1. Issue licenses or franchises to telecommunications corporations who use the public highways to provide telecommunications services and interstate telecommunications services on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, except in cases where state law forbids establishment of a license or franchise requirement; and

2. Manage the public highways in order to minimize the impact and cost to Phoenix citizens of the placement of telecommunications facilities within public highways; and

3. Manage the highways so as to maximize their efficient use, thereby minimizing the foreclosure of future additional uses of such rights-of-way; and

4. Provide for the compensation for the commercial use of public highways to provide telecommunications services and interstate telecommunications services; and

5. Minimize congestion, inconvenience, visual impact, and other adverse effects from such use on the City’s public highways.

1. Having been acquired and maintained by the City over many years at great taxpayer expense;

2. Providing uniquely valuable property that private telecommunications providers may wish to use for profit-making purposes that may not necessarily benefit all the residents of the City;

3. Representing public investments for which the taxpayers are entitled to a fair monetary return on the City’s past and future investment in the City’s infrastructure;

4. Comprising significant assets, which the City must manage as a public fiduciary trust to enhance the public health, safety, and welfare.

1. To ensure that locally elected officials manage local public highways consistent with their fiduciary trust obligations;

2. To ensure compliance with public health, safety, and welfare measures for public highways;

3. To encourage public-private partnerships to provide telecommunications facilities needed for the most cost-effective delivery of public services, including schools, libraries, police and fire protection, as well as private services;

4. To conserve the limited physical capacity of the public highways held in public trust by the City;

5. To assure that the City’s current and ongoing costs of granting and regulating private access to and use of the public highways are fully paid by the persons seeking such access and causing such costs. (Ord. No. G-4060, § 1, 1997; Ord. No. G-4135, § 1, 1998; Ord. No. G-4351, § 1A, 2001)