2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 313 - PRIMARY ROADS
313.2A - COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HIGHWAYS.

        313.2A  COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HIGHWAYS.
         1.  Purpose.  It is the purpose of this section to enhance
      opportunities for the development and diversification of the state's
      economy through the identification and improvement of a network of
      commercial and industrial highways.  The network shall consist of
      interconnected routes which provide long distance route continuity.
      The purpose of this highway network shall be to improve the flow of
      commerce; to make travel more convenient, safe, and efficient; and to
      better connect Iowa with regional, national, and international
      markets.  The commission shall concentrate a major portion of its
      annual construction budget on this network of commercial and
      industrial highways.  In order to ensure the greatest possible
      availability of funds for the improvement of the network, primary
      highway funds shall not be spent beyond continuing maintenance for
      improvements to route segments that will be bypassed by the
      relocation of portions of the commercial and industrial highway
      network.
         2.  Network selection.  The commission shall identify, within
      the primary road system, a network of commercial and industrial
      highways.  The commission shall consider all of the following factors
      in the identification of this network:
         a.  The connection by the most direct routes feasible of major
      urban areas and regions of the state to each other and to the
      national system of interstate and defense highways and priority
      routes in adjacent states.
         b.  The existence of high volumes of total traffic and
      commercial traffic.
         c.  Long distance traffic movements.
         d.  Area coverage and balance of spacing with service to major
      growth centers within the state.
         e.  Metropolitan area bypasses consistent with metropolitan or
      regional area plans established through cooperation by the department
      and local officials.
         The network of commercial and industrial highways shall not exceed
      two thousand five hundred miles including municipal extensions of
      these highways.
         3.  Standards.  The department shall establish standards
      pertaining to the specific location, design, and access control for
      each segment of the commercial and industrial highways.
         4.  Network development.  In establishing priorities for
      improvement projects, the department shall take into consideration
      the following additional criteria:  urban area bypasses that improve
      urban or regional accessibility or improve corridor travel; projects
      consistent with regional or metropolitan transportation plans
      established through cooperation by the department and local
      officials; and the willingness of local officials to provide
      financial or other assistance for the development of projects.  

         89 Acts, ch 134, §5; 90 Acts, ch 1267, § 34, 35; 91 Acts, ch 268,
      §514, 515
         Referred to in § 15E.194, 307A.2