Purpose. In order to promote the public safety, general welfare and convenience, it is necessary that highway setback lines be established, and they are hereby established in the Town of Hudson along all public highways and the intersection of highways with highways and highways with railroads.

Jurisdiction boundaries. Where a highway is located on a city or village boundary, this chapter is not intended to be effective on the side within the city or village; nor on the side within another town, where the highway is located on a Town boundary.

No new building, sign, or part thereof, shall be placed between the setback lines established by this chapter and the highway, except as provided in § 105-18.

No building structure, sign, or part thereof, except those complying with the above regulations, which exists within the setback lines on the effective date of this chapter or any amendment thereto shall be altered or enlarged or reconstructed within such setback lines after having been destroyed by fire, storm or other catastrophe to the extent of 50% or more of its actual current value.

Open fences.

Telephone, telegraph and power transmission poles and lines, and microwave radio relay structures, together with all appurtenances thereto that are readily removable as a unit, including public utility equipment housings or structures, may be constructed within the setback lines, and additions to and replacements of any such existing poles, lines and structures may be made, provided the owner files with the Town Building Inspector/Zoning Administrator an agreement in writing to the effect that the owner will remove all new construction, additions and replacements erected after the adoption of this chapter at his own expense, when necessary for the improvement of the highway.

Underground structures not capable of being used as future foundations for prohibited structures.

Wells and septic tanks and other similar structures.

Access or service highways constructed according to plans as approved by the County Highway Department which shall give due consideration to highway safety and maximum sight distance.

This section shall not be interpreted so as to prohibit the planting and harvesting of field crops, shrubbery or trees; provided, however, that no building or structure, trees or shrubbery shall be so located, maintained or permitted to grow so that the view across the sectors at the intersection, as provided in §§ 105-8 through 105-14, shall be obstructed.

Where buildings are proposed to be erected or moved between buildings existing at the time of the adoption of this chapter and having setback lines less than those established by this section, which existing buildings are located not more than 150 feet apart, the Building Inspector/Zoning Administrator may issue a permit for such proposed building, provided that the setback of such building shall not be less than the average of the setbacks of the nearest adjoining existing buildings on either side of the location of the proposed building.

Directory signs not over eight square feet in area, and pertaining to goods and services available at a particular location within five miles of such sign, and signs placed by the public authorities for the guidance or warning of traffic, provided that there shall be not more than two such directory signs relating to a specific building or use in any one direction along any one highway.

Except as otherwise provided, the distances from center line to the setback line applicable to the various classifications of highways shall be as provided by the following subsections of this section, respectively.

Highway setbacks. For the purpose of determining the distance buildings and other structures shall be set back from streets and highways, the highways of the Town of Hudson are divided into the following classes.

Vision triangles. In each quadrant of every public street intersection there shall be a visual clearance triangle bounded by the street center lines and a line connecting points on them 300 feet from a Class A or Class B highway intersection and 200 feet from a Class C or Class D highway intersection.

At highway intersections with transitional widening. At all intersections of highways with other highways provided with transitional widening of pavement or surfacing, such transitional widening shall be considered as additional width, and the setback lines on the side which is widened shall be increased by an amount equal to the width of the additional pavement.

At railroad grade crossings. At grade intersection of all highways with railroads, there shall be vision clear triangles in each sector of such intersection. Each such vision clearance triangle shall be established by a supplementary setback line which shall be a straight line connecting points located on the setback lines along the highway and the railroad right-of-way lines, and 100 feet back from the intersections of such highway setback lines and the railroad right-of-way lines.

Access driveways. Access driveways to highways from abutting properties shall comply with the following requirements: