a. Any party owning, operating or installing facilities in the right-of-way that provide water, sewer, gas, electric, telephone, internet, cable, video or other utility services shall prepare and submit to the City Engineer a master plan as available and shall submit annually, as required by the City Engineer, a revised and updated master plan. As used in this Subsection, the term "master plan" refers to a document reflecting any known future activity planned by the agency or entity to occur within one (1) year of its submission that would also require the issuance of a right-of-way work permit.
b. The City Engineer shall keep all master plans confidential in accordance with the provisions of the Kentucky Open Records Act, KRS §§ 61.870, et seq., if directed by the agency/entity, and shall establish procedures to ensure that the master plans are utilized and inspected only for the purposes intended by this Subchapter.
c. The City shall annually prepare a listing of streets that are to be repaved in the current City fiscal year, as well as an annual list of all streets eligible for resurfacing based on their pavement condition. The City shall provide each permittee with a proposed annual repaving list. The final annual repaving list is contingent upon the approval of the Board of Commissioners.
d. Prior to applying for a right-of-way permit, an agency/entity shall review the annual paving list as well as any other master plans made available by other parties. Coordination of work, to the extent practical, shall be made to avoid undue disruption to public use of the right-of-way as well as to the facilities within the right-of-way.
e. The issue of joint planning and coordination is also discussed at regularly scheduled Utility Managers’ meetings.
(Ord. BG2020-19, 8/4/2020)