A. Establish a local policy concerning regulation of telecommunications carriers, operators, providers, cable operators, and other utilities in public ways and on city and/or public property;

B. Establish, consistent with applicable law, clear local guidelines, standards and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of activities of telecommunications carriers, operators, providers, cable operators, and other utilities in public ways and on city and/or public property;

C. Promote competition in telecommunications and cable service;

D. Minimize unnecessary local regulation of telecommunications carriers, operators, providers, cable operators, and other utilities;

E. Encourage the provision of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the widest possible basis to the businesses, institutions and residents of the city;

F. Permit and manage reasonable access to the public ways for telecommunications, cable and utility purposes on a competitively neutral basis;

G. Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public ways held in public trust by the city;

H. Assure that the city’s current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and use of the public ways are fully paid by the persons seeking or using such access and causing such costs;

I. To the extent permitted by applicable law, secure fair and reasonable compensation to the city and the residents of the city for permitting private use of the public ways;

J. Assure that all telecommunications carriers, operators, providers, cable operators, and other utilities utilizing public ways or city or public property within the city comply with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city;

K. Assure that the city can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety and welfare; and

L. Enable the city to discharge its public trust consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition and technological development. (Ord. 6798 § 3 (Exh. C), 2020; Ord. 5271 § 1, 1999; Ord. 5034 § 1, 1998.)