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A. This chapter along with Federal, State, and other local law establishes policy for use of City owned infrastructure, permitted infrastructure owned by others, and City managed local public right-of-way for small wireless facilities. This policy enables the City to:

1. Issue licenses to providers for use of local public right-of-way on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, except in cases where State law forbids establishment of a license or franchise requirement;

2. Manage local public right-of-way to minimize the impact and cost to Phoenix residents caused by small wireless facilities located within local public right-of-way;

3. Manage local public right-of-way to maximize efficient, effective, and optimal use of public resources and support economic development to the extent permitted by law;

4. Comply with applicable Federal, State, and local regulations as applied to City managed local public right-of-way; and

5. Manage local public right-of-way to promote and protect public health, safety, and welfare.

B. Therefore, the City Council adopts this chapter to:

1. Manage local public right-of-way consistent with the City’s fiduciary obligations;

2. Promote and protect public health, safety, and welfare measures for local public right-of-way;

3. Encourage public-private partnerships to provide wireless facilities for the cost-effective delivery of public services such as schools, libraries, police and fire protection, and deliver private services to Phoenix residents;

4. Conserve the limited physical capacity of the local public right-of-way managed by the City; and

5. Assure the City’s current and ongoing costs to grant and regulate private access to and use of local public right-of-way are fully recovered and paid by the persons who seek such access and cause such costs. (Ord. No. G-6407, 2018)