A. The public rights of way are unique public resources held in trust by the city for the benefit of the public. These physically limited resources require proper management by the city to maximize the efficiency and minimize the costs to the taxpayers, to protect against foreclosure of future economic expansion because of premature exhaustion of the public rights of way, and to minimize the inconvenience to and negative effects on the public from nontraditional uses of the public rights of way.
B. Under applicable state and federal law, the city is empowered to control access to and use of its public rights of way, and to obtain reasonable and fair compensation for the use thereof.
C. The purpose of this chapter is to serve and further the purposes identified herein and to enable the city to treat similarly persons who are making a similar use of the city's public rights of way, as may be appropriate to comply with applicable law. (Ord. 05-O-2462, eff. 3-18-2005)