Section 10.2D Exercise of Police Powers

• Library: Eminent Domain 3rd Edition 2013

A governing body can exercise control of traffic on its streets by such measures as constructing a traffic island, placing a permanent dividing strip at center of street, painting double yellow lines on a street, increasing or decreasing the flow of traffic, installing “no parking” signs, and regulating curb cuts and sidewalk driveway crossings, all of which may impact an abutting owner’s use of his property. An abutting owner is not entitled, as against the public, to access at all points between his property and the highway. If he has free and...