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Article I. Telecommunications Franchises Requirements
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The purposes of this chapter are to:

A. Permit and manage reasonable access to the right-of-way of the city.

B. Establish clear and nondiscriminatory local guidelines, standards, and time frames which use federal guidelines for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of right-of­ way use.

C. Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public rights-of-way held in public trust by the city.

D. Encourage the provision of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the widest possible basis to the businesses, institutions, and residents of the city.

E. Ensure that the city’s current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private accesses to and use of the public rights-of-way are fully paid by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs.

F. Ensure that all service providers maintaining facilities or providing services within the city comply with the ordinances, rules, and regulations of the city.

G. Ensure that the city can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety, and welfare.

H. Enable the city to discharge its public trust consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition, and technological development. (Ord. 1188-21 § 2 (Exh. A), 2021).