A. Operations: Each registrant shall, at the time of registration and by January 1 of each year, file a construction and major maintenance plan for known underground utilities with the City. Such plan shall be submitted using a format designated by the City and shall contain the information determined by the City to be necessary to facilitate the coordination and reduction in the frequency of excavations and obstructions of rights-of-way. The utility facility plans shall be kept up to date by the registrant. Facility plans which a utility identifies in writing to the City as being “trade secret information” will be treated as general nonpublic data in accordance with Minnesota Statutes section 13.37 if the data is within the statutory requirements for “trade secret information”.
The plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:
1. The locations and the estimated beginning and ending dates of all projects to be commenced during the next calendar year; and
2. To the extent known, the tentative locations and estimated beginning and ending dates for all projects contemplated for the five (5) years following the next calendar year (in this section, a “five-year CIP”).
The term “project” in this section shall include projects identified in the five-year CIP but does not include individual service line hookups and minor maintenance unless they are part of an area wide program.
It is the registrant’s responsibility to keep informed on available plans.
B. Additional Next Year Projects: Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City will not deny an application for a right-of-way permit for failure to include a project in a plan submitted to the City if the registrant has used commercially reasonable efforts to anticipate and plan for the project. (Ord. 990, 12-4-2017; amd. Ord. 1054, 11-1-2021)