26.04.010 Purpose and scope.
(1) The purpose of this title is to:
(a) Permit and manage reasonable access to the rights-of-way of the city for telecommunications purposes on a nondiscriminatory basis.
(b) Establish clear and nondiscriminatory local guidelines and standards for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of right-of-way use.
(c) Encourage the provision of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the widest possible basis to the businesses, institutions and residents of the city.
(d) Promote competition in telecommunications.
(e) Conserve and manage the limited physical capacity of the rights-of-way held in public trust by the city.
(f) Ensure that all telecommunications providers within the city comply with the applicable ordinances, rules and regulations of the city.
(g) Ensure that the city can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety and welfare.
(h) 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. 4853 § 2, 2023)