ABSTRACT
The widely dispersed characteristics of current urbanization in the United States, with its accompanying dependence on motor vehicle transportation, have created a need to extend urban street systems and to widen, realign, and reconstruct existing trafficways. The attendant growing demand for land for arterial streets and highways and for collector and land access streets is accompanied by a demand for land for utility and drainage rights-of-way and for parks and parkways. The reservation of rights-of-way for these purposes is required not only to meet the transportation, stormwater management, and recreational needs of rapidly growing and changing urban areas but also to help give shape and form to urban development.
