A. Minimize congestion and promote safe and convenient travel by the public on streets and highways within the city of Auburn;

B. Promote the effective access to adjoining land;

C. Provide for adequate street and sidewalk standards to include illumination for motorized, nonmotorized, and pedestrian facilities;

D. Establish procedures to regulate work within public ways;

E. Establish standards on street grades for accommodation of emergency services of fire and police;

F. Regulate the condition of sidewalks in the city for public safety and to promote compliance with the American Disability Act;

G. Promote streetscape aesthetic improvements and regulate trees within and adjacent to public right-of-way;

H. Facilitate temporary uses of rights-of-way and easements by others while preserving public ways for the common public benefit;

I. Provide for safe access to public streets for developing properties;

J. Implement the goals, objectives and policies of the Auburn comprehensive plan;

K. Prevent or abate public nuisances;

L. Provide the necessary infrastructure to facilitate the regulation of vehicles and traffic as regulated in ACC Title 10;

M. Preserve sufficient public way capacity for the city’s future development requirements for city-owned utilities dependent upon city public ways and easements;

N. Assure that right-of-way uses by others is regulated to prevent future conflicts with the operation and maintenance of city-owned utilities. (Ord. 5042 § 1 (Exh. A), 1998.)