The city council adopts this chapter to better:
A. Manage a limited resource to the long term benefit of the public;
B. Recover the costs of managing the public rights of way;
C. Minimize inconvenience to the public occasioned by the emplacement and maintenance of facilities in the public rights of way;
D. Prevent premature exhaustion of capacity in the public rights of way to accommodate communications and other services; and
E. Promote competition in the provision of communications service in the city and ensure that citizens have a wide variety of services available to them by establishing clear and consistent rules by which providers may occupy the public rights of way. (Ord. 29-05, 5-2-2005)