(A) All subdivision lots shall be provided electrical and landline telephone utilities.
(B) All new utility lines shall be placed underground.
(C) (1) The subdivider must provide adequate and appropriate easements for existing utilities and the construction of planned utilities within the subdivision.
(2) Where utility easements do not adequately abut the subdivision, the subdivider must obtain any easements necessary to extend utilities to the subdivision.
(D) Utility facilities must be designed in accordance with the utility firms providing service, subject to all applicable laws and rules and regulations of any appropriate regulatory authority.
(E) Utilities must be placed in accordance with utility service providers.
(1) Underground utilities, if placed in the street right-of-way, must be located between the street and the right-of-way line to simplify location and repair of lines.
(2) Such underground facilities must be installed after the street has been brought to grade and before it is surfaced, to eliminate disturbance of the surfacing for the connection of individual services.
(F) Utility easements located between adjoining lots must be centered on lot lines or follow lot lines.
(G) Utility easements must be a minimum of 15 feet wide, unless otherwise specified by a utility company or the City Council.
(H) Utilities placed in the street right-of-way shall be located between the street and the right-of-way line, except where utilities cross the streets at approximately right angles.
(I) When a utility is to be located in an existing, dedicated right-of-way, permission must be obtained from the City Council, or local or state highway authority.
(J) (1) The subdivider shall describe, dimension and show any new public utility easements in the subdivision on the final plat in their true and correct location.
(2) The public utility easements must be of sufficient width to allow the physical placement and unobstructed maintenance of public utility facilities for the provision of public utility services within the subdivision.
(K) In addition to showing the location of any utility easement on the final plat, the following statement must be on any final plat with new utility easement(s):
“The undersigned hereby grants unto each and every person, firm or corporation, whether public or private, providing or offering to provide telephone, telecommunications, electric power, gas, cable television, water or sewer service to the public, the right to the joint use of an easement for the construction, maintenance, repair, and removal of their lines and other facilities, in, over, under and across each area designated on this plat as ‘Utility Easement’ to have and to hold forever.”
(Prior Code, § 11.02.060.230) (Ord. 151, passed 6-20-2016)