A. Easements shall be provided for location of overhead and underground utilities, including, but not confined to, electrical, communication, sewer, water or gas lines or drainage facilities.
B. Easements described in subsection A of this section shall be dedicated to the city. By virtue of such easements and dedication, the city shall have the right to install, operate, maintain and replace within such easements such utilities which the city may, from time to time, operate including, but not confined to, water and sewer lines. Public utility companies now or hereafter holding franchises under federal or state law or city ordinance to occupy public roads or highways shall also be entitled to use such easements for the installation, operation, maintenance and replacement of their utility lines, mains and facilities, without the necessity of obtaining permission from the city. Nothing in this section shall preclude a public utility from obtaining its own easements; provided however, no easement shall be obtained by a utility company in those instances where the city will install municipally owned utility facilities until the city ascertains, within a reasonable length of time, that it is unable to coordinate the use or location of facilities between the various utility companies and city within any utility easement provided in accordance with subsection A of this section.
C. Such easements shall include the right of reasonable ingress and egress over any lot in the subdivision for the purposes of use, maintenance and control of such easements and the utility facilities located therein.
D. Such an easement shall be labeled "utility easement" on the tentative map, tentative parcel map, final map or final parcel map, and when so labeled shall be deemed to refer to the easement herein mentioned, and any offer of dedication appended to such map shall be deemed to include an offer to dedicate the easements mentioned in this section.
E. The size and location of such easements shall comply with the following minimum standards:
1. The front ten feet (10') of each lot in the subdivision shall be subject to the utility easements, except in cases mentioned in subsection E3 of this section. Corner lots shall be subject to such easements on both street frontages, except in cases mentioned in subsection E3 of this section.
2. At such points as may be determined necessary to provide necessary utility services, such easements shall be provided to the extent of four feet (4') on each side of a side lot line so as to furnish a total easement of eight feet (8'), except in cases mentioned in subsection E3 of this section.
3. Where lots have an alley, the utility easement may be located within the twenty foot (20') wide alley right of way.
4. Notwithstanding subsection E1, E2 or E3 of this section, all matters of location, width and design of utility easements shall be subject to the city improvement standards and the approval of the city engineer.
F. Utility lines, equipment, boxes, meters and all related appurtenances and improvements required by the utility company shall be provided by the subdivider. Connections shall be provided for every lot in the subdivision.
G. For underground utilities, the improvements and equipment required by this section shall include the following: surface mounted transformers (in residential zone districts only), proposed and existing utility lines including, but not limited to, electrical, telephone and cable television providing service to all new subdivision developments within residential, commercial and industrial zones shall be placed underground. The subdivider responsible for complying with the requirements of this subsection shall make the necessary arrangements with the serving electrical and telephone utilities for the installation of such facilities. For the purpose of this subsection, surface mounted transformers (in commercial and industrial zone districts only), pedestal mounted terminal boxes and meter cabinets, ducts, street lighting or signal control cabinets, and other associated equipment in an underground system may be placed aboveground. This subsection shall not apply to telephone transmission lines or electric transmission lines or other lines which do not provide service to the area being subdivided. (Ord. 2000-05, 4-25-2000)