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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, Open Video System Providers 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.

G. To reasonably and fairly compensate the City for use of and disruption to right-of-way.