Wherever a plan for major highways has been adopted and filed by the commission, the council and board, upon recommendations of the commission, are hereby authorized and empowered to establish, regulate, and limit, and to change and amend, building line or set-back regulations on such major highways, and to prohibit any new building or set-back lines within the area. In establishing such building lines, the council and board shall take into consideration the present stage of development along such highways, including the type of buildings and nature of their use, as well as their number and location; the present width of such highways and type of construction; the amount of traffic using such highways; and probably future needs to protect safety and provide adequate transportation along such highways in view of the trend of development of residential, commercial, and industrial areas served by such highways.
Regulations authorized by this section shall not be adopted, changed, or amended by the council and board until a public hearing has been held thereon by the commission.
Added by Laws 1955, p. 168, § 11, emerg. eff. June 3, 1955.