCERS _
<br />STATE, COUNTY, AND CITY.
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<br />5. THAT THIS RESOLUTION BE ENTERED IN THE MINUTES AND RECORDS OF THE HIGHWAY COMMISSION AS
<br />OF THE I~TH DAY of APRIL, 1948, AND THE SECRETARY INSTRUCTED To PREPARE A sur,lCIENT NUMBER OF
<br />COPIES OF THE SAME SO THAT A CORRECT CUPY MAY BE MADE ~VAILABLE To THE PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION
<br />AND To THE MAYOR OF EACH CITY or THE STATE, TO THE SEVERAL COUNTY COURTS, TO THE SUPERINTENDENT or
<br />STATE POLICE, TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES CUMMISSIONER, AND TO OTHER PUBLIC OF,ICIALS."
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<br />IT WAS MOVED BY JOHNSON, SECONDED BY BAILEY THAT THE RESOLUTION BE RECEIVED AND PLACED ON FILE.
<br />MOTION CARRIED.
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