The City Council adopts this chapter to better:
(A) Manage a limited resource to the long-term benefit of the public;
(B) Recover the costs of managing the public rights-of-way;
(C) Minimize inconvenience to the public occasioned by the emplacement and maintenance of facilities in the public rights-of-way;
(D) Prevent premature exhaustion of capacity in the public rights-of-way to accommodate communications and other services; and
(E) Promote competition in the provision of communications service in the city and ensure that citizens have a wide variety of services available to them by establishing clear and consistent rules by which providers may occupy the public rights-of-way.
(Ord. 2015-20, passed 11-10-2015)