A. Comply with the provisions of the 1996 Telecommunications Act as they apply to local governments, telecommunications carriers, and the services those carriers offer;

B. Promote competition on a competitively neutral basis in the provision of telecommunications services;

C. Encourage the provision of advanced and competitive telecommunications services on the widest possible basis to businesses, institutions, and residents of the city;

D. Permit and manage reasonable access to the public rights-of-way of the city for telecommunications purposes on a competitively neutral basis and conserve the limited physical capacity of those public rights-of-way held in trust by the city;

E. Assure that the city’s current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and the use of the public rights-of-way are fully compensated by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs;

F. Secure fair and reasonable compensation to the city and its residents for permitting private use of the public right-of-way;

G. Assure that all telecommunications carriers providing facilities and/or services within the city or passing through the city, register and comply with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city;

H. Assure that the city can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety, and welfare of its citizens; and

I. Enable the city to discharge its public trust consistent with the rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory policies, industry competition, and technological development. (Ord. 4734 §1, 2000).