A. Establish a local policy concerning the use of public ways and City properties by Telecommunications providers;

B. Establish clear local guidelines, standards and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of Telecommunications providers;

C. Promote competition in telecommunications;

D. Minimize unnecessary local regulation of Telecommunications providers;

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 of the City for telecommunications 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 the use of the public ways and City property are paid for by the Persons seeking such access and causing such costs;

I. Secure fair and reasonable compensation to the City and the residents of the City for permitting private use of the public ways, other ways and City property in accordance with Federal and State law;

J. Assure that all Telecommunications providers constructing, repairing or maintaining Telecommunications facilities within the public ways, other ways and City property 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 legal and regulatory policies, industry competition and technological development. (Ord. 2965 § 2 (part), 2019: Ord. 2925 § 2 (part), 2018: Ord. 2175 § 1 (part), 2003).