It is the purpose and intent of this Chapter to:
(a) Manage the occupancy and use of public ways and Rights-of-Way;
(b) Assure that actual costs incurred by the City in managing the Right-of-Way, including circumstances when a person or persons constructs or installs facilities, or otherwise performs work activity in the City Rights-of-Way are paid by said persons;
(c) Permit and manage reasonable access to the public Right-of-Way of the City for utility and telecommunications service purposes on a competitively neutral basis;
(d) Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public Right-of-Way held in trust by the City for the benefit of the public;
(e) Assure that persons with facilities in the public Right-of-Way comply with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the City; and
(f) Assure that the City fairly and responsibly protects the public health, safety and welfare. (Ord. 74-07. Passed 11-19-07.)