(a) For all new commercial, residential, mixed use and other significant planned developments within the City, the Community Development Department and the Public Works Department may require that the project developer makes sufficient accommodation for the deployment of a small wireless facility within the development as a condition of permitting, and coordinate with providers who operate, or have applied for, facilities in the City either through the Community Development and the Public Works Departments or ensure the public right-of-way and any planned utility easements are adequate to accommodate the deployment of both aboveground and underground communications facilities. Specifically, planned utility easements should allow for an adequate number of huts, utility poles and other structures, as well as below-ground conduit, to adequately serve current and anticipated communications facilities. Access to easements should be provided to providers on a nondiscriminatory basis and at a reasonable cost, or pursuant to applicable laws.

(b) For instances where a project developer chooses to install conduit for below-ground communications facilities, the developer should be encouraged or required to provide on a nondiscriminatory basis and reasonable cost access to the planned utility easement areas. In addition, access to easements and trenches should be made available to providers as early in the development cycle as possible to minimize installation costs and disruption to residents, businesses, institutions and governments, and their property. The project developer should be encouraged to promote coordination among providers and other utilities so that each can benefit from the other’s construction activities to allow timely and efficient access.

(c) The City may request additional conduits and ducts to accommodate future development as provided by RCW 35.99.070. [Ord. 4465 § 1, 2019; Ord. 4416 § 1, 2019.]