A. The City Council finds and determines as follows:
1. The development of cable television, data transmission, telephony, wireless and other telecommunications systems may provide significant benefits for, and have substantial impacts upon, the residents and businesses of the City.
2. Because of the complex and rapidly changing technology associated with telecommunications services and systems, the public convenience, safety and general welfare is best served by the City's exercise of its regulatory powers.
3. This Chapter is intended to identify regulatory provisions that authorize the City to regulate telecommunication services and systems to the extent authorized by federal and state law, including but not limited to the federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, the federal Cable Television Consumer and Competition Act of 1992 and the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, applicable regulations and decisions of the Federal Communications Commission, and applicable California statutes and regulations.
B. The purpose and intent of this Chapter is to provide for the attainment of the following objectives:
1. To enable the City to discharge its public trusts in a manner consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition, and technology development.
2. To authorize and to manage reasonable access to the City's public right-of-way and public property for telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis.
3. To obtain fair and reasonable compensation for the City and its residents for authorizing the private use of the public rights-of-way and public property, which are recognized to be valuable public assets, held in trust by the City.
4. To foster and to promote competition in telecommunications services, minimize unnecessary local regulation of telecommunications service providers, and encourage the delivery of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the broadest possible basis to local government and to the businesses, institutions and residents of the City.
5. To establish clear local guidelines, standards and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of telecommunication service providers, including establishment and enforcement of consumer service standards and technical standards.
6. To encourage the profitable deployment of advanced telecommunications infrastructures that satisfy local needs, deliver enhanced government services, and provide informed consumer choices in an evolving telecommunication market.
(Ord. No. 2000-019, §1 (part))