The purposes for, and intentions behind this article, are as follows:
(1) The public streets, whose primary purpose is movement of vehicular and other traffic, are valuable public resources that have required, and will continue to require, substantial investment by the town; and
(2) The town desires to structure and implement a fair and orderly process for the application for, and granting of, permission for private parties to occupy and use the public street or street rights-of-way, consistent with applicable law, and which appropriately accounts for the varied reasons that private parties seek such permission.
(3) The town desires to minimize inconvenience and disruption to the public, provide for the orderly and efficient use of the public streets and street rights-of-way, now and in the future, and to preserve adequate capacity for existing and future uses of the public streets and street rights-of-way.
(4) The town intends to exercise, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, its authority in regulating the occupation and use of public streets and street rights-of-way.
(5) Consistent with the foregoing, the town desires to provide a simplified approval process for minor encroachments into streets, street rights-of-way by adjoining landowners and into utility and access easement interests of the town by the adjoining landowner where the landowner owns the property that is subject to the town's easement interest, as provided in Sec. 28-167.
(Code 1982, § 17-101; Ord. No. 00-031, 12-14-2000; Ord. No. 2012-Code-07, 12-13-2012)