(a) The City has specified that certain areas of Toledo are to be free of permanent overhead aerial wires and appurtenances utilized to support such wiring regardless of purpose or function. The City shall maintain detailed maps illustrating the underground districts which shall be available for review by any interested person. No person shall install any permanent overhead wiring and supporting appurtenances in the underground district unless authorized to do so in writing by the Director of Public Utilities upon a finding that the cost is prohibitive or that there is no feasible alternative method of providing service. Temporary aerial wiring shall be permitted in the underground districts upon the written approval of the Director of Public Utilities for a reasonable time to expedite construction or maintenance in the underground districts. In areas where overhead wires and appurtenances exist in the underground districts, the Director may, upon written request, grant a revocable use of such facilities to other permit holders. No subgrade building facilities shall be constructed in the underground districts in order to maintain space for essential right of way facilities unless specifically approved in writing by the Director of Public Utilities. The Director shall issue a determination in writing within sixty (60) days of the receipt of a request for permission to construct a subgrade building facility within the underground district subject to the appeal procedures specified in section 945.06(e).
(b) The underground district shall consist of the following territory description and street segments:
(1) Beginning at the intersection of the harbor line of the Maumee River and the northeasterly line of Monroe Street, thence along the northeasterly line of Monroe Street to the southeasterly line of Water Street, thence along the southeasterly line of Water Street to the northeasterly line of Cherry Street, thence along the northeasterly line of Cherry Street to the southerly line of Bancroft Street, thence along the southerly line of Bancroft Street across Cherry Street, thence along the southwesterly line of Cherry Street to the westerly line of Canton Street and its extension to the northwesterly line of Michigan Street and its extension to the southwesterly line of Lafayette Street, thence along the southwesterly line of Lafayette Street to the northwesterly line of Erie Street, then along the northwesterly line of Erie Street to the southwesterly line of Market Street extended, thence along the southwesterly line of Market Street and its extension to Swan Creek, thence along Swan Creek and the harbor line of the Maumee River to its intersection with the northeasterly line of Monroe Street, being the place of beginning.
(2) 14th Street between Jackson Street and Washington Street; Collingwood Avenue from Ashland Avenue to Central Avenue; Main Street from the Martin Luther King Bridge to Starr Avenue; Starr Avenue from Main Street to East Broadway; East Broadway between Starr Avenue and Woodville Street; Adams Street from Michigan Street to W. Woodruff; Jefferson Avenue from Michigan Street to Collingwood Avenue; St. Clair Street and Maumee Avenue, from Swan Creek to Broadway; Sylvania Avenue from Lewis Avenue to Jackman Road; Lewis Avenue from Sylvania Avenue to the southerly right of way of the Toledo Terminal Railway; Phillips Avenue from Detroit Avenue to Sylvania Avenue; Lagrange Street from Bancroft Street to Manhattan Road; Indiana Avenue from Hawley Street to Washington Street.
(Ord. 375-02. Passed 10-8-02.)