The purposes of this chapter are to:
A. Establish a local policy governing the use of the public rights-of-way by telecommunications systems and private communications systems;
B. Ensure that the City retains the authority to protect the public safety and welfare with respect to a dynamic industry that is placing increasing demands on public resources;
C. Establish clear and nondiscriminatory local guidelines, standards and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of the use of public rights-of-way by telecommunications operators;
D. Avoid unnecessary local regulation of providers and services;
E. Permit and manage reasonable access to the public rights-of- way of the City for communications purposes on a competitively neutral basis;
F. Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public rights- of-way held in public trust by the City;
G. Assure that the City's current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and use of the public rights-of- way are paid by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs;
H. Secure, in a nondiscriminatory manner, fair and reasonable compensation to the City for the private use of the public rights-of-way;
I. Assure that providers of telecommunications services comply with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the City;
J. Enable the City to obtain sufficient information to ensure effective decision making concerning access to City rights-of-way and management of activity in the rights-of-way;
K. Enable the City to discharge its public trust consistent with rapidly evolving Federal and State regulatory policies, industry competition and technological development; and
L. Provide for the fullest exercise possible of the authority and discretion of the City to require that:
1. Facilities are installed and maintained in the public rights- of-way in such manner and at such points so as not to inconvenience the public use of the public rights-of-way or to adversely affect the public, safety and welfare;
2. The City is reimbursed and held harmless for the actual costs incurred by the City by reason of the construction or presence of communications facilities in the public rights-of-way. (Ord. 2018-1031, 7-11-2018)