5.60.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to:
A. Permit and manage reasonable, fair, and equitable access to the public rights of way of the city for telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral basis;
B. Establish predictable, enforceable, clear and nondiscriminatory local regulations, guidelines, standards and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of telecommunications carriers and cable operators;
C. Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public rights of way held in public trust by the city;
D. Assure that the city’s current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and use of the public rights of way and/or public property are fully compensated by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs;
E. Assure that the city can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety and welfare; and
F. Enable the city to discharge its public trust consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition and technological development. (Ord. 1114 §1, 1999).