The City of Athens finds that changes in the public utilities and communications industries
have increased the demand and need for access to rights-of-way and placement of facilities
and structures therein and has the potential of having great benefit for, and impact
upon, the residents of Athens. The City of Athens is concerned with the use of all
rights-of-way in the city as such rights-of-way are valuable and limited resources.
The city further finds that the public convenience, safety, and general welfare can
best be served by establishing regulatory powers which should be vested in the city
or such persons as the city may designate. It is the intent of this chapter and subsequent
amendments to comprehensively plan and manage access to, and structures and facilities
in, the rights-of-way and provide innovative and economic solutions to efficiently
and economically utilize limited rights-of-way capacity. The city has authority under
the laws and Constitution of the State of Ohio, including, but not limited to Article
18, Sections 3, 4, and 7, to regulate the public and private entities that use the
right-of-way.
(Ord. No. 0-149-18, § I, 12-10-2018)
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