(A) A video service provider’s new cable, wires, and other equipment shall be placed underground, and a video service provider shall not erect new poles for overhead facilities. If, at a future date, the City requires any utility services on existing overhead poles be placed underground, then such requirements shall also apply to video service providers. The City shall not be responsible for any costs incurred by the video service provider in placing the video service provider’s facilities underground.
(B) In all new developments, all transmission and distribution facilities shall be installed underground. Where a developer provides a trench for undergrounding in a new development, the developer must allow the video service provider to utilize this trench and provide backfill under the same conditions as are extended to other trench users. Cable television shall utilize common or joint trench with telephone and/or utilities for undergrounding where a developer provides a trench for undergrounding by negotiating a joint trench agreement with those entities.
(C) Developers and video service providers shall place all cable and appurtenances underground. Existing technology may preclude the placing of some appurtenances underground; any such appurtenances placed above ground shall be located so as to be as unobtrusive as possible, consistent with City standards. As new technology and economic feasibility allow appurtenances associated with future lines shall be placed underground.
(Prior Code, § 24-1-6) (Ord. 19-26, passed 12-9-2019)