The purpose and intent of this chapter is to:
(A) Establish a local policy concerning telecommunications providers and services;
(B) Establish clear local guidelines, standards and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of telecommunications providers and telecommunications services;
(C) Promote competition in telecommunications;
(D) Encourage the provision of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the widest possible basis to the businesses, institutions and residents of the city;
(E) Permit and manage reasonable access to the rights-of-ways of the city for telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral basis;
(F) Conserve the limited physical capacity of the rights-of-way held in public trust by the city;
(G) Ensure that the city’s current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and use of the rights-of-way are fully paid by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs;
(H) Secure fair and reasonable compensation to the city and the residents of the city for permitting private use of the rights-of-way;
(I) Ensure that all telecommunications carriers providing facilities or services within the city comply with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city;
(J) Ensure that the city can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety and welfare;
(K) Enable the city To discharge its public trust consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition and technological development.
(Ord. 22-08, passed 4-12-22)