Article I. General Provisions
12.34.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this Chapter is to:
A. Establish a local policy concerning telecommunications providers, small wireless facilities, and services;
B. Establish clear and nondiscriminatory local guidelines, standards, and time frames for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of the use of public rights-of-way and/or public property by telecommunications providers;
C. Minimize unnecessary local regulation of telecommunications providers and services;
D. Encourage the provision of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the widest possible basis to the businesses, institutions, and residents of the County;
E. Permit and manage reasonable access to the public rights-of-way of the County for telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral basis;
F. Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public rights-of-way held in public trust by the County;
G. Assure that the County's current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and use of the public rights-of-way are fully paid by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs;
H. Secure fair and reasonable compensation to the County and the residents of the County, consistent with 47 U.S.C. sec. 253, in a non-discriminatory manner, for permitting private use of the public rights-of-way and/or public property;
I. Assure that all telecommunications carriers placing facilities within the County rights-of-way comply with the ordinances, rules, and regulations of the County;
J. Assure that the County can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety, and welfare; and
K. Enable the County to discharge its public trust consistent with rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition, and technological development.