88.0405 Underground Utility Requirements.

Utility lines, including, but not limited to, electric, telephone, communication, street lighting, and cable television, within or directly serving each new commercial, industrial, or institutional development that, for purposes of this section, includes the construction of a new building or an expansion of an existing building by the lesser of 500 square feet or 10% of the existing building square footage, and/or overhead distribution lines on the perimeter, where such undergrounding would result in the removal of four (4) or more utility poles on the same street, shall be placed

underground. However, an infill project, which for purposes of this section consists of a site no more than 15 acres, completely surrounded by existing development, and where poles along the surrounding frontage have not been undergrounded, is exempt from underground utility requirements for existing poles along the frontage. The developer is responsible for complying with the requirements of this subsection without expense to the City, and he or she shall make

necessary arrangements for the installation of such facilities. (Amended by Ord. 340 § 2, 2016; Ord. 253 § 16, 2006; Ord. 186 § 14, 1998; Ord. 389 § 2, 2020)