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2007 RIGHT OF WAY MANUAL 122.8 122.8 COORDINATION FOLLOWING ADVERTISEMENT AND BEFORE LETTING Three weeks before letting, an update review of the project will be done. In this review, all outstanding issues identified in the Special Provisions and Public Interest Finding letter will be reviewed for"show stopping" items. The Director of the Office of Land Management will make a recommendation to the District Engineer,FHWA,the Director of Technical Support,and Mn/DOT's Chief Engineer on either letting the project or not. In the end, the District Engineer, Mn/DOT's Chief Engineer, and FHWA will make this final decision. If the project is approved for letting, any additional special provisions that are needed will be prepared and sent out by the Special Provisions Engineer to the bidders list for the project. This addendum must be ready for distribution a minimum of 10 working days before the letting. The District will be responsible for send out any addendums that are not ready by the 10 working day deadline. Continued monitoring by OLM's Project Coordination Unit will occur and as parcels are cleared, agreements are signed, or permits are approved updates will be provided to the Office of Construction. The Office of Construction will use this updated information to make a decision on either awarding a project or not. If contingencies were made with FHWA on project letting or award, all updates will also be provided. 122.9 ENCROACHMENTS State law prohibiting encroachments is found in Minn. Stat. 160.2715. The Federal Regulation prohibiting encroachments on federal-aid highways is found in 23 CFR 710.403 (a). (a) The STD must assure that all real property within the boundaries of a federally-aided facility is devoted exclusively to the purposes of that facility and is preserved free of all other public or private alternative uses, unless such alternative uses are permitted by Federal regulation or the FHWA. The term encroachment means any building, fence, sign, billboard or other structure or object of any kind (with the exception of public and private utilities) placed, located, or maintained in, on, under, or over any portion of the highway right of way. Awnings, marquees, on-premise advertising signs, and similar overhanging structures supported from buildings immediately adjacent to the highway right of way, at locations where there is a sidewalk on the right of way extending to the building line, and which do not impair the free and safe flow of traffic on the highway,may be permitted to remain. But this applies only where Mn/DOT owns easement;encroachments are not allowed on fee owned right of way. Permission for overhanging signs is not to be construed as being applicable to those signs supported from poles constructed outside the right of wav line and not confined by_ acent buildinp�s There may be situations-uations where intermittent buildings are set back from the right of way and buildings on adjacent lots are constructed flush with the back of the sidewalk. Signs advertising the enterprise conducted in the set-back building would be permitted to overhang the sidewalk from a pole support to the same degree as if supported from a building.