§ 10-57. Joint trench policy.

(a)

The city may issue reasonable policy guidelines consistent with the Cable Act to all licensees to establish procedures for determining how to control issuance of engineering permits to multiple users of the streets and public ways for their facilities. Each licensee shall cooperate with the city in establishing such policy and shall comply with the procedures established by the city to coordinate the issuance of multiple engineering permits in particular segments of the streets and public ways.

(b)

To maximize public and employee safety, to minimize visual clutter of aerial plant and to minimize the amount of trenching and excavation in streets and public ways for underground plant, a licensee shall make every commercially reasonable effort to collectively bundle its facilities which are compatible with the facilities of other users of the streets and public ways, subject to engineering requirements of the owners of utility poles and other facilities used by the licensee.

(c)

The installation of a cable system shall be accomplished in new subdivisions at the same time and in the same trench as other cable, communications, electric and other permanent services to structures. Developers of new residential buildings or mobile homes within a new or undeveloped subdivision, new residential units within new multiple occupancy residential developments, and new commercial and industrial buildings and structures shall treat cable television facilities as they treat other communication facilities, utilities and other underground facilities, with regard to availability and cost of trenching for undergrounding.

(Ord. No. 2053, § 1, 12-8-98)