As used in this part, "state transportation purposes" includes:

1. (1) highway, public transit facility, and transportation rights-of-way, including those necessary within cities and towns;
2. (2) the construction, reconstruction, relocation, improvement, maintenance, and mitigation from the effects of these activities on state highways and other transportation facilities, including parking facilities, under the control of the department;
3. (3) limited access facilities, including rights of access, air, light, and view and frontage and service roads to highways;
4. (4) adequate drainage in connection with any highway, cut, fill, or channel change and the maintenance of any highway, cut, fill, or channel change;
5. (5) weighing stations, shops, offices, storage buildings and yards, and road maintenance or construction sites;
6. (6) road material sites, sites for the manufacture of road materials, and access roads to the sites;
7. (7) the maintenance of an unobstructed view of any portion of a highway to promote the safety of the traveling public;
8. (8) the placement of traffic signals, directional signs, and other signs, fences, curbs, barriers, and obstructions for the convenience of the traveling public;
9. (9) the construction and maintenance of storm sewers, sidewalks, and highway illumination;
10. (10) the construction and maintenance of livestock highways;
11. (11) the construction and maintenance of roadside rest areas adjacent to or near any highway; and
12. (12) the mitigation of impacts from transportation projects.